I’ve found myself listening to a ton of Karnivool and Rishloo, recently, so here have a taste, on me.
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I’ve found myself listening to a ton of Karnivool and Rishloo, recently, so here have a taste, on me.
A bunch of songs from this album are still in heavy rotation on my gym mix.
From the most underrated soundtrack of the 90s (terrible movie though) Pearl Jam and Cypress Hill - The Real Thing
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
Took 2 and 5 to the neighborhood pool yesterday evening to watch dogs in the pool day while eating their dinner. Then we went for a family walk around the neighborhood where we chatted with friends, and back home for bed.
One of the reasons Georgia may consider *ending* AVR is that it “results in more voters than the national average” ... www.ajc.com/politics/202...
I just hate argyle.
Yeah I just tuned in about 40 min ago and 😳
I simply don’t think that any football team with argyle in their end zones should ever win any game.
And the announcement that we are getting Bottas back next year. I still have dreams of Bottas and Danny Ric one day doing a buddy F1 show.
What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years? Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Not for nothing, and the world is on fire, but I’m still very happy for Isack Hadjar and his podium made me smile for a little bit.
I just finished Shiny Happy People Season 2 and all I have to say is FUCKKKKKKKKKK Episode 3 (finale) explains the entire White Christian Nationalist agenda and their plans Also the whole 3 episodes are absolutely bonkers about this program (Amazon) @mcbazacophd.bsky.social you weren't kidding
More than 1,000 people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020. Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases. With @veritenews.org
Remind me why anyone things Matty is worth listening to
Remember when Biden was working on National Plan to End Parkinson's bill, and was consulting with experts, and NYT ran this hit piece?
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
Important to note that Christopher Caldwell is widely seen as one of the most respectable / least unserious intellectual representatives of the Right. And he really is! Which only hammers home how much of a radical consensus there is on the Right that pluralistic democracy needs to be abolished.
Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness. On a plane, I want a pilot. In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence. Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data. Ignore it and we all pay the price.
Blue states can also buy vaccines in bulk and distribute them via their chief medical officer or via doctors, says @sbagen.bsky.social. The idea would be to make vaccines available to all, including those restricted under RFK lunacy. Great stuff from Sam here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Season 2 isn’t about the Duggars, FWIW. It’s a 3 part docuseries and just a world that I guess that I didn’t know anything about and it’s pretty scary.
Season 2 of Shiny Happy People is one of the most disturbing things that I’ve ever watched on TV and I’m only one episode in.
i really think jd vance is the fakest politician i've seen in my lifetime. there is nothing sincere about him.
RFK Jr.'s #2 is stepping in as acting CDC director. You need to call your Congress people now and demand hearings until RFK is forced out. They're politically weak for another 48-72 hours, then they'll do unbelievable damage in the next month. Show me that you called and I will give you a reward 👇
I’m so sorry that you had to endure that, and thank you speaking out.
#ThrowbackThursday: In 1980 the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox free, thanks to mass vaccination efforts. Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork
That mixed with very loud and heavy prog music is a big part of me staying sane through all of (gestures around wildly) whatever the hell this is.
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
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
these attacks aren't accelerationism, at least not in the way that some of the progenitors imagined it. they are acute and horrific expressions driven by the creeping tendrils of social rot, enabled by the mountain of weapons we have built instead of a safety net, aimed toward nothing but death
Jesus fucking Christ. it does not need to be like this.
Or you could stop kids dying from random gun violence that only happens here? Maybe it's not Jesus we need to solve this... -signed someone who lost 2 friends during the Columbine shooting 26 fucking years ago.
Chagas Disease, an Endemic Disease in the United States
Not good. But, while the “flesh-eating” nature of SW will drive clicks, it’s the infection of domestic herds and the resulting economic implications that will be most consequential here.
COVID has killed at least 2 million Americans in the past five years, and sickened, sometimes chronically exponentially more. We have effective vaccines for it and now they want to ban them. This is madness.
I wish that politicians could see public education for the incredible investment it is in our children and in our future as a society, instead of simply an expense on a spreadsheet.
Starting Abbott Elementary because I need something to laugh at.
These are two names that I had (thankfully) forgotten about but glad to see Prather sort of coming around, I guess?
