UCLA looked at USAID and it’s awful ph.ucla.edu/news-events/...

Also, "this tech kills the market for entry level jobs but doesn't make the need for people who were trained through the entry level jobs go away" is a clusterfuck for the industry.

NEW: The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court. The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Important PSA from @scalzi.com and his hype man (me): EMPATHY IS COOL, ACTUALLY

this is a movie from 2012

watching evangelical media is so funny because like i'm watching one of those rapture movies where the plot is that Iran has closed the strait of hormuz and this will somehow lead to the rapture

They both deserved better than they got.

The European Commission will encourage remote working and public transport subsidies to cut fossil fuel use, as countries grapple with the energy price shock from the war in the Middle East. www.ft.com/content/bbc9...

we've got computers we're tapping phone lines I know that that ain't allowed.

Not my favorite way to have been woken up ever, tbh. Anyway, at some point we gave her some Revolution, a flea and tick treatment that goes on the back of the neck, and her problem went away. We figured she must have had some kind of subtle case of skin mites that had made her so hypersensitive

We had a cat named Persephone who would really get messed up sometimes by random touches. One night when she was sleeping on my head, I turned over and my arm brushed her back and she bit right through my left middle knuckle and COULDN'T LET GO. She had such a panicked look on her face

it is so hard for us politics-knowers to comprehend how little non-political people know or care about politics. People just don't know! You have to read every poll this way. Most of them just said whatever to get off the phone! They thought about it for a fraction of a second!

imagine someone cold-called you and asked which of two artists in a genre you don't really listen to you like more. Uh, the first one? There's a vote, you don't go. Then later you realize that artist is all that is playing on the radio. In the mall. On the streams. You realize they suck actually.

because they literally did! not! know! what it was! i’m sorry but all of this is easily explained by the fact that most Americans don’t pay much attention to politics

And hey, nobody ever forget: this was because her late husband’s sons were greedy bastards and stole both cars, reported her to ICE, re-routed the mail so she wouldn’t see anything about her Immigration case & are in the process of stealing the estate, all because their dad married an old flame.

Concerts I wish I had been at: Gary Numan at Wembley 1981, 25 songs from 4 years at the top before he shut down Phase One (by far the most sucessful) of his career. Unbelievable staging/lighting, great backing band.

It turn out she has a name, which is weird. Thank you, Connie Ballmer.

He said that "Mordor was the only functional country in the Middle Earth". I mean, he thinks Sauron was right. And whoever has read that book thus understand that Thiel want to enslave or exterminate humanity and place its remains under the surveillance of the ever-watching eye.

The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.

played pickleball for the first time and it was fun so I'm officially old

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Whenever someone wants to argue some person is just as bad a person as Trump my first (but not last) question is “did they rape kids?”

It's just not a Sunday unless Donald Trump is explicitly threatening war crimes.

Wait, they're sending Vance *back* to negotiate? Again? This is the guy who immediately rejected Iran's terms and went home. What the fuck.

i love that this movie hinges on the bad guy being a really good ice skater

How incredibly painful this must be for Rachel Foster and her family. Seems like she’s been through enough. I look forward to seeing the documentary soon on another platform.

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Nine Years Ago Today: Clio at the vet

Twelve Years Ago Today: Swung by my childhood home while I was in town to clean out and close my dad's apartment. Used my phone's pen to correct it to look like it did when I lived there, but you probably can't tell because my retouching work was so subtle.

a spherical chonk and his emotional support sock

One thing I really like in this book is that almost every male character sees himself as an "everyman," and much of the plot is them being horrified at what the other ones consider "everyman" behavior.

The Times visited the Syrian coast where the Trump golf course has been proposed by Mohamad Al-Khayyat, one of three brothers pushing Syria real-estate deals. We found local farmers who now wonder if they will be evicted to make way for a Trump golf course.

When I was a kid they sold knitting patterns by showing little girls with knight's helmets stabbing boys in the head with a dagger. Awesome. I never wanted to knit a sweater more than right now.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008) #OnePerfectShot

I can only assume last time the duck ran amok.

related to tim curry’s birthday, but i happened to be thinking about this meme heavily the past couple days already

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants. He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump considered awarding self Medal of Honor amid Iran war chaos: insiders www.rawstory.com/trump-267676...

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

It will never not be funny how often a hockey game includes someone skating around without a stick holding their hands up like a confused emoji.

OMG the latest episode of #TopChef starts with a #Warhammer40k cold open, painting miniatures and all

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

If only there was a regulatory body. A securities and exchange commission, or something.

Has there been any reporting from major US newspapers on how the admin is very obviously manipulating the stock and commodities markets?

One of my biggest pet peeves is someone calling the Grimm "the original version of Cinderella." "Original" is a nonsense word for a folk tale, and the Grimms collected theirs over a CENTURY after Perrault published the version that Disney based the movie on.