Brian C. Stanford

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Why did Big Tech make all charging cables look like kitten toys? Are they stupid?

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

This is not okay.

I just overheard someone at Starbucks ask for a “venti ice water“ and I just… for some reason it makes me feel old

The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.

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🟥 Blindspot for the Right: The U.S. has destroyed nearly 70 suspected drug boats since September, but a DEA assessment obtained by The Washington Post found little effect on cocaine supplies. ground.news/article/67-b...

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

GOP Urges Democrats To Tone Down Rhetoric Used To Quote President Verbatim http://theonion.com/gop-urges-democrats-to-tone-down-rhetoric-used-to-quote-president-verbatim/

A handful of Republicans could end all of this. And there are quite a few who hate this war, masked terrorists in our cities, flouting of Congress, corruption, etc. But unless they prove otherwise they’re all cowards.

The Darwin Awards just keep getting more and more competitive.

The #Seahawks have only played one team outside their division since Dec 14.

I don’t make the rules, but when it’s reposting this, I damn well follow them and YOU’D BETTER TOO. youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small, I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own and I am never broken

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

COL. JESSUP: You want answers? SCHUMER: I think I’m entitled! COL. JESSUP: You want answers? SCHUMER: I WANT THE TRUTH!! COL. JESSUP: You can’t handled the truth! SCHUMER (defiantly): No further questions, you honor.

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

Google image searches have been… less than useful, so I’d not used it in a while. I saw this cheesy AI image supposedly of Stephen Hillenburg, drawing SpongeBob, along with an ‘inspirational biography.’ Just curious, I tried a search, and, Oh my!😳 I took a screenshot of the results…

As tech firms keep adding the largest and most compute-intensive AI models into more and more aspects of our digital lives, they are increasingly dependent on a growing share of existing energy and natural resources, leading to rising costs for everyone else, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.

I just use AI for making people think less of me.

(Old man voice): Back in my day, we didn’t have object-oriented #programming, so we just misused global variables.

You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? CONTACT (1997) ARRIVAL (2016)

Apropros of nothing, what’s the plural of “apocalypse?”

I don’t want to alarm anybody, but in think the Dow is in afib

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater

if I just refresh the timeline enough maybe someone will do something to stop all of this

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

NEW: Extraordinary drone footage from Pacific Palisades in LA showing hundreds of homes burned to the ground. The death toll has now risen to five and damage is already estimated at over $50 billion. This is likely to be the costliest fire in US history. (📸 Kit Karsten)

In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is, this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.

Happy New Year to the west-coast-best-coast!

My Christmas tradition is screaming out loud at the scene in The Muppet Christmas Carol when the Marley brothers show up. Somehow, not everyone remembers this is my tradition, which only makes it a better tradition. One or two of my kids might not speak to me until Christmas.

If you’re reading this, post a gif from a video game you love.

NASA’s take on the holiday fireplace video youtu.be/_cgTVTwu4nw?...

I caught a rainbow during a ferry mission in #msfs2024 #flightsimulator

#GoHawks!