Picard: It's a computer simulation of thoroughbred horse racing called Umamusume Pretty Derby. The program was quite popular in the 21st century.
Riker: Mm. 'Pretty' is accurate. That Goldship is quite something.
Picard: I hadn't noticed. I enjoy the simulation's tactical qualities.
Riker: Yes, sir.
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab
“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974
DAY OF THE DEVVVVVVVVVVS! Come on down!! 💀🎮♥️ #dayofthedevs
This is an important fact that everyone should know: Real rednecks historically were and should be antiestablishment socialists who hate cops. This guy explains it more brilliantly than I ever could
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
update: he told me his favorite boba shop owner says the average customer spends up to $5k a year on boba wowzers
. @ChipotleTweets I ordered these burritos 15 minutes apart from the same store today. The one on the left I ordered in person and it's twice the size as the one on the right (online order). My online order is always significantly smaller. Every time. Stop ripping us off. CHIPOTLE Mike Herbert @ son if you want a big one you gotta look the burrito man in the eye. Not order some WiFi burrito.
This is the perfect tangible metaphor for AI.
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interest of America first.
Frame #8089 from E54 Rip Van Prickle
who feeds the dog
who checks on your parent
who knows you're in the ER
who tells work you're not coming in
We've built a society where there's an assumption someone is nearby to catch you.
A lot of people don't actually have that.
I feel like we don't talk about what happens to people without a strong local support network. If you live far from/have no family/no close friends within driving distance you're the "single point of failure" in caregiving (parents, pets, etc.) if something happens to you.
Wife to Noah Eunice Buchanan I didna speak whan it bleetert doon. Ma man wis gey taen up wi’ getting us sortit, an’ it wis fell lang afore we had the bastes in an’ the fowl settled. I didna speak whan the watters spewed ower ma rigs o’ corn an’ doon the street intae ma hoose amangst ma rugs an’ the bonny things I had fae ma mither. I didna speak whan I heard ma frien Becca battrin at the howe o’ wir boat, her bairn in her airms, yowlin like een o’ the damned o’Hell. We had linkit doon the years fae bairnie tae wife. Ma bonny hinnie, weel-hertit Becca. I clappit ma haunds tae ma lugs an’ flung ma airms aboot ma laddies, but still I didna speak I didna speak whan the lift grew black an’ blacker an’ there wis naither muin nor sun an’ the cries that had been aa aboot us wir smoored. Nae soond on that black sea but the doonfa, the dreep, the plowt, the pish-oot o’ grey watter on grey watter. I canna speak o’ the things on the watter as the days drave on – swollen an’ blae, wi the sea-maws skirlin an’ pickin, skirlin an’ pickin. Syne whan the well-heid dried an’ the watters sank, the laund, oor bonny laund, slaich an’ slairy wi’ black glaur, an’ oorsels alane. But whan I gang the low road on the hinmaist day an’ I climb the steps for my tryst wi’ God I will look the Almichty in the face – an’ I will hae ma say.
I didna speak
whan it bleetert doon.
Ma man wis gey taen up wi’ getting us
sortit, an’ it wis fell lang afore we had
the bastes in an’ the fowl settled…
—Eunice Buchanan, “Wife to Noah”
from MARKINGS 30 (2010)
#InternationalWomensDay #poem #poetry
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wife-no...
I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.
I'm serious, read it all please
Basically, the war will continue until the precise moment when Fox News switches to non-stop coverage of gas prices and/or market crash.
Miles: Do you think hanging out with my Kiki is a great idea?
Jadzia: Is that what you call Keiko? What does she call you?
Miles: None of your--
Keiko: My little Kilometers O'Brien
Miles: Do you think hanging out with my Kiki is a great idea?
Jadzia: Is that what you call Keiko? What does she call you?
Miles: None of your--
Keiko: My little Kilometers O'Brien
📲Nova Drift is coming to mobile and it's all good news: Premium, no ads, no iap, 96% positive reviews, and a decade of polish & content.
#mobilegame #android #ios
one of my favorite moments of TNG is when Picard is immediately unable to contain his horse autism
Women Bathing by Imtiaz Dharker All our lives, in every city, out of every landscape the waters of the Alhambra have been murmuring to us. From fountains, from watercourses, from the secret pools in courtyards, voices calling across centuries. The other women are bathing in the moonlight. ‘Come,’ they say, ‘Come out of the day’s heat, out of shaded rooms, let’s escape and slip away, let the veils fall, one by one. Slide into the pools that lie like mirrors of the sky, and let the moon wash over our bodies.’ Bodies lush, generously-hipped. Bodies like pomegranates, bursting with promises.
All our lives, in every city,
out of every landscape
the waters of the Alhambra
have been murmuring to us…
—Imtiaz Dharker, “Women Bathing”
from The Terrorist At My Table, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2006
A #poem for #InternationalWomensDay
www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...
Let me tell you #SNES fans : this is the sleeper RPG hit that no one remembers. I love this game as much or more than any other super famicom game. It even has a 100 floor roguelike built into it. Outstanding game. I don't have enough superlatives.
i can’t stop laughing
Olympics Dog was chasing the motorized camera they have to capture the competitors at the finish line, then decided to chase some competitors instead
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
Important addition here!
One thing Trump has done is imbue one of his core beliefs into government practice: frivolous legal actions are powerful.
Threaten to sue someone. Actually sue them! He did this a lot as a businessman. Now DOJ does it. Does not matter if they lose - the legal hassles imposed are the punishment.
Wait - the corner of Olympic and Cloverfield, Santa Monica? Ladies and Gentlemen, that is almost exactly the location where the old Buffy offices stood. I believe we may owe thanks for this one to the Hellmouth.
Good Evening Motherfuckers it’s Friday
Attention all Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness fans! With thanks to @shmuplations.bsky.social you can now enjoy English story mode translations of the console exclusive characters. Have closed captions turned on. First up, Shade:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lue...
