Barry Smith's drawing of Bran Mak Morn looks like Miles Davis in the 1970s after some trad-jazz diehard has told him that this new funk direction is utter garbage.

Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution

WIRED@wired.com · 5h ago

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

this is just the plot bladerunner dude

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

A day of remembrance and celebration Happy Fade In The Water day

This times a million for the "psychedelic seeker community" I know people who have been having "breakthrough, transformative" trips once a month for years but their behavior hasn't changed a lick: still wallowing in self-centered hedonism, zero time/energy for selfless giving or helping others

Rob Brezsny@rob-brezsny.bsky.social · yesterday

Spiritual bypassing is a tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks. — Psychotherapist John Welwood

For the low, low price of every finite resource on Planet Earth, we can have digital posters where a person's arm is made the same color as scraps that are meant to resemble Korean BBQ.

"Food" Thoyd@spaceplans.bsky.social · yesterday

Through the power of AI, your local Greek food truck festival can share the same generic visual aesthetic as an antisemitic campaign poster

Greek Fest in my area now features the Impossible Pita.

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Best thing I've done for my mental health in a long time is listening to Laughing Stock by Talk Talk on headphones and giving it my full attention.

"The idea of society may sound appealing, but it's old men who will take the hit, planting trees under whose shade they might never sit."

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody"

"Inspired by the tale of the hellhounds of the region—Gabble Ratchets—packs of spectral dogs let loose across the Northern counties on Halloween to hunt the souls of the newly dead...' Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra - Gabble Ratchets is a Quietus Album Of The Month for July buff.ly/9yaz69P

Whatever you do don’t take me to The Island from The Prisoner! I’d hate to live in a cool rent free apartment full of bold late 60s modern furniture haha noooo a bubble don’t chase me haha

Give me a few billion dollars and I will find things in space that will make everyone's pedal board need to be just a little bit bigger.

muscular baby jeb lund@mobute.bsky.social · 4d ago

the richest guy in the world could be building a top-flight studio in space to record the effects of weightlessness on rock, but he isn't, because he's the sort of jackass who puts a car in space instead of a piano. and a leslie rotating speaker, that thing probably gets all squirrelly up there

shooting a thousand pound professional vinyl cutter into orbit to see if gravity is a net negative for fidelity

Get his ass, Little Village.

Little Village@littlevillage.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ashley Hinson typically dismisses critics of Elon Musk and DOGE as proponents of wasteful spending. Musk, perhaps the single biggest beneficiary of U.S. gov't contracts and subsidies, uses X to spread far-right conspiracy theories, defame his critics, attempt jokes and promote his companies.

‘“I really wanted to be different, I wanted to be myself, I wanted to be Mulatu,” he says of [early yrs]. “Then once I created Ethio-jazz, I became myself”’…“Ethio-jazz is a beautiful science…You can hear jazz, you can hear 12th notes, you can hear the 5th notes & everything all combined together”

‘Give respect to Africa and the bush people’: Mulatu Astatke on pioneering Ethio-jazz and honouring his roots

The musician faced resistance when he premiered his sound in the 60s, but audiences have fallen in love with it since. At 82, he’s still finding new directions – and wants more recognition for Africa’...

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To whom it may concern and to everyone else as well,

If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au

our long national nightmare will continue until morale improves

The Republican Party must be destroyed as a functional political entity. But conservatism itself must be eradicated in any way that resembles it's modern existence. There is nothing to save. There is nothing that deserves your respect.

Willie Nelson vs. data centers.

Four points for everyone responding to posts about gov’t assistance with shit like “or maybe just don’t have kids”: 1. Fuck you. 2. Reproductive freedom is a basic human right. 3. Punishing poor people for having kids—and even more, punishing kids for having poor parents—is evil. 4. Fuck you.

I don't know how you look at everything Trump's been doing to mess with the election and think anything other than that he's trying to rig it. But whether he will succeed is a different matter, as Bob Kuttner reports. prospect.org/2026/07/28/t...

Yes, Trump Will Attempt a Coup - The American Prospect

If we are vigilant, he won’t pull it off.

prospect.org

Thanks to the recent redistricting frenzy, we also recently updated our calculations of the 2024 presidential results by congressional district. Here, we've married that with the new hexmap. No more misleading sea of red!

Al's Garage Band Goes On a World Tour (Alvin G., 1992)

Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.