The half mile long line of cars to get off the highway at the hospitals and university exit every morning not only sucks out your soul but it's also a safety hazard. What a horrible fucking design. Humans are incapable of thinking ahead or planning 99% of the time. We just think we are.

Interesting find on Facebook, conservatives at this point are openly admitting they're not particularly interested in democracy.

Big schizophrenia yard sign in West Virginia "when the king returns, there will be no elections and no debate... Something something I didn't read cuz I was driving past" You see, this is why we came up with the term christofascist. The only consistent theme in your religion is "Obey."

open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... "..When the Secretary of Homeland Security can’t stay in a hearing long enough to answer basic questions and when the public trusts the protesters more than the person running the agency, you don’t have a messaging problem. You have a legitimacy crisis.." #BlueCrew

The non-binary urge to walk in there and never come out

In the mountains of West Virginia where there's barely cell phone service, their signs screaming about the latest data center threatening to be built here. If these things turn out to be a bubble, and they are almost guaranteed to, it is almost guaranteed to cause an economic depression on burst.

Birds are demonstrably the most advanced form of life on Earth. As smart as they need to be, omnivorous, and they conquered fucking gravity. Humans are like "look at us we learned how to put concrete all over places food might grow" and then pretending we're the dominant life form.

Clarksburg West Virginia police cruisers have "in God we trust" on the back hatch door... because it is a desolate, cultureless theocracy Shit really is looking like a handmaids tale out here

Okay one more partially just to demonstrate the evolution of 8-bit soundtracks near the end of the NES era. Honestly this is kind of incredible.

Wasn't so much reading Stephen King at an early age as this shit right here that made it so Gen xers do not panic unless something is actively on fire.

Whitehouse: Not only were the founders extremely interested in checks and balances but they were desperately concerned about corruption. This Court has consistently taken the side of corruption against every device Congress has created to fight political corruption.

Lol, *you literally cannot set the time on a Fitbit without using the app and subsequently making a Google account*. Fuck this "watch." With all the privacy invasion going on, you'd have to be insane to use it.

Stop using this painting of neolithic cave libertarian Jim Edgerton bitching about his Vermont taxes being used to rebuild a school after it burned down. He was an asshole, and so was Norman Rockwell.

> @meachamdr.bsky.social

Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported? Noem: We have not deported military veterans. Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.

In the hindsight of the future, the trillionaire from apartheid South Africa, the violently racist bald dwarf, the child abuser whose family changed their name from Drumph to sound less German... And the 10,000 masked secret police they hired...It will be obvious these were Nazis all along.

I keep reading about and watching videos about 1933/1934 Germany, because we have a litera Nazi for president following the same playbook, including having Hitler's speeches on his nightstand. They have to keep making things worse, every day worse than the last, to crank up the desperation.

Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.

Disgusting and predictable. Trump is a Russian agent. Hillary Clinton tried to warn us.

Jesus

Last lecture week of the quarter means teaching chapter topics that require synthesis of everything else, namely basic genetics in bio 101 and basics of immunology in micro 205. I hope they've learned all they can, because I'm about ready to work less and snowboard a lot more.

"It has been obnoxiously windy for weeks. Is this normal? This doesn't feel normal. Could global warming be increasing average wind speeds around the globe? It's what you would expect from a heating, higher energy system." Always the worst case scenario www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The new player who doesn't know to be suspicious of the DM yet:

I'm honestly surprised at how much chatter there is about these fucking Epstein files on here. Do you still not get how this works? Congress made the bill. Trump signed the bill. Now he will fucking refuse to follow the law just like he always does and there will be no consequences.

It's time for us to admit that food trucks are not equipped for events. They work well parked out on the street when people can walk by and order throughout the day, but they are not suited for big crowds. They don't have the capacity. We've been waiting 30 minutes in the cold for fries

this has become a very important video to me

I will never get over what bullshit homework is. As grown ass adults, the second we walk out the door at work we try to stop thinking about it... But we act like it's some sort of personal failure when kids do the same thing. K-12 is first and foremost obedience training.

