Me: what do you mean I can’t pay with this Cashier: Your dollar, sir. It’s torn asunder Me: it’s just a little rip! Manager: What seems to be the issue? Cashier: His dollar has been irrevocably riven Me: it’s a minor tear! Manager: *inspecting dollar* It is cloven in twain

Eh, close enough

This is what artists are referring to when they say the 'machine-learning' of text-to-sludge leverages stolen art. source (and a great critique of tech-hype) youtu.be/MravA_dgUkQ?t=…

Trump’s former Ambassador to Germany Grenell says he is “extremely skeptical” of the arrests of 25 members of a right wing terrorist group in Germany, equating it to J6 where the govt was just targeting people with “dissenting voices who didn’t like the direction of the govt.”

the great crisis of our time isn’t inequality, institutional racism, or climate but “the woke mind virus” which is extremely convenient for billionaires since this is the one option that doesn’t require them to change anything other than getting mad at random editors at Buzzfeed

Just days after the creator of the Elon Jet account posted about alleged "visibility filtering," the account has been suspended. Ella Irwin, what's going on here?

Gato tequila

Was it really 25 total or is he counting each kid as half?

"never"

last night we walked past a line of supercars all illegally parked in the middle of the block and every single one of them belonged to an nypd officer

My baby's cancer may have returned and my insurance, Cigna Healthcare, is refusing to help cover a PET scan so we can find out if it has, and if needed, continue our work to save his life. No qualms about putting my child's life on the line for their bottom line. He is not even 2 years old

Bay12, makers of Dwarf Fortress, release their monthly earnings. Here's 2022, including the game's December Steam release

1/ My new follower and inveterate moron Briahna Joy Gray tweeted this yesterday: "I read up on the RFK Jr. autism stuff over the course of a 3 hour train ride and now I'm ready to "debate." Honestly don't see why folks are so squeamish." Then she interviewed RFK with 0 pushback.

.Adam Tooze: “Zionism has to be understood as a product of its era i.e. as a settler-colonial project, typical of European global thinking in the late 19th and early 20th century. What is distinctive about it, is that the Israelis are the last group of (mainly) Europeans to

Israel's UNRWA intelligence dossier has been seen by Sky News: "The Israeli intelligence documents make several claims that Sky News has not seen proof of and many of the claims, even if true, do not directly implicate UNRWA." news.sky.com/story/israeli-…

dr.dk/nyheder/udland…

When you’re definitely the good guys

the arc of American history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Donald Trump getting shot and killed for being a pedophile by a guy who voted for him to stop the pedophiles and who is, himself, a pedophile