FFS. Yes, Martin Niemöller was a conservative who voted Nazi in the last few German elections. But "complacent Nazi until it was his turn" is just so much bullshit. He could have avoided being sent to the camps simply by keeping quiet. His resistance was belated but still courageous.

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#WednesdayWonder - just for the colour 🩵 #Seaglass #Beachcombing

The last time I taught Carbon-14 dating, one of my students asked what would happen if the item being tested had died a long time before it had been crafted. My response was pretty much "humans basically never do that." Oops.

the war on denominators has got to stop

I gave my friend a plumeria cutting 5 years ago from Hawaii, a 5 inch long stick, not thinking about the climate in NJ. But he's nursed the plant into a robust small tree and today, for the first, time, it bloomed!! Hawaii in New Jersey.

French President walking to the UN but unable to get there because of Trump's motorcade seems like an apt metaphor for America's role now on the world stage

I literally spent 10 min translating Lula’s speech about Palestine to English. I just need every single one of my gringo friends to listen to this man in order to maybe restore their faith in politics. This right here is a politician. This is why we voted for him. And personally, I’ll do it again.

I'm only up to episode 150 of this podcast. Should I skip ahead?

For no particular reason, I'm sharing the In Our Time Rapture episode. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We have a copper-bottom sauce pan that had somehow developed a bulge on the bottom and wouldn't sit level. So I hit it with a mallet. It's level now. Brought to you by the Sometimes You Just Have To Hit Things With A Mallet Foundation.

Getting bot calls from somebody who claims to be my insurance company. The always begin by asking for my DOB "for privacy". Nope. This could just be HIPAA compliance, but I'm not going to share personal identifying info on a cold call

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

Eggsy and Jimmi were both just excited to see the neighbor’s cat (who came by for treats) but for some reason the pic ended up looking like a scene in an 80s movie where the nerd shows up with flowers and the girl he loves is already on a date with someone else

Kirk *was* a martyr, a value-neutral term to refer to one killed for bearing witness to their faith. He wasn’t, however, a Christian martyr, since scripture doesn’t speak to trans identity or how to treat it politically. Kirk died while bearing witness to his faith in punitive anti-trans Trumpism.

Orwell foresaw TVs that The Party would use to spy on you, but not TVs that spied on you all on their own. 1984 needs an update.

For folks who don't know: bald eagles make a sort of high-pitched, weak peeping sound, so movies and tv shows almost always play a red-tailed hawk scream instead. Our national bird is a peeping kleptoparasite.

The next Democratic president has a much bigger job in front of them than undoing the excesses of the Trump administration. Trump was elected in 2016 in part due to massive frustration with elite impunity, which is a bipartisan failing.

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

You know, 90 million people didn't vote in 2024 because the Democrats failed to convince them that the election mattered. I think getting through to them might be more effective than showing "grace and empathy" to members of a personality cult.

I have to point out that Godwin himself said it made sense to compare Trump to Hitler. Godwin's Law is about *lazy* comparison to Hitler.

football is easy, just look up a tutorial on youtube and you'll be kicking 51 yard field goals in no time. it's like plumbing or carpentry

Q: What is the best piece of advice you have received? A: It wasn’t given specifically to me but I was in the audience. It was said by Toni Morrison at the Hay festival: “We will be judged on how well we loved.” That’s it. That’s all that matters. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Out of curiosity I did a google trends search for "are orange cats dumb". As you can see, there was nothing for 17 years and then a distinct change in late 2021 which is when @jortsthecat.bsky.social hit the internet. 😆

There seems to be confusion about what I'm saying here, so I'll be even blunter: Charlie Kirk's main argument, which he built his empire on, is that young women should be punished for feminist wrongthink with public, sexualized humiliation. To honor him is to endorse sexualized abuse of girls.

@yenkhenglim.bsky.social Here's a writer who thinks Malaysian writer Tan Twan Eng is great. Is he right? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

While we're on the subject of free speech, note that Israel bombed a newspaper complex in Yemen, killing 31 journalists. The pundits who've spent the last few days commenting on political violence will have nothing to say about the wholesale murder of thirty-one of their colleagues.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Compare this with Boring's pathetic attempts to dig tunnels a couple of miles long.

The right: Violent leftists use Bluesky to organize their terror attacks and cheer each other on. It's dangerous! Meanwhile, on Bluesky, people are fighting each other about whether you should RSVP for a protest. The disconnect is hilarious.

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

The Empire Strikes Back to the Future

Times being what they are, I did not initially read "transitional" the way it was intended.

Latest comic on our absurd national discourse www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

i love how the algorithm decides that "snap to join" is the more likely string of words even though "snap to joint" is the string that would be found in the context of butchering a bird (that has, presumably, already been cleaned) perfect example of how it's not "thinking"

So fascism stops being fascism once it comes to power?

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

We have far more disengaged lean D people who are erratic voters than potential swing voters, and this kind of pandering to moderate Rs around social issues is what keeps them disengaged and suppresses turnout.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Reading this piece made me wonder if the liberals who think CK wasn't *that* bad share his hatred of trans people.

I was once on a panel about Henry Ford’s antisemitism, and still learned from this article that he thought the Jews killed Lincoln and that brass was a “Jew metal”

To be fair, these guys were mere decamillionaires, and never were burdened with the billions of dollars that seems to induce moral rot.

It occurs to me that this guy's campaign is mostly about joy.

It's funny that this guy didn't know that Malcom X wasn't a Christian. But it's criminally ignorant that he thinks that Charlie Kirk could be friends with a Black person.

The follow-up post is the best part.

For no particular reason, I’ve been thinking about the guy who obsessed about killing racial justice protesters, searched online about killing racial justice protesters, & told friends he may kill a racial justice protester. Then he killed a racial justice protester. And Gregg Abbott pardoned him.

I learned a new word from this essay: "ofermod." I may use it occasionally.

Kash Patel would be prettier if he smiled more.

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month everyone!

finally, a proper mixer for the panera death lemonade