Materials scientist:some range and depth, interested in making arcane topics a little more accessible. Prior place photo was from the aughts; figured I should update.
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i am almost 40 and i literally do not have any point in my life where the right wing has not been doing moral panics about imaginary child abuse while institutionally working to enable real abuse of real children. if it's not the satanic panic it's fucking pronouns.
Also the Francophone vs Anglophone divide is nothing in comparison with the divide between MAGA and any halfway-decent person
of course. who in their right mind would want to look at cow tools *daily*
Man, like I said. Starting that graph at January 2025 is more or less the same as lying.
Happy Labor Day 🙂
People blocking you isn’t hate, everyone who does will vanish from your perspective & you’ll just end up interacting with a crowd that tolerates images without alt text
I try to put in enough information to let a reader in on the joke No particular need to exclude a person from it, imo
They call the is a “heel-face turn”
White House releases photos of President Reagan healthy and barbecuing this weekend.
This too shall pass.
She's got a BS (summa cum laude), an MBA (w/distinction), a JD (summa), clerked for federal district & circuit court judges & a SCOTUS justice, worked in civil division of DOJ, went private, made partner, went back to DOJ as dep assoc AG, then principal dep AAG of Civil Rights Division. She's 42.
if this was a movie, the accident would have been caused by Rudy taking a call, getting The News™️, and yelping so loud he scares the shit out of his driver who screeches to a halt, causing the poor girl behind them to crash into the car and she wasn't even born on 9/11 so she has no idea who he is
40% of *market-rate* apartments in Portland are now within 10% of the average price of affordable housing 1) Good problem for a city to have 2) We should focus precious public $$ on more deeply below-market homes, not on mid-price ones www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Most of you are familiar with Storrow Drive because your intelligent parents read you Make Way For Ducklings. It's the street where Michael stops traffic.
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping. Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; Quoth the Raven: "Can your dog come out and play?"
I hear it isn’t as difficult if you know Finnish or Estonian
It's almost as if there's an inverse relationship between the amount of money greedy oligarchs suck out of the system and the amount of money unions are trying to put into our pockets.
Big popular accounts add alt text to you screenshots challenge (impossible).
What designers think UX is: sick ass animations that tap into 300% of your CPU to perform the perfect element transition that's keyframed for the most delightful ease curve What UX is: make the text bigger and let people hold the thing
We’ve been growing calabash gourds for a minute, although I hear you about grains and root vegetables being pretty recent
I can
Had to buy them back, perhaps?
NEW: 72 of the 76 Guatemalan children previously boarded onto planes have been returned to ORR custody, per DOJ, with the remaining 4 expected to be returned in the next 15 min. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A House Committee can subpoena ICE's payroll records and a Representative can read them into the Congressional record with total immunity.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
This is what hes referring to btw. He thinks the property on the left has more character than the right.
Or Moon over Parador
Just saying, if you want sources on new religious movements, you are never going to find books about them until years later. And most magazines are reluctant to publish criticism or even general articles on NRMs. You will have to locate the experts and listen to them in blogs and podcasts.
RFK Jr on his way to help Rudy Giuliani
If there's anyone who could take my cats, or even just one, in western MD please let me know. I don't want to have to leave them at a shelter, they'd be so scared and sad.
Needs a quote post with a Giuliani speech bubble
Ensign is probably frustrated that autocorrect messes up his artfully random mix of minuscule and caps
"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift
This here is SMS Grosser Kurfürst, which was unfortunately rammed from behind - and each subsequent detail to emerge about the accident only became more and more embarrassing. No reason to post this now, but I wonder if Rudi Guiliani is reading?
Seems like Ensign blew the 3pm deadline spectacularly but was a full 10 minutes early for the 6:30 follow-up deadline How might this proceed? Seriously, it seems like they should find a way of informing him that involves some type of physical humiliation
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
Spent the day driving around Manchester, New Hampshire, a city for 80-something New Yorkers in deep debt apparently. I was driving alone, something I’m known to do. I saw a woman fleeing domestic violence. I “rendered aid,” vaguely. Minutes or maybe an hour later I was walloped by a Mack truck.
I’m not an attorney, let alone a judge, but I would be sorely tempted to instruct the bailiff to staple my orders to counsel’s tie
I saw someone post years ago about how he’d made that joke twice and I was like hmm let me go test a hunch lol
I wonder if it's the car he was supposed to sell to pay damages to election workers, but illegally kept
Lack of access to lightweight explosives seems to be THE barrier to drone terrorism outside of active war zones. ipso facto, if you’re worried about drone terrorism, you should be channeling as many resources as possible into *explosives control*.
