Why would anyone ever buy this

Down Cemetery Road is so good - it's fun when Emma Thompson gets to be weird and snarky

Every other year the New York Times tries to argue that caffeine should essentially be a scheduled stimulant and it's such a tedious little exercise

Oh this poll is fascinating

New: AI chatbots can change voters' minds, according to a pair of in-depth studies published just now in Science and Nature. How they do it is interesting — and concerning. Gift link: wapo.st/49RSstP

Americans use your indoor voice challenge level impossible

Ireland to boycott the Eurovision due to Israel’s participation in the competition Spain and The Netherlands are also withdrawing from the competition for the same reason www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Get ‘em Halle

Confirmed: They're playing November Rain by Guns n' Roses ahead of Trump signing a peace agreement with Rwanda and the DRC at the US Institute of Peace building.

Centrism is a fascism delivery system

Even if this was true--and I question the premise that there are a lot of Jewish Americans who don't know what the Jordan River is--this kind of condescending "if you think murder is wrong name five of their albums" stuff is exactly why they lost the kids

Why stop at wood paneled station wagons bring back lawn darts

The only people who benefit from saying removing yourself from abusive situations is a “trend” are abusers and those who support them (the same goes for a lot of the focus on forgiveness but people aren’t ready for that conversation)

there is absolutely no rule that says we have to tolerate these people or suffer them to hoard their riches and peddle their poisons. it's a post rules world now! just noting

what's funny is these guys all wanted to come out of the shadows and be public figures. and theyve almost all used their time in the limelight to openly and proudly declare war on you. they started it! they are willing and eager to sacrifice your life and liberty. their war!

So is Oprah running out of money? What’s with the launch of her center right podcast?

From the people who brought you Sam Bankman Fried, its "we're liberal effective altruists who think indigenous people should lose all of their land designations"

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

reiterating to whomever wants to be president: I will buy a bag of ballroom rubble like it's pieces of the Berlin Wall

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Feeling great for my age

Let's not be complacent about what's happening in Ireland also. This was leaked today showing the disgusting questions being asked by Dr. Paul Moran in the NGS to women seeking healthcare. bsky.app/profile/tras...

A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed. It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it. ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.

The sheer number of fonts we have on the court at the Fieldhouse this year is bugging me

Surprised the Vols fumbled that

“Hiding behind the push to temporarily slow rising tuition costs is a plan to abandon higher education as a public good in this country.”

They’re going to push back like this on any platform that allows rest of the worldism to get equal footing with western propaganda - because they very much fear inconvenient (historically accurate) global viewpoints getting adopted into the western mainstream

The way a subset of Ds have latched on to TikTok as the reason why people oppose genocide is a real bad trend. It lacks rigor and is going to come up anytime populations aren’t believing approved/preferred narratives.

As someone who has been around narcissists, I'm just going to say it's possible pawpaw just can't stay awake in the meetings, but it's also common for narcs to just fall asleep when anyone else is talking because they aren't the center of attention

For CIO I looked at how investors are thinking about unprecedented levels of market concentration in US equities & the short answer is they aren't looking at it because FOMO is a bigger career risk for institutional CIOs than looking at cheaper opportunities -

Twister is one of the best worst movies in large part because of Philip Seymour Hoffman acting as an agent of chaos throughout

"Autism, madness." - The Perfect Crime

the guy more americans ought to know about is justinian II (got overthrown, got his nose cut off, sent into exile, returned w/an army of his steppe barbarian in-laws, snuck back into the capital through the sewers, retook the throne, had a prosthetic gold nose made for himself). 100% approval rating

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries. Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.

Omportant to watch this because the backlog exists for reasons that are very serviceable by actually staffing the courts and fixing the buildings - its not a set of problems that emerged out of the cabbage patch no one can fix - if the pretext stands they’ll use it again to roll back other rights

Cons of the neocon true believers: they were willing to kill for constitutional democracy. Pros of the neocon true believers: they are ready to kill for constitutional democracy.

hard to believe such a poorly constructed coverup of a series of war crimes committed in 4K is falling apart like this

lol, lmao

For CIO I looked at how investors are thinking about unprecedented levels of market concentration in US equities & the short answer is they aren't looking at it because FOMO is a bigger career risk for institutional CIOs than looking at cheaper opportunities -

He wasn't actually due to resign until an hour later

If I get one more stupid call telling me I am approved for a loan I never applied for I am going to lose my mind. I’ve blocked hundreds of numbers at this point

Only wire service journalists will comprehend the full horror contained in these two minutes.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

My wife just said Johnny Depp dresses like a coat rack in the back of a local theater that's doing productions of Seven Brides and Pirates of Penzance simultaneously

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers "The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Australian superannuation fund State Super will partner with Frontier Advisors sending 15 of its dedicated investment/ops specialists along with CIO Charles Wu over to Frontier to launch an ICIO model that will oversee the fund & offer its capabilities to other institutional clients -

Strong floor, no ceiling - just a kitchen table on a cement slab exposed to the elements with no chairs because the only beings that use it are the imaginary friends of elected officials who they consult about policy decisions

Brain eating vending machine

Dems 2026: always on our knees