There is a fly in the house and the cats are L I V I D

An interesting thread from a month ago that predicted exactly what we’re seeing in the reflecting pool now (peeling up, prolific microbial activity)

E) It's probably illegal. I don't think the President intends to send this to the Senate for ratification. There is no way on earth the United States is capable of fulfilling these terms without involving Congress. This is the dumbest possible ending to the dumbest possible war.

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This is a good thread, and a valuable lesson. The powerful are...mostly who they tweet like, with all the shitty views and incompetence that puts on display.

4Chan Christian guns-and-God conservatives plotted to bomb the MMA at the White House over the Epstein Files but were foiled when one of their moms overheard an encrypted voice chat when she delivered hot pockets to the basement where her son lives. Not kidding.

I don’t have a big audience (and I’m good with that!), but as someone with hands-on experience with ceasefire and peace negotiations, I feel like I should highlight some key points about all this. 🧵👇 1/

If I were writing the X-Files reboot, the conspiracy theorist / hardcore rationalist investigative duo would begin by pursuing crackpot theories, evaluating them with facts, then go arrest everybody on Epstein's island.

I'll be live skeeting the Netanyahu post-Iran-MoU presser here. This is the link for the live feed. A word on the significance: The deal is seen as a huge Netanyahu failure since he owns the Iran issue and relationship with Trump. He rarely does pressers in Hebrew where he takes Q's. 1/

tl;dr: "get fucked"

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Deciding to retire my current U/W Commander deck because even when it is doing well I am generally bored, it is repetitive and potentially overpowering while *also* taking an additional un-funnhalf an hour to kill the table after establishing dominance. That would be my U/W Blink strategy deck.

Once more, the point of having military guards in full dress at the White House Nitro Circus sponsored by Black Rifle Coffee Company isn’t that this all presents a coherent vision of America. It’s a show of dominance, of publicly degrading our symbols and institutions to proclaim that they own them.

From the fireworks outside, I assumed either the Knicks won or It finally Happened. Oh well, maybe tomorrow.

met this guy at pride named bagel...

A rainbow in fucking Brooklyn.

Trico is comfy.

I'm not a Buttigieg fan, but I'll say this - this is how I would hope to see every Democrat who was even thinking of running for prez in 2028 talk to have even a chance of reversing course after a trump.

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This is a very small sample size obviously, but I called my 401K manager to check and see if my retirement fund expects to be purchasing the SpaceX IPO when it sells tomorrow and they broker said "yeah, we have been getting a lot of calls about that today / this week / this month, obviously."

Look at Marty the day we got him versus now! He’s really perked up!!! This is over the course of 9 months—he’s an adult cat!

Decided I need a bit less random cardboard and a bit more money, and I'm never actually going to play that copy of The One Ring anyway because it would frankly bore me.

Excellent #longread. Seriously, buckle up.

This needs to be the trend of the summer. I want to see 5000 horse gets cake photos by August first.

Recap of the Broadview 6 grand jury: — WEEK 1: Government tries to indict protesters for impeding a police car. Jurors ask why the cop isn't being charged for driving into them instead. No bill. — WEEK 2: Government presents same exact argument. Jurors aren't having it. [continued in next skeet]

"GRAND JUROR: I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."

Wrote about Delaney Hall.

Nope. That's bait.

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Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

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Looking like the latter. I see absolutely no thirst from the democrats, collectively, to see justice done, just to squeak through some wins in the midterms. They should all be wearing t shirts every day that say “WE WILL PUT HIM IN JAIL”

“There may be.” FFS. Forget the flags. I have a literal masters degree in public health, I’m an actual union leader (in my second term as chapter president,) I’m a college professor, and a reproductive health advocate. And people are quibbling over if he abused his exes enough to be disqualifying.

WATCH: Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner joins Chris Hayes for an exclusive and responds to new reporting from the New York Times that details allegations from women describing parts of his behavior as “unsettling.”

There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.

I am not saying the moon is fake, but look at that fake-ass fuckin' moon we have tonight.

I am sitting with a friend I brought to the ER and accidentally watching sportsball, which team am I supposed to be rooting for?

Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5

Correct. Though better than “revolutionaries”—which has a positive buzz in U.S. history—they are radicals. Reckless wrecking radicals. And with that bit of alliteration, I’m off to get some coffee.

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i left wizards five years ago to go to blizzard, and i've been glad to be here pretty much the whole time. the job change was more running *to* than running *away*. and that's been true until this moment. i have never felt glad specifically because i'm not at wizards anymore until i read this.

You may not like these suspicionless checkpoints, but they are necessary to make sure Bluesky users are photographing their cats at or above the minimum required rate.

little late for this post and i'll probably do a longer version of it later in the month but my coming out story is that i never had to, i just was, and to whatever extent possible a world where that's the norm is what we're fighting for

I love For All Mankind, but I just caught up to the finale and as a chemist want to scream "METHANE IS A FORM OF CARBON!!!" I assume they meant ammonia - NH3 - rather than methane - whose chemical structure is CH4. Yes, this is going to bother me for A While.

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I had not made this connection but the show is clearly an adaptation of this tweet, in case you have been on the fence about it.