agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Mamdani and Virginia governor/AG PLUS Cheney dying, what a day.

Still terrifying

I don’t know what I thought a cuttlefish looked like, but it wasn’t that.

The Oz He destroyed his stone Yes YES The despair is out

So THIS is where the term “redneck” comes from???

We Are Lady Parts is just a blast and every single person on planet Earth should watch it, the end.

Sexy forestry supplies

New: Correctional staff at a Western Maryland prison shut off the water to a mentally ill man’s cell, then allowed him to suffer for eight days before he finally died of dehydration, according to a recent court filing. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

there's a lot of talk of erotic horny chat gpt and sora slop, but this piece on webworm today from @tworuru.com gets into the infuriatingly deluded and dangerous headspace of those pushing on this "AI" (it's not AI) pathway: www.webworm.co/newgods/

This is … something.

The West Wing is now just the Wing.

“Over the past two decades, the number of news desert counties – areas that lack consistent local reporting – has grown steadily. This past year was no exception: in this report, we are tracking 213 U.S. counties without any local news source, up from 206 last year.”

“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.” 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hi all. A little clarification: the Purdue student journalists did OFFER to do this but "Unfortunately and understandably, the IDS declined the offer, fearing expulsion of its student leaders and more firings of its professional staff." They printed and delivered a statement of solidarity instead

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

The longer it takes Vandy, the more embarrassed I am to have a degree from them.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks. This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

And here I thought they would all say yes. Sometimes I like being wrong.

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

Trying to buy a kindle book. Every time I click “buy now,” it gives me this error.

How is no one who is talking about the new Halloween season of Is It Cake? talking about Annabel’s injury?

NOOOOOOOOO

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Is wearing an author-related shirt to that author’s event a faux pas like it would be for a concert?

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

obligatory sturgeon mention content

Data needs the world over are competing for the title of

I got three of these notices from Pinterest today. No idea why. I deleted two old boards of memes, and everything left is like haircuts, cool furniture, that kind of thing.

The focus on healthcare subsidies right now, while our constitutional system falls apart, will shock and confuse future historians.

It's not the Napoleonic sea battle reenactments that count so much as the French ships you make along the way.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

I keep trying to get people to recognize that my having a PhD says a lot more about me being stubborn than me being smart.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

Nooooooo

IT IS TIME.

“I think the only reason why you wouldn’t measure it is…because it basically allows you to pretend like we don’t have this food insecurity problem.” www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

These guys are younger than me, and I’m not under any illusion that I look 25, but geez do I look younger than them.

forums. bring back forums. also kids should roam free