Elf M. Sternberg
@elfsternberg.bsky.social
Husband to a gorgeous wife, father to two great kids, greying leatherfairy, infamous furry, and world-class software engineer. If you can read this, you're running code I wrote.
Today, on Unsolved Mysteries of Lewd: Why would anyone draw the legendary "dick sucking monster" with a ball-gag? Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose?
(The DSM, if you don't want to google it, is a weird hybrid of the big-lipped plants from Mario Bros. with some kind of scalie.)
(The DSM, if you don't want to google it, is a weird hybrid of the big-lipped plants from Mario Bros. with some kind of scalie.)
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Today, on Unsolved Mysteries of Lewd: Why would anyone draw the legendary "dick sucking monster" with a ball-gag? Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose?
(The DSM, if you don't want to google it, is a weird hybrid of the big-lipped plants from Mario Bros. with some kind of scalie.)
(The DSM, if you don't want to google it, is a weird hybrid of the big-lipped plants from Mario Bros. with some kind of scalie.)
The Republican Administration has every reason, EVERY REASON, to assume "work with us" and "give us everything we want, and accept you'll get nothing in return" mean the same thing.
After all, it's what Democrats do nowadays. Cowardly, compromised (or kompromatized), or corrupt. Take your pick.
After all, it's what Democrats do nowadays. Cowardly, compromised (or kompromatized), or corrupt. Take your pick.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The Republican Administration has every reason, EVERY REASON, to assume "work with us" and "give us everything we want, and accept you'll get nothing in return" mean the same thing.
After all, it's what Democrats do nowadays. Cowardly, compromised (or kompromatized), or corrupt. Take your pick.
After all, it's what Democrats do nowadays. Cowardly, compromised (or kompromatized), or corrupt. Take your pick.
I've been there, and yeah, they're adorable. But a penguin colony is quite possibly the most horrific smell I've ever experienced.
We captured 18 birds today and then we surveyed the colony for bird flu, which we thankfully saw no evidence of.
Cape Crozier remains magical!
🌍🧪🦑🦉
Cape Crozier remains magical!
🌍🧪🦑🦉
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I've been there, and yeah, they're adorable. But a penguin colony is quite possibly the most horrific smell I've ever experienced.
Reminder: For every woman who has reported using a gun in self-defense, five other women who owned guns were killed with their own weapon, usually by angry male "intimates."
Homicide is the No. 1 way pregnant women die, research has showed, but a new study finds that they are even more vulnerable than other women of childbearing age when there’s a gun involved. https://cnn.it/49M5XLr
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Reminder: For every woman who has reported using a gun in self-defense, five other women who owned guns were killed with their own weapon, usually by angry male "intimates."
Reposted by Elf M. Sternberg
Why does this sound like a(nother) ridiculous comedy I would write for nobody to ever read?
#Scriptsky
#Scriptsky
Their Texas towns had too much "DEI" and "LGBT indoctrination." So they moved to Russia and became influencers.
They left Texas for Russia to escape 'LGBT indoctrination.' Turns out, it sucks.
Their Texas towns had too much "DEI" and "LGBT indoctrination." So they moved to Russia and became influencers.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Why does this sound like a(nother) ridiculous comedy I would write for nobody to ever read?
#Scriptsky
#Scriptsky
Reposted by Elf M. Sternberg
SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
President Trump criticized the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during a Fox News interview tonight, saying people "get it automatically now so the number is many times what it should be, it's disgraceful."
Trump says "we can reform" SNAP
"SNAP is supposed to be if you are down and out," Trump said on Fox News this evening.
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
Some Republican ran the numbers, discovered the tax revenues blue states derive from cannabis sales, and decided that the backlash from this and the increases in opiod dependency and crime would be less than the pain they'd inflict.
www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp/news/15...
www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp/news/15...
Hemp Product Ban Included in Deal to Reopen Government
Intoxicating hemp products would be prohibited under a three-bill spending package the Senate negotiated in a plan to end the government shutdown.
www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Some Republican ran the numbers, discovered the tax revenues blue states derive from cannabis sales, and decided that the backlash from this and the increases in opiod dependency and crime would be less than the pain they'd inflict.
www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp/news/15...
www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp/news/15...
Quick reminder: when you take into account mining, ore storage and processing, commodity fuel transport and storage, and long-term storage of mining waste, electricity from coal uses (and by orders of magnitude degrades) more land than solar or wind per MWh.
ourworldindata.org/land-use-per...
ourworldindata.org/land-use-per...
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Quick reminder: when you take into account mining, ore storage and processing, commodity fuel transport and storage, and long-term storage of mining waste, electricity from coal uses (and by orders of magnitude degrades) more land than solar or wind per MWh.
ourworldindata.org/land-use-per...
ourworldindata.org/land-use-per...
Also, today I learned what men who sexualize My Little Pony call what happens to a mare's nipples when she's pregnant, and the phrase is, to my mind, so utterly revolting I shall probably have trouble sleeping tonight. "Teats," I could handle. That phrase.... no. *Shudder*.
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Also, today I learned what men who sexualize My Little Pony call what happens to a mare's nipples when she's pregnant, and the phrase is, to my mind, so utterly revolting I shall probably have trouble sleeping tonight. "Teats," I could handle. That phrase.... no. *Shudder*.
Today I learned, thank you Omaha, that the first hairs on your body to lose their pigmentation and turn grey... are your NOSE hairs.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/...
Access Restricted
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Today I learned, thank you Omaha, that the first hairs on your body to lose their pigmentation and turn grey... are your NOSE hairs.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/...
So the greek word "Ophidia," meaning "snake," was applied to eels. Snakes were assigned "Squamata." But it turns out that the wrong eels, not real eels, but "cusk-eels." True eels were assigned "Anguilla."
