Nobody ever got serious about knocking down the anti-vaccine misinformation squad. 1. This is true in general. 2. A contributing factor was the way this gang was able to con a slice of elite media. Emily Oster, e.g., vouched for Tracy Hoeg, e.g., when Hoeg was posing as a concerned parent.

If you have a live tree, you need to do this system with a syphon I recommend using a gallon jug and cutting a hole in it for the tube. It can be tucked behind the tree. You can also draw a line on the outside of the jug for when your reservoir is full/empty and see through to see the water level.

Fluff break!

Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.

This would feel so good today

It's fascinating how food culture is so radically different around the country. This is not about which is *the best* (the best is the one you grew up with and love) but more about things that are crazy popular somewhere, but mostly whatever elsewhere. Example? Macaroni and cheese.

Of course, the Brown/MIT killer committed murder with a gun, not a visa (a gun which, as we know, almost any American could get), and if someone wished to enter the United States with intent to do harm, the last way they'd scheme do so is via a damn lottery

Have to give credit where it's due. This Chia Pet bust of Charlie Kirk seems to capture the foaming at the mouth crazzed glazzed stare that was at the heart of Kirk's mission, with or without plants growing out of his brain. Way to go Chia!

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Every time I see something like this I love Bill Waterson and his choice to not license any Calvin & Hobbes stuff a little bit more.

i love ads for high tech kitty litters looks like we're sending them to space boldly go kitties, boldly go

Is there a country called food?

NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises. An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.” These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:

You've heard of elf on a shelf...

The reasoning and arithmetic you love to see on display from our Commerce Department

All hail King Crustacean, hallowed by thy name

One of my trans friends asked me to let people know that the FDA is now sending out warning letters to companies selling chest binders. They are reclassifying them as "medical devices" which will be impossible for most companies to legally comply with. This is the bare-minimum care for trans adults.

“The packages contained juice, food, warm hats, bedrolls, and menstrual products, according to Lusche. She mentioned media reports about detainees being forced to sleep on concrete floors and women being denied access to menstrual products.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

Full @gallup.com release here: news.gallup.com/poll/699311/...

Mark Carney pictured yesterday during a guided tour of Liberace's bathroom.

Best looking building in San Diego was built by the New Deal - FDR attended the grand opening:

Fake social media account son shows is so funny, like TroiToi on Heated Rivalry. Just excellent work

My undergraduate thesis advisor said to me once, "You always seem to have problems with money. [My dad died in high school and I was working 4 campus jobs.] Don't you know you shouldn't go into archaeology if you aren't independently wealthy?" Was he right? Or are these the people killing lines?

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Okay what the actual fuck this actually looks hilarious youtu.be/ZfNLApPCa8E

anyone with a working brain is skeptical of the idea

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Facebook is testing a monthly $14.99 subscription, and telling users they need to subscribe if they want to post more than 2 links a month. techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...

FLAT FUCK IS COMING TO TOWN!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS GATOR LOVERS!!

The combination of question and forum has turned my bones to dust

Mode d'emploi : qu'implique la suspension des visas par loterie aux États-Unis ?

Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article. Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

And it strikes me that it costs us all an awful lot to adopt a skeptical posture. This washing away of social trust and our need to aggressively police other folks is, in my view, among the most harmful tendencies in American culture.

that WSJ article about wheelchairs at the airport obviously sucks shit but it points to another issue which is Americans are so thoroughly worked over by constant and omnipresent scams that they now see anything which benefits another person as merely a scam that they are not in on

Hell yeah The Ladies in our QA department

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

ICE is arguing that construction sites are like “open fields” that don’t require search warrants because they’re freely “accessible to the public and the police.” Here are two sites that they went into without a warrant. Do these homes look like open fields?

We have got to fight back harder against these insane RTO policy changes, no one should be going to the office more than they did pre-pandemic! The tide was already turning then! Heck, in 2005 I had a remote first policy.

😑 of course there is a second sentence Apparently there’s also something from a side view Anyway, what’s the second sentence, please?

Hey folks!! @offshoreoddity.bsky.social sells really cool boxes of individually packaged & labeled treats that have washed up on the beach in NJ, like sea glass, shells, & teeth! They are PERFECT STOCKING STUFFERS & come in a fetching box. I just gave one to a friend fighting cancer, & she loved it!

cursed Tour de France stage

so remember i said i was going to steal one from how to drink? this is the one. full recipe in video description. please watch the whole thing if you’re into this kind of stunt mixology, because greg’s much better at it than i am

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

damn. another spot where rfk jr’s happy to see trump’s name ahead of his for all of history

I haven't been posting our action figure additions to the tree... But we've been doing it. There's no way my wife hasn't noticed. Knuckles is the most recent and most obvious

Bless Diet Coke. It’s medicinal.