"With all the fascism and terror, there will be a renaissance of great protest art, right?" Maybe. But adversity is not worth the price of adversity. No amount of "edification" excuses letting people suffer: www.noahpinion.blog/p/toward-a-s...
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"With all the fascism and terror, there will be a renaissance of great protest art, right?" Maybe. But adversity is not worth the price of adversity. No amount of "edification" excuses letting people suffer: www.noahpinion.blog/p/toward-a-s...
Well, foo. I know I needed to update my prescription for a while, but I guess this is the sign.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton "encourages" schools to violate the conscience and religious freedom of Jewish, Muslim, and other minority faith students. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/02/t...
No matter what the energy source, EV efficiency exceeds that of internal combustion cars to the extent that a coal-powered EV still emits one-third less CO² than a similarly-sized gas-powered automobile. www.thedrive.com/news/new-stu...
A group of 85 scientists, specialists and experts in their fields, find that the Department of Energy's "report on climate change," compiled by 5 climate change "skeptics" in secret with no public input or oversight, is riddled with errors, misinterpretations, and lies. www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...
Your Republican Economy, gentlebeings. For the first time in four years, there are more job seekers than there are job openings: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/03/e...
America chooses to embrace the neurological damage caused by COVID rather than fight it. The newest concession: making the SAT easier. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Washington, Oregon, and California agree to create the "West Coast Health Alliance," an organized effort to preserve evidence-based medicine in the face of the CDC's destruction: www.theolympian.com/news/state/w...
Peter Hegseth enjoyed a rare erection watching the murder video. boingboing.net/2025/09/03/h...
I'm sorry, but Borderland 3 was a weak, incoherent entry that didn't grab me at all the way the first 2½ did. It felt like an extended version of Big Game Hunt, which was indeed very weak. Still, the new ad for 4 is... something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjg...
Oh, look, another deadly disease, Chagas, is loose in the United States. Do we all feel healthier yet!? www.latimes.com/science/stor...
I thought the whole premise of the occupation was supposed to be that something was, in fact, on fire
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
"He said that Hitler was merely trying to address the Jewish problem. He did not explain why the Jews should have been considered a 'problem' in the first place."
Washington state requires all firearms applicants to go through their local sheriff's department. This is yet another example of how well-intentioned gun control measures infringe upon minorities because the people enforcing those laws are conservatives. www.king5.com/article/news...
Frank was married, morally compromised, and a blithering dolt. He was safe, in three different ways. The last episode made that clear; Honnicutt and Hawkeye were too tempting and she didn't want to go home with more war baggage than she could carry.
Frank Burns wasn't a complicated character. What he was, was the perfect character to make Margaret Houlihan a deeply complicated character. Of all the people in the unit, why was Houlihan banging Frank?
As opposed to the Wachowski's SPEED RACER, which is an animated cartoon that comes as close as possible to being a live action movie. (To be fair, it's a very silly movie, but I love it.)
Someone is very self-conscious about the attention paid to his frailties.
Oh, I was so close.
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
I started writing queer SF erotica in 1992 because there was exactly one other writer in that space (Greg Logan) and he stopped somewhere around 12 short stories. The SF Community was (and parts still are) vehemently hostile to SF's evolution beyond "manly pulp sensibilities."
For reasons completely beyond my ken, DJ Earworm is playing Penny Lane by The Beatles this morning. youtu.be/S-rB0pHI9fU?...
Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America! “We are retaining some features for premium users. Want rule of law? That’s premium. The right to run your company without government interference? That’s a paid feature now.” [theatlantic.com]
Over on the "faith and spirituality" shelf, those writers could not agree among themselves even on the most foundational issues. What the current crisis has revealed is that the battle is truly between sense and nonsense, and nonsense will brook no rival.
But they are clearly at this moment deeply divided rivals. I made the observation many years ago that in a bookstore (remember bookstores?), every book on the science shelves agreed on the fundamentals. "The world is observable, comprehensible, and reliable."
