If there’s any one primary underlying theme of the books of Samuel & Kings, it has to be that kings are trash. They take your stuff as taxes & they conscript your children for pointless wars. And damn if that critique doesn’t fit basically every form of government ever. #Hebrew #Bible

You’re allowed to just walk away and never tell your family and friends where you went for 11 days in 1926, until your discovery at a nearby hotel, and to claim amnesia. That’s a thing that you could do today.

I'm struck by the number of modes of transit these astronauts will experience today. 1. Slicing through the Earth's atmosphere in a spaceship 2. An inflatable raft 3. A rope swing 4. Helicopter 5 Aircraft carrier 6. Airplane. 7. Van.

weird how the "nobody wants to work anymore" people vanish when it's adult men finding problems with most available work

Vaccines for the most part are one (or two) and done (outside of annual flu and covid). You get a TDAP every ten years. Unless someone gets lucky and makes a breakthrough vaccine (see: RSV), or gets a new disease (ahem Covid) vaccines for pharma companies are like oil changes for your mechanic

Pharmaceutical companies don't make as much money off of vaccines as people think they do.

Seeing the inflatable raft next to the capsule really gives you a sense of scale. I'll admit that every time I heard someone say that it had a space comparable to the interior of two mini-vans, I thought "wow, roomy!" This is from someone who used to tour puppet shows out of a minivan.

Dear children: Yes, your elders did see a space shuttle explode at school. Live (or on no more than a 2-3 minute delay). And we got no care for it. Yes, Helen Keller was real. It’s profoundly ableist to say otherwise. Yes, birds are real. Yes, Youtube rots your brain in unique ways.

Funding NASA is funding this planet‘s near and long-term health. You think solar power just appeared? GPS? Weather prediction? Battery tech? Most aspects of the microcontroller? Velcro? Space sciences are planetary sciences!

look at those whiskers!!

Love that age!

"Four green crewmen. That is not their complexion." THANK YOU FECKING MISSION CONTROL. 😏 #ArtemisII

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

Max - furious with me because... well, I don't know, but I'm bound to have done something wrong #cats #catsofmastodon #animals

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Okay, this is shit framing, but “Post Office Stops Following Ridiculous Congressional Order* To Prefund 75 Years of Pensions For Workers Not Yet Born” is the wrong clickbait for USAToday readers. *Intended To Break The Post Office So It Could Be Sold To Private Equity

This is just one part of the physician workforce shortage, but surprise surprise, OB-GYNs aren’t going to want to practice in states that want to criminalize the provision of reproductive health care even in medical emergencies.

Lots of talk about audits recently. How about we focus on this! Fixed-income seniors and working families should not be subsidizing wealthy private golf courses.

If you’re not describing the job categories with the growth, you’re obscuring something. And the most likely factor worth hiding? That the growth is low-pay, low-respect service industries like childcare, elder care, low skill health & cleaning. Desperation jobs, taken because her kids must be fed.

US District judge rules that evidence of Renee Good's shooting must be turned over to Minnesota investigators. replica.startribune.com/infinity/art...

CBS never addresses how much money any other department of the federal government lost last year. So I'll help! The United States, which lost $980 billion in 2025 due to interest payments on the national debt, The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which lost $213.3 billion in 2025, and so on

how much money does the marine corps lose

The Morning Monty liked yesterday’s weather better.

The hardest room to escape.

When stressed by current events, I periodically scan down this page for the books Agatha Christie published in the early 1940s - and remind myself that Curtain and Sleeping Murder were *also* written during WWII, to be published after her death. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_...

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18. Ask yourself why they won’t” Josh H.

OWLBEAR CUB ALERT

Chemically and visually indistinguishable from the mined kind (it takes specialized equipment and is impossible to do with the naked eye), cruelty free, SO much better for the environment, and also? Science! It makes diamonds! That’s so cool!

The other awful thing going on in my life is that my dumbest cat spent three years using his one brain cell to figure out how to open the garden door on Sunday. We finally just got the last of our awol cats back inside tonight. And yes we’ve made changes to the door to avoid it happening again

i;m thinking about thos Beans

I lived in a bookstore for a bit that was like this

We don’t have to live like this. We all deserve better than this. Image with alt text:

Behaviores Report: 100% goode!

So I'd never watched any of the Knives Out movies. I decided to watch the first one tonight. I'm... forty minutes from the end, almost exactly 3/4 of the way through, and I don't know if my nerves can take this. I also understand why nobody was normal about it.

Esscuse

Hey, has anyone visited TRAC Immigration and looked up asylum denial rates in US immigration courts? October 2000-January 2025: 56% of cases denied February-November 2025: 75% denied December 2025: 84% January 2026: 91% February 2026: 95% tracreports.org/phptools/imm...

It’s so funny Seattle is building twin towers with a plane suspended between them and the media has somehow collectively agreed not to mention the 9/11 of it all.

Construction of the new @fixthel8.bsky.social bus stop at the twin towers is progressing!

Bonus picture.

Look how fluffy she is!

✨spiritual lessons✨ from the dude who refused to salute Herr. H. No, but actually. Or: why attending to our inner lives is actually important for fighting fascism.

It all started when the German government put tariffs on American poultry.

My IPod classic still works! If you still have a USB port on your computer, Apple Music app will spot it as a hard drive and you can just manually manage your music as God intended.

hey

I have worked in inventory management for a grocery chain for two weeks now, and I find myself forming strong opinions about companies based entirely on their packaging. Swanson. You've been around since 1899. What the fuck is your excuse for having cans that don't stack.

Well, that was unexpected. thebloggess.com/2026/04/09/w...

I think that the "passion can lead to overwork and then burnout", emotional exhaustion and self-regulation literature in psychology is what people in software development should be reading more of right now

the pope is not woke. american conservative christianity has spent the last few decades mutating into an evil doppelgänger of itself such that any conservative christian leader who says things like “it’s wrong to incinerate schoolchildren” scans as a titan of superhuman moral fiber.