good thing tomorrow is whiskey friday

World War ZZZZ

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

We've seen a little bit of drought improvement in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama compared to last week, but not much elsewhere. 99.00% of the southeast (AL, FL, GA, NC, SC, VA) remains in a moderate drought or worse, with 92.66% of the region in a severe drought or worse.

It's seamless to most people because members of priestly orders in good standing are also ordinary priests ("ordinary" here meaning "someone whose rights and powers derive from church law": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinar... ). SSPX priests are not ordinaries, because of All This.

So the 800-some SSPX priests are not part of the "standard" Catholic org chart and the Church would not have to replace them. They already fucked off, the outstanding question is whether the Church will take actions that affect the people they serve.

Really, it's more that they were more mad about the removal of the antisemitism and the acknowledging that some people have other religions they don't want to give up and that doesn't mean they should be put to the sword, they just seized on the rest as an excuse

Some guys didn't like that Pope Paul VI directed the Church to update/simplify/streamline the Mass. They really didn't like that priests could choose to say that new form of Mass in the local language, even though they could *also* use Latin. They wanted bishops ordained using the old form. 1/

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couldn't even get Pittsburgh to throw in a primate to be named later

I guess I can safely watch the show without feeling like an idiot if I suddenly realize one of the actors was in The Wire

Huge (good) news for hurricane season:

I was playing with Buster last night. He had crawled partway into my lap; we were pulling on one of his toys. Suddenly he lost his bite on it, & I hit myself in the mouth so hard that I felt several pieces coming off multiple incisors. Not really related unless the woman is a dentist.

Exclusive: Last year, she was demonized for grading a poorly written psychology paper. Now, Mel Curth is speaking out about being targeted by Christian conservatives and to correct misinformation she believes the University of Oklahoma allowed to spread. www.advocate.com/news/people/...

Either 2000 or 2026. 2000 probably has the edge, but 2026 is only ~37% through, so things could always get worse!

Labour MP to stand down to allow Burnham run for byelection amid leadership row

They mistakenly believe there is a vas deferens between what the Constitution doesn’t authorize and what it expressly prohibits.

lol look at this guy who doesn't understand that Little Joe is the LeBron James of gorilla sex

a big reason the research drain under Trump 2 is so bad is there just isn’t enough infrastructure in the world to pick up the slack here even if other countries want to nothing out there matches the sheer scale of the university system in the US and you can’t spin it up that fast what a disaster

the US university system is one of the great wonders of the modern world and it should be celebrated rather than attacked at every turn by dipshits who don’t know what we have

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Okay, it’s a gray day and I’m feeling down and I would love to see cute photos of your pets, the fresher the photo the better

every 6-8 weeks we find out about another house representative in their eighties who has gone missing since their staff accidentally left them behind after lunch at Shoney's. since getting them to voluntarily retire is impossible, i have a backup plan

correct, that’s why Congress holds the power of the prepuce

OMG the DOJ lawyer just said presidential power has never been "circumcised." He was trying to say "circumscribed."

The Sixth Circuit has joined Second Circuit in rejecting Trump's mandatory immigration detention policy, 2-1. Majority: W. Guy Cole Jr.(Clinton) & Eric Clay (Clinton) Dissent: Eric Murphy (Trump) USCA5 and USCA8 went the other way, also by 2-1 margins. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

It is literally in your purview. It is one of the most important functions of you purview. It is a constitutionally-mandated function of your purview.

After a string of losses in its anti-trans project, DOJ turns to grand jury subpoenas in Texas open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

BlueSky - I need your help! For those of you who don't know, I am a social media manager and run other people's accounts for them It's much harder to get traction than it used to be, so I'm thinking about various ways I could help people - maybe a free newsletter, or a training course 1/3

I'd love to hear about your social media experiences - especially if you are someone who has to use it for work/promotional purposes I've set up this Google form - mainly multiple choice questions, but there's space to write longer answers Fill it in here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1yyj... 2/3

We could have just not done any of this.

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An essential thread. I learned a lot and am grateful, Sarah. Thank you.

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

today's apparently my day to inform fellow Gifted (rapid intake/synthesis of information) and habañeuro kin that having an existential crisis or three *before puberty* over the philosophical ramifications of the permanence and universality of death is not. in fact. a normal developmental milestone.

Trump's tower in Australia has been cancelled because he's one of the biggest pricks on the planet. I love this for him. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

A congressman who viewed Jeffrey Epstein files that are still redacted for the public says the Department of Justice is “covering up for Donald Trump.”

Not a smoker myself but I hear wanting a drag or 2 after a nut is common

WIC used to have bipartisan support because even Republicans said "Well of course we want to make sure pregnant women and babies have enough to eat, we're not monsters," but now they say "Screw those freeloading babies, we've got a gold-plated ballroom to build"

in woke 2, as part of the re-reconstructioning, the DOJ is going to have to hire an entire battalion of white collar prosecutors who are more afraid of seeking too lenient punishment for insider trading than they are of seeking maximum 20 year federal sentences

*pounding the table* STAG-FLATION! STAG-FLATION!

One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.

How it started How it's going

Haha look at the ads behind Bryce Eldridge

Disaster Mitigation Protip: When considering a message of contrition and promise to get help after your drunken bigoted tirade, check to see whether your handle is “TastyBrew1976”