KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

I really wish spaceflight folks would drop the scripted messages at liftoff and orbital insertion. It’s the cringiest stuff we collectively do around rockets, and that’s a field that has a ketamine-addled billionaire routinely saying things.

This administration won’t even review a flu vaccine, but I just got a YouTube ad for a ketamine nasal spray. I think we might be cooked.

Sometimes, being a process chemist embedded in a group of discovery chemists just means running a 350 gram silica column and rotovapping four liters of DCM. I am not super proud of this work. But dangit they’re getting their advanced intermediate.

There are currently two (2) advertisements for copilot on my work pc’s lock screen. Just pop already.

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

Ah, my old friend. The bad sleep / too much caffeine / even worse sleep doom loop.

Brawndo’s got what plants crave.

Scoop: Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine, STAT has learned. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

(Sound on) While we're talking about liquid nitrogen … #chemsky #science #cold #physics

Drunken Seahawks Fans Climbing Space Needle

The guy who got the Gatorade bath is only three years older than me. 😳

The onside kick is the silliest play in football

Patriots bad :)

so is it a common experience that the same dudes who were super into crypto like 7 years ago are the same dudes that are super into ai hype now? is it just the same group of guys getting scammed over and over while they lecture us normies about how we are missing out because we are stupid?

We’re less than thirteen in-game minutes away from the first shutout in the Super Bowl

Wasn’t sure they were allowed to score touchdowns in February

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

100%. "Lol sportsball" sneering is a socially acceptable thing in nerd circles but it is also extremely toxic too cool for school self-vicitimization.

I dunno, I don’t think that ball touched the ground

FOOTBALL

Don’t be this person, please. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-0...

I’m rooting against the evil team that cheats but also wraps itself in a patriotic facade. Which, if that’s not a metaphor for the country’s Whole Deal right now, I’m not sure what is. (In this metaphor, the Seahawks lose because they refuse to tackle as hard as New England to preserve decorum.)

Oh, cool. A set of instructions for giving your favorite large language model access to your passwords database. I truly do not understand how so many people are turning into colossal dumbasses.

The Republican Party of Kentucky last October condemned a local county party for posting the same Obama video that Trump shared on his account last night.

I always wondered when I’d stop listening to tech podcasts. I like computers. But the topic of conversation has basically entirely drifted into the hosts’ interactions with their LLM’s. It is just so, unfathomably boring.

I get to review journal articles sometimes. Can confirm, it’s getting pretty sloppy. It astonishes me that people ask these things scientific questions at all. You should see what the citations look like in a paper generated by a plagiarism robot. Utterly worthless.

I tried to get this right, but I think I could have done better. Mealy-mouthed talk of career transitions suck. “I got laid off” is better. But I should have gone with “Corteva, as part of a plan to spend more on stock buybacks than payroll in 2025, unilaterally terminated my employment.”

Hold on a second

Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting signatures on our GMP documentation

You’ve only been waiting six years for this day: a new episode of me and @lucascmoore.bsky.social talking for an hour about nerdy stuff. Enjoy!

Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

Podcasts used to be better back when it wasn’t just people talking about how the sycophant plagiarism machine made them feel productive.

I agree with the guy who explains how toasters and cd players and stuff work.

Don’t mind me, just about crapped my pants when I checked the level on this liquid nitrogen tank as I was doing a magnet fill. (It is nitrogen. The tank itself says nitrogen. It’s acting like nitrogen. I have no idea why there is a gauge on the tank labeled “liquid argon.”) #chemchat

Chemical Formula xkcd.com/3200/

I warn you: you’re going to spend a lot more time looking at spreadsheets than you’d think.

whoever came up with “create the problem, sell the solution” probably didn’t expect someone would figure out how to sell the problem too

Truly insane

If you’re trans? The Trump Regime wants to redefine “gender affirming care” (which is healthcare) as “sex rejecting procedures” (which is not healthcare) — your real life, real world experience submitted as a comment is evidence that can be marshaled in the lawsuit that will challenge these rules

Shrinking is such a great show.

‘Or You Could Just Get Takeout,’ Reports Little Voice That Already Knows It’s Won https://theonion.com/or-you-could-just-get-takeout-reports-little-voice-t-1850409519/

The only president to keep the Patriots out of the Super Bowl this century? Joe Biden

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

🚨 SCHUMER just now: “Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.”