As always, you can rely on Sarah Taber to scare the shit out of you about food in this country.

The world needs more angry white men mad at bigotry.

It's kind of impressive how perfectly Chuck Schumer is not meeting this moment. Like he brought in punch-up writers to heighten and refine how badly he's botching it.

This is all true, but let's not forget about the racism and other bigotry. Just because you're a billionaire doesn't mean you don't support white supremacy.

My religion? Bad.

Some people truly, desperately need hobbies. No one should be this bored in their lives.

Looking for some contributions from all the Furiosa fans out there! popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/02/03/c...

Just to throw a few more out there: public transportation, NASA, the NEA and NSF, these provide *public goods*. Obviously we don't want to be wasteful, but profit shouldn't be a concern.

a cloak believed to belong to the shooter transformed into a dozen beautiful white doves and flew away, Authorities said,

Post someone you've been told you look like who you definitely don't look like

You should be a troll for love of the game not for money

Eight years ago, I reposted the following I saw on twitter: "It'll be weird when China calls on Trump to make sure the United States remains a "responsible stakeholder" in the international system." Eight years later, and somehow nothing has changed.

Reading political takes on reddit makes me truly want to scream. I mean this isn't new, but people are so confidently wrong it's just insane.

The only thing that matters is prices, or the perception of prices. It's not real wages. It's not (un)employment. Prices go up, incumbent popularity drops. Even if your wage (eventually) goes up to match, you attribute that to your own effort, or maybe unions. But prices are the government's fault.

Wow, that is truly egregious.

This is getting awfully close to reinventing company scrip. www.benzinga.com/personal-fin...

Post a scene from a film you've seen more than ten times.

An online forum with really overzealous moderators called OnlyBans.

Hey, my alma mater is making some ethical investment choices.

"American suburbs are full of ugly, empty, liminal spaces: spaces you are not meant to linger in or enjoy. They’re the creepy hallways of the built environment, and you can’t feel comfortable traversing them unless you’re zooming past them in a car." www.strongtowns.org/...

People complained that Chengdu zoo was letting their clouded leopard get fat, their expert explained "This cat is like thirty years old, that's twice as old clouded leopards GET, and he's just had major surgery. Making him lose weight would do WAY more harm, just let him have this."

Anyone have a screenshot of or link to that tweet that had Americanists asking how bad it could be, comparativists saying purges and IR saying nuclear war?

Fallout x Darkest Dungeon Just what a post nuclear apocalypse world needs: an emerging eldritch apocalypse.

This applies far too often.

While I love sleeping in, I don't think this would do what people are thinking it would do. Moving things back in the day doesn't magically give up more time to sleep in, it just means we get home later, so we go eat dinner later, go to bed later, and then wake up later. What has changed?

They can't be serious. Looks like I'll be waiting to upgrade until someone figures out how to guaranteed disable this.

Penzey’s Spices now has a feature link on their website home page to an article explaining, extremely eloquently, why the modern Republican Party is an abomination. Is any other well-known company more willing to risk pissing off GOP customers in service of the truth?

The anti-abortion movement’s end goal is to let doctors refuse treatment—including life-saving emergency care—for patients whom they deem to be sinful and morally impure. And under pressure from Kagan and Jackson, Erin Hawley all but admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

This post is wrong twice: (1) The study finds that large grocery chains raised prices in sync with—but faster than—inflation caused by real supply chain issues, and (2) the study exists only because the government is *trying to prevent this from happening again* by blocking major grocery mergers.

Stuff I’d love to see in submissions right now: 1. Dark secondary world fantasy with wretched vibes; loathsome guys with swords, decaying settings, repugnant monsters. 2. Weird noir conspiracy stories. Like Iran-Contra MK Ultra stuff but with batshit Weird cosmic horror vibes.

I mean this *sounds* dumb, but I pretty clearly remember how things were before 9/11. Maybe we don't outright abolish TSA, but we could scale back A LOT and still be exactly as secure as we are now. Like 95% of what TSA does is security theater anyway.

At long last, our article "Hierarchy and War" is out in the wild at AJPS! My co-authors and I wanted a better answer than "we know something is there" to the question of how international order and war risk affect each other. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

First real, actual tornado warning, sirens and all.

My daughter's birthday party is tomorrow! ...and she woke up at 2 am puking her guts out. Fantastic.

What. The fuck.

Getting better at home cooked pizza. Poliskycooks

After our unit on nuclear weapons and policy, bringing some culture to my security policy class by screening Dr. Strangelove. We'll see what they think of it.

just laughed myself to tears at whatever demonic AI colorized this photo and thought the covers of her headset were her ears and colored them accordingly

What are 5 topics you can talk about unprepared for 5 minutes? 1. Great Power Decline 2. Outer Space 3. Role Playing Games (TT or Computer) 4. Agent-Based Modeling 5. Why my wife is the best.

First time making traditional Chicken Chasseur. It was a hit, even my five year old loved it (she thought the sauce and chicken were better than the buttered egg noodles!) Poliskycooks

It's rare, but there is still some good stuff on The Other Site.

We showed Labyrinth to the 5yo today. 5yo: “Why did he make his castle so confusing? He isn’t going to be able to find anything!”

An essay by Thomas Hobbes, responding to those by Augustine and Machiavelli

Actual lol.

Israeli tank fire killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in Lebanon www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...

Today is the day I make my Security Policy students watch Grave of the Fireflies, after an entire semester analyzing war in a detached, academic way. I can't think of a better method for making students understand the effect of war on civilians, especially in the US with our privilege of distance.

Really appreciate this article from @mattlane.bsky.social. I find the AI-inspired rush to copyright maximalism to be highly unsettling (I understand why it is happening - that doesn't make it a good thing to be happening)