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You are not more likely to be killed by a coconut than a shark. This is a statistical error. Coconuts Georg, who lives under a coconut tree and is killed by 10,000 coconuts a year is an outlier and should not have been counted.

BE NOT AFRAID

I love this. And if it goes bad, our grey goo scenario will at least cure our headache!

Alright everyone. Republicans are going to force a vote on their gender affirming care provision even though it violates Senate rules. They’ll need 60 votes to keep it in. Now is the time to make your voice heard and ask your Senators to stand on the side of health care freedom.

I'm reading the Stormlight Archives for the first time and it's ruining my mind. I used this gif earlier today and for some reason I was like, THAT'S RENARIN

Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with butthole: Who Moved My Butthole?

Exploring my own house.

Worth adding that you don’t get to this kind of eliminationist language without decades of dispossession, dehumanization & apartheid first.

There was a plan in motion to defenestrate our target, but unfortunately we missed the window.

Buddy, you're trying to cash ability checks your Charisma can't cover

How to make comics

Lynd’s Ward’s GOD’S MAN (1929) was an important forerunner of the American Graphic Novel revolution; cited often by Will Eisner as a source of inspiration for his own graphic novels, starting with A CONTRACT WITH GOD half a century later later. h/t @timtoon.com

Thread. ❤️ My mom talks about this a lot.

Last week we go the go-ahead to tell our younger kids that our teenager's friend (whom they all love) is trans and is changing her name and pronouns. The elementary schooler wanted a refresher about what that all means, as we have other out trans friends, but he's mostly too young to... (1/3)

what do you mean 'normal tools'?

i think, unfortunately, that this may be my masterpiece

I don't think *stabbing* is usually... okay, whatever whatever whatever.

When the moon hits your eye and it looks like a guy... pareidolia

i know this isnt exactly a "content account" but heres a comic for #terriblecomicday

I did say the thing!

Sometimes I don’t understand how Jim Henson ever sold his absolutely wild ideas to colleagues and gatekeepers alike, but then I look at a picture of him and am like “yes, I also would have done whatever he told me to do.”

Sometimes you gotta please the inner child. #makeaterriblecomicday2025

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

esp if you are younger than me and weren't around for the first orchestration of this stuff, you should go over this timeline. it won't take but a minute and it's clear & not an op-ed: it's just an explainer. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

yes, the establishment will respond very harshly to the threat. should Mamdani prevail everybody needs to double down on ranked choice and all the other things we actually want and like

damn yes needed this today

Oh, huh, look at that, we really are in the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money.

Lawmakers called called the action unconstitutional and warned that it could drag American forces into wider regional conflict.

Tech companies know their customers don't want LLMs in everything, and instead of, y'know, not putting LLMs in everything, they try to make it impossible to take the LLMs out. What are we even doing here.

To paraphrase the Fourth Doctor, this can be quite uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the “errors” which they feel the need to delete.

Oil is violence against the earth and the violence of war and the brutal geopolitics in pursuit and defense of the dirty stuff. Climate activism is peace activism.