An unpleasant epiphany this week: Hitler got away with it. We don't talk about it because of our own propaganda, but he absolutely did. Motherfucker killed a million Jews, hundreds of thousands of overseas fighters, wrecked Germany and then killed himself on his own terms in a private bunker.

The latest inflation data is out, and even Trump's team of crack lie craftsman claimed about 3%, which is a lie, and still higher than their targets. The stock market briefly jumped on Friday, before settling back down after remembering everything Trump says is a lie www.bea.gov/data/persona...

Annnnd every student from over at the college is sick & sniffling

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.

"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst." Everything this administration tells us is a lie.

A Republican PhD boss *Gives me COVID 2-3 times by insisting on coming into the lab sick repeatedly, despite the fact he has months of PTO banked, out of some sort of workaholism* *Forced into early retirement*

Clinical startup who never took patient samples, eventually failed "You can't just make changes to the protocol no matter how much they make sense and are needed. Who are you? You're nobody" "Firstly, my mom says I'm special. Secondly, hardly anybody is somebody" Honestly that job was all right

More funny job shit, microbiology lab where I was being undertrained and rushed through certifications: "Let me make absolutely sure I understand; you want me to work at whatever pace it takes to make zero mistakes ever?" "Yes!" "Got it." *Shakes her hand, stands up, walks to HR and resigns*

I will never forget conversations with my PhD advisor before I resigned it in disgust after one semester: "You should think of this as a job." "...If I had a job where I worked this hard for this little money, I would spend every spare moment looking for a better job."

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! Extent, volume and thickness are three ways to measure Arctic sea-ice. Extent is currently at a record low for the day. Volume hit a record monthly low in each of the last two months. And "thickness" just set an all-time record low in October.

Capitalists will be better off if YOU have more kids. Demographic decline or collapse, especially absent immigration, is a capitalists' problem. That can be solved if they pay us enough to survive with one breadwinner and one homemaker. And child/health care for all.

Which is AWFUL considering there should have been holidays hiring. We knew this would happen. "Everything Trump Touches Dies." - Mary Trump

This is your December reminder that it's absolutely acceptable to try and get to a set annual book goal by cramming in as many novellas and cookbooks as you can find before Christmas swallows you up! #booksky 💙📚

Oh so you don't like Trump's pardons? Let me tell you what we do about it: Take over Congress in the midterms, impeach him and kick him out, and then make an amendment limiting presidential pardon power. Better yet get rid of it altogether. Ignore his pardons and put these assholes in jail.

If you're not at least 35, a legal adult at the time, you have no idea just how much better things were back in 2010 than this absolute dumpster fire that passes for society now. We had it so good, but these dumb fucks had to vote for Trump not once but twice. The bad decisions are piling up.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Color me unsurprised that the most bumbling evil fascists since ww2 Germany are looking to logarithmically increase censorship on the freest communication platform ever to exist... in open defiance of the Constitution.

A reminder every single word, every sentence, you put on the internet, on every platform, is already being put through AI to look for threatening, possibly even "insufficiently patriotic" behavior, no matter how ridiculous it is in context. You will get cops on your doorstep by running your mouth.

Why are Christmas presents for men so shit? It's either a Millennium Falcon hip flask or 3 fish heads nailed to a stick. I'm going to get my Dad a selection of shaving spanners with cars on x

I bitch about this literally every quarter in my microbiology course.

I deadass would love to be a municipal salt truck driver. What a great job, how incredibly crucial they are. I don't know what kind of hours they keep but they are one of the pillars of civilization currently.

I’ve never been a “defund the police” type of guy. I believe that police are necessary, despite their flaws. But ICE is different. I am 100% behind ending their existence and prosecuting every single one of them. ICE must go. End of discussion.