And if you didn't know about the skull/trunk cyclops thing: www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/one-eye...

'One-Eyed' Fossils Fuel the Cyclops Myth?

Ever ponder the origin of our scariest nightmares? It might have been the remains of enormous pre...

https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/one-eyed-fossils-fuel-the-cyclops-myth

Thinking about how if we were trying to know what elephants looked like just from a fossil record, we would probably get it completely wrong.

I'm not just talking about the skull/trunk -> cyclops myth thing, but even their feet, which have a huge fatty cushion giving them basically wedge shoes.

Does anyone else love that the slang "throw shade" can make someone "take umbrage" and that the word "umbrage" also means "shade"?

Is this on purpose or a beautiful coincidence?

the benefit of a moderate position remains unclear to me. why is it good just because it's moderate—especially when one side is nazis

Ryan

@thevoidcalls.bsky.social

It really is. Instead of having a commons where a moderate position is reached through interaction and consensus, we now have blobs separating to the far poles, and more extreme ideology proliferates on both sides. It's 'elective' polarization because the platform doesn't stop hate speech.

Today's @theverge.com Vergecast talked about the swoleness of Tim Cook, so I searched on DuckDuckGo to find the Slate article (with pictures) they mentioned, and I don't know why, but DuckDuckGo's AI response was funny to me

Why is the macOS spellcheck so bad? I went to check the spalling of a misspelled `possissive` and it was all, "do you mean `positive`?" How about `possessive` which is only one character off. What are you doing.

I’ve just confirmed this thing still exists. God is good

ceej

@ceej.online

there is a vending machine in my city where if you insert four dollars in quarters and press the OUT OF ORDER button twice a Hamm’s will pop out. magic is real if your heart is open to it

In Death Stranding 2 there is a in-universe reason why the pretty blonde lady has to be barefoot, a beautiful tribute to Tarantino by Kojima

if he's asking grok about materials science that might explain why his starships keep exploding

Emoji Caresser

@lizrummy.bsky.social

I think it's bad that basically the head of every major tech company is a full on nazi now

“Learn to code.”

caitliwinx ⚔️

@caitliwinx.bsky.social

This is the pic

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.

When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.

For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.

Love it when my body has no issue with a tattoo for the first year and a half-ish, but then every few days it starts getting puffy and itchy. Thanks immune system! Very helpful.

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

If you are a fast typist and a macOS confirmation dialog pops up mid-typing, there's no hope. All you see is a brief flash and you hear an error bonk or two and you will never know what that alert was in relation to.

Was it important? Who can say. You are free.

Ever think about how there's probably a parallel universe where Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" plays in Return of the King when Aragorn and Arwen are reunited because of Liv Tyler

"It's not like the president is a baby brained moron," a White House official said, laughing nervously. "He's not, you know, a big stupid asshole who doesn't give a shit about anything except attention" www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

I cannot fathom seeing these two lists side by side and going "hrmm, yes, that one on the left seems better"

Hell hath no fury like a chain saw wielding tech bro scorned

Ugh, don't make me want to root for Musk

Elon Musk just made his starkest political threat since the election | CNN Business

After declaring he was stepping away from the political spotlight, Elon Musk got right back in it.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/media/elon-musk-bill-primary-threat

Quote with unlikely game crossover/tie-ins that you think would kick ass

Can't get enough of these videos of Peter Thiel being asked by a friendly interviewer to "just say you're not the antichrist, out loud" followed by Thiel making various deep sea creature noises for 30 seconds before going "it's uh it's uh it's uh there are a lot of declensions here, interestingly,"

Peter Thiel looks like if Dewey from Malcom in the Middle drank from the wrong grail from Last Crusade.

The Trump regime would like you to please hand over all your private information and communications to the dictatorship so they can vet your loyalty to the regime before you visit the US. If loyalty is not confirmed, you will be abducted on arrival and shipped off to El Salvador.

Trump administration says he was barred "over drug use," original Norwegian article says that two images triggered the detention: the Vance meme, and a picture of a handmade wooden pipe that Mikkelsen had made years ago

Riggsveda

@riggsveda.bsky.social

time.com/7297472/jd-v...

Did a Tourist Get Blocked From the U.S. Over a J.D. Vance Meme?

The Trump Administration said reports a man was denied entry over a meme on his phone are false, ...

https://time.com/7297472/jd-vance-meme-mads-mikkelsen-tourist-denied-entry-cbp-ice/

For whom shall we bestow the runaway power of the Sickos Guy next?

Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Yes, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social … YES

a reminder of what Mamdani overcame:

Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran.com

This chart tells you everything you need to know about the NYC mayoral race. Everyday New Yorkers vs money.

Man Cuomo didn’t just lose he lost like a JoJo villain.

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.

Me after punching someone in the face: “OK, fight’s over.”

I'm watching a streamer play Death Stranding 2 and the music is more Yoko Taro than I expected

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Rubio's anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy for all.

Judge Julia Kobick granted a classwide preliminary injunction that applies to all trans and nonbinary people on Tuesday.

New, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-f...

Breaking: Federal judge blocks Rubio's anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy for all

Judge Julia Kobick granted a classwide preliminary injunction that applies to all trans and nonbi...

https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-federal-judge-blocks-rubios

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

President Trump on international trip with his mom: “Can we buy a leader-aggrandizing military parade?”

Mom: “We have leader-aggrandizing military parades at home.”

The leader-aggrandizing military parades at home:

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of diseas...

https://n.pr/4kZfcdA

At the ICE facility in South Portland and a Portland Police sound car on Macadam has announced this has been declared a riot.

has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him