I do occasionally worry about the possibility that the Democratic Party's brain will be eaten by slopulism, but also LOL, LMAO, this is absolute loser shit

In recent years policies on homelessness in America have swung between extremes. One city has seen success with a pragmatic approach

Algae is loving this news cycle. They’ve never been more relevant. Microzooplankton sitting at home changing the channel like, what about us? we even have cilia and pseudopods, this is bullshit.

can I tell you guys how glad I am that most important elections in this country are on Tuesdays, which is my trivia night, so I don't have to watch like 30 accounts I enjoy and respect beat the absolute fuck out of each other in abstruse Democratic Party factional shitfights

Time was, about 30% of Liz Warren's ideas were actually good. Yet another thing to miss about the Obama years.

I am hearing reports that Bill Pulte is investigating whether the algae have fraudulently claimed on their mortgage application that the Reflecting Pool is their primary residence.

I literally cannot remember the last time it was not only more fun, but less ethically compromising, to be a Rockies fan than a Giants fan. Bang-up job, Buster!

Before I was a Bluesky addict, I was a Facebook addict, and on that site I had an annual tradition of posting on Election Day: "If you've worked hard to educate yourself on the issues, please go vote today. If you haven't, please go vote tomorrow." It made people UNBELIEVABLY mad, but I was right.

The Right hates USAID because it helped nonwhites in time of hardship. The Left hates it because there’s a chance some of those people might have been grateful to the USA for the help.

For those who haven't heard it, the @maintenancephase.bsky.social episode on Supersize Me is absolutely top-tier.

“the english historically struggle here in massachusetts” bless you john strong

I think I speak for the entire "loudmouth asshole-moron best known for having unfortunate facial hair in their mid-20s" community when I say that Alexi Lalas gives us all hope.

assuming that to die is better than to live under the imperial yoke because of how heavy you *imagine* the imperial yoke to be, many such cases

I absolutely would not have expected the South to have the highest share of transplants. I am trying to figure out if this could possibly mean anything good and I don't think it can.

I feel like it may say something about policing in this country that at the halfway mark of this video, I was afraid that the *knife spinning in the air right next to a passed-out dude's arm* was going to slice through his radial artery and the cops were going to let him bleed to death on camera.

being an improvement from the tsar is a bar so low that they had to dig the Kola borehole to find it

Sorry, no. A permaban would be a slightly harsh but absolutely fair response to this post.

So where are we on “putting your email on a No Kings website will get you disappeared” discourse? We figuring the regime is still working on that or?

dig through enough layers of quote-posts and you eventually get to "medical IP is murder," in case you were wondering if the eternal 16-year-olds doing anprim LARPs on this website have gotten a clue yet

unfortunately for both me and Cincinnati, the two people I immediately think of when that city is mentioned are Pete Rose and Marge Schott

computer, enhance

🟦🟦🟦 VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE🟦🟦🟦 With Andy Burnham set to become PM, 29% of G7 countries will be led by supporters of Everton Football Club.

I have been doing a lot of critical reevaluation of Roman and medieval historians recently because I am living through the kind of end to an autocratic regime that very sober, serious modern historians have footnoted with phrases like "an unreliable account from a hostile chronicler."

there are low-effort local pride t-shirts and then there's whatever the fuck this is

I’ve gotten to the point lately where if anyone talks to me about ‘toxins‘ in food in a certain tone of voice, I can’t help but look at them like I expect a miniature Hitler to suddenly burst through their chest like a newborn xenomorph

Uri fucking Geller?! God, if only James Randi and Johnny Carson had destroyed him literally rather than merely figuratively

Austria-Argentina is a top-tier "just to be clear, what exactly did your great-grandfather do for work" game

terrible form from most of them, TBH

we should find a small, remote island with no internet access and put Taylor Lorenz and Matt Stoller on it together

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

He's just been paying rapt attention to the World Cup, watching 22 beautiful, strong men chase a ball.

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

Apology for bad English Where were u wen Rod Dreher's emotional support regime collapsed i was at house eating dorito when phone ring "pride flags on budapest bridge" no

A funny phenomenon in the replies is two different people with opposite opinions of the same small business, which makes sense because a small business can decide to treat you like crap if they just don't like you. Amazon's always going to take your money because they have shareholders to answer to.

Not that it matters, but the Republicans consistently winning the Congressional Baseball Game is strictly a post-COVID phenomenon (n = 6). From 2009 to 2019, the Democrats won ten out of eleven years, including a streak of five years in which they won 13-5, 8-2, 18-5, 22-0, and 15-6.

To our everlasting shame, we have exported Denver dog culture to the rest of the country.

I read "anime" as "amine" a solid 30% of the time and it makes certain threads on this website both much funnier and much harder to follow

My favorite thing about #2 is that it always comes from people who will call liberals racists/Eurocentrists/imperialists, despite the fact that to believe it you have to forget that East Asia exists.

Similarly: Flo Balogun was born to Nigerian parents and raised in England, but he plays for us because he chose to. I can't express how much that rules.

the Soviet Union never had to deal with a meteor barreling toward Earth, but maybe we could ask the people of Kurenivka or Kyshtym or Pripyat or anywhere within a few dozen miles of what used to be the shoreline of the Aral Sea how well it handled similar emergencies oh, we can't? huh

1) What fascists in the French Revolution? 2) Did it work?

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

This is not a scientifically valid method of doing corpus linguistics and @esqueer.net you are undermining fundamentally the work other trans people with actual data skills have been doing in the space by publishing this nonsense. www.nytimes.lgbt?ref=thedissi...

Museums of mineralogy/mining absolutely rule, especially for kids, which is why I will once again put in a plug for the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in Leadville, Colorado.

The British would never want to become part of the United States. We don't hate trans people nearly virulently enough for their tastes.

Make a band much worse: Panic! at the Iroquois Theatre

The Makerfield constituency was created in 1983.