Mutton of the Sea

As a society we largely gave up on exploration, curiosity, artistic expression, and kindness, and accepted the dehumanizing premise that the only value that matters is economic value. Acceptance of that dehumanization led directly to every one of grim situations we’re facing now.

See? Good things can still happen in this world.

Flávio, these are all really good ideas

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Wait… why do we need genetically enhanced murder puppies if we already have robot dogs? 🤔

BASH: Do you see your job as helping Republicans keep this seat? AG TODD BLANCHE: *a lot of words that aren't a denial*

someone doing what they’ve already done before? why that’s MADNESS

I hope Cheesecake Factory comes out with a statement like "We must clarify we did NOT allow Saddam Hussein to design our chandeliers and he had virtually no input into our menu" and then we can ride this through Monday

Something I wish more people would realize.

This is a Pixar redemption arc movie waiting to happen. Zero out of infinity for the humans who came up with this. 😔

I have been seeing a lot of “if it’s on the internet, you should expect it to be scraped” posts lately, and as practical advice, sure. It is also thoroughly okay to be mad about this fact! We SHOULD be able to use devices and services without accidentally signing over souls.

Can’t be the only woman who decided to donate a few bucks to Amy Acton’s campaign this week. Because fuck her opponent and his vile ad.

Cheesecake Factory:

The BBC is doing something important, refusing to be intimidated by a powerful person trying to use the legal system to punish criticism and discourage scrutiny. They’re schooling the American press on what the 1st Amendment means. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-bbc-st...

When Amy Acton sent me a fundraising text this morning, I knew who she was. Thanks, Vivek Ramaswamy!

Heading to bed, see you all bright and early tomorrow for another installment of What Small Glimmer of Hope For the Future Are the World's Richest Assholes Stomping Out Today

You aren’t owed skills, or accolades for skipping things that other people work really hard at, or money, or whatever it is you hope AI will “democratize” for you. Grow up.

This is the argument about AI that grinds my gears. “Well, I can’t do xyz, so clearly I need to steal it.” Orrr you could do what the rest of us do. Learn (while accepting you’ll be bad at first). Do a service swap with a cover artist, narrator, editor. Or lump it.

all of this has always been about getting back at the uppity women who wouldn’t fuck them

Tacoma shut down the ASARCO smelter and then toppled it.

The Nobel committee could do the funniest thing in the history of marriage.

Three lean Costco weeks in a row is the financial equivalent of hitting that wrapping paper glide with the scissors.

Ladies and Gentlemen (ok, just Gentlemen): The London Breast Meeting of 2026

This is at least the third example of absolutely idiotic AI image use to come out of Stanford in the last month or so. To think I used to assume that the people who work there are among the smartest in the land. 🙄 stanforddaily.com/2026/10/21/u...

There are so so so SO many problems in the world today, but it boils down to this: we have to lower carbon emissions enough to stop climate change, or nothing else matters. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.

Teams is a dumpster fire inside a burning building, next to a toxic waste dump, on a Superfund Cleanup Site, on a geological fault, next to an active volcano, next to 3-mile Island, in a direct line of an asteroid strike.

In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake

This week I’ve seen men ridicule women for dressing “too provocatively” & other men ridicule Muslim women for dressing “to conservatively.” A reminder that men should shut the hell up, stop worrying about how women dress, & instead expend their energy on getting men to stop raping & abusing women.

Girls! Girls! You're *both* right! Bask in the novelty.

my entire life trajectory was oriented towards "being good at things", I sacrificed quite a lot to get where I am today, and now society has deemed expertise not very valuable anymore and for what little remains, AI/people using AI will siphon it out of you the very moment they smell it in the air

Everything that is good and pure or even workable in the world is in this picture, and I don’t like it.

JD Vance comparing his administration's economy to the Titanic means Yale definitely owes all of us an apology.

Orange Man Indeed Bad, but he's the fruiting body of the conservative mycellium that have been a fungal rot in our country since like the 80s.

i can’t help but notice that i too have big wet creepy blue eyes and yet not a single investor has given me millions of dollars to do nothing