My 70 pound dog seems to think the 16 pound cat is a small dog, whereas he just thinks she's an asshole.

It’s Fat Cat Friday #FCF

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

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

This is my last week before starting my new job, so of course I got a cold

For my masters program in mechanical engineering, we have weekly seminars where different professors talk about different research they're doing. Almost all of the seminars have been on using machine learning and AI to better design things.

Some days I can't believe Donald Trump is actually president, and other days I can't believe he ever wasn't. He's just a pure distillation of the worst of this country. At our best, he'd never get close, but at our worst, you wouldn't expect to see him anywhere else.

kinda weird to see so many people post that video of an extraordinarily close attempted kidnapping as a jokey bit of content

this is great - note that there's still police, but they're now part of a larger, county-wide department. the extreme localism of US policing is a *huge* part of its corruption, especially when you get to stuff like sheriff's departments.

Seeing as how we're going to spend today discussing, "medbeds", I can't recommend the episode of the QAA podcast on them enough. Really dives into their history and some of the grifters who promotes them.

Now this is Content

I'm sorry, but the Riyadh Comedy Festival is a 30 Rock plot where Jenna spends the episode in increasingly racist scenarios trying to get invited, ultimately just sleeps with a third tier Saudi royal to get in, and has an off handed comment to Liz about some weird sex stuff he was into at the end.

I just spent the past few hours cleaning my house and I am grateful to live somewhere small enough where that's actually possible. Every McMansion I see just screams uncleanly, time consuming, or expensive to maintain to me. Small domicile supremacy.

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

OK folks, it's time. Book club soft launch. Details in thread below. #lerg

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

Ya boy got a job offer

I will not read the newest piece of NYTimes ragebait, you cannot make me read it

coates has turned out to be one of a vanishingly small number of people who both have something to lose and are willing to put it on the line to say what are clearly truthful if dangerous things. im impressed

Looks like I'll now need to go back and explain that the shooter does not appear to be a groyper, or really political in any sense beyond hating Charlie Kirk. This whole story has been an absolute clusterfuck from start to now.

Lol, lmao even

Happy Pythagorean triple day (9/16/25) y'all's

We could have been providing military aid to Ukraine. We could have been building our partnerships in the Pacific. We could have strengthened Europe’s defense industrial base. We could have helped build state capacity in South America. What a fucking disaster this has all been.

No one like him has ever been mayor of NYC, and God willing, no one like him will ever be mayor again.

Watching the chaos of the present moment, I can't help but think about James Comey and the Clinton email press conference he did in October 2016. So much suffering because he wanted to look tough on his future boss. He'll probably pass peacefully at an advanced age, something he stole from millions.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

It's very cool that we destroyed our relationship with South Korea all so some random GOP candidate could make a TikTok about fighting illegal immigration. What a joke of a country.

I spent my afternoon, over a lovely sabbath meal, explaining to my right-wing Orthodox Jewish neighbors what a, "groyper" is. I didn't want to, but when they started saying Charlie Kirk's shooter was on the left, I felt compelled.

the disquieting answer to "what was the motive" may just be, "for the lulz."

It sucks that, "clown world" is a right-wing meme because I can't think of a better way to describe this

Little domino: cbs bribes trump Big domino: bari weiss becomes heel general manager on AEW dynamite

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

My best friend's dad is Argentinian. He fled the country because most of his close friends were disappeared, and he still has terrible PTSD and survivor's guilt today. Ask someone who grew up during the Years of Lead whether that was fun. That's where civil conflict gets you.

Charlie Kirk is dead and nothing good will come from that fact

American Years of Lead Paint

I have done my Patriotic Duty and got all my needed vaccinations done

Spoiler! Unusual compounds in rocks on Mars may be sign of ancient microbial life Surface spots and nodules on rocks in ancient river valley are described in new study as ‘potential biosignatures’ www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #Mars 🧪🔭

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

This administration truly is an attack on everything that made this country exceptional

Considering where the decomissioning is in terms of removed and segmented components, restarting the plant is probably not feasible, and the money spent doing such work would probably be better spent on wind, solar, and storage.

"Nuclear powered LNG carrier" feels wrong yet makes more sense than burning fossil fuels to move other fossil fuels

For an online graduate course, how many emails to a professor, with how long a wait time, should there be before moving up the chain to try and get a question answered? For the record, I've sent two so far, and confirmed it's the right email address, over the course of five days.

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

lmfao www.inquirer.com/opinion/lett...

In Brazil, Amazon fires drop by nearly two-thirds. Area burned fell 65% in July 2025 vs July 2024 - the smallest monthly area burned since satellite mapping of fire damage began in 2019. buff.ly/TLMEIFQ #ShareGoodNewsToo

This is one piece of my broader, "vegans are right, but I enjoy animal products too much to completely quit them" stance.

I hate these people. I deeply and truly hate these people.