Conservatives also seem to be inordinately fond of AI, despite AI's current assault on the integrity of thought, knowledge, the whole ontological project of figuring out where and who we are. Ever since Darwin there has been a project to say that science and religion are not enemies. Maybe not.
Science has traditionally relied upon peer review and obligation to disclose conflict as ways of policing the integrity of its results. The same people who, despite years of claims to distrust government, trust the current government to use its police power with integrity, do not trust science.
Absolutely my head cannon for dragons youtube.com/shorts/yLUAG...
Yeah. Jupiter's rescuer (and eventually lover) was a genetically engineered human/wolf splice. I kinda wish they'd gone with the original idea, though, and made Caine much more wolfish.
One band I've never seen in concert is Muse. I worry that if I did, I would work to get as close to the speakers as possible and just take the earplugs out for "Hysteria." It would be weeks before I could hear normally again, if ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm_...
Shirt's seen a lot of life. I wonder if I can get a reprint.
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And yet, despite all the pictures of 1990s queers in t-shirts with "QUEER" across it in big letters (I still have one, my old Queer Nation protest shirt), we're still dealing with stupid douchebags trying to tell us "queer is a slur."
When we talk about how "Magneto was right," this is why -- here he is, correctly predicting how this is going to go. It starts with dehumanizing; then that leads to tracking; tracking leads to arrests; arrests lead to camps; camps lead to genocide.
Too many people don't want to learn who the real monster is.
Today's lunch companion.
I think you mean "the Gene Simmons movie 'Runaway.'" One of my favorites!
Self-driving automated weeding machine puts out 150 laser pulses a second to fry weeds without harming surrounding plants. Good: can clear farmland if weeds without herbicides. Bad: Each one puts 75 people out of work. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Aw, you peeked! www.deseret.com/utah/2025/08...
Joeseph Brent Walker is a Utah journalist who has had a 20-year career writing a syndicated newspaper column on the necessity and honor of traditional Christian values. He was just arrested. You don't need my help guessing what he was arrested for, do you?
The American people are starting to figure out that, ever since Reagan, the social contracts have become irrevocably tattered; the wealthy keep a disproportionate amount of the profit generated by labor. www.wsj.com/economy/wsj-...
Conservatives only have sex as a substitute for what they really enjoy: exercising power over others. Since they're getting their needs met, they're banging less. And one favorite game is "Stopping others from doing that icky sex thing." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
I really hate how all the websites are now "Please turn off your adblocker," when... I don't have one, not on Chrome. Chrome disabled ad blockers. What I have is a privacy blocker. Which is different.
Idiocracy
so the thing is, there is an actual law, the 1949 amendment to the national security act of 1947, that says he can't do this congress can pass a law changing it, and the senate could ratify, and the president can sign. but this is not executive order stuff
When this was pointed out to him, the Republican Administration replied with, ""We're just going to do it. I'm sure Congress will go along if we need that. I don't think we even need that." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-d...
No link because I am just not that sadistic, but right now DJ Earworm is playing "The Hampster Dance." Damn them to hell.
My god
I'm as old as SNOBOL.
Here's a full hi-res image of the big raptor lady, Adi !
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Or, in MAGA land, "RFK is exposing how the CDC has been corrupted by Big Pharma and harming children since 1977, and they're worried their financial overlords will be angry." 🙄
Nine previous directors of the CDC write that RFK Jr. "is endangering the lives of all Americans." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It wasn't the educated, scientifically literate, medically aware segment of Americans who conceded so much of our authority and respect. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lashes...
You know Axyl Rose's cultural cachet is over when you hear his voice in the distance and your first thought is, "Is that Weird Al?"
Charles Dickens approved!
IMO almost every popular view of gender massively downplays the intensity and virulence of anti-effeminacy as a form of gender violence and prejudice.
The Republican Administration, which like so many Americans never had to take a class on scientific literacy, is now demanding "evidence" "the Covid Drugs [sic]" work. www.joemygod.com/2025/09/trum...
"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." - Republican National Security Advisor Michael Leeden. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Unless he's from south of the equator, it's aestivation. Or he's a reptile, in which case it's brumination. Furries are rather precise about these things.
