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What about "Caltech Astronomer"? What if someone has been both? Pair annihilation?
This chick already looks like it’s seen too much 💭🦤😂 #birds #humor
* chemtrails
And it's a stunningly beautiful day for it!
Dear Judge Burroughs, I enjoyed our near encounter at the Moakley Courthouse not so long ago: you presiding, me in the overflow courtroom. Hoping to hear from you very soon. Best, A more-than-interested observer
Red state goodies will not distract from the EPSTEIN FILES.
Reprising this: youtu.be/4tZVnbDq9B4
Did someone slap some sense into the NYT?
A small shovel of Trump bullshit to be followed by a bigger shovel of Trump bullshit. It's always the same with this guy.
damn — and yet they can’t read a graph to save their own lives, nor trust anyone who can read it and can save them
Fuck them to hell and back - and back again.
Ermahgerd!
This is wild. I was raised Catholic, read quite a lot of the bible in high school and college, and went through some of the Gospel of John in the Koine Greek (oldest surviving translation). I guess that's why I'm a secular humanist now!
People, we had action kitty complete with soundtrack last night or this morning. Search it up!
What a wonderful thread!
I'm not sure if I can claim this for myself but can definitely claim this for my kiddo. It's incredibly endearing.
They are probably rich enough to fly out of the country and solve the problem that way. I guess he's concerned about the inconvenience, not everyone else with fewer options.
Well that sounds perfect. @rudebekia.bsky.social
Elite = 46 colleges & universities. Data from the source article:
Oh FFS. Brilliant and honorable people are educated everywhere. Stupid and craven people are likewise educated everywhere. Cited article (within the WP article): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Looks like mitochondrial insufficiency to me.
I love this puzzle! I play all levels every day, though EASY takes me 0:20. Best score for HARD so far: about 2:45.
But no one should miss "The man who identified himself as an OB-GYN was wearing nothing but his underwear as he helped Ms. Thompson deliver the placenta."
A woman unexpectedly went into labor at the Burning Man festival. Within minutes, a neonatal nurse, an OB-GYN, a pediatric doctor and other attendees filled her camper.
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." Kurt Vonnegut
Honestly, this. Chose the structural solution. Always chose the structural solution.
Sure, but if you slapped a semicolon in place of the first period, it would work as a single sentence.
Before I read the text, that's exactly what I thought it was.
Oh yeah that's the WHOLE point.
* and his wife (I'm working blue today)
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
A harbinger, we hope we hope!
All the President’s ‘Butt Snorkelers’ www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
For the bus ride home
Missed the pettiness but LOVE the gif!
This is the large Hedren caw-lighter.
SCOTUS cemented this notion and this absolute bullshit.
Well that's definitely gonna get him the Nobel Peace Prize.
~~ Frontiers of cloning ~~
Mark your calendars for Friday, October 10. That is the day that someone ELSE will be awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Peach Prize committee will not be snowed.
I mean, I would buy one of those candles wrapped in frosted glass with Tom's image on it, but there would have to be a nod to the Greek Orthodox tradition.
Shitposting Godspell because how often is there a call for that? youtu.be/BRzqwSUlvmU?...
Invites leader of another nation to the White House With cameras rolling, points out that women from country used to get raped in wartime Thinks he's a tough guy for pointing this out Everyone knows he's 💩
How many thousands of hours has the world wasted listening to him lie, lie, and lie some more? He's just a sentient and deceptive bag of orange turds.
Love hurts! (Great posts but oh my goodness.) youtu.be/LZeR8OHyDo0
Best to leave celebrities out of it - they aren't credible on economic pain. Probably best to focus on actual rural people and mom & pop businesses getting screwed over by Trump.
I'm stealing TRUMP HUMPER
She also records them and you can listen - with a one day delay. I use Pocket Cast but I imagine there are lots of options.
Cry antisemitism and let slip the dogs of fascism.
We need to center ALL root veggies.
Hmm, could be a British term. I live in New England and call it a vegetable peeler. I grew up in the mid-Atlantic, though.
Don't talk about transgenic mice. What happens in the mouse colony stays in the mouse colony.
I dunno. Most of my papers have journal-imposed ceilings of ~ 3000 words, which forces brevity, clarity, and punch.
Privilege? Really?
My PhD advisor operated primarily through negative reinforcement for years. I finally explained to her how unhelpful that was when she said, "you're really smart - I don't understand why you don't do better."
This is the least important thing to argue about.
And it's not even MSNBC! Praise the goddess!
That's one way to squash authoritarianism!
The ugliest hole in the wold is this guy's mouth.
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(back half of article)
Here's an excellent article by M. Gessen about what Trump means when he says that and why he's wrong. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
"JD Vance intentionally misses the point" = evergreen
And Christ almighty, don't say TRANSgenic mice, even if you know exactly what you are talking about. In fact, if you have a STEM PhD maybe you should keep that to yourself.
And Christ almighty, don't say TRANSgenic mice, even if you know exactly what you are talking about. In fact, if you have a STEM PhD maybe you should keep that to yourself.
How about centerpiece? Centerline? Centerfold? Centercourt? If not said fast enough, someone might anticipate the ING is coming - quite a price to pay for a perpetual autocracy that rests on the success of the right wing culture wars.
== Don't spook the centrists!
@garrykasparov.bsky.social is consistently entrancing - and hilarious. Great, great episode.
👏 👏 👏
THIS THIS THIS
"You have vagrants." Oh geez. You need social workers, not guys in fatigues armed to the teeth.
A perfect encapsulation of our times. The Founding Fathers weep.
If you can squeeze in a Boston stop, I'll be there!
Oh Tom, I just can't stand how stupid this guy is.
Of course he won't. He also won't resign the presidency.
I think a line has been forming for at least an hour. 😍
Watch the first time without sound to fully appreciate the interpreter!
SOOOO effective!
EXACTLY! Reminiscent of the Obama Anger Translator sketches.
I'm in love with the interpreter! 😍
The dippy red tie gives it away.
Trump's words are worthless.
Kablammo sounds more forceful; kablooey sounds more whimsical.
I love this! Everyone should have the experience of being enjoined to TELL US MORE! (I'm sure you've checked that they are well below the word count ceiling.)
My colleague and I were JUST saying that this would be Trump's interpretation.
The largest I've used is the 5 1/4 size, but there are peeps who remember a larger - and presumably floppier - floppy.
Another piece of evidence that Trump's brain is melted cheese: cannot stick to topics appropriate for the occasion. Please someone produce a ball gag.
The beautiful sight of a nursery pod of Long-finned Pilot Whales in Mousa Sound, Shetland yesterday morning. Check out those tiny calves - some just a few days old. #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
While you wait: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1NE...
Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell!