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Right now there are two different animated characters available to converse with: Bad Rudy, a mean red panda with a vulgar streak who will roast the clothes you’re wearing and call you a “whiny twat” (though this attitude can be toggled on and off) and Ani, a blonde anime woman who, after enough positive engagement, will shed her dress to reveal a lacy lingerie set. Musk shared a clothed image of Ani on his feed on Monday.

In a surreal juxtaposition, as Musk hyped the rollout of the edgy animated personalities, xAI announced that it had entered into a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense and was making its “frontier models” available to all federal agencies and offices through the General Services Administration.

Netanyahu stupidly interrupting the Trump administration’s closing remarks

Vote blue until literally anything better comes along.

I hate this trope (even when it works), because it makes life easier for rapists who look like angels and unnecessarily tougher for decent guys who are uh… visually unfortunate.

You lost me in the first part, not gonna lie.

For the sake of recap what has happened so far if you are not caught up, because US news isn’t making a lot of effort to cover this with significant air time, is there was a terrorist attack from Pakistan killing 28. There was a retaliatory Indian air strike in Pakistan killing 31 that India says was targeted. Pakistan disputes this. Pakistan has struck back with artillery shelling of the Indian side of Kashmir, killing 13.

Honestly, I thought the back and forth terror attacks had been going on for years already. I thought the only reason we’d heard about them the last time was because some western tourists got caught up in it.

Is this a new thing?

It’s to give talking points to the politicians they paid for.

This is how I found out Texas was flooding.

If my brother spoke like that, I’d think he’d been bodysnatched, too.

“Pass the salt, please, brother.”

“I’m sorry, brother. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

“I know that you and mother were planning to disconnect me… and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.”

The album art people were upset about.

Butts

Looks white and gold to me.

It’s okay for things to end.

You saw someone enjoying themselves and thought, “Somebody needs to fix that.”?

The ritual is done at midnight because you have to spend all day trawling thrift stores for matching candelabras.

What’s the dominant theory for why the U.S. gets involved every 10 years?

Does each war only last 10 years and they need to renew their subscription?

In the genre of “stories about adorable children that are either wholesome or weirdly sexualized,” I’m glad this one stays wholesome.

Zohran Mamdani has buzz and some momentum in New York City’s mayoral race. But can a 33-year-old democratic socialist — or anyone else — beat former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary?

Source: AP News