By consuming people, Dahmer used cutlery in a way that had no clear legal precedent or basis, according to dietary and legal specialists
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By consuming people, Dahmer used cutlery in a way that had no clear legal precedent or basis, according to dietary and legal specialists
Four years ago, I tested for COVID. I'd had dinner with someone with cancer the night before. Thanks to the vaccine, I did not give that dinner companion COVID. And I only ran a low-grade fever for a few days. Fuck that idiot RFK Jr. and the equally stupid buffoon who hired him.
This is what lawlessness looks and sounds like
"UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost" www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...
but hear me out: class
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Thank you so much! You've given us all so many things to listen to and enjoy - I really do appreciate you putting in the time to reply!
What the heck was he thinking...
Technicolor sphinx is the real riddle (photos by me at the Met). www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
well and properly trippy!
Stay for the weird jazz-space opera stuff:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOneO7wyKS0&list=RDhOneO7wyKS0&start_radio=1
Long handheld aftermath.site/32-9-long-hand...
"Please rule us, Mr. Daddy Trump, please."
I love the buildup: "Slaughterhouse Five... Dune... and now... what if a guy had wheels"
Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.
Ohio is a state because of the massive theft of Indigenous land through violence and treaties so disgustingly corrupt that they will cause just and honest people to feel shame. THE Ohio State University is self-censoring to satisfy racists and fascists who never will be satisfied. Don’t give in.
There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
It's the kids that are evil?
Be careful of those homebrewed gifs!
This totally tracks. Hope you ended up finding some good stuff!
Oooo... I like this voice.
This is all excellent! Thank you! I've got a lot to catch up on :)
Ooo... This sounds good. I'll check them out. I have run into Chinese football and really do like them. I've got 世界动物日记 queued up right now and I'm digging it.
This is a brilliant way to use speech or debate clause protections.
this lunchbox has just had all its grants terminated by RFK Jr
Yeah, I keep going back to the classics like Jay Chou. I'm never sure if that's just because I'm an old fart.
I also freely admit that I am and will always be entranced by Na Ying, so I've got no cool kid cred to show here :)
Thanks! This looks good.
Oh, I'm not saying I don't love a good sappy ballad! And I love A-Mei and Jolin Tsai so much. I think you're right though, Taiwan is really doing a lot of the good work here.
youtu.be/smgzP8qNXTo?...
youtu.be/2hNfAc5l8yI?...
A couple of older songs that I think are cool and doing different things: youtu.be/LDEVCfDn7mo?...
Yes! I have a couple of theirs on my playlist. I like this one a lot: youtu.be/r6cXfBnxHI4?...
Oo! I don't know! I'll go hunting for them :)
Kennedy’s the fifth dentist in those commercials where it’s like “four out of five dentists say you should brush your teeth” and if they cut to the fifth dentist it’d be RFK Jr, tweaking out on Zyn patches and roadkill, licking his rotten teeth and telling you “toothpaste is how they autism you.”
OKAY, I'm lecturing Descartes next wk. Do you have a favourite fun fact/tidbit about Descartes? If I get a few nice ones, I might make a quiz about it. (mine is how much he slept, and that he didn't like waking before midday--no wonder he's always meditating in a dressing gown etc) #philosophy
Texas is the biggest state in the country to have a bathroom ban on the books, and aside from local news and a few national nonprofits, the coverage of it is pretty small. There are over 160,000 trans adults in the state of Texas
An uncomfortable thing I've believed for a long time: Music in Mandarin is mostly not great, especially recently. Most everything I run into is a similar run of sappy ballad. I want to be proved wrong. Who is doing cool things in the pop/rock/folk/indie space in Mandarin?
Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
"Pennsylvania is the latest state to adopt vaccine counsel from nongovernmental agencies in order to ensure access to COVID-19 shots this fall as health leaders with the Trump administration move to restrict or limit eligibility."
This morning's bop (it's going to be hard not to just post all of the songs from this show): youtu.be/QGsevnbItdU?... #Huntrix #HowItsDone
Thank you!
No one knows exactly what was on the Venezuelan boat that was struck by the US military, but the fact that the strike was okayed by the president’s son suggests that there was no cocaine aboard.
In fewer than five years, Bari Weiss managed to parlay her resignation as an NYT columnist into a massive platform on Substack and then into editorial control of CBS News--making a vast fortune along the way--all off the absurd claim she's being silenced. First ballot hall-of-fame grifter.
RIP CBS News
you may not know you need this but trust me you need this
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
Jon Batiste just really seems like one of the best guys ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0d...
Leaning towards writing tomorrow's column on Trump's unlawful boat attack and Googled "boat attack illegal" and the top hits were from non-US news orgs like BBC and the Independent. The American media has gone completely brain dead, no longer chasing even the most obvious stories and angles
Well this made me cry.
Required Reading Gift article From the Wednesday Good News Bin Harvard University won a crucial legal victory in its clash with the Trump administration on Wednesday, when a federal judge said that the government had broken the law by freezing billions of dollars in research funds.
JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
Ouch SCOTUS
Trump’s Chicago Occupation Could Cost Four Times More Than Housing City Homeless Sending troops to Chicago could cost $1.6 million per day, four times as much as housing the city's homeless — plus it's illegal, experts say. theintercept.com/2025/09/03/t...
To state the obvious: That's not what legal authority is.
ARRESTING JAYWALKERS DOES NOT WORK, BLOWING THEM UP WILL STOP THEM.
This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.
Bounties. ICE is paying bounties to local law enforcement.
Alabama keeping real quiet that it also has mail-in voting. www.sos.alabama.gov/alabama-vote...
How to apologize: a short thread. So. You've fucked up. You did or said or wrote something that angered and/or offended and/or hurt someone or many someones. You need to apologize--either because you were wrong, or because people are telling you to apologize. Which one is the case doesn't matter.
Historians call this "positive eugenics." Policies that encourage "normal" people (however that idea is conceived at a particular time) to have more kids. The sister to that is "negative eugenics." Laws that prohibits "unfit" people from having kids. One often does not exist without the other.
I really want to see the JAG memo which purported to justify the idea the military can randomly drone strike a boat in international waters because we suspect it might be doing something illegal under civilian law. Preferably because it's being used as an exhibit at trial.
Your occasional reminder that the positive effects of UBI have been tested and validated hundreds of times more often than the murderous Musk robotaxis or LLM’s we’re rushing to put into our schools and streets.
Guns and cars are the two biggest culprits here. Which means that we could go a long way towards closing these gaps by investing in public transit and better regulating access to firearms.
Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.
O’Donnell said what was missing from the official transcript of the DOJ interview—but present on the audio recording—was repeated laughter from Maxwell, her attorneys, and federal officials.
“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)
Tired: Xi Jinping is the new Mao Wired: Xi Jinping is the new Qin Shihuang
I'm certain this isn't a new thought, but it is clarifying for me.
The more I look at this, the more I see a really good way of talking about AI output. It looks plausible - actionably plausible - but it's not only wrong, but also wrong in ways that are built into it systematically. It reproduces the biases of its sources.
traditional symbol of longevity
I’m a broken record about this, but this is what happened to freelance translators a bit over a decade ago: fixing machine translations — usually redoing, or having to check so closely against the original that it came out to the same thing — for a fifth of the pittance we’d been making before.
When Xi drove by the troops and says 同志们辛苦了, what was the troops' response? (This sounds like a joke set up, but I'm genuinely curious)
'Cards, the curse of the 18th Century...a sad Substitute to Conversation, or other rational amusements' -- lamenting people being on their phones, 1744 style.
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
Oh, I was so close.
I mean, it’s not my thing *at all*, but if you’re going to do it, this is how to do it.
The mics make it look like he's wearing a cozy cable knit sweater.
Trump is going to be be the greenest with envy, check it out:
My President We have gained the "Diplomatic Insult" Casus Belli against The United States They have insulted us!
I'm feeling okay about the current situation. I've got a poli sci degree, so I know that none of these things that are happening are actually allowed to happen. So it's fine.
Lane's film is a treasure trove of vaudeville and British music hall acts of the turn of the 20th century. If the camera angles of Lane's trapeze swinging seem a bit... lewd, it's because he was copying real trapeze strip acts. Here's one filmed by Edison in 1901: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlY...
He had to have thought about it, just a little bit.
Come on lou, get thrown out one more time for old times' sake
The City of LA got sued because LAPD officer Esther Eunhae Lee hit a pedestrian. We just settled for $885,000. More LAPD liability payments that are crushing our City’s finances.
Stargate: Alabama
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"
This large praying hands sculpture is on the ORU campus near the tower they built for the failed med school. A joke in Tulsa is that if you hold $20 in front of it, the hands will reach out & take it.
I heard they’re still struggling to get the president to master the line “putting on the ritz!”
In any event, there's still no n in restaurateur.
It's just immoral.
The media's basic assumption that crimes only count if they happen in secret has been Trump's saving grace throughout his two terms. He keeps blabbing about them -- here, he's posting a video of a targeted assassination of civilians -- but because he's so brazen they assume it's no big deal.