anyone want to join my war group chat? it's where we plan war

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

Hot off the presses: Noodle News Feb 25

"We assure you that eliminating DEI initiatives will have no negative consequences—except for anyone who isn’t already perfectly positioned for leadership."

Researching international IP for my book and I can't get over the fact that Juan Valdez is a geographical indicator for coffee from Columbia, and not a brand.

if anyone says the phrase "run the government like a business" within earshot ever again I am going to turn into the Joker

Need a white guy to walk confidently into a federal building and delete all the student loans files

Begging some hero in the Department of Ed to rename the student loan record file folder "DEI training materials" before unlocking the door for the DOGE bros

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

Being a science writer right now is like… 9am - Coffee and constitutional crisis! 10am - Read a neat study on 5000-year-old beads. 11am - US science funding is off/on/off/on! Noon - Email a researcher about Iron Age skeletons. Afternoon - More constitutional crises and screaming into the void!

Nothing to see here.

I really thought taking over the US Government was more difficult than sending a teenager named Big Balls to demand everyone hand over the keys

Lasagna Noodle update

two things have been made abundantly clear in the last week: 1. the democrats are terrible, with a handful of exceptions 2. the idea that "both parties are exactly the same" is absolute fucking horseshit

Starting the four year struggle to stay informed without wallowing.

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

this duck has already anticipated your next move

"Pump up the Jam" is easily my favorite running Philomena Cunk joke.

Starting this out with a cat, which is easily the best part of the internet.