It’s called the phantom pain for a reason, lol. You feel the absence of content — a limb that isn’t there, yet it still aches. It’s the proof of what’s missing.
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It’s called the phantom pain for a reason, lol. You feel the absence of content — a limb that isn’t there, yet it still aches. It’s the proof of what’s missing.
A Nissan GTR stuck in stop and go traffic
Tarman?
Ok, all done! I’ve tidied up some rough edges of the blog, so things should be a little better now. It’ll be a more quiet one today, but I will drop a ‘Today in Gundam’ at 11pm JST. 🌱 🔗 www.gundampixel.com
This looks like a Ma.K kit to me
One thing that bothers me about the Christian fundamentalist stance on abortion, that human life begins at conception, is that they reserve the right to decide when to dehumanize the person into a monster that should never have been born.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
With the entry of aid into Gaza being throttled by Isnotreal, supporting individuals with cash is an effective way to help, what items are available are expensive. It's Labour Day. A day to remember that an injury to one is an injury to all. The deliberate starving of Gaza is a labour issue.
One of the most shocking things to most non-Americans is reading that the parents of the wounded children from the Minnesota school shooting are resorting to ‘gofundme’ to pay for medical treatment (presumably because they aren’t allowed to sue gunmakers/gunsellers).
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
What does any of this have to do with money taken away from competitive NIH research grants or NSF grants to support cutting edge applied mathematics grants? How can someone who can write so eloquently have garden rock-level critical thinking?
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
“A woman with an urgent need to right a historic wrong loses the ability to ground herself in everyday rationality—and writes a book that captures the situation so graphically it elevates her condition to the status of metaphor.” Vivian Gornick on Shulamith Firestone:
Osita Nwanevu: www.bostonreview.net/articles/dem...
Pre-ordered, your turn #civmilsky
Trump’s budget will lead to residential electricity bills in Arizona increasing by $220 on average by 2035, by truncating the development of new, cost-effective solar energy capacity in the sunny state, according to analysis by Energy Innovation.
You are not immune to propaganda, and it turns out there is *no minimum amount* that is safe to consume.
The redistricting wars have escalated.
I heard Trump has no scheduled events this weekend.
Jeanine Pirro did everything she could to indict the sandwich guy-who is apparently a veteran-and failed Meanwhile the administration is giving Ashli Babbitt a funeral with military honors So if you're MAGA and you assault a police officer *for Trump* You don't get prosecuted You get celebrated
Anyone who looks at America in 2025 and thinks, "maybe we can fix this by throwing trans people under the bus" 1) doesn't have the brains to understand what's going on or how we got here 2) doesn't have the stomach for any of the fights ahead and 3) is vice signaling to their MAGA friends.
One guy helped a bunch of people stranded on a roof by hiding the black people inside so the helicopter only saw the white people. Helicopters had been passing them by for hours. But when he did that, a helicopter came 15 minutes later.
“I really hope that one day she will figure herself (out) and she will handle it much better.”
Manure pits aren’t the only way for farms to store manure — they’re just the cheapest, and seemingly, the most dangerous... And carveouts in labor regulations designed to benefit agribusiness make incidents like what happened in Colorado and elsewhere more likely to occur.
"This activist judge doesn't care about the invasion of our country facilitated by the Biden administration, but the American people do. We have the law, the facts, and common sense on our side." Ew ew ew
Immigration law is the problem. Time for immigration reform.
“before he ejected” Pilot did the best they could.
The attorney general’s office also noted the “loss of potential population” that resulted from an increase in access to medication abortions among Missourians. Ew
“We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife; we're just not going to do it. We're going to stand for what's right.”
I'm watching recommended Youtube videos of the Samsung Galaxy Fold and I'm thinking, yeah that's great. Looks awesome, but what's the call quality like?? Bluetooth connection? Wasn't there like Bixby? Health?? Wasn't Samsung rumored to move over away from Android? What happened to Fuchsia OS?
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
So the CDC is saving us from within? Or
But what do the consultants and marketing firms who’ve worked on Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren’s campaign say? The six digit dollar figure advice?
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
I wonder if these pro-Newsom ghouls who flood my replies realize that all they're doing is making my stance against Newsom even firmer.
I am heartbroken and furious over the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Kids should be learning, laughing, making friends — not running for their lives on the very first week of school. How many more children will live this nightmare before our elected leaders do something?
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
They’re also spreading mulch around public spaces like the Tidal Basin cherry trees. In hot and humid weather and I imagine at a much, much higher cost than the laid off national park service workers.
children in minneapolis shot while praying, children in DC passing armed military when they take the metro to school, this country is so sick
Child, Jesus’s crucifixion is what you get for doing things like this: “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 22:5. If you question it, crucified. Nailed on the wall.
You know what’s interesting is that in some months, like three months ago, more than half of all imported nitrogen fertilizers was from Russia. No sanctions. Baseline 10% tariff rate.
also, the insane racism of this aside, "the black and white culture of louisiana is completely different" is something you can only believe if you've never stepped foot in louisiana (this applies to much of the south)
Update: it got funny again
A photograph of Japanese Americans boarding a train departing from the Granada incarceration camp in Colorado. As the camps closed in 1945, Japanese Americans either went back to the West Coast or tried to start anew elsewhere. The photograph was taken sometime in October 1945. 🗃 #skystorians
For the coming year, China has booked ZERO shipments of US soybeans. (Per Bloomberg and Farm Policy News, links below.) Who could have predicted that bad tariff policy would wreck the US soybean market? Especially when this same admin blew up commodity markets with tariffs in 2018? A mystery!