Taxonomy weirds speciesism.
Taxonomy weirds speciesism.
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
So the greek word "Ophidia," meaning "snake," was applied to eels. Snakes were assigned "Squamata." But it turns out that the wrong eels, not real eels, but "cusk-eels." True eels were assigned "Anguilla."
Taxonomy weirds speciesism.
Taxonomy weirds speciesism.
At the cafe recently, a young man who has his own waxed mustachios and dagger beard passed by and said to me, "I have to say, that is some excellent facial hair. Your goatee is perfect."
And I had to say, "It's not a goatee."
"It's not?"
"No," I explained. "It's a van Dyke."
And I had to say, "It's not a goatee."
"It's not?"
"No," I explained. "It's a van Dyke."
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 AM
At the cafe recently, a young man who has his own waxed mustachios and dagger beard passed by and said to me, "I have to say, that is some excellent facial hair. Your goatee is perfect."
And I had to say, "It's not a goatee."
"It's not?"
"No," I explained. "It's a van Dyke."
And I had to say, "It's not a goatee."
"It's not?"
"No," I explained. "It's a van Dyke."
It's nice that every once in awhile (MTW for one, TTh for the other) I get to hang out with literary peeps and talk about the books we're all enjoying together, sit in awe of one character's arc or the author's ability to make avoidant, sarcastic people highly sympathetic, and not be "political."
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It's nice that every once in awhile (MTW for one, TTh for the other) I get to hang out with literary peeps and talk about the books we're all enjoying together, sit in awe of one character's arc or the author's ability to make avoidant, sarcastic people highly sympathetic, and not be "political."
Wait, Ace Frehley died a month ago and I somehow missed it?
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley's cause of death confirmed by New Jersey coroner
The official cause of death for guitarist and Kiss founding member Ace Frehley has been released and supports information provided by his family after his Oct. 16 death.
www.latimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Wait, Ace Frehley died a month ago and I somehow missed it?
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Reposted by Elf M. Sternberg
My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
Reposted by Elf M. Sternberg
The reason everyone thinks establishment democrats hate progressives more than they hate nazis is that any time a progressive criticizes the party online, establishment democrats with anti-trump messages who never engage with nazis will show up to denigrate progressives all day.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The reason everyone thinks establishment democrats hate progressives more than they hate nazis is that any time a progressive criticizes the party online, establishment democrats with anti-trump messages who never engage with nazis will show up to denigrate progressives all day.
Reposted by Elf M. Sternberg
“A backbench player took the ball and ran it into our own goal, giving the other team a point. Why are you so mad? Let’s work together!”
Do people hear how that sounds?
Do people hear how that sounds?
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“A backbench player took the ball and ran it into our own goal, giving the other team a point. Why are you so mad? Let’s work together!”
Do people hear how that sounds?
Do people hear how that sounds?
Reposted by Elf M. Sternberg
Father forgive them for they know not of Lore
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Father forgive them for they know not of Lore
Arizona Cardinals vs. Seattle Seahawks Game Highlights | NFL 2025 Season Week 10
YouTube video by NFL
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Rich people whine that electricity production no longer isolated to distant smokestacks and toxic mines where only poor people will be affected:
www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
Large renewable energy projects are blindsiding upstate communities
Local governments get lucrative payments from renewable developers but have little say in the siting process.
www.timesunion.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Rich people whine that electricity production no longer isolated to distant smokestacks and toxic mines where only poor people will be affected:
www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
Unexpected Things that are People
panlegal expressions of personhood
bengoldhaber.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"I tried vibecoding a protocol. ... It was a horrible experience. I have no sense of accomplishment or growth.
...
I fucking hate this.
I can not help but feel disgust and shame. Is this what programming is now?"
github.com/jackdoe/pico...
...
I fucking hate this.
I can not help but feel disgust and shame. Is this what programming is now?"
github.com/jackdoe/pico...
GitHub - jackdoe/pico2-swd-riscv
Contribute to jackdoe/pico2-swd-riscv development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"I tried vibecoding a protocol. ... It was a horrible experience. I have no sense of accomplishment or growth.
...
I fucking hate this.
I can not help but feel disgust and shame. Is this what programming is now?"
github.com/jackdoe/pico...
...
I fucking hate this.
I can not help but feel disgust and shame. Is this what programming is now?"
github.com/jackdoe/pico...
I hope Josh is correct, but it's not just about power. It's about sincerity and values. Moxon has a great comment about Mamdani: "He's not embarrassed by who and what he is, or by what NYC is."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win
I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I hope Josh is correct, but it's not just about power. It's about sincerity and values. Moxon has a great comment about Mamdani: "He's not embarrassed by who and what he is, or by what NYC is."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
Neither the Constitution nor this new, creepy loyalty oath mandate loyalty to capitalism, at any rate.
www.miamitimesonline.com/education/lo...
www.miamitimesonline.com/education/lo...
Loyalty oaths proposed for teachers, administrators
If you’re looking to teach in Florida, you may have to declare fealty to the United States Constitution before the 2026-2027 academic year.
www.miamitimesonline.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Neither the Constitution nor this new, creepy loyalty oath mandate loyalty to capitalism, at any rate.
www.miamitimesonline.com/education/lo...
www.miamitimesonline.com/education/lo...
Emboldened by having control of the CDC, anti-vax nuts embrace label "anti-vax," vow to bring back death and disease.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Emboldened, Kennedy Allies Embrace a Label They Once Rejected: ‘Anti-Vax’
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Emboldened by having control of the CDC, anti-vax nuts embrace label "anti-vax," vow to bring back death and disease.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...