Go all out and make her a 'taur, double the feets, double the boots!
Two words: "Referential transparency." It should not matter where F() is executed.
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The purpose of the policy, and the news stories it encourages, are intended to scare us into never asking strangers for help. And the more "different" you are from the white suburban home owner, the more scared you should be.
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You guys see where this is going? Right?
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Okay, had to look it up, thanks. Science fiction writers need broader imaginations: what does the local equivalent of Playboy look like on Kashyyk? How does the HEA of a Romulan romance novel read? Are there Asari furry artists, and what do they draw?
Rosuvastatin is the statin of choice for older athletes; other statins can cause post-work delayed onset muscle sorness to be much worse than otherwise. Trump isn't an athlete, not by any shape or measure. (For that matter, neither am I anymore; I'd really like to get back on that horse.)
Last night, I added a 1/2tbs satchel of herbs du Provence to the stock while it simmered, and the extra nose it added to the meal is subtle but excellent.
It genuinely feels weird to describe leek-potato soup as a "childhood favorite," because I didn't have it until I was much older. I wanted to MAKE it when I was, like, 10, because Julia and Jacques made it look easy and fun. But I'm glad Omaha likes it.
I'd be howling with laughter if the lack of education didn't make me so profoundly sad.
Odd how, from behind and up close, those eyes look more like the tired droop of a stroke patient than they convey any sense of authority or strength.
Isn't that just a hammock?
No! We have to be a different authoritarian state, one that shows that all of this fancy modernization is bad for authoritarian states.
Doesn't look like he's driving or striving as fast as he can.
OH: "Oh, I never read the Bible past all the fucking in Genesis." "What?" "All those 'begats.'"
These Effing People
Looking at how deeply integrated some of the internals are, I'm sorta surprised you didn't just fork Lit; there's an entire collection of mixin decisions about handling lifecycle and eventing where it looks like Vaadin replaces most of Lit's guts.
Republican Congressman Buddy Carter (GA) says that CDC vaccines director Dr. Demetre Daskalakis "undermined confidence in the CDC" due to his advocacy of the COVID vaccines and accused him of being a "BDSM Satan Worshipper" as if that were a bad thing. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-rep-cru...
I mean … it’s a Lot
Quakers reject an attempt to make anti-trans policy a viable teaching of the Friends. Good on them. www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
I can’t find the lie in this.
Not really beating the Gay Agenda rumors here, Lucky. Closets can get stuffy after awhile.
"He was replaced by a robot!"
The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
I got that part clearly. Yeah, although for some reason I get "wannabe New Yorker 'professor who earnestly wants to bang his nubile students and actually believes he wants to do it because it'll teach them good things about the world and leave them better off' stories" writer from Brooks.
who wants a danger hug
you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now
Seriously, that second one: beat for beat, Jupiter Ascending IS The Matrix, only with a clueless heroine and a hot werewolf boyfriend with hoverskates instead of a clueless hero and a hot goth girlfriend with a motorcycle. It's just that it was made FOR WOMEN and therefore the critics disliked it.
Top Gun is the boy movie, Flashdance is the girl movie. The Matrix is the boy movie, Jupiter Ascending is the girl movie.
Some of us have made a semi-career out of it! (Although I don't think I've ever written about the 'shapely ass of an elf wizard.' Darnit, now I have to.)
Sometimes I feel like conservative thought is absolutely, 100% Just World Theology: "Reality isn't stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense! That's stupid. Reality HAS to make sense TO ME. If it doesn't make sense TO ME, someone is responsible and needs to be punished!"
Hey, ll my devices recognize each other. Sometimes all too well. "Why won't my headset pair with my phone so I can listen to this new audiobook... oh, I last paired it with the Macbook for a work meeting, and Apple is being unfriendly and hogging its attention. [bluectl --power off] 'Die, Mfer.'"
Dammit, we have a winner already.
Any egalitarian system has to tread in the middle: we are fallible, we make mistakes, but together we can, if we look at the historical record, what evidence tells us, and the environment of our moment, make wise choices that get us into the future.