A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now

Found this old video of a traditional coder going up against a vibe coder

Tired of being a bird?

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A pigeon approaches a poster low down on a pole. The poster shows a picture of a pigeon and says "tired of being a bird?" There are tear-odd strips at the bottom that might have phone numbers on them. The pigeon tears off one of the strips and holds it in her beak.

Happy Spoonerism Day to all those who belly crate.

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The Bad Salad of William Archibald Spooner   Why do I always watch my birds? I know that statement sounds absurd but today I reached an all-lime toe when I received a blushing crow.   It’s wetting gorse – and here’s the crunch: my conversation packs a lunch. I’m not sure when all this began but I think I need a plaster man   to help me when my stouth gets muck. I should sit, perhaps, and bead a rook, fight a liar, or flick some powers. No, I think I’ll go and shake a tower. Brian Bilston

#sciencebitches #ShitIFind #mightbeuseful

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"Can I Lick It?" [Scientific Periodic Table of Elements color coded with "Sure, go for it," "Maybe not the best idea," "Please don't do that," and "See you on the other side."]

#Shark #Sharks #Lego.

#Animal #Animals #CuteAnimal #CuteAnimals #FunnyAnimal #FunnyAnimals #Meme #Memes

Take a long hard look at this graphic, the longest continuous direct measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This is the famous Keeling Curve from the station atop Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Trump and the GOP are closing the observatory.

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/bluemoon/co2_400/mlo_full_record.png

More to the point, I find DNA ancestry to be too fickle and inaccurate. Also, why the hell would you send your genetic data to a private company who is likely re-selling it to companies and governments without your knowledge?!‽ (I would like to think the recent "threat" of the sell-off of 23 and Me's data would have been a wake up call!)

Also, maybe those looking for the purity of the Aryan race should remember that the Aryans were Persian/Iranian and Indian, not Germanic/Teutonic.

They’re putting blue food coloring in everything

"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently.

"Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained.

But I didn't want my burger to be blue.
↫ Luna Winters

"Blue" food isn't food.

https://www.osnews.com/story/142847/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/

#ClownCar

ICE is offering a $132K to $185K per year for supervisory roles & $306K per year to concentration camp managers. Both jobs have ZERO education requirement.

Meanwhile the average starting salary is $46,526 for teachers and $68,485 for nurses. Both jobs require a Bachelors degree & often a graduate degree.

It's a lie that we can't pay teachers & nurses. An uneducated and sick populace is easier to control, creates higher crime rates, and feeds the prison industrial complex. This is by design.

You have been warned yet again, the US cannot be trusted...

Microsoft, under oath, admits the possibility that EU‑hosted data can be accessed by US agencies without any notifications

In sworn French‑Senate testimony, Microsoft’s legal chief for France(M. Anton Carniaux) conceded he cannot guarantee that data on French citizens stored wholly in EU Microsoft datacenters is safe from U.S. silent access and acknowledged that French or any EU authorities might not even be notified if access occurs.

Delivered under oath, this statement is an official legal recognition of the silent‑access risk inherent in relying on Microsoft’s infrastructure.

Recent comic: It's time to update the old binaries.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #science #humanrights

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TERMS for our TIMES LET'S FACE IT: THESE OLD BINARIES HAVE BECOME TIRED AND VAGUE. EVIDENCE-BASED vs. PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC CONSTITUTIONAL VS. UNCONSTITUTIONAL CORRUPT VS. FAIR IMAGINE IF THESE TERMS WERE INSERTED INTO TYPICAL HORSE RACE NEWS COVERAGE. Anchorman: THE CONSTITUTION IS DOWN IN THE POLLS. CAN IT APPEAL TO SWING VOTERS? TV reporter with Ice agent hauling away older woman in background: AND ANOTHER SETBACK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY. Pundit: PSEUDOSCIENCE IS VERY POPULAR AND WILL BE KEY TO WINNING THE MIDTERMS. Reporter: SOME SAY BARBARISM HAS BEEN WRONGLY EXCLUDED FROM OUR INSTITUTIONS.CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS RIGHT VS. LEFT DEMOCRATS VS. REPUBLICANS MAYBE WE SHOULD TRY THESE INSTEAD: AUTHORITARIANISM VS. DEMOCRACY HUMAN RIGHTS VS. BARBARISM

(And a current web search shows no immediate results for midwestbroadcast in this context, but I know I have some references in old linguistic textbooks to this. Language is a living thing and constantly in flux.)

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The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.

Someone had too much fun making this: https://github.com/W1LDN16H7/JPL

For those not up to speed with the latest AI jargon, I hope to clarify some things:

• AI: Actually Indians
• LLM: Low-cost Labor in Mumbai
• AGI: A Genius Indian
• GPT: Gujarati Professional Typist
• API: A Person in India

Every time a company promises a revolutionary “AI” product, they just exploit cheap labor from India.

Edward Teller is mainly famous as the "father of the hydrogen bomb". But he wasn't dumb. He was invited to speak in 1959 at a big party in New York for the 100th birthday of the oil industry - a party put on by the American Petroleum Institute. Over 300 government officials, economists, historians, scientists, and industry executives were there.

And this is what he said:

‘”Whenever you burn conventional fuel, you create carbon dioxide.... The carbon dioxide is invisible, it is transparent, you can’t smell it, it is not dangerous to health, so why should one worry about it?"

“Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth. Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect …. a temperature rise …. sufficient to melt the icecaps and submerge New York. All the coastal cities would be covered, and since a considerable percentage of the human race lives in coastal regions, I think that this chemical contamination is more serious than most people tend to believe.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/01/on-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming

The unusual behavior of a handle spinning in space, suddenly reversing its orientation, a striking example of the tennis racket theorem (also called the Dzhanibekov effect).

Credti: NASA

#science #space #alt4me

A few years ago, at least twice a week someone posted the rotating, extending wooden table gif to the fediverse, because they saw it for the first time and were fascinated by it. It became a bit annoying, but it has recently disappeared from the fediverse, it seems. I kinda miss being annoyed by it. So. Here it is again :)

It’s known as a Jupe table, named after the inventor Robert Jupe, who patented it in 1835.

UPDATE: here’s a 11 minute video explaing how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JFJSIJIe9A

America has always called it redemption:
Men wept for Lee but left the freedmen to starve.
They built statues to defeat but none to repair.
They praised the Union, then walked away from Reconstruction—
as if justice had already spoken.

We are a nation that learns through fire—
and then forgets the flame.

Not all pain is redemptive.
Not all suffering is equal.

#history #photography #histodons

Image: Flood at the Guadalupe River, Kerrville, TX, July 5, 2025. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty.

Sorry I'm late. There was a CAT on my car.

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Photo of a CAT construction vehicle that has fallen off a truck bed onto a car parked on the side of the street.

Today I learned there are rules for Road Runner ... BEEP-BEEP!

(creator Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner)

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RULE 1. THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULE 2. NO OUTSIDE FORCE CAN HARM THE COYOTE - ONLY HIS OWN INEPTITUDE OR THE FAILURE OF THE ACME PRODUCTS. RULE 3. THE COYOTE COULD STOP ANYTIME - IF HE WERE NOT A FANATIC. (REPEAT: "A FANATIC IS ONE WHO REDOUBLES HIS EFFORT WHEN HE HAS FORGOTTEN HIS AIM.' -GEORGE SANTAYANA) RULE 4. NO DIALOGUE EVER, EXCEPT "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULE 5. THE ROAD RUNNER MUST STAY ON THE ROAD - OTHERWISE, LOGICALLY, HE WOULD NOT BE CALLED ROAD RUNNER. RULE 6. ALL ACTION MUST BE CONFINED TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE TWO CHARACTERS - THE SOUTHWEST AMERICAN DESERT. RULE 7. ALL MATERIALS, TOOLS, WEAPONS, OR MECHANICAL CONVENIENCES MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE ACME CORPORATION. RULE 8. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, MAKE GRAVITY THE COYOTE'S GREATEST ENEMY RULE 9. THE COYOTE IS ALWAYS MORE HUMILIATED THAN HARMED BY HIS FAILURES.

Been horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".

Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?

@Viss @da_667 🦅

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If you wear a falconry glove to the park and frantically look around on the sky, everyone with a small dog will leave.