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Scientists create food for honey bees that increases their numbers. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Source: ScienceDaily

I’m enjoying this joke in its many forms

was just thinking about this book yesterday

Stop doing these asinine studies

I just got my annual subscription! What a deal!

You know sometimes filler words make the sentence read better!! They just do!

If it’s not an important enough detail for you to write, why on earth do you think a reader needs to read it? Write by numbers bullshit.

Imagine losing two fighter jets in less than six months and your primary concern is getting trans people out of the military.

Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize, now on Netflix, is a really wonderful comment on Twain, comedy, the moment. www.vulture.com/article/cona...

Ohhhh I can’t wait for the next “won’t someone think of the poor neglected men writing fiction” think piece!!!

In a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda

A delightful read

“In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war. That small act of compassion made a big impression on Gaza’s tiny Christian community.”

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

I'm a one-issue voter in the 2028 presidential election (besides that I'd like to have one), and that's: You will solemnly swear to put these Nazis on trial. All of them.

This is amazing!!! People need to see what's actually getting cut and threatened instead of just numbers

intellectually I’ve always know history repeats itself but MAN does it repeat itself nearly word for word. Please look up what the Nazis said about typhus

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can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now

Lotta people who have spent their comfortable, unbothered lives smugly insisting they "Don't do politics" are about to find out politics have no issue doin' them.

People are just so ignorant of what the government does. Can’t count how many times I’ve heard “politics is such a small part of life.” That’s only because you don’t notice all the good that comes from having the right people/policies in place

Just try stuff!

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

Hockey + One Direction drama

Because she wrote an op-ed

Maybe people dunking on the ACA don’t remember the before times, but I wouldn’t have health insurance without it. Like most things it’s far from perfect, but it was a giant step forward and it’s worth appreciating

Whether it's the Navajo code talkers helping to defeat the Nazis or it's Nazis removing all mention of the Navajo code talkers from the US military's website, the conflict between Nazis and Navajo code talkers has continued for over 80 years.

What a generous review, thank you!

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” - Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

Sickening.

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So messed up how “if a rich, famous criminal is held legally accountable for crimes he definitely did, they’ll come for you, who did no crimes, next” resonates with more of the US public than “if a legal resident who committed no crime is disappeared without notice, they could come for you next.”

School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

OpenAI right now

Shop at COSTCO, folks. The only company that didn't cave and furthermore doubled down on DEI efforts and said it has helped their revenue, their products, their employees, and their customers.

i'm not gonna lie it's so much more fun refreshing to see what the other side of this deal is (this is VERY DRAMATIC if you don't follow hockey) than refreshing to see all the ways the world is burning down.

I've never seen The Traitors, but Bert tells me that this board works with the one he did yesterday, so I'll take his word for it! - Michael

Laine from the left circle

Five goals in 7 games for Letang.

The way that I am SO INCREDIBLY PUMPED for this series!!!! I hope you guys will love it because I know I’m going to love writing it SO MUCH! I think it’s going to be fun and funny and dark but entertaining! Huge mega thanks to the dreamiest of dream teams @bookysaul.bsky.social and Megha Parekh!!!

This reaction is so strange to me because my Lithuanian grandparents had a gnarly little elf they moved around the house when my dad was growing up and then when we visited when we were kids and it was the best thing— we still have him and my parents hide him for my nieces. It really was a tradition

this legitimately made me cry

Absolutely love this. I've read a lot of very clearly defensive work these past few years - like, "I can pick out exactly what Twitter thread this paragraph is responding to" kind of clear - and it's ruined so many books for me. Begging authors to stop writing to criticism.

I’m not gonna lie, I thought this theory was what everyone pretty much agreed happened, but this is an excellent read and has details I hadn’t heard before!