Read this five times before I understood that it was not about the controversy within curling about high-tech brooms ("sweeping") and their impact on the notoriously unbalanced provincial teams at the Scotties and Brier.

Some parent who didn't know better and was giving their kids Tylenol (which is safe for kids) is now going to give them aspirin (which can be extremely dangerous for kids).

...pation.

"Not only did the ancients see the boundary between human and monster as unclear, even porous, but their ideas reverberated for centuries...." Wrote a thing for #pastsimperfect! 1/n #ancient #medieval #Renaissance #histsci #histmed #maps #exploration pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...

I've been hearing all kinds of chatter (even from people associated with the show) about how this season of ST:SNW wasn't good. I just finished it. Y'all crazy. I attribute it to jealousy that nü-Spock is getting more pon farr on a random Tuesday than the haters do on a whole five-year mission.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! CHOTINER: Dead Cthulhu waits dreaming? You see how that's a little ambiguous. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! CHOTINER: I'm just not sure why I should worry about a dead god, as opposed to a live one. CULTIST: Well, I misspoke, he's very much alive.

We treat high fevers in the ICU with Tylenol and we don't make patients "tough it out" because that can be dangerous. Hope this helps.

wow, i wonder if nihilistic memes can ever be used in connection with political violence i guess we'll never know

Honestly, he got it. This is an impossibly hard thing to get right. I can quibble about some parts, and it’s impossible to do normie content that’s also sufficient for the moment, but he did as good a job as is possible. Especially glad he rightfully called out the threat to journalists.

Hadn't thought of this particular wrinkle but hey, let's go. Note that there is a vacant deep blue seat in Texas that won't be filled until November, and could (legally, and without any complication) have been filled in May, but Abbott deliberately chose not to do so for just such eventualities.

I get that Isaac Chotiner is having a moment, but be real. It's not THAT impressive to show up and do your basic job. CHOTINER: That's really interesting. How long did it take you to finish your dissertation? ME: Uh… not that long. The usual? CHOTINER: It says here eight years. ME: Sure.

Emanuell Cooks, a Mississippi Delta Community College football player, died from medical complications after a game. He was a freshman offensive lineman from Elba, Alabama. buff.ly/dqYPdoK

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Watching the Sharpe series again and it's fun to spot an entire generation of Commonwealth actors on their way up. Oh look, it's James Bond. Oh look, it's the Borg Queen. Oh look, it's Vision from the Marvel movies. Oh look, it's… can't think of what Liz Hurley played but that's her.

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation. But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

I mail-ordered some Moxie™ and they included the original packaging it came in, in case I was some kind of sicko who'd want what is objectively trash, which I do.

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hell yeah

I really enjoy it when our administrator has stepped away from her desk and I get to ask students who are waiting if they're being helped. It makes me feel very useful and collegial. Of course once in a blue moon the answer is "no" and then all I can say is wow, that's crazy, good luck with that.

I’ve been reporting on influencers for more than seven years now and today I had an academic decline to do an interview about them for the first time out of fear of government retaliation.

Here's the American Federation of Musicians statement on state censorship of the Jimmy Kimmel show. #Union

oh thank god

I know moderating a website at scale is hard, but could we PLEASE get something hard-coded in so that this image does not get auto-labeled as "self-harm." An enslaved person's back covered in scars he got when his enslavers flayed the skin off of him is the opposite of self-harm.

what is the most debilitating illness known to science and why is it the mild head cold that I, a 49-year-old man, have right now?

This is Matthias erasure, to say nothing of a slur against the emergency backup disciple Joseph called Barsabbas. (Acts 1:23-26, if Rep. Nehls ever gets curious about what's actually in the Bible.)

Business Insider —> Bullshit Insider

Okay who else really wants a bottle of the wine THEY don't want you to drink?

Okay! I'ma get on my soapbox, because Altoona Pizza has been invoked and I end up typing and deleting some form of this speech nobody needs to hear every time it floats to the top of the internet consciousness. Full disclosure, I'm a huge fan of Munroe and not at all mad (really). /1

I've said before that Elon University (through no fault of its own) needed to change its name YESTERDAY, none of the normal decades of academic hand-wringing, and this is as sensible a way to do it as any.

Baristas have a message for Starbucks: Respect workers—or face a strike @sbworkersunited.org President Lynne Fox explains why the fight for a fair contract isn’t going away.

Delighted to tell everyone that we’ve acquired and are swiftly making available a world class archival collection in the history of science!

Oh this is very cool #MathNerds

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

how very dare you

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles

The charitable interpretation is that he means worldwide, in which case he's only off by a factor of 100 (and only if you include diseases attributable to alcohol). But I wouldn't put it past him to have convinced himself in that moment that 300M Americans, out of 340M, died last year from drugs.

Yup.

I dunno if it's incalculable, but I think we're lucky if the number stays in the single trillions long-term.

The racism speaks for itself, but "broken English" in the sense of some deviation from how the Queen do is literally my native tongue, and I don't know anyone who wouldn't rather listen to a Jamaican speak it over a Yinzer like me, OR some jumped-up preppie like Eric.

I'm not asking prominent national Democrats to think Kristol is entirely sincere in his latest political incarnation, but I am asking them to fake commitment to basic human decency and the belief that all people are created equal as well as the Godfather of Neoconservativism has been.

The official language of Jamaica is....wait for it.... English. These performances truly are targeted only at the stupidest people alive

it’s time for universities to return to their core mission (an escalating series of pranks played by a trouble-making fraternity on the straight-edge dean who will stop at nothing to shut them down)

“Did you consider not complying with this request?” Judith Butler spoke to @samtlevin.bsky.social about being reported to the feds by UC Berkeley for supposed antisemitism

I know this is my go-to answer but I’m saying it anyway: we could solve a lot of young adult social isolation and radicalization by getting them involved in curling clubs