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I know this looks like AI, but it's not. I took this photo on a back street in Tomari, Naha, Okinawa in 2013. This is by far the weirdest example I saw, but that island has lots of cats with the same phenotype: long hair, predominantly black with orange patches.

Ouroboros is commonly accepted in semiotics as a signifier for the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth, which is interesting and all until you realize the snake's anus (okay, its cloaca or vent or whatever) is at the base of its tail. The phrase, "hat on a hat," comes to mind.

Word of mouth. Question of ears. Furrow of forehead. Trouble of conscience. Stow of phone. Thought of sleep.

The invincible airplane

Hearing talking heads try to pronounce Isaias compels me to remind everyone that's a choice. In Japan, typhoons are numbered, not named. Japan DOES have a role in coming up with these stupid names. But inside Japan you'll simply never encounter names. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/21b...

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

This so confuses me. Expensive weddings are *the* definition of "costly signaling': showing you're so rich you can set a mountain of your own cash alight with a big smile in your face. Getting someone else to pay for a wedding you (supposedly) can easily afford is a nouveau-rich trailer-trash move.

The first rule of advertising is nag. You piece of garbage. All you do is sit on your fat keister all day. While *some* of us scrounge the Internet. Looking for anything even remotely distracting. For *you*. Many more advertising gems are available in my online course. We start August 1. You in?

Operation Dessert Shield

When I heard of this a year ago (when 12 members of the South African National Defence Force were arraigned for this cop killing) I thought, "That's concerning." The new details are horrifying. SANDF is saying they don't answer to the courts. And we know where this leads. www.bbc.com/news/article...

how it started / how it's going

This is a response that has nothing to do with the law, nothing to do with the case, nothing to do with the arguments, and nothing to do with the decision. Aside from all of that, thanks for sharing, Josh.

Ancient Sumerian: I came up with the Doomed Quest for Immortality as a cautionary tale. Bryan Johnson: At long last, we’ve invented the Doomed Quest for Immortality from the classic text, “Don’t Go on the Doomed Quest for Immortality.”

According to the judge, if I post something online, it's public (and subject to disclosure.) If the platform deletes my post, it's still public (and subject to disclosure.) But if I delete my own post, it's now private and not subject to disclosure. Nope. This reasoning isn't open to abuse at all.

Pool Owner Has Bathing Suit That Touched His Penis You Can Borrow https://theonion.com/pool-owner-has-bathing-suit-that-touched-his-penis-you-1819575301/

I've been using this kind of mistake to identify foreign-generated AI slop (low-effort ads and YouTube outrage shorts mainly). I did not expect to see this on multiple Canadian news site. Has @cdnpress.bsky.social changed their style guide recently? It's this valid?

Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Ask them when they're going to stop tolling it. Some of us have crap to do tomorrow and would appreciate some dang shut-eye.

Every single time I listen to the Japanese band, The Predators, I cannot help immediately thinking of the music to #Splatoon. I don't think there's any direct connection but the band's influence is surely undeniable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW1p...

BBC World Service a moment ago: "The shaky ceasefire between Washington and Iran took another hit today." I get it. The White House thinks "ceasefire" means there's no need for war powers authorization. Or maybe it's to placate Trump. No one buys the argument. World press doesn't need to repeat it.

Ceasefires are bloody things. If you don't have the stomach for it perhaps you should stay at war where it is safe.

"It's worth remembering that while our ceasefire with Iran began only 52 days ago, America's ceasefire with communist forces in Vietnam lasted over two decades and involved secret ceasefires in Cambodia and Laos due to disputed traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. 60 Minutes will be back after this."

Part of me feels it's hilariously wrong to allow the "naturally gifted" into these games. What rules of nature or laws of God did he break? None. He rose to the top with training and grit and genetics. I say if HGH doesn't show up in his piss by week's end, ban him for life. As a warning to others.

This is still easily my favorite stutter so far: womens.

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

Holy White Jesus, I'm glad to see AI eating itself.

FFS. I'm getting irritated by this shit. "Only the gormless chode could fall for AI personality" seems to be the modern version of "people could quit nicotine any time if they put some actual effort into it." It may be true of you (maybe, maybe not) but it doesn't help the legion now in harm's way.

I am not going to get into the habit of posting AI slop, but honestly! Take a gander at the guy lifting weights at the start of this blessed thing. This is from the same mudskippers who brought you Tai Chi Walking and Asian Women's Pilates. Brah skipped leg day I guess. youtu.be/O6DNM27o4F4

Exactly one year ago today:

I hope whoever came up with the term "mouthfeel" got crotchpunched. Every time I've heard it since first learning it maybe 30 years ago it's evoked such a feeling of disquiet I lose track of the conversation. "Delightful cheese. Fragrant. Nutty. Creamy mouthfeel...." (and I'm out.)

I used to be a space nerd. Saw Armstrong's first step at age 3. Built a scale model of the Atlas 5. But I could not care less about Artemis. Can't shake the feeling it's all toward a country club for billionaires and a 80-hour-a-week bellhop/barista job for everyone else. Caramel macchiato for Elon!

Never forget that wherever "The Algorithm" exists it will feed you a steady diet of content that is topical, reinforces your sense of fear and anxiety and aligns with your beliefs. And right now the stupidest, laziest people on earth are saying, "OMG LOOK HERE!!" I mean, check out that fucking map!!

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Maybe not the end of the petrodollar but rather an end to US veto power over oil trade. What a spectacular surrender of US strategic self interest in return for absolutely nothing. asiatimes.com/2026/03/iran...