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[Jack @LeftyLambert]

I look down from my castle; "these pitiful peasants," I think. "Pooping without a warm water bidet." I moan in pleasure as Poseidon himself licks my ass

[Esfandiar Baraheni @JustEsBaraheni]

Trump booed very loudly here at MSG

[Once Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc]

Today marks 20 YEARS since Animator vs. Animation by @alanthebecker was posted to @Newgrounds.

[Jack @LeftyLambert]

@ritaohio where is my refund money RITA! You sure took my overpayments quick, least you can do is return it faster than a month+ after filing!

[Jack @LeftyLambert]

@packers @lukecombs @LambeauField Coach taking that B- seriously, earning that extension 😤

[Sheep Esports @Sheep_Esports]

Counter Logic Gaming 🇺🇸 qualified to MSI 2016 Grand Finals 10 years ago today! 🏆

🇨🇦 Darshan
🇺🇸 Xmithie
🇺🇸 Huhi
🇺🇸 Stixxay
🇺🇸 Aphromoo
🇺🇸 Zikz (HC)

The unexpected finalists were known for their motto "Respect all. Fear none." and defeated Flash Wolves 🇹🇼 3-1 in the semifinals.

[Jack Huynh @jackhuynh]

As a lifelong gamer, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to push gaming experiences forward across CPUs, GPUs, software, and games.

My team and I have been working hard to evolve @AMD FSR 4 and bring it to more cards.

We power over 1 billion gaming devices worldwide. It’s a responsibility we care deeply about.

🎮 This July, RDNA 3 players will experience FSR Upscaling 4.1, delivering sharper visuals and smoother gameplay than ever before.

I’m grateful to our fans. Your enthusiasm and ideas inspire us to keep pushing gaming forward.

FSR Upscaling 4.1 on RDNA 3 will be ready out of the box for Radeon 7000 Series players in over 300 supported games at launch.

And for our RDNA 2 players, we have something exciting coming in early 2027. FSR Upscaling 4.1 will be coming to your cards as well, bringing sharper visuals and smoother gameplay to even more gamers.

We cannot wait to show you what is next. Stay tuned 🚀

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

“Deciding to step away from the game was one of the toughest things I’ve ever had to do. But I absolutely did have to do it.”

In 2025, Jaire Alexander abruptly walked away from football. He explains why he had to make that decision for his mental health. https://t.co/daakVb4J3g

[LoL Esports @lolesports]

NO WAY THIS WORKED 🧠

[Jack @LeftyLambert]

Guy who didn't contribute to the group project telling everyone he did shit:

[Antitrust Division @JusticeATR]

Congratulations to all on this historic liability finding. The DOJ was proud to lead a settlement in this matter that brings the American people instant relief and also applauds the remaining states on today’s liability finding. This is a win for everyone in our country besides Live Nation.

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

Huh?

You bailed in the middle of trial after cutting a sweetheart deal with Live Nation, tried to pressure the rest of us to accept it, but we pressed on and won the trial without you.

Congrats to consumers, not to you.

[Jack @LeftyLambert]

If a president in the 2000s or earlier said what the orange idiot said, there would be non-stop news about how embarrassing this was

When did we swap to the American nightmare

[John Bistline @JEBistline]

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A newborn sperm whale can’t swim. It starts sinking the second it’s born. If nobody pushes it to the surface, it drowns in mile-deep water.

On July 8, 2023, a sperm whale named Rounder went into labor off the coast of Dominica. Researchers from Project CETI, a $33 million AI initiative out of MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern that’s trying to decode whale language, happened to be there doing routine fieldwork. They had drones in the air and underwater microphones running. What they captured over the next six hours just got published in two papers, one in Science and one in Scientific Reports.

Eleven whales gathered at the surface before Rounder even started delivering. Her mother, Lady Oracle, was there. So was her daughter Accra. Three generations in the water. But the wild part: half those whales belonged to a completely separate bloodline that normally keeps its distance from Rounder’s family. On a typical day, these two family lines split off to hunt in different areas and rarely cluster together. For the birth, they all converged before labor started. The unrelated family somehow knew it was coming.

The delivery took 34 minutes. Sperm whale calves come out tail-first with their flukes still folded from the womb. They haven’t developed the oil-filled organ in their heads that helps adult whales float, so the moment they’re born, they’re dead weight in the ocean. Every adult whale in the group, related and unrelated, started taking turns pushing the calf up to breathe. They kept this rotation going for three hours. When a pod of pilot whales (known to be aggressive toward sperm whales) and a large group of Fraser’s dolphins showed up during delivery, the adults formed a wall around the newborn until the threat passed.

The underwater audio is where it gets interesting. CETI’s microphones picked up the whales changing their vocal patterns during the birth. The click-based sounds they use to talk to each other shifted at specific moments, and vowel-like structures appeared in the recordings. This builds on what CETI found in 2024 when they ran machine learning on over 8,700 recorded whale calls and discovered sperm whale communication isn’t a basic 21-sound code. It’s a system of about 300 distinct sound combinations, with the whales adjusting rhythm and timing in real time, speeding up and slowing down the way a musician does mid-performance. A 2025 follow-up from UC Berkeley found these clicks also contain vowel patterns, something scientists had assumed only humans could produce.

Sperm whales carry the largest brain of any animal on the planet. About 9 kg. Roughly six times heavier than yours. The evolutionary analysis in the new Science paper suggests this kind of cooperative birthing goes back over 36 million years, to the common ancestor of all toothed whales. The calf was spotted a year later, swimming with its family.

[GFed🇺🇸 @GfedGoCrazy]

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

[Jack @LeftyLambert]

Hey @AmericanAir Great job losing my skibag in Dallas Texas instead of sending it to Bozeman like you did my other bags. Especially awesome you told me you would deliver to my rental last night and today you haven't even confirmed it's left Dallas yet

[LoL Esports @lolesports]

The fight to close out game 1! #FST2026

[LoL Esports @lolesports]

#G2WIN

@G2LEAGUE CLEAN SWEEP @GENG!

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

The Afroman Trial.

-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.

This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[Jack @LeftyLambert]

@slime_machine Clearly this is because there's not enough step bro and steps sis vids on the premise