Studies show that SARS-COV-2, like other human coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses causes an acute response, is cleared, generates immune memory, and that is it. This 👇is painful. An attempt to be relevant, with fantasy and conspiracy, that never was. 1/2
Do you need a pygmy sea horse break? Here's my story on the deep lesson about evolution they have to teach us. Gift link: nyti.ms/4mrKIC8
Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen
This little one turns five today and starts kindergarten tomorrow and where does the time go. She’s the love of our life and enjoying every second of the journey with a smile. Happy Birthday Ellie Bean! ❤️
This little one turns five today and starts kindergarten tomorrow and where does the time go. She’s the love of our life and enjoying every second of the journey with a smile. Happy Birthday Ellie Bean! ❤️
Hm wonder what the presence of an occupying military force would do to voter turnout
Saw Zakk Wylde post this image of Brent Hinds. I dig it and I’m sad at his passing.
Again I didn’t start out thinking Trump was hiding something truly horrific vis a vis Epstein, but literally every single thing he’s done…
The outro and his solo that starts ~11:05 is some of the greatest stuff I've ever heard; this song remains my favorite out of everything they've done. He was an absolute monster on guitar. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0HJ...
RIP Brent Hinds. Mastodon, The Czar, acoustic, at Georgia aquarium. 😢
RIP Brent Hinds. Crack The Skye is a masterpiece to transcend genre. www.theguardian.com/music/2009/m...
Just gonna wander around the house singing this to myself for the weekend. RIP
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! 😢
Apparently JD Vance claimed, without evidence, that a majority of DC residents support the occupation of our city. No, in fact high quality polling shows that 79% are opposed and only 17% support.
The rush to coronate Newsom years ahead of schedule, to stomp on all opposition before any votes are ever cast, and to enshrine his bigotries and general awfulness as not only necessary politics but morally correct reveals just how corrupt much of the Democratic Party is. The same with Cuomo.
Another set of words that denote wisdom is to finish any statement of faith with the words: "...but I could be wrong." It would avoid all fundamentalism.
The wisest words in society are “I don’t know” and we need to really emphasize that. If someone you respect says “you know what, I don’t know but let me help you figure this out or help you find someone who may know,” you’ve found yourself a winner. That’s true wisdom.
My current Postdoctoral Research position is due to end on 30th September 2025. I am keen to continue working in infectious disease research, data-driven epidemiology, and teaching in academia, public health, and/or industry. If you know of any opportunities, please do let me know - thank you!
The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Attorney James Hollis says that over 80% of people in Alligator Alcatraz are sick, many with Covid symptoms. This is eugenics. People have already died in ICE custody. Many will be disabled. The inhumane conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.
i will fall asleep tonight praying we will live to see dc statehood ❤️
here to remind you all that we already have a Joe Rogan of the left and it's (time traveling) Abraham Lincoln
I'm not going to dignify that op-ed by linking to it, but suffice it to say I think it's adorable that you think you can "unyoke" the sciences from the humanities. Bless your little heart.
Missing the good ole days when being a nazi got you run out of polite company
Anyone telling you that marriage is unimportant has almost certainly never needed to get to their unconscious, disabled partner in an out-of-state emergency department to demand that ED do everything possible to keep them alive (i.e. full-code status).
As we know, these are lies.
Guy loses everything in the divorce, including his Acrobat Pro subscription
And massively amplified by the guy ultimately in charge of the target agency. This is incredibly grim.
If the shooter at Emory/CDC did in fact believe he was sick from a Covid vaccine, this violence has been stoked and incited for a very long time. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
I love @pbsnews.org so much but I turned it off early tonight. I'm with the good people of MoCo who decided in the last school board election that we really don't need to hear more from Bethany Mandel.
This is a real tweet.
Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
*what
My kid calls raspberries “Elmo” and then promptly eats them like a mako shark. I’m not sure whether this says about him.
Ah that's lovely news. metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...
Shameless plug but I am 25 sales away from hitting the next bestseller tier, so if you've been thinking about checking this out, now is a great time to do so.
The dog sleeping position laboratory continues to innovate in ways we could never imagine.
Reading up on my kids' current favorite show
this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this. we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.
This trivial man is responsible for taking food and medicine from poor people. Many died. He’s such a foolish, awful, and unhelpful person.
Screaming child in grocery store echoes tantrum playbook.
For a toddler, there is no greater delicacy than a hand fed cheerio that’s been stuck in the creases of a car seat for an entire car ride.
For a toddler, there is no greater delicacy than a hand fed cheerio that’s been stuck in the creases of a car seat for an entire car ride.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s now officially spooky season until Dec. 1. 🎃 💀
The confirmation of Emil Bove is super depressing. This country is broken.
Got the “more time with his family” send off to boot endpoints.news/vinay-prasad...
Quick search says Marc Andreesen (one of the funders for this) is funding another Christian nationalist enclave in Kentucky. The tech bro/theocrat alliance is one of the weirder products of Trumpism. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
I feel like if you say this about students you should be unable to teach in any capacity ever again. How can you meaningfully educate people you hold in contempt?