The Addams Family began not as a family, but as single nameless characters in Charles Addams’ single panel comics in the New Yorker.

I absolutely love pressure washing and I’m getting paid for it.

edit: I posted this from my phone and it look normal enough, seeing it on my desktop shows the weird filter that seems to have been added to the image. I didn’t create this one. Sorry about that weirdness.

… with my grandaunt (born 1921) on her knee.

Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice. 100+ models with CAD assets in STEP, DXF, DWG, and PDF. Source-available, with commercial use allowed for original compatible accessories within the license terms.

The Iran war set off the “most severe oil supply shock in history,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report on Tuesday, warning that high prices would slash demand for crude, the primary lifeblood of the global economy.

This appears to be part of the “Parents Decide Act” announced earlier in April by Gottheimer, as just one step in the process. So expect a lot more to come. Some bullet point plans from it:

The policy change follows years of Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot of political convenience toward President Donald Trump and his base. Following Trump’s second electoral victory, Meta quickly changed its speech rules to allow for anti-transgender slurs and dehumanization of immigrants, The Intercept previously reported, aligning the company with longtime MAGA culture war grievances.

Face reveaaaaal! Pls ignore my serious concentration face. I make the worst facial expressions when riding lmao.

The United States’ foreign router ban didn’t make a whole lot of sense, and today may not change that.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday China ​had been an unreliable global partner during the Middle East war by hoarding oil supplies and limiting exports ‌of some goods, mirroring its actions with medical goods during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under the Trump administration. The story is one of countless examples of how the Wayback Machine, which crawls and preserves web pages, has helped preserve information for the public good. It was also, Wayback Machine director Mark Graham says, “a little ironic.”

I enjoyed this article by Lars Wirzenius, who has known Linus Torvalds since the 80s.

France is saying “non” to Chinese photovoltaic components through a mix of protectionism and cybersecurity requirements as it readies a government-backed program of new solar energy projects.

I’m sure we’re all aware of the memory price increases due to the AI hype, but it’s helpful to see the trends over time. Heck, maybe these graphs could be a good indicator to watch for if/when the bubble pops.

from Comic Strips (!comicstrips@lemmy.world)

This may look like it’s almost done but there’s the whole rest of the wanted poster left to go still lol

Iran secretly acquired a Chinese ‌spy satellite in late 2024 that has allowed it to target U.S. military bases across the Middle East during the current war, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, an account Beijing dismissed as untrue.

Former Bethesda head of publishing Pete Hines has spoken about the frustrations which led him to retire back in 2023.

Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane is a vocal supporter of the Iran war from his perch as a Fox News senior strategic analyst, regularly arguing that the United States and Israel should escalate their joint military campaign and avoid diplomatic off-ramps. In addition to his TV gig, Keane also sits on the boards of directors of two defense contractors which potentially stand to benefit from the conflict with Iran — a fact that Fox appears not to have disclosed to its viewers since the beginning of the war.

Newly declassified Israeli files reveal pre-state Zionist militias contacted Nazi Germany officials for help in establishing a Jewish state in Palestine as World War II raged.

**ducks**

Michigan’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate is a three-way dead heat, according to a new poll conducted for Drop Site News and Zeteo.

Nice to see, how the score comes together.

I had to find the damn chuck key first, to change the drill bit out, to let me drill the hole in the chuck key, so I could attach the chuck key to the lanyard holder, so I wouldn’t lose the chuck key again… All in, it was a 20 minute search for a 30 second operation but that says more about me than it does about the project…

More than 200 Iranian sailors left stranded in Sri Lanka after a US torpedo attack are returning home after being stuck in the country for more than a month.

6 months without attention.

The salad oil scandal, also referred to as the soybean scandal, was an American major corporate scandal in 1963 that caused over $180 million ($1.89billion today) in losses to corporations including American Express, Bank of America and Bank Leumi, as well as many international trading companies.