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how about instead of making common cause and finding middle ground with trump supporters we allow their farms to go fallow and make them apologize for fucking this country up the ass. how about i get to take the low ground and they have to understand me for a change. how about that.
If I were devious I would pick questions and topics that AI gets wrong
Astrokittens day 4 looking a little chubby now. Eyes still closed.
I would produce AI reports and make students grade them for accuracy
Ummm….what? Does this guy make any sense in his own head. Dude, if you’re getting covid 10 times you aren’t building immunity.
Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!
Is it too much to ask our Democratic “leaders” to live in reality?
Astrokittens day 2 photo
Bluesky is a bubble scream people in a Twitter bubble
Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
This. It is such a weird time. Media was slowly working its way to diversity and then Trump won and they took it as some kind of culture shift, despite evidence that Trump won because of inflation.
Without even bothering to provide reliable details of who was on board
Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.
this exists it is called thinking
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
*niblings Vega is my sister
@radlein.bsky.social Have you seen my new siblings?
Chantilly Lace over and over and now I’m crazed
Astrokittens Orion, Jupiter, Comet and 1 more TBD
Vega + unnamed kittens
I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
My mom and dad got adopted by a cat through the cat distribution system. Anyway they now have grandkittens. Anyone know how long until the kittens can separated from mama?
Gonna be a big market for dumb appliances
I do think this is worth reading, especially given the news from Business Insider this week. C&EN, by the way, does not use AI to write our articles
Friday fun: Meet the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes 🧪 cen.acs.org/education/sc...
I bet they come for Saturday Night Live too. We already heard The View is a target
There's an element called thulium?? I guess that thing does know more than me.
Man IG ads are weird
Oh. That doesn’t seem right
something something meow-eity
Cyanoacrylate. But I really don't think that's advisable. #chemsky
I can't remember the details, and can't find them now, for my favorite Robert Redford anecdote, but: When Indecent Proposal was being discussed, someone asked a film critic if she would sleep with Robert Redford for $1 million, and she replied, "Yes, but where would I get the money?"
A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.
The media doesn't want you to know that like 92% of Americans died last year from illegal drugs. But we're not going to let them conceal the truth any longer.
The US population is ~350MM so lthe loss of 85% shou;d be a big story
We're about to experience the first modern recession caused substantially, and perhaps primarily, by racism.
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
It feels like the current administration made a bad call with their “fire everyone with a lifetime of experience solving crimes” strategy
Is that person now head of NSF?
Trump at a 9/11 commemoration
Wow, he looks more terrible than usual and he can barely stay awake. Who is actually running things right now?
This is obviously a hoax, Mary doesn’t exist
This birthday book shows how many rich & powerful (including scientists!) just looked away, ignored, laughed at the abuse of young women. It makes me sick.
This entire book is a nightmare
hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together
The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified
It's such a strange, revealing argument. Why should any of us give a shit about protecting people in Epstein's files? Why do they think we do? Since when is the most sacred tenet of society "privacy for relationships of the rich & powerful with the pedophile child trafficker"? Reveal them all.
Not every day that Gina Kolata writes an obit
Good jobs numbers = Trump was right! Bad jobs numbers = Trump was righter!
He’s turning the White House into Mar-a-Lago. I wouldn’t be surprised if he puts in a golf course too.
Yes, he’s taking steps to run for president.
Let’s be honest - no chance he wins. He should pass and run for president.
Ticket sales at the Kennedy Center continue to plunge after Trump appointed himself chairman. Subscription revenue is down by 50% and seats are only “between 4 and 19%" full for the prestigious Stuttgart Ballet.
Hey everyone, look at this new trend! Call me crazy but dying your hair blond! Unprecedented!
CBS has to air it live and unedited now. Go for it!
Yes, use this power! Ignore whatever nonsense CBS is trying to ask and just say what you want to get across. CBS has to air it live!
Yeah where the my cold dead hands slippery slope dudes when you need them?
IDK I think DNA tests and genital exams are a little intrusive myself
Can’t wait to hear about the eye sparkle and mitochondria
Thinking about applying for this Lecturer in Chemistry job and also the "similar job" that it notifies me of at the bottom of the job announcement. Always good to try new things.
People who lost jobs did it on purpose to hurt Trump I guess.
This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
After revisions the -27k private payrolls print for June was the worst since December 2020.
Who’s getting fired for the job numbers this time?
One thing I’m noticing a lot is that if you talk about vaccines Republicans try too pivot to hormone therapy
Yeah, conservatives are the ones obsessed with drinking poop milk
Standing up to Big Soap
Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.
"I'm hearing from scientists and doctors all over the country and they are in full agreement with me: hydroxide is a great leaving group."
Nation’s top health guy is just asking questions man
Canoeing in Banff National Park: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
So fun fact if you are looking for a legal authority to tell the public your strike was conducted under a few days after you did the strike then the strike was just illegal bsky.app/profile/chri...
The argument is: We're all meant to sacrifice a bit, so that tariffs can help rebuild American manufacturing. Let's ask American manufacturers whether they're helping.
In all seriousness, this. The concept of the unitary executive has outlived its usefulness, if it ever had any.
Still kind of incredible that this guy says things and the press prints them as if they have meaning.
"i will never stop murdering people"
Is he doing anything about this or is he all talk?
Is this good?
We’re doing this with the whole country now
Need to hear an anti-vaxxer explain what they think dog autism is immediately
Are we supposed to be impressed or something?
Why should we believe that it was a drug vessel and narcotics-terrorists?
shout-out to everyone who had Stupider Gulf Of Tonkin for Venezuela on their bingo cards
I am going to continue calling out media bias wherever I see it. www.unchartedblue.com/i-am-tired-o...
For generations, Horse Cave, Kentucky, smelled awful. Miles of caverns and waterways underneath the small town brimmed with sewage that sent a putrid stench up from the depths and across downtown. Then came an audacious vision, a bit of money and a lot of grit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...
"Ba de ya – I need dipping sauce with chicken tenders" "Ba de ya – why does our band have all these members?" "Ba de ya – too much Drakkar might overwhelm her"
Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change." “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that."
Is he bald now?
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Back home from vacation and now fulfilling my duty as cat lap provider
Any JD Vance sightings lately?
Saying they’re unconstitutional but leaving them in place anyway pretty much sums up everything from the last 8 months
Ummm…affairs? How many and who?
My grandmother lived for more than a decade with congestive heart failure, so with proper treatment he could be fine. The heavy bruising indicates some powerful blood thinners though and he does hang out with unvaccinated people
The soft secession begins.