some local classics, part 1

Take the shot

oh so now yearning is illegal

i would also describe dating men as, at best, "something to do"

it's genuinely fascinating to me that "you cannot facilitate a genocide against a people and still expect their vote" is too advanced for some analysts to understand.

Sword's. The only blade known to man

The National Science Foundation starts 2026 with a new management structure that affects every scientist with--or applying for--NSF funding. Here's what you need to know. www.science.org/content/arti...

‼️ health warning ‼️ do not rewatch TICK, TICK… BOOM! six months before you turn 30

agreed all-timer line

I’m looking back at screenshots from 2020 to look for the worst pandemic posts I can find, and the thing about Sciencing_Bi is. There were signs

oh okay :) yay :)

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

I'm The Raul Esparza Hater!!!!!!! -da raul esparza hater

No WICKED: FOR GOOD means it's TICK TICK BOOM time

Extremely irritated to learn Wicked: For Good isn't streaming yet, but here's my review of Wicked: I wish they would spend this much money on a good misical. That said, best movie musical adaptation in who knows how long! Didn't love the choreo but costumes and cameras worked overtime

As much as I do not care for Wicked, you have to admit that Stephen Schwartz has managed three excellent contributions in the three categories of musical: (1) Faustian Bargain with Scary Horny Devil; (2) Trying to Make Sense of Bible; and (3) I Tried Gay in High School and Now It's Trauma Somehow

If my mayor was like "we should have a wonderful road of yellow bricks" I'd be like... yippee!! That's great news!!

I think about this a lot

I made a playlist tonight that perfectly simulates the experience of listening to an IHeartRadio station in your college dining hall circa 2011-12. Enjoy it or do not, I am not a beggar open.spotify.com/playlist/7bO...

I made a playlist tonight that perfectly simulates the experience of listening to an IHeartRadio station in your college dining hall circa 2011-12. Enjoy it or do not, I am not a beggar open.spotify.com/playlist/7bO...

We will overturn the Second Amendment in my lifetime

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains

dudes rock

Gordon Shamsy. Just workshopping a bit. “Gordon Shamsy.” I’ll let you know if this turns out to be anything. Anyone got any ideas about Gor

I’m gradually making new friends on this site, which is nice. It’s slower than Twitter but it’s definitely worthwhile in a year this isolating

So happy to see @publichealthguy1.bsky.social get some well deserved media attention

American Canto paperback cover

They should create an anything nice we actually can have

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

we did it bobby

Preview of something coming in 2026: would you like to guess how many total peer-reviewed publications were cited by Member States, stakeholders, or invited experts in the three years of the WHO Pandemic Agreement negotiations?

Robert Reich I love you very much and Go Bears but unfortunately at this very specific moment it is super duper big time between the right and the left

I was thinking about AI bullshit in college then randomly remembered all the 'learning loss' moral panic when some schooling shifted to online and got a bit of psychic whiplash

Periodic reminder that I hate this website and my cherished mutuals, every single one of who is my wife regardless of gender, can find me on ig at beeologist. I will reject you if I don’t know you or you are genetically related to me at any distance

On the island we can meet a cyclops When he sees us he will eat a guy When he asks who stabbed him we'll say "No Man" And he'll yell "Nobody destroyed my eye!"

Does anyone know why Fio smells terrible today

This is true BUT I do think we’re waiting for most of a specific generation of posters on here. Everyone here is slightly too old, for example, to know the origin of “then perish”

We won a fucking pandemic treaty ✊🏻

If single-payer you would see, answer me these questions three

say what you will, but the pharmaceutical industry is clearly deeply committed to the equitable sharing of vaccines and drugs www.ifpma.org/areas-of-wor...

hmm. as a public health professional, i was told we were going to find common ground on non-communicable diseases with the guy who is (checks notes) beefing with tortillas

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Hardly the stuff of being “owned”.....

My "I have not been captured by financial interests" defamation claim is asking questions clearly answered by my defamation claim

99% of American politics discourse and punditry could be addressed by econometrics and at least 60% already has been. Society has progressed past the need for Yglesiases and things of this nature. Here is the best example I've seen in a long time: academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Incredible social science & data use here. The immediate story is about how the opioid epidemic (pushed by pharma in high cancer areas), resulted in major opioid death & economic hardship which - through various media/political channels - resulted in a sustained rise in support for the Republicans

People like to tell me that we don't need an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics because it's been tried before and there were all these reports during Covid and it's like. Well the G20 High-Level Panel website currently links to a list of the best Malaysian casinos. So we do need something

watching a first date go extremely well in Pistachio and honestly struggling not to blush on their behalf

I'm building a team

Just got horrifying news about the conditions where German is being held so I'm sharing the gofundme again. Please share widely and donate if you can gofund.me/575c7a343