Welcome, please take a seat.

Make this quick I'm an incredibly busy man. Between my overly enthusiastic wife and my empires I am short on time and patience. Anyway, allow me to introduce myself, I am Bobbert Locke the Third, but I grant you special permission to call me Bob.

[newtonpermetersquare]

So that’s basically how it went down

[tricornking]

I resent just how fucking accurate this shitpost is, congratulations OP, you effectively illustrated how Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection became accepted by the wider public using a FUCKING MUPPETS MEME, here is your A+, get the hell out of my office

[cosmonaut-observer]

If you live in the UK you need to see this

Protect Internet Freedom from now until forever. It's important existentially! Americans stand with UK citizens in our struggle against government censorship

[russettrush]

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation

We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential ag

Got the link via @finalducc

If you live in the UK, please be sure to take part in this!

[fading-bisexual-queen-milkshake]

@daysleftofsecondterm

[starlightshadowsworld]

You guys have my whole heart for sharing this I had no idea will be filling this out and encourage all my fellow brits to do soo too. If you’re not from the UK please keep sharing this around we have till the 26th May to submit these in.

This whole thing was set up without our say we all need to make sure we’re heard.

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

[daysleftofsecondterm]

in firefox’s latest update you have the option to turn off the ai features

[nogodsnokingsnomasters]

Kent State University

[tiredtransgal]

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

[solarpunkcast]

Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

[captain-rez]

Another picture from Kent State.

But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.

[saurons-optometrist]

Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there

[bando--grand-scamyon]

What in the absolute fuck

[wuh2k]

When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[roycohn]

🔊🔊 END STAGE DISCOURSE!! END STAGE DISCOURSE!! WE HAVE ARRIVED AT "FICTIONAL SEX IS COERCIVE BECAUSE CHARACTERS ARE BEING FORCED TO DO THINGS BY THE AUTHOR"!!!! 🔊🔊

[blueeyesatnight]

My favorite professor, shout out Glenn, would interrupt students who were saying "Well XYZ clearly felt--" and go "No, backtrack, scratch that. They are a character. Not a person. They don't have any thoughts other than what the writer clearly specifies on paper they have. Don't give agency to nonliving things, they are not real, they never were real, and it is dangerous to lose that line."

He was a sweet man and raised in the Midwest so interrupting people hurt his very soul, that's how dangerous he felt the idea of losing the line of fiction was.

He notably also taught a course called Bible in Lit which I took and those lines came back a lot.

[bowlby4]

[posttexasstressdisorder]

[nattousan]

it was not on wheat...

[nattousan]

[rfpreiwaphase]

not willing to risk doing an image description, sorry y'all

all the times i've said illiteracy is helping fash?

and that plenty of you are, in fact, functionally illiterate?

and that the corrupt state helped you along to this condition on purpose?

the nonzero number of notes from people who did not instantly clock this comic as an allegory: behold.

when you have no idea what a door is, or what a key is, or what glasses are, then you are effectively identical to this clean-faced dude.

and fash absolutely loves what you're doing with the place. sitting there not asking questions, or looking things up, or paying attention to context.

the authoritarian state thrives on a diet of such clowns.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Anyway in other actually important news:

Text - H.Res.1155 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Impeaching Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors

Text for H.Res.1155 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Impeaching Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeano

[khapikat222]

TIME TO FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND MAKE A VERY SIMPLE SCRIPT CALL

To your House Representative:

"Hello, I am (Name) of (state/district being represented), and I am calling to demand you vote Yes on resolution H.Res.1155: Impeaching Donald J Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

[Select and make a bullet list of his crimes since 2024 that you personally take offense to. Include His part in Epstien's sex trafficking Empire, Include his recent genocidal war crime tweets on his TruthSocial over Easter, include His illegal war declaration against Iran, include every promise he has broken or remains unfulfilled on the campaign trail.]

Any single crime of these nature would result in legal punishment for the common man. Hold our president to the same standard. For no Man is above the law. Not even a president.

For these reasons and likely more: I urge you to Vote Yes on Impeaching Trump. Thank you for your time and service."

*Hang up.

To your Senate Representative:

"Hello, I am (Name) of (state/district being represented), and I am calling to demand you vote Yes on resolution 1155: Impeaching Donald J Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. When it comes to the Senate floor. And I urge you to remove him immediately from government positions, bar him from every holding ANY government office, and sentence him to Prison where he can do no more harm to the world.

[Same list as your house of representative's bullet list, just copy/paste to save yourself time doing any more research.]

For these reasons: I urge you to Vote Yes on Punishing Trump for his crimes against the United States, and demand his immediate removal from Office. Thank you for your time and service."

*Hang Up.

NOTES:

REPUBLICANS AND GOP ESPECIALLY NEED TO HEAR US, Doesn't matter if they "Wont Listen" BOMBARD THEM WITH INEXCUSABLE EVIDENCE OF WHAT WE THE PEOPLE WANT.

PROTEST OUTSIDE THEIR OFFICES, THEIR RESTAURANTS VISITS, THEIR HOMES. MAKE THEIR LIVES UNCOMFORTABLE WITH NOISE AND PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY DO THEIR JOB! "IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP" Is the only chant they need to hear now.

Do Not Tailor Your Bullet Points Anymore. They need ALL the evidence against Trump if they are going to be swayed. Do not hold back, do not let them shoot you down about ANY subject they pretend did not happen or try to spin it into a positive light.

They Do Not Control You, They Will Not Control The Narrative!

Talk of Dementia will be an iffy subject to bring up so if you do: Be sure to read up on Signs of Dementia, and What professional Memory Care doctors have been seeing in what few public speeches we have seen of Trump in recent days. But I would leave those type of discussions to people within the medical field who have topical training. Because having Dementia is not a crime, but it can help explain a desperate need to remove him from office.