History is written by the victor. Names are erased.
'“It’s ironic … that they’re so against trans-ness and gender-affirming care for trans people,” the dermatologist said of Trump’s inner orbit. “Because, you know, they’re all doing their own gender-affirming care.”' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The drunk ICE agent who was arrested by the police of Long Beach after engaging in a fight with an agent has been found dead.
Conservatives now control federal research funding. The next step: actually manipulating research. A conservative law firm is demanding Brown retract research showing connections between anti-wind groups and the fossil fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Snowflake
Canvas -- the online course system that Cornell uses -- allows graphics for the front page of any class I design, so I decided to use one for my course "Scale, Size, and the Politics of Expression in Asia" that I think won't provoke investigations or threats to the university's federal funding.
On August 16 thousands of protesters marched through the streets of NYC to demand an end to the Israeli genocide and mass starvation campaign in Gaza. The action was organized by a coalition of nearly 200 organizations. unicornriot.ninja/2025/thousan...
Disturbing that the police and the victim feel no qualms about having sent the wrong man to jail. Facial surveillance is notoriously faulty and racist and should not be used for such high-impact decisions. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“…American nationals linked to President Donald Trump are attempting to infiltrate Greenland and run covert influencing operations there.” — We have Temu Putin.
OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...
Troops from the American south, right? It means that confederate soldiers, the ones who took over airports and manned the air to “win” the American Revolutionary War, can now safely crawl out of their graves and eat at Washington DC’s finest institutions among their peers. time.com/5620936/dona...
Talk to a chatbot if you find yourself in mental crisis. No wait, call 911 & have the cops shoot you. No wait, call 988 & have a social worker lock you in the psych ward. The options are shit & if the culture didn’t hate the mad they wouldn’t be.
“The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.” — but “basket of deplorables” is an insult to millions of people. Consider this: the American mass media landscape has dehumanized liberals. Millions of people aren’t insulted because they’re not people.
White House spokesman Kush Desai said. “The Administration has a responsibility to ensure that taxpayer-funded research aligns with the priorities of the American people.” — the American people already funded these projects, they have a reliability interest in seeing those projects carried through.
Oh my god the responses from ChatGPT are truly diabolical.
Meanwhile in the free world
"It is deeply insensitive and distressing to Palestinian students who have lost countless family members to Israel’s violent military campaign and the man-made humanitarian crisis in Gaza." Preach.
How about flying them upside down? That’s ok? /s
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This is the essence of it to me. If the price of groceries is a kitchen table issue, then being too afraid of masked men -- who demand to see your identification while showing none of their own -- kidnapping you or your neighbors on the grocery store surely is a kitchen table issue too
This photo will be shown in history books as an example of deep and unabiding cruelty. You can't reform this.
“He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans.” www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
“…in hopes of covering rent for her $15,000-a-month New York City apartment.” $15,000???
Did someone mention the Presidential Medal of Freedom? Have we confirmed that Big Ballz would be receiving one?
Noo that just came out of the dryer
So is John Fetterman changing his tune, or no?
Genuinely surprised that The Walking Dead is still airing. I wish my parents loved me the way franchise fans have kept with the series.
“Carla Dillon tried lots of ways to discipline her rambunctious 13-year-old, including making him write the same contrite sentence 100 times.” Please tell me that this is satire.
The Nobel peace prize falls further from this man’s grasp.
One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying.
The dystopian writer in me wonders how long it’s going to be before prisoners are sent to ICE and told that they get a year off their sentence for every 10 immigrants they catch/process/successfully deport
I started 30mg vyvanse today and I feel really good about it
“But President [Donald] Trump and I are laser-focused on paying down the debt.” — we’re still playing this bit??
President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that he's a war hero, telling conservative radio show host Mark Levin that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one and adding, "I guess I am, too." — rendered speechless
The bar association needs to investigate and stop this.
Was never about saving lives
It's actually important to keep in mind, given how much left-liberal infighting happens on here, that when the predominant organs of American intellectual thought talk how much they hate "the left", they mean basically everyone on this site.
I just found out the dodger’s final score against the Rockies and laughed like Gol D. Roger.
Between this and Judge Ho’s stuff there’s enough material to file an amicus brief in support of birthright citizenship consisting entirely of arguments made by people who abandoned them the moment they became politically inconvenient
He quoted an internal critic at the intelligence directorate telling him it was “lucky” that many of those killed and kidnapped on 7 October 2023 were leftwing Israelis linked to peace movements. …that is vile
This is so good but I understand that it needs a ton of skepticism
They don’t even pretend that tax cuts result in higher GDP growth anymore
Hollywood ghost town
We rolled out the red carpet for Putin’s regional ambitions," McCarthy said during an address on foreign policy…claiming it has made America and the world "less safe."
US "democracy" is where you get to argue about who operates the orphan grinder but you don't get to argue about whether such a thing should continue to exist
Sports commentators are insufferable. “I’m scared that my favorite team might not win every game and that means I am unlovable.”
Always interesting that these people equate “meritocracy” with “world in which white people rule”
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