These people are fucking monsters

What the fuck kind of attempt to lead by the hand even is this

I checked; the 'burgh is on the same list, unsurprisingly. Ridiculous how much Trump hates cities, despite being the product of our largest one. Closest to country manor/plantation he gets is the golf course.

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats: “Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

My farm-working friend is sure that if a sheep can find a way to kill itself, it will. He places them at the low end of the agricultural intelligence scale, just below barley.

People talk about how smart pigs are and how close to humans they are and I’m like “Yes, and have you MET humans? That’s not an endorsement!”

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh Anyway, back to toiling

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

I need people not from Portland to understand that a majority of the escalations happening here are the direct result of the far right grifting machine. They are another arm of the fascist regime and have been manufacturing content and spreading lies to manufacture consent. It's as simple as that.

This really is amazing. Head of the FBI! Definitely nabbing the serious criminals now.

the thing I love about our current era is how dignified everything is

My younger kid had an assignment to make a 4+ ingredient food, using specific tools (wet & dry measures, cups & spoons), and actual heat; she made vanilla crepes. She used a whisk. I used to use forks, but whisks are so much more efficient in the long run.

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

Stephen Miller shrieks all this out after a huge hit of Helium gas, so his voice sounds like a tiny, shrill ant with a huge megaphone.

Met a nice older lady at a fancy party tonight. We were doing the usual small talk when she suddenly started digging in her bag to show me a picture of her son - and pulled out a wildly glamorous shot of a *beautiful* drag queen. Come to find out I was talking with Alexis Michelle's mom.

christian zionists not only outnumber jewish ones 10 to 1, theyre a hell of a lot more powerful in the US right now

Wait hold up... does Jack Posobiec live in Montgomery County

Indeed. Her PhD thesis may have prepped her for this when her peers failed to understand that they might make poor decisions under extreme stress. And, to be fair, maybe something she re-learned after overreacting to Gaza protests on campus last year, and students and faculty voted no confidence.

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

Hi, I have three advanced degrees in biology. I'd like to point out that 8th grade biology is basically kindergarten compared to what I had to learn.

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one thing we all need to grapple with is that what DHS/ICE is doing, and being allowed to do, is not entirely new even if it is at a reckless intensity never seen before. deploying the national guard to places not facing domestic unrest for political reasons? that's different

based on another conversation i just saw, i think people outside of portland maybe don't understand that all of the oregon AG's arguments about the lasting economic damage and instability of fed interventions in portland in 2020 are very real, the national guard moving in is no idle threat here

Said smarmy character was actually a tech CEO cosplaying as a scuba diver searching for lost sunken ships and there also are no new stereotypes under the sun, apparently

I wish the garlic was metaphorical. Alas!

Jennifer Armentraut: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the scone of stone and bone King: what's that smell? Armentraut: oh you mean that garlic smell? Armentraut: that patented Hellmans original mouth-watering garlic aioli smell? King: King: yeah that smell

Well, that's disgusting. Do not mistake me: I enjoy garlic *in food*. I am not a fan of things smelling like garlic in non-eating contexts, that's all.

NLRB replaced their website with a 1999-esque landing page & memo where NLRB says people can't file unfair labor practices charges or appeals until further notice. It vaguely says deadlines may or may not be tolled. This is great opportunity for state governments to deploy their own labor agencies.

Anyone with critical thinking skills or a memory of past shutdowns should be aware that this isn’t how it works. The president doesn’t gain new powers because Congress hasn’t sent over the money for the executive branch.

This is a must watch. Please. It's so important.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Article. I can read faster than any YouTuber can speak, even with the playback speed cranked up to comical levels. THAT SAID, article writers these days need fucking EDITORS they spend whole paragraphs FAFFING ABOUT before they get to the point IT'S CALLED THE INVERTED FUCKING PYRAMID MY DUDES

I miss the days when the headline was supposed to convey the gist of the article succinctly, not act as a sort of desperate lying tease in hopes of a click

Pretty wild court filing in a long and complicated legal beef between YouTuber Ethan Klein, react streamers, and anonymous mods of a subreddit that critiques Klein

It’s Monday, the gyre is widening, and I am once again asking for your support. My Republican opponents have loaned themselves $50k and $100k respectively, trying to make it look like they have large support. I believe a candidate should be for the people. www.efundraisingconnections.com/c/Kluwe/

it's a great interview, and what's striking is that at the end of the day both klein and coates believe in winning people over. the difference is that coates thinks you do this by telling them the truth, and klein thinks you do it by empathizing with them and recognizing their concerns as Real

Driving me just a little bit up a wall that people are freaking out about giving their kids Tylenol now. Low info folks shouldn’t be wrong to trust their public health officials. But the fate worse than death they’re all trying to avoid is my every day life and it gets old having to assuage them.

For reasons we cannot fathom but by which we are utterly delighted, our son was voted Homecoming King. Here is the t-shirt he wore to the pep rally. rawpaw.ink/products/inf...

She probably can't go next week unless family can take her, because her dad and I have a wedding to attend. Probably should have checked that sooner, but we almost never have plans. That's on us.

i love this. one reason: replacing the technocratic "let's reframe" (entailment: their frame still circulates) with the embodied metaphor of eating (entailment: you destroy their frame) another reason: now there's a visible mascot for discourse resistance. the goal is kids' Halloween costumes

Tylenol has not been adequate. PT and weed would help, but I can't drive on the latter, and until I can distract the Furry Ones with food, I'll be too agitated to try doing PT (even with the door closed; they usually get insistent anyhow). Also, kid punked out on roller-skating. *grumble*

Before I turn on @npr.org again or read another @nytimes.com editorial, because I know exactly how it'll be: This isn't "a threat" to academic freedom. It's not igniting "a debate" about it. The "future" of academic freedom isn't at stake. This is what the end of academic freedom has made possible.

And if you wanna peep game how racism and other things shift the Overton window People are already arguing about Dr Ian Roberts place of birth …. as opposed to the roving gangs . There’s no citation or context … I had to get that from my WNBA stream in Tik Tok www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMYMtoWu/

Ezra Klein is doing his best to turn the Dems into UK Labour. It is so stupid to think about but becomes more and more apparent with each new public output

Oh so it's like people vs peoples. Today I learned

Rapidly becoming stupidly infuriated with the cat I have to force to fast for his vet appt. I have a headache that doing PT might help resolve, but he kept interrupting my stretches so that I'm too agitated to bother. Tylenol will have to do.

I think back to how the cops roughed us up in 2018 when we protested saying this and no one cared. And I think about how ICE routinely brutalizes and disappears and murders people now, and. Pay attention when state violence is leveraged against liberatory protesters. Everyone else is next.

Bernie Sanders was right

Listeria is a dangerous bacteria, with a 20 percent case-fatality rate. It also survives refrigeration. So if you have these meals at home, toss them now.

All you have to do is *listen* to trans people and see the joy and freedom transitioning has brought to them, even in the face of society’s evil hate, to know that we should support and fight for their right to transition with every fiber of our being.