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it should be at least 400 times harder to get a driver's license
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
Winfield Scott created the modern US army, organized the greatest amphibious invasion in history pre d day, spent the last moments of his career being old and fat in DC and pointing at the map and yelling about how to turn off Confederate international shipping
Winfield Scott created the modern US army, organized the greatest amphibious invasion in history pre d day, spent the last moments of his career being old and fat in DC and pointing at the map and yelling about how to turn off Confederate international shipping
ceo caught on video stealing a hat from a kid at a tennis match. ceo caught on video cheating on his wife at a coldplay concert. guys i’m starting to worry cameras make ceos turn evil
Happy Skynet day to all who celebrate!
oh that was a poor choice of analogy, I see, sorry I wasn't meaning to focus on the energy cost of ai, just that a worker owned company isn't a total solution because the workers that now own the company would like to make money
Basically just an invasion by space aliens tbh
look, man, I'm as big a fan of worker cooperatives as anyone, but a coal miner cooperative is not going to have good opinions on climate change
for me, it was Tuesday
Two of my group chats just interrupted their regular antifascist programming to mark the news that Taylor Swift got engaged
DOJ tried and failed three times to indict a woman for allegedly assaulting an ICE officer during an arrest of two purported gang members. So they were forced to reduce her charge to a misdemeanor. www.courtlistener.com/recap/og-loo...
The man exercising the powers of the presidency signing an unconstitutional executive order banning flag burning is *precisely* the time to burn flag, and even if you generally find flag burning repellent, these circumstances should be an easy exception.
male, female, Vinga, Heler, Nandan, Eurmali.
no ring
very funny to me when someone makes a video or something on "your cat sees you as a big weird cat!" as if that's a huge revelation. yeah man of course. we see cats as funny little people
there's also some additional wiggle room - the god of knowledge doesn't require that you be a man, but he does require that you have a glorious beard, so here's your face-wig, ladies
I think you’re so grumpy cause you’re hungry buddy do you want goldfish or Bombus stupid man hey we don’t talk like that
Y'all The ICE building in Portland is painting a line in front of their building But they don't even know how to spell government
ICYMI, @samthielman.com wrote the best, most thorough & most honest eulogy of James Dobson you’ll read:
can't stand the terminology but individual state cooperation isn't a *bad* thing, and its usefulness predates Trump
An excellent game if you like puzzles with many solutions and that don’t punish you for messing around. Also one of the funniest and most charming games. And now: cheaper!
"We're going to have a kangaroo talk about baby carriers." "Super cute. Is the costume good or will we have to hide its odd and off-putting facial features in the silhouette of a setting sun? Haha." ... "Haha. Ha. Ha..." ... "Ha. ... Oh, come on." "The kangaroo will have a very cute voice."
The structure of that question made my data scientist eyes narrow - I think the right answer for us is "neither more nor less likely" because "more likely" smells like an unscrupulous reporter could use it to weed out / underweight / verbally denigrate those responses.
The structure of that question made my data scientist eyes narrow - I think the right answer for us is "neither more nor less likely" because "more likely" smells like an unscrupulous reporter could use it to weed out / underweight / verbally denigrate those responses.
I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but “the president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes him” is in fact very alarming
you can do it, cpsc poster I believe in you
my page is an anti-anti-hops safe space. rp if you're not scared of a fluffy green flower
@cpsc.gov
"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."
need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive
10 years ago today, me and Chompsky got stuck in a hole together <3 imgur.com/gallery/hole...
The #HugoAward for Best Game or Interactive Work goes to Caves of Qud.
fwiw proper procedure is to hang up and call back what you are certain is the actual number
“‘I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,’ the gay makeup artist told The Advocate in an exclusive interview.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
good news for that guy then, good odds Israel already murdered a hundred thousand, job done
“The 32-year-old gay Venezuelan makeup artist has survived things that would break most people. But in conversation, he peppers his story with warmth, dignity, and an insistence on seeing the beauty in small pleasures.”
"Hi mom, great news! I'm opening a store for car decals and signs!" "That's great son, just remember what they taught you in business school: Don't reference the Holocaust" "Okay..."
one of the characters in the mahabharata being a transmasc femcel who kills the invincible-due-to-never-cumming demigod who wouldnt fuck him in a past life is one of those things i periodically just stare back at
Look up Abundant Intelligences. Jason Lewis has a paper that explains it pretty in depth. Also the artist Suzanne Kite engages with it to conjure indigenous methodologies www.artnews.com/art-news/art...
