Dotcom boom classic: theonion.com/species-of-b...

Everything is fucking dumb all the time now

"People deserve to buy a home at a price they can afford, a price that will somehow also cover my entire initial investment, three decades' worth of repairs and home improvements, allow me to purchase a new condo, and fund the next two decades of my retirement. It's that simple." buff.ly/eb04d9q

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

Orion and solar eclipse: new, fascinating image posted on NASA Johnson's flickr account, captured by a GoPro camera mounted on one of the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Venus can be spotted on the left, and Saturn on the right of the Moon. flic.kr/p/2s7wkRo #Artemis 🧪🔭

This feels like a "we rewrote the original APOLLO programme instructions in LOLcode" kinda thing. I CAN HAZ BUKKIT!

Your Backpack Got Worse on Purpose: www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backp...

I turn on the nebulizer, and my room transforms into a massive cloud of dust and gas nurturing stellar formation.

PONTIFICATION

Hayabusa2# will fly by asteroid (98943) Torifune on the 5th of July. All details in a new paper by Masatoshi Hirabayashi. Exciting ! arxiv.org/pdf/2604.08832 #planetaryscience #planetarydefense #hayabusa2

Nice friendly little airport they've got there.

Across the country, Americans celebrated the Artemis II crew’s return. But the most excited welcome might belong to astronaut Christina Koch’s dog, Sadie!

*taps the sign*

Citing a blog post I wrote in 2013 about hidden hippo testes is a deep cut in more ways than one. 🧪 (Please note I'm sharing this for the sake of the joke, not the article itself, which I have no memory of writing and is so old that the formatting is lost)

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

Soaring Gas Prices Forcing More Americans To Drink Less Gas

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

prohibition but for sports gambling, now you’re only allowed to do it if you go to a dingy bar and place your bet with a guy named vito four fingers who makes it extremely clear that if you welch on him you’re going to join him in the four fingers club

Plus it makes your feed look like a maga boomer facebook page. Even if it’s lefty.

I don’t remember this episode, but I’m guessing season 3?

This really should not be a surprise to anyone. But then I wrote a post in 2024 listing Hungary's influence op as one of the things NOT being covered bc of the 1000th Joe Biden Old story.

I don't pretend to know why the orange guy is beefing with the Pope, and maybe it's just another of his dumb grudges. Or maybe he's looking to pull a Henry VIII and start his own church? It just sounds like something that would appeal to him, for a variety of reasons...

As Péter Magyar steps into a prominent role, here's a handy guide on how to pronounce his name. The "g" and "y" in "Magyar," are not two separate letters as in English, but a single consonant, "gy" which is unique to Hungarian 🇭🇺. You're welcome! 😊👋🏼 📹 Easy study Hungarian

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Forgive the impudent piggybacking on someone else’s excellent article, but you'd like to read more about English’s old dual pronouns, here’s a piece of mine in which I gathered up the remnants of the dual across Indo-European, from Sanskrit to Slovenian. dannybate.com/2024/03/27/t...

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

Warsaw is both medieval hunting lodge and Cyberpunk 2077

Trump could really teach the Pope a lesson by taxing churches.

Found Suleiman the Magnificent's alt:

I think he could use a new sidekick though. We just need a radioactive spider.... Spider-Pope, Spider-Pope! Rebuffing Vance with a solid "Nope!" Cuts with tweets, like a knife! Knows where Trump spends his afterlife! Ecce! Here comes the Spider-Pope

Pope as secret crimefighter. He takes off his hat and people don’t recognize him, like Clark Kent taking off his glasses. He does costume change by popping into the nearest confessional instead of a phone booth. Pope-ray vision lets him see who the really bad sinners are.

You all are talking about “the Pope is weak on crime” and I feel like the real gem is “should get his act together as Pope.”

I think the president may be losing his mind

the young people are right, millennials had it easy—at any hour of the day, we could just turn on the radio, tune in to npr, and listen to a gen x dude explain to us again for twenty minutes that lobsters actually used to be poor people food

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

Confirmed with 98% reporting: Tisza still has 138 of the 199 seats, a bunch more than the supermajority it needs to amend the constitution.

I’m really excited for this SF! With it we’re trying to combat the positive bias in publishing - how we and reviewers are inclined to only lift up research that goes as expected. But we all know there are so many lessons to be learned when you get unexpected results, or when things don’t work. 🧪

I've just published my April story for @forbes.com. It's all about non-exhaust emissions and covers lots of recent research into their extent in our cities and their impact on our health 🧪👩‍🔬⚛️ www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

Happy to be accused of motivated cognition but if we're reading Magyar's victory as road map for what to do to bring down an authoritarian regime, I'll take this road to FAFO:

Folks, the Hungarians just ousted Orban after he spent a decade and a half consolidating power. The odds the Hungarian resistance faced were far worse than what we’re facing in the US. Like abolitionists and civil rights activists have learned here, everything seems impossible until it isn’t.

Hungary exposes a critical weakness of faux-democratic authoritarianism: it can’t be passed on to a successor. Orban’s party would have done at least marginally better with someone else at the top of the ticket, but there was no way Orban would have stepped down and no way to make him.

I’m incredibly obsessed with JD Vance sinking Victor Orban

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