Sam Scott at Media Magpies

This story is not just about ChatGPT killing yet another person. It is a confluence of poor medical follow-up, isolation, and the complete lack of a support system for chronically ill people in this country. She should have had someone else to talk to other than a busy doctor and a chatbot.

ah scanning some medium format film and this frame goes crazy

Helen Keller died in 1968, she isn't Tom fucking Bombadil. Also DC con moment

Secret Panel HERE 🏁 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/10/26/path-to-success

Starting my day with @ifbookspod.bsky.social letting me know that Politico wants us to be clear: Rahm Emmanuel eats salads just like the rest of us, but harder

this profession has only gotten worse over the last 20 years speakola.com/political/co...

This was a pretty good one

Department of Education posting Malfoid art btw. I’m losing my mind man.

“Fuck-Ass Bob”: type of bad haircut “fuck Ass Bob”: me telling a friend how I feel about that piece of shit Ass Bob “Fuck ass, Bob”: me directing a porno

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

It’s hard to decide what part of this story on Marissa Mayer’s new startup is most loathsome, but this “women need a wife or, in other words, a digital servant” construction makes me want to flip over an actual table www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

Politics hits different when you're an "issue" instead of a citizen

No man you’re good. Feel free to travel to Any Asian Country with it

A weird change that has taken place in my lifetime is that in the past, British racists were aware of what mixed-race people were and were furious about it, as opposed to the New Racism, which frequently seems actively confused by the birds and the bees.

Nancy 10/24/26

Who is shelling out three figures for the Complete Detroit Justice League and how can we help these troubled souls

This is the third person today to suggest that my equality as a human and an American citizen was a gift bestowed upon me by Democrats as opposed to an unaliable condition inherent to all people.

i am constantly thinking about @juliagiantrat.bsky.social's "nephew principle" in that it's crucial to have a metaphorical nephew in your life who is fucking up their entire life in unfathomable ways so that no matter what you can always go Wow, At Least I'm Not Doing That. I'm Doing Okay In Life.

this part in particular could as easily be about trump era dc

The Jerk Store called and they went out of business 6 months ago.

my god

Thunder Being Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq n.d.

"please move this thing"

That’s a metaphor if I ever saw one

THE FACTORY

we have to think so much less about finding the right candidates and so much more about building political power that makes individual candidates simple stewards of the will of the bases they are accountable to

My mom is reading Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles and was telling me about it. Mom: Have you heard of the band… Destiny’s Child? Me: yes Mom: and an artist named… Bee-yahns? Me: also yes

some good local political drama: there's a crowded mayoral race in a nearby town, and one local business owner put out signs opposing a local councilwoman who's running. the signs get stolen, but it turns out he put airtags in them and they were traced to the councilwoman herself.

Some people forget that a key part of being a pedant is knowing things. 🤷🏻‍♂️

"A distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

“A distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence”

Sometimes a creature just gotta be long

the amount of times he's basically advertising to a child predator's face while the guy is being put in handcuffs is so high it genuinely feels like a sketch comedy

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama