I don't think I criticize Dems *more* than I do the GOP, but the principle holds. If we pretend just any old opposition figure is A-OK, that's precisely what enables the worst of the authoritarians.

It's easy if you know how to gull the publishing houses.

Also, IDK if they still do this, but as of 2021, the Beeb would wash out photographs of China. Presumably to make China look like a shithole? I have no use at all for the Chinese government, but it's really a shitty way to do journalism.

Uh. This would've had way more impact if I'd remembered to include the photo. 🤦

We call it milkWEED, but butterflies like it, apparently bumblebees do too, and the flowers smell like lilacs! Not as powerful a fragrance, mind you, but still a very pleasant one.

Automobiles were a good solution to the problem of urban horse manure, but they've taken over far too much of our lives & infrastructure. We should be living in high density walking neighborhoods with buses & trains, w/ cars limited to real necessity. Suburbs are awful for environment & community.

That's quite a classist, probably racist, attitude toward graffiti. It's an art form with a rich history and high standards for awarding reputation/esteem. www.kunstplaza.de/en/street-ar...

New Yorkers have the opportunity to do something even funnier than just booing him tonight

This is goddamn hilarious regardless of how old you are.

That's just 2010 Brady. www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/497724b...

Well clearly this stuff is your next step. acmesoap.com/cdn/shop/fil...

My ambition as a parent is to have to have this conversation at some point:

There's gotta be proprietary marketing studies about coupons vs. impulse buys of unrelated products, that drives this kind of thing. Related (from @xkcd.com ):

"Adding &udm=14 to a Google search URL explicitly tells Google’s engine to strip out all AI overviews, shopping modules, images, and video widgets, leaving only plain-text web results."

Yes, this terminology is correct. Despite what hysterical Zionist antisemites will tell you, even Russia's horrifying crimes in Ukraine pale in comparison to the mass terror and genocide being visited on Gaza. For example: theintercept.com/2026/05/12/g...

Not sure of the chronology between the two works, but there's usually something that'll do the job you need to do.

Make Golf Hockey Again

Couldn't decide between this or the shelf of Nero Wolfe. Coin flip says this one:

OK, but we aren't a party to the ICC (so we'll need to defeat him ourselves) AND using AI is the single shittiest way to "inspire" action. Stop praying and using AI, and draw your own cartoon instead. (No, this isn't mine, but at least it's human-drawn. Credit: @phineas.bsky.social).

Then there's me:

Holy shit I've never seen a photograph of this before

White men don't like to hear this, but it's almost entirely impossible to discriminate against us.

Forgot where/who I grabbed this from, but someone anticipated your desire

I'm not at all Mexican but I think my (grilled) shrimp tacos aren't *completely* bogus?

I can just hear that old timey white guy nasal tone theonion.com/wp-content/u...

Oh, *forcefully* striking, now, that's a whole other deal than just dropping bombs and missiles on kids and homes. That'll git 'r done, Bibi.