America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

you have the dancing plague bleeding feet, won’t see middle age dancing plague reasons for it are still opaque oh yeah

"a tale as old as thyme" is actually older bc the plant existed before we were around to comprehend time/history

there's a bustle in my hedgerow and i am extremely alarmed

Good luck, America. Btw, I will not be the least bit surprised when/if Carney does the same kind of thing in Canada. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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The critically acclaimed album is from the son of a controversial memoirist who herself is heir to a fortune founded in 20th cent—enough.

Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

In fact HR was developed *specifically* to counter a feminist labor organizing effort led by NOW against SEARS! It’s not a byproduct of feminism; it is an antifeminist invention!

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god i love men. love their fucked up popeye forearms and the way they lope around like a werewolf

it’s too bad about patriarchy just straight up ruining them because they could’ve been so charming and adorable

mooed swings

Using a dishwasher rather than hand washing can save you nine days of personal time over the course of a year.

Maybe the single most destructive, stupid, and dangerous piece of domestic policy put forth in the 21st century

Thinking about how if we made American roads as safe as Australian roads it would cancel out the murder rate

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Free linguistic folk horror kernel right here.

Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

huge mail day over here

Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

Obviously I have ordered a bottle. It is a Dailuaine which is a Speyside brand I don’t think I have ever had before. Looking forward to it.

It has been a very short hop from ‘this is not who we are’ to ‘ok this is exactly who we are’

RFK Jr’s CDC posting lies about vaccines and autism on their website isn’t just misinformation, it’s intentionally weaponized eugenicist rhetoric that will kill people.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

My advice is to become unsummarizeable.

Y’all, there is a Wishbone documentary!!!!

Yup! I don't want to catch ANYTHING. Any time there's a crowd, you will find me in a mask.

I know. It's fucking mindblowing to realize that to an 18 year old today, HIV is nearly completely preventable and a slightly annoying chronic health condition that can be reasonably managed if the prevention doesn't work.

(TW for discussion of sexual violence) I’ll say why I found it particularly disturbing. I just listened to the episode of Criminal where E. Jean Carroll describes what Trump did to her. How right before he attacked her, she’d been teasing him

He can no longer contain his contempt for women. It’ll get worse.

somebody made a web playable version of a game boy style port of this

my assumption here is that the reason why they haven't already put out a completely scrubbed/faked up version of these files is that there is someone who has a copy of everything that has made it clear they're going to leak them if redacted files come out -

Well, fucking good.

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After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne. So ProPublica did. Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

The thing about the latest news in the Nuzzi/Lizza story is that RFK cost the nation its measles elimination status.

This is completely insane and abhorrent. People will suffer. People will die.

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

The New York Times obit for Alice Wong doesn’t mention Covid or Gaza It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations She fought for the people of Gaza She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

“You must have been tired,” said Toad. “I was tired,” said Frog, “and it started to rain.”

Ran (1985) Akira Kurosawa's epic retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear. A warlord's crimes come back to haunt him at the end of his life as he watches his family devour itself. Hang every shot of this movie in the Louvre!