I’m about 2% certain
People on this thread are already angry at blasé mentions of DIY, but Ben Uyeda has some very accessible advice on DIY brutalist/MCM projects His Lego molds for art-deco concrete light fixtures method could probably be adapted to build desktop cases without too much hassle youtu.be/ic81-OuvYpc
This is somewhat complicated by Peter Jackson adding some jumper wires to the popular imagination such that now art deco = dwarf art nouveau = elf Not that said complication couldn’t be worked around or even surfed to pick up tremendous unearned momentum, but it’s worth being aware of
I was going to say “dollar tree winchester mystery house”
New Stephen King horror just dropped.
What options do you have to marshal some sort of force to implement this? I only ask because ICE has shown contempt for court orders and basically anything other than violence
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Like seriously: I get the philosophical point that there would be no moral weight to handling tokens if they were to lose their significance, but this type of token is built around its mere possession conferring a relational position vs. everyone else who believes in it
this is why they are trying so hard to meme authoritarianism into existence--because they don't have the actual bureaucratic infrastructure to do it the old way
Let me add to this: Demoralize them. They're doing bad things at the orders of bad people, and they need to be told that over and over again until they can't bear to do the job anymore.
Is the debt itself fucking awful? Would it be better to extend such a pattern of collective behavior, or to diminish it?
Leland Stanford-coded development patterns, as opposed to Andrew Carnegie-coded
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
You can’t go anonymous to ATC either, has there been any effort to name & shame these child traffickers?
It doesn’t have any literal existence though its sole function is as a metaphor mapping obligation relationships onto concrete objects, without such figurative essence it ceases to be money
Those pilots need to never fly again
jesus THIS again. You literally have to tell these people "you turn those planes around and you tell me when it's done." To their credit, judges know the drill now.
I’m not aware that he built any libraries or endowed any soup kitchens Statistically, law enforcement tends to be best at reducing crime when they go on strike or otherwise lay low: keeping their corruption and blatant disregard for public safety to themselves improves public trust in the law
Bringing up that AI is used to make new antibiotics, etc, when someone is talking about the dangers of genAI slop is like bringing up ambulances because someone is complaining that cars are too big and are killing people. These are so clearly 2 entirely different things, and you fucking know it.
obviously Trump always talks in these histrionic terms but it’s very funny to take the position of “if we return to the trade policy of my first term the whole country dies”
I think many do not realize they treat children this way.
Seriously, I don’t expect one could keep a taxi medallion or an Uber account after having been the driver for a kidnapping operation How on earth can a person keep their pilot’s license
Those pilots need to never fly again
Judge Sooknanan: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
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So telling how many people hear organizers talk about the need for opposition unity and respond by saying "yes THANK YOU I've been TELLING people we need to forcibly splinter trans folks out of our coalition"
I have just signed an executive order demanding Shane Black produce no fewer than three (3) sequels to The Nice Guys
Ain’t no party like the limb-girdle muscular dystrophy party because the limb-girdle muscular dystrophy party don’t start
The man has catlike flexes
Message to the Whitehouse.
chayote, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912
mayhaps all the incredibly stupid slippery slope arguments we've witnessed in the last couple of decades have made us blind to the actual slippery slopes we're careening towards at the moment.
Same pattern shows up all over once you start to notice it
HAAALLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPING!!!! I am halp.
Just noting, if you have little containers — you like TicTacs or mints or something — and you do any kind of crafting or DIY? Save your containers, and when you take something apart (say, for disposal) save the screws/fittings/buttons because there aren’t enough US makers of screws and fittings.
Goodnight, friends
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate
Either that or his double forgot to cut their ponytail
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
It's been proposed by lots of people. Still a good idea
repeatedly emailing tens of millions of people that he is thinking a lot about what will happen when he dies is definitely helping, he should send more of these. i've only gotten like four of these in the last few days, keep it up, sir.
Stopped at a Midas repair shop today and the guy there brought up the CDC. This is an example where raising the salience of what is going on really can break through the noise.
Autodidacts represent
#HHS #RFKjr #vaccines
Ouch…
Roughly the same process as for a “non-GMO” mule fwiw
China plans to ADD 358 gigawatts of solar this year. In the first half of year it installed 212 GW, while the US installed 12 GW (that's not a typo). US solar cumulatively is now at 251 GW while China is at 800 GW, which is more than half of US electricity generation capacity from ALL sources.
EDMONTON: HELP Mayday mayday SOS: both Fiasco and Franca have gotten out of the house through a busted window screen and the back gate was found open by my catsitter I am VERY FAR AWAY! If you are in the Highlands region can you keep your eye out
You can never be too thin or too lich, I guess