CALL EVERY DAY. 5 minutes, you don't even need to change the script (unless you want to for any new shit he does in the next 24 hours between calls). Call after hours if you're nervous. Leave a message.

EMAIL EVERY DAY. 5 minutes. Copy/paste. every 24 hours. change it up as you feel it's appropriate to.

FAX THEM EVERY DAY, WASTE THEIR PAPER.

KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT, IF YOU HAVE GOP RELATIVES WHO ARE COMPLAINING TELL THEM TO CALL THEIR REPRESENTATIVES TOO!!!! REMIND THEM OF THEIR RIGHT TO COMPLAIN TO THEIR REPRESENTATIVES FOR NOT CURB STOMPING TRUMP INTO BEHAVING!

Every Republican coming around now after everything, I speak directly to you now: You fucked up ignoring all the warnings signs, and the disgrace Trump left the Presidency in the first term.

YOU have the responsibility now: To swallow whatever pride lead you to vote for Donald Trump twice, and join the call campaigns to impeach Trump.

You No Longer have the RIGHT to Claim both sides were bad. You Have No RIGHT to bitch about the state of the World. Shove Your Ego Down off the Horse You Rode In On, and WORK WITH US NOW TO GET HIM OUT.

MAKE YOUR PHONE CALLS, Demand Impeachment With Us. YOUR VOICE HOLDS THE STRONGEST SWAY NOW AMONG THE GOP, So shout with us about it!!!!

YOU VOTED US INTO THIS MESS, YOU WILL HELP US GET OUT OF IT.

"You Didn't Vote for This" Now prove it!!! You must urge your representatives to undo the choice you made! TELL THEM YOU REGRET! TELL THEM YOU ARE ASHAMED! TELL THEM HOW THEY HAVE RUINED YOU SOCIALLY THROUGH ALL THEIR CRIMINAL ACTIONS!!!!

There is No Other Work you could possibly do to undo the Harm You Chose to Put Into Power. You will likely never be forgiven by some people. But forgiveness is not externally validated. Forgiveness is personal action. To earn forgiveness demands you change. Forgiveness starts with harm reduction. The quickest way you can start to forgive your part in all this shit is to Demand your representatives to Impeach Trump with Democrats.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

me when Khapi shows up with at least nine paragraphs of very helpful stuff

[aroaceauri]

If you don't already know, you can find out who your Senators and Representatives are at vote.gov:

Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov

Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

(it's also never a bad time to double check your voter registration status!)

[veryshyblahajguy]

minors can also call their reps! you may not be able to vote, but you can still make a difference!

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Very important to note!

Also, unrelated, to this guy:

(not reblogging this from you because I don’t want you to be embarrassed)

First of all,

Second of all, no one said anything about not voting in the midterms. In fact, voting in the midterms might HELP in this case because it might mean, for the first time in history, a president has:

Lost the popular vote twice

Been impeached three times

Been the first to be removed from office under impeachment

Been responsible for the longest government shutdowns in history

I could go on. The point is, do not dismiss this out of hand.

[thebelchers]

[junglejim4322]

This person wrote a manifesto I ain’t reading all that but this is literally the type of behavior im talking about the idea hobbies all cost money is so removed from reality if you have the time to pick up your phone and write 7 paragraphs on how im victimizing you with my offhanded post you have the time to watch a movie on YouTube with your very same phone instead come on now. How is you freaking out on the internet helping any of these issues

[turbozarky]

things that dont cost money: hiking, walking, birdwatching, identifying plants, drawing (you have a pen, reading (library), collecting rocks, dancing, singing.... etc wtc etc

if you cant find a hobby you can afford, thats a you problem. and if youre posting online, you have a device to do that, get some free games, trawl wikipedia, study something. stop picking fights online and do something else.

[theonceandfutureharpy]

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

if you can write an essay about it on your phone you can write fanfic or poetry or something on your phone also and it will be much nicer for everyone involved, including you

[prismatic-bell]

You can also make a hobby out of volunteering. One of my favorite things is the one day a month I get to go work with my nonprofit.

Pick up trash in the park or along the road! (Make sculptures with it!) Visit people in the nursing home! Take a free online course! Hell--make a podcast! Host a PowerPoint party! Write letters to old people!

You! Have! Options!

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[changes]

It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

“We hear you but we’re gonna keep doing the terrible thing, now please stop being mad at us”

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

[bob-belcher]

Tumblr, you're doing another disservice to creators on this platform. With these constant changes like, the broken flagging of non-nsfw posts or changing the photoset feature, it's just breaking more things that weren't broken and we're exhausted. This is not Twitter or Threads. We don't need reblog chains to have their own likes and reblogs. Do you know how HARD it is for creators to get visibility on their art? They have to tag mutuals or bigger blogs for reblogs in hope more people see it. Even then, most posts get more likes than reblogs. You're discouraging people from staying on your platform. This seems to also have broken the block feature in the process (for some). If you must keep trying to evolve the site, please re-evaluate your changes through beta opt-in users before rolling them out sitewide.

Fellow creators and tumblr users, please reply under the changes tumblr account and contact support if you'd like to voice your opinion (https://www.tumblr.com/support.)

[the-big-mood]

Scientists at Cortical Labs have successfully trained a cluster of approximately 200,000 living human neurons, grown on a microelectrode array chip, to play the classic 3D video game DOOM.

[ruinedchildhood]

[us-politics]

[dazzlingyouwithmywits]

Privacy is now a privilege -not a right in this country

and we already know how the privileged class feels about the freedoms of everyone else...

[maswartz]