we effectively cured AIDS and have a pancreatic cancer vaccine that just passed phase 1 trials

Cats is better than Assassin's Creed.

an undercurrent of current politics is that the "neoliberal turn" was extremely varied but it did reliably nuke state capacity. What this actually translates to is center-left parties doing simulacra of deliverism, rather than actually delivering.

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

No?

1) this is fucking insane 2) once again the article framing is something @goldwagnathan.bsky.social and others have noted where israel and palestine are not real places with real people but rather a studio backlot for the performance of american politics

Can we normalize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?

additional grist for the "gender isn't really hardware" mill

Proud to be part of the ruling class (women)

the amount of people who both Believe Climate Change is Bad but also believe Beef Should Be Cheap and Easy To Get is astounding. if you want to Do Something about climate change, beef is basically The Most Wasteful and Harmful form of meat to consume! it's the most damaging livestock!

Bought tickets for The Odyssey today, 2026 seems to be shaping into the Year That I See New Releases

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

The number for Pittsburgh is ridiculous lmao, you do not need a quarter of a million dollar income to live comfortably here

the problem with 'ah ha! now you like birthright citizenship' is that the Trumpists' understanding of the world always includes the ability of the absolute monarch to make exceptions.

Did a dramatic haircut and it’s so hard to put my hair in a ponytail now 😭 worth it tho

4/ Remember that flu vaccine that RFK Jr.’s FDA said they wouldn’t review and then, after immense backlash, reviewed again? Well, we got exciting news: An FDA advisory panel voted 9-0 to back Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, mFlusiva.

Leaving aside the reality that private industry doesn't want to fund much of the research NIH actually does, the author of this screed is Scott Atlas, the former Trump COVID advisor who advocated for herd immunity policies. He should be considered utterly discredited.

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My husband calling his irl friends his oomphies 💀

today's random shower thought; one of the worst effects of living in a christian society, which we do, not in a "christ should be king" way but in that it shapes and informs norms no matter the wishes of many of us, is the idea that suffering creates license

Salads are so good. Truly a top-tier food

if no one is there to support me at least I know lesbian lightning from the prada 2012 men's spring/summer collection got me

you're a naughty little cast iron skillet, aren't you? you know what happens to cookware that misbehaves? that's right. you're going in the SINK and you're getting SOAKED with DISH SOAP .

Anyone who uses the term NPC unironically is very clearly telling you what they believe about the value of human life.

As someone who didn’t live in a place with AC until their mid-20s I really don’t get the resistance to it

Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - “That's because your brain is floating in ideology, gendarme. It's practically drowning in it…” ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Is “Ideology” some kind of high-proof liquor?

I wonder how Monsieur DuPont feels about their critique of id politics now

Why does my toothbrush need an app 💀

I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my Administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by Our Benefactors in the abundance movement. This type of dense, walkable urbanism with mixed use data centers was illegal before they came into the city.

Perfect lunch: Costco bean salad mixed with Costco baby spinach stuffed into a Costco pita

This, from 1941, is JD Vance.

I think, in the end, that the various Reasons people give for why it's good and fine that they are very aggro on this here internet and actually this is upholding the true and the good and the beautiful are always a bit less persuasive than: no you're not, you're just being weirdly mean, stop it.

Can we normalize eating beans?

My husband and I rewatching the Xenoblade Genesis trailer trying to tie everything to previous Takahashi games

My mom gave me her old ice cream maker. Dangerous

Just discovered the Monterey Bay Aquarium YouTube account, this would’ve gone so hard when I was a stoner

The book also predicted that Barack Obama would become president!

It actually had a rather negative effect on the world for the court to force Elon Musk to go through with his Twitter purchase. In retrospect, he should have been allowed to wriggle out as he tried to.

50% chance of rain on my wedding day, everyone is asking if I’m gonna hire an Etsy witch

Why am I suddenly getting Gavin Newsom emails? I haven’t even lived in California for five years 😭

i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.