W. Ethan Duckworth

start paying artists you fucks!!!! the potential of you reaching nirvana depends on it!

Lula's victory in Brazil means a lot to a ton of people in the country, including transgender people. So when Lula won, it was a major moment of celebration when he turned to kiss a popular transgender lawmaker on the cheek. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Just the usual bear trying to figure out how to eat the rescue squad's trash. I want to cuddle him so badly but on the other hand I don't wanna die rn.

Very cool!

They routinely conflate scam PACs/groups and related bad acts with “paid their pollster for a poll.” They’re routinely arrogant and dismissive when you try to probe and highlight what they don’t know.

Jake, I asked you months ago to define & give examples of the “consultant class” & you named people/orgs that aren’t campaign consultants. Now you use a link to some obscure publication that doesn’t understand the vast majority of $ to media firms ends up paid to TV stations, Meta, Google etc?

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

whoever did the cover of this?!?

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

Thanks for always having my back ❤️ see you on the campaign trail.

Misdiagnosed: Christina Applegate said she learned she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis five years ago. She tells how she's “back at square one."

One of the more interesting parts of this famous chapter for me is this is a fairly BAD way of thinking about surgery. The stereotypical rockstar surgeon with total hierarchical control is directly challenged by all kinds of research on team outcomes in ORs including v famously psych safety research

In *The Mythical Man-Month* Brooks relates an idea from Harlan Mills for structuring programming work as a 'surgical team'; there's a lead programmer who makes design decisions and does a lot of the work and they have a fleet of support staff.

In the interest of closing some terrifying gaps in my budget I am selling this piece, the limit does not exist, for $125 plus shipping

originally posted on twitter some time ago. now @happyautomata.com Thank you for looking

vaguely distressing state machines, a small experiment in emotion with automata and alt text.

Really should've gone for even more closeup on panel 2. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cells PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

In the interest of closing some terrifying gaps in my budget I am selling this piece which was used in the game/album Ancient Undead Spider Wizard

A stretch Lime scooter is all it takes to tackle the male loneliness epidemic.

In the interest of closing some terrifying gaps in my budget I’m trying to sell some originals, so I’m on offering this piece for $75 plus shipping

You can't "solve math" because it's not a list of problems to be solved. It's a web of ideas to wonder about.

We’re just normal men

I wrote about the case for incivility newrepublic.com/post/216692/...

Hell yeah

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

2019 video of Heidi the Octopus, captured by Dr. David Scheel, a professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage & aired on PBS Nature program "Octopus: Making Contact". We think the color changes are the results of Heidi dreaming as she sleeps. Let's talk about it.

Why One of the World’s Greatest Mathematicians Is on a ‘War Footing’ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u... I have rarely if ever seen Terry being angry. But here he is …

REPORTER: “Trump’s popularity is very low, diesel prices are very high, the war he started isn’t going well… is he using you as a scapegoat for his own problems?” ZELENSKY: 🙃🤐 (this is a YES)

no human that size should be able to move like that

The “why don’t we make the whole plane out of the black box” joke given human form

Poseidon smiles upon us this night.

this clip 90 seconds long and Trump's audience doesn't make a peep the entire time. he's totally lost the crowd with his incoherent ranting

Interesting thread on whether there are better options than the U.S.