It does seem implausible that out of 400 plus other congresspeople, the best one for the Speaker of the House job was Mike Johnson, but I am still not ready to believe in a god.

Speaker of the House MAGA Mike Johnson tells a story that credits God for Matt Gaetz's bungling and a long list of candidates so unqualified that we ended up with MAGA Mike as Speaker of the House. — Read the rest

Not all heroes wear capes. But who needs a cape when you have 444 separate video game consoles all plugged into the same TV?

This masterpiece is the product of gamer Ibrahim Al-Nasser, who just won the Guinness World Record for the Most Video Game Consoles Plugged Into One TV At The Same Time. — Read the rest

Section 4.7 of Apple's new guidelines for the App Store allow retro game console and PC emulator apps to offer game downloads. Finally! Developers must otherwise continue to use in-app purchases for digital goods and services, filter objectionable content, block abusive users, and obtain user consent for data sharing. — Read the rest

The Kids Online Safety Act purports to protect young people from the corrosive and toxic aspects of social media, but instead of taking sharp aim at that problem provides politicians and bureacrats with a general-purpose tool to shut down websites they don't like on the pretext of protecting children from vaguely-defined harms. — Read the rest

This hypnotic machine causes a doll to move its limbs and head in an uncanny way on a series of metal poles. I love the video's peek into the machine's mechanics.

From YouTube:

"Stopping to view the ocean from Highway #1 on the coast of California just south of San Francisco, I found this doll lying in a trash pile by the side of the road. 

Want to own a piece of rich Southern California history, directly tied into the horrific and infamous Manson family murders? Specifically, the door from Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski's Cielo Drive home, famously defaced with the word "PIG" scrawled in the victim's blood? — Read the rest

The South By Southwest music-showcase-turned-general-tech-and-media-industry-hobnobbing-event faced some controversy in 2024, when the organizers announced a special partnership with the US Army. It's certainly not uncommon for a major corporate entity to sponsor an event, even one that was ostensibly created to highlight independent musicians. — Read the rest

The MAGA Ministry of Propaganda launched a "Biden is on drugs" campaign immediately after the President's State of the Union address. Like all good propaganda, it's simple, hard to refute, and plays on existing doubts and fears. The campaign is brilliant because it turns every positive performance into a symptom rather than a strength. — Read the rest

People have accused both President Biden and convicted felon Donald Trump of being dotty in their older age. But it's Speaker Johnson — aka MAGA Mike — who has clearly lost his mind, completely forgetting what happened on Jan. 6.

Before Trump's visit to the Capitol today — the first time since his attempted coup — a reporter asked Johnson if he had spoken to Trump about committing to respect a peaceful transfer of power in the future. — Read the rest

What if you didn't have to worry about your sleepless nights as much as you thought? In an article titled "Some People with Insomnia Think They're Awake when They're Asleep" published in Scientific American, Francine Russo explores an interesting phenomenon where individuals mistakenly believe they are awake, even though brain scans indicate that they are actually asleep. — Read the rest

A cartoon cat on social media [x.com] has attracted more than a million followers and China's censors hate it. Meet Teacher Li, "China's most feared cat."

On X, unfettered by China's censors, yet accessible through virtual private networks, Mr Li's following grew.

Marjorie Taylor Greene saw just how popular she is in Congress when she formally made a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson today — and was met by a roomful of loud boos.

"This is the uniparty for the American people watching!" — Read the rest

Quiz time! Can you spot the difference between these two statements?

"Blacks might be more likely to die from chokeholds because their arteries do not open as fast as they do in normal people." — Los Angeles Police Department Chief Daryl Gates (1982), defending the LAPD's use of chokeholds that resulted in the deaths of several Black men being restrained by officers. — Read the rest

Moscow Marge angrily displayed a MUGA (Make Ukraine Great Again) hat yesterday as she announced her upcoming motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson. And although she thought the cute stunt would own the Speaker and the bipartisan Congress members who passed the Ukraine aid bill, instead her prop went up for sale to give even more aid to Ukraine. — Read the rest

A crazed Marjorie Taylor Greene angrily stood in front of the Capitol steps this morning to announce her upcoming motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.

"Do members of Congress support the "Uniparty?!" Georgia's indignant chaos-maker shouted, referring to members from both sides of the aisle who dare to work together in a unified fashion to get things done. — Read the rest

Three people died too young and broke my heart: Jim Henson, Douglas Adams, and Carrie Fisher. Of those, at least Jim Henson's legacy continues through the characters — and entire worlds — he created. I am old enough that Sesame Street has been around my whole life and was an essential part of my childhood. — Read the rest

Okay, so finally, more than thirty years after it was published, I got around to reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, the first book in an epic trilogy about the first attempt to colonize Mars. I've really loved several of his books, particularly Aurora, from 2015 but Red Mars is the one that put KSR on the map. — Read the rest

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Let's play a game: If you could go back to your childhood for just one day, what would you do first? — Read the rest

Marjorie Taylor Greene's destructive mission to oust Republican Speaker Mike Johnson picked up steam today with fellow Congress-conspiracist Paul Gosar. This comes after MAGA Rep. Thomas Massie joined her cause on Tuesday.

"I have added my name in support of the motion to vacate the Speaker," announced the extremist who spoke at Nick Fuentes' white nationalist convention with Greene in 2022. — Read the rest

Last week Donald Trump praised Speaker Mike Johnson, saying the Christian Congressman was doing a "very good job." But Junior, in rare form, disagreed with daddy Trump, and instead stood in line behind Moscow Marge. "Enough already!" he wrote in a post, along with a montage of Johnson set to Curb Your Enthusiasm music in which he talks about securing the U.S. — Read the rest