#Florida woman wins Mortal Kombat tournament playing with newborn baby in arms. You know, like you do. www.dexerto.com/mortal-komba...

Timeline cleanser 🐈

This IS a great headline and also: Seattle! Get the word out! Someone was exposed to rabies and needs to seek medical care IMMEDIATELY!

This only happens to you once

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular: The joy. One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

Happy 120th birthday, special relativity! Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...

This is EXCELLENT. 1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome. 2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

1. Great news for trans students in Chicago. Chicago Public Schools has announced it will defy Trump's demand to ban trans youth from bathrooms. Trump will now pull millions in federal funds. "Our district will not back away from doing what we know is right." Subscribe to support our journalism.

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

you should go read this thread

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Breaking character: Ken White has a fantastic post about how "free speech culture" undermines free speech. It's something I've thought about a lot before, but Ken knows way more about it than I do and explains it really well. www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Time to recite the incantation

Do not underestimate the soft spoken, the kind, the gentle. It takes strength to be those things, sometimes more than you will ever know. If you look closely at someone who conducts themselves honorably, you will find something fierce inside.

On 21 September 1937: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Hobbit was published. The book tells of a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, and his journey with thirteen dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon, Smaug. It's sold over 100 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. #BookSky

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

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I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

I think about this from time to time.

for context for this thread i made

I am not one for conspiracy theories and I hate that this shit seems so obviously fake to anyone who’s a poster and entirely plausible to the offline weirdos who run shit

The thing about being an artist is that sometimes you’ll have a really silly/cursed image enter your head and spend hours of your life drawing it. Hours you’ll never get back.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Thread but especially this

[P] This is IMO the most clear-headed assessment of the current Kirk situation, given what we currently know. I only wish literally anyone in mainstream media circles had this degree of perspective on and cultural understanding of it. A very worthwhile, if not ostensibly “pleasant,” read.

I will add that this political incongruity in when/whether to seek the death penalty is one of the big reasons it should be abolished.

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

The Onion's post 9/11 issue may have been -- just for degree of difficulty alone -- the greatest comic writing of my lifetime.

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”

this is extremely real and I don't think people totally grasp the scope of it yet. June's No Kings had literally 3x as many protests around the country as the single biggest day of protest in Trump 1.0, and penetration into rural and red areas that we never reached back then

Everybody who fell for the Harper's Letter or all the hand-wringing about "uncivil" students on the left, congratulations. You built this. You own this. And fuck you for being the useful idiots these fascists needed to launder their dismantling of academic freedom.

Lots of misinformation going around about ICE in Chicago including this post below showing masked agents. IT'S AN OLD VIDEO. Listen to local experts like @unraveledpress.com. Don't re-post clips without double checking to see if they are accurate. If you don't know for sure, don't share.

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

Here's a summary of rahaeli's recommended (and substantially research-based) antihistamine protocol that may significantly reduce odds of Covid infection: 10-20mg Zyrtec or Claritin + 20mg Pepcid, taken every 12 hours. (Standard doses are the low end of that every 24 hours.) Details in thread!

Taking the twins out for a stroll Lily Lake, Estes Park, Colorado

Timeline cleanse

We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

This is awful, obviously. But reading this, I immediately remembered that Trump has described Les Miserables as one of his favorite musicals. His words here sound almost identical to some of Javert's lines in the show. I wonder who Trump thinks is the hero?

This seems like a good time to share a little about my experiences on the DC grand jury and maybe convince some of you that the grand jury is a tool that we may be able to use right to now to help some of our neighbors.

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

The OTC antihistamine azelastine may work against a range of respiratory infections, including Covid, the flu and RSV, according to German researchers.

sure does feel like every time I see this man in front of a microphone lately my response is “thank fuck someone besides us is finally saying it”

Peter Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn, is on the "not an asshole to trans people" list, yay

Been reading Wodehouse's corpus start to finish and this is the first truly great short story. Read to the end, would you? www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/10/at-g...

"One time," my neighbour said, "my dog escaped and chased a car down the road." "Did he catch it?" "No, he didn't." My neighbour scratched his chin. "What are you gonna do?" We looked from my proud dog to the chicken-legged hut he'd somehow corralled into the yard. "Dunno. Leave the country?"