That T-Rex permanently altered my brain chemistry.

I truly can't get over the level of constantly self-revealing overcompensation this jamoke operates at. He may truly be the most insecure living thing to ever exist. If he had any less self-awareness he'd vanish from existence entirely. Genuinely a freak of nature [derogatory]

What a pathetic scrub. Wants to hang with "the big boys" and doesn't know his own limits.

added an old turner & harrison 15R stub nib to my regular pens this time for some of the intermediate lines. not as bold as the kakimori nib but way easier to control. I like it!

spannydevito.com. Help us help a dog whose life has been nothing but trauma. And if you ever plan to get a dog from a rescue and can foster first, that's what you should do. If we had done that, they would have paid the entire bill, which frankly they should anyway for handing us a sick dog.

Our new puppy landed in the hospital for two days with acute hemorrhagic diarrhea syndrome caused by giardia. And the rescue spent two weeks giving Portia and me the run around until yesterday when they declined our request to split the $3000 emergency vet bill. So I made this: SpannyDeVito.com

They "used AI" and broke tech which was working jut fine for thousands of years. That's how long we've been making shirts with shoulder seams. More embarrassing, no one noticed until it was too late to fix. AI is not ready for prime time. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

History was made today 🥳 thanks for tuning in

they're also obfuscating that said non-profits, while the lawyers don't personally take home fees awarded, are able to collect fees and put them toward their work. I remember how happy we all were at one non-profit when an abuser we opposed for free had to cut us a low five figure check.

Bait headline. I'll defend contingency fee billing, especially in class actions. Also, ironic to cover a contingent fee settlement on a column called "Billable Hours."

Zero (0) of Epstein's victims had the ability to self-fund litigation against Epstein or anyone like him. The only way they had any chance is through contingency fee representation. Everyone in Big Law knows that, they sneer at it anyway because they know it's morally superior to their work.

I have never owned a dog before. Never even lived with one. I've had this pain-in-the-ass idiot for three months and I can't imagine life without a dog ever again. No, he can't sit, stay, or behave at all. But