Someone was being incredibly aggressive to me a few weeks ago, wondering what kind of university enroll an AI defender. Then I showed her we had an entire working group on indigenous uses of AI it's like her soul left her body. She basically said it was the most horrifying thing she saw all year lol
the Mahabharata mogs the Ramayana so hard it's embarrassing that the two get costar billing in the Indian canon. Also features - butter jar IVF to create 100 beautiful failsons - Clark Kent except everyone shames him for being from Kansas - cab driver politics except your cab driver is God
joking shitpost along the lines of Hellofresh hunting humans on an island ...probably
that's why tilda wins the race
probably ronald reagan, definitely tilda swinton
stannis: populace
it finally happened www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Not what I expected, actually
the remittance market is *huge*. you might not use it yourself but it's legit something that whichever stablecoin platforms capture will make some people very, very rich
Editor: You get those photos of Ed Zitron? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what
Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each: - person who reposts this post - new follower @51st.news ws gets - new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets - new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets - new follower I get And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
Project Highrise is pretty good (because it's simtower with some tweaks. Less elevator management because they are cowards)
if bigfoot told me he had a nuclear bomb and the only way to get rid of it was to drive his friend the chupacabra to florida I think I'd have to do it, we'll handle the rest in therapy i guess
it's true
my favorite bluesky arguments are the long drawn-out ones where person a responds via direct reply and person b exclusively answers through quote-posts. it's like seeing two people arguing on the street with one person facing sideways and shouting into the open door of a baskin robbins
the thing about Trump is that he's objectively a good golfer, what with all the practice possibly the best golfer in presidential history, depending on Eisenhower's numbers but he also cheats constantly *anyway* it's illuminating
at a conference recently I hears a neat lecture about epigenetics where one of the early human topics in it was Dutch people who hadn't even been born yet apparently sustaining trauma from the Nazi induced famine in ww2
Gonna borrow this rescue pup's bio
i'll be damned lol
the excel spreadsheet would almost certainly be legible to humans across the recorded history of the species, from a sumarian scribe to whatever techno organic collective that emerges as our evolutionary successor
clicking "autofit column width" and then sprinting to the temple to sacrifice to Zeus because otherwise he will toast your ass for faking a miracle
Usually looks like a grey tabby but in some light you can tell why the vet told me he's a brown tabby no really
zachtronics glorifies capitalism
pfj splitters
huh
it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
My 11-year-old daughter, unhappy with the snacks and the long lines at camp, decided to start her own business with a couple of her campmates. I found this document on my computer.
There is a rare category of historical persons who are so annoying that despite being very important either as sources or as actors in their own right, despite sometimes even having pop culture familiarity, they are known by specialists in the field *specifically* for being deeply irritating
The facts that: 1.) my brain initially interpreted this as “artillery punk” 2.) it then said “tell me more” pretty much sum up the two kinds of transfems
Here's how you can help those impacted by the catastrophic flooding in Texas Hill Country, along with safety tips for dealing with flood warnings and what to do when you encounter flood waters.
terminal case of "what if I get rear ended" brain worms (I have these brain worms)
Despite the Trump MAGA cuts to our National Weather Service, they did do their job. The NWS sent an urgent flash flood/evacuation message at 01:30 am. Local officials ignored the warning and waited until 05:16 am to warn affected residents to evacuate. www.kxan.com/investigatio...
Early reviews include: • “why would you do this” • “This is horrendous. You are evil incarnate.” • “This is awful. Incredibly impressive but awful.” • “It gives me a physical full body cringe” • “congratulations on your torment nexus” www.jamesrball.com/p/i-built-th...
From many years of federal criminal practice, careful reading of the jury notes, and a deep understanding of the jury instructions I can confidently predict that the jury hanging on count one means the verdict on the other counts is /1
@kenwhite.bsky.social
girl are you a 96% chance to hit in an XCOM game because i miss you so much
Will they get this chart?
This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
TARKIN: I don’t want any of you to get freaked out. We’re all respectful of Lord Vader’s convictions. And honestly, we’ve had a really bad week VADER: indeed. Between Admiral Thrawn being stolen by whales and the head of the security services killing himself because he read theory, it’s been rough
if we're going to do every single plot point from the television show Andor IRL i must ask: when do i get to go undercover as a fashion designer
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year: researchers. With #lenacapavir on verge of approval, campaigners urge manufacturer to make it ‘available and affordable for all who need it,’ by @katlay.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025... via @theguardian.com #HIV #AIDS
important update: next door got a shop cat and she is GLAMOROUS
That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.” /1
Bluesky is full of agitated people giving advice that will get you killed or might, MIGHT, result in your acquittal after the complete destruction of your life. Real life ain’t a flame war, kids.
Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed. With a form email.
it remains cool that the president is a boomer yelling at the television
there's been something of a tendency since October 7 to believe the *moral* disasters of Israeli action will result in *military* disaster, and that's likely to pop up again. I'm making no predictions here but I'd treat any 'this time Israel will really be in trouble' takes with a grain of salt.
I remember reading, possibly here, that the space between massive dumb tariffs is right around a century because you have to wait until everyone who loosely remembers the last time is dead
They can just, uhh, leave if it sucks. But turns out the titan who deploys chemical warfare on your flying foes, maintains an immaculate bed of flowers to draw from and Kaiju-fights any other titan who tries to get at your hive for your extra honey is a good deal.
An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."
Ok, this fucking rocks. Everyone should be able to use the bathroom when they're out and about.
Poli sci thread time! There has understandably been a lot of discussion around the prospect of Trump using the military to put down protests, and folks like me saying that it’s a risk, but unlikely. This raises the question: when are soldiers successfully used against protests? 1/
been there
This is Tub and Blue. They simply cannot figure out how to get their tennis ball that fell in the pool. Still 12/10 because they really are trying
Please enjoy this photo of our new kitten Bobby and our mostly confused dog Ralph
Lab-grown salmon cleared for sale in the United States. Wildtype’s 'cultured' salmon is made in a lab from a few cells. In May 2025, the FDA approved Wildtype’s salmon for commercial sale, paving the way for the world’s first commercial sales of cell-based seafood. buff.ly/yJiHfus #ShareGoodNewsToo
Fascinating thread about a surprising topic: the intelligence shadow war between political factions in Cold War Finland.