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Scientists just created a skin patch that destroys melanoma tumors. Melanoma causes 80%+ of skin cancer deaths — but in mice, this stretchable graphene patch shrank tumors by 97% in just 10 days. Activated by mild heat (~108°F), it releases cancer-killing copper ions directly 1/2

"When local news is well done, it's crunchy on the outside, but soft and delicious in the middle."

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If it had been explained to me that when I got old, I would have the bladder capacity of a very small pygmy marmoset, I would've reconsidered growing quite so old.

Weird notion of the day: a cliophage. It eats history. Yours, your computer's, history in general? I don't know. Just throwing it out there for people to mess with.

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Writers, write “I waited” without using those words. The empty Bevo bottle were lined up before him like a row of patient soldiers: one, two, three, four, five. He added the sixth and sighed.

Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

"Hallowed" and "hollowed" have very different meanings. So do "silo" and "salvo," but that's a whole other kind of mix-up. I now begin to see why the old people were kinda background-annoyed when I was young and careless.

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I know we keep seeing these stories about Republican officials who are arrested for sex crimes against children, but it's just a string of hundreds of coincidences.

"No honest man needs a water heater that holds more than 30 gallons!"

What I write on.

"Suckin' on Tastee Dogs Outside the Chili-Freeze Jackie says, 'Diane, You've got cheese on your knees.'"

It is an interesting commentary on our culture that while edible underwear certainly exists, it does not include edible boxer shorts, and no segment of society has expressed interest in inventing them. tl;dr: "Eat my shorts" will remain a figurative, if graphic, insult for the foreseeable future.

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Our cats have unionized, which I am AOK with (IBEW here), except the shop steward just bit me. Not cool, man.

Knowledge tends to accumulate around a consensus based on data and evidence; ignorance tends to have a wide diversity of wrong ideas.

This, except I feel angry *and* depressed.

Racist hatemongering. This is the Republican Party. Literally never vote for a Republican for any office, ever, for the rest of your life.

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only Sweet, Sour, Salt, Bitter, Umami and 9-Volt.

Admiral Hitlerdick, ladies and gentlemen and persons. Admiral Hitlerdick of Surgeon General's Office. Truly, we are more blessed by genius than any people who have ever lived.

Gotta tell you, I had always thought that getting in the way of the administration *was* the job of Congress. That, and working on legislation via open, specific and informed debate, which, um... I'm not very good at my job, but if I was as bad as this guy, I'd walk off a dock.

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Remind me again what directly-useful function Mr. Musk -- or any of his companies -- serve? Social media? Decorative at best. Electric car company? Just one of many. Space travel carrier? Also one of many -- and more coming up fast. The big booster is a dud so far. More useful as an entrée.

El Niño is coming faster than expected and chances are rising that it will be historically strong www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/w...

Man, this is painful. My career started with a dozen years of small and medium market radio. Half of those stations were CBS affiliates and it was first-rate news, first-rate writing. Reasoner, Osgood, just amazing stuff, pouting out of the speaker on the wall.

They claim there's no viable solution to maintain the radio operation, despite having 700 affiliates. www.wcax.com/news/2026/03...

You can commission me unique, handcrafted wood carvings. DM me or visit my website bisonrimant.fr (Bottom left, Siren Head, an original creation by Trevor Henderson)

I swear, next life I will die young and get it over with. Maybe come back as a firefly: ass that lights up, live for one summer, die in the Fall? Sounds like a darned fine deal!

The ruined subdivision, the dry aquifer pumps, the solar farm with its panels tracking the sun. All of it familiar now in a way that feels strange. Like he's lived here longer than he has. Like The Glass has gotten into him somehow. He sees the smoke first.

Hey don’t forget this fun talk with @msemilyedwards.bsky.social and @libbycudmore.bsky.social !

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I am so sick and tired of being disappointed by people and events. If these are my "golden years" after a lifetime of working, I want a damn refund. I want electronics parts stores and used bookstores and friends aren't politically fucknuts to come back and I don't think it's too much to ask.

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The Secretary Bird: mostly leg. Prances. Fancy hairdo and a lot of eye makeup. And that facial expression! Oh, I think I know what kind of secretary they were thinking of, yes indeed. For shame, sir. For shame.

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

Today's winner of a sentence never seen in the wild before.

Book banning seems so crazy and unlikely--until you see it. Until you notice the book just...isn't there. Until you get your first threatening letter. Until you see the well-funded Moms for Liberty member at the school board talking about taking the books. Until you see the fired librarians.

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By the way, anyone who needs a proportionately large screwdriver for Barbie, Ken or old-style G.I. Joe might want to make contact. These little beauties are about 48 mm/1-7/8" overall and I have ended up with plenty. Saving two for earrings but I need to get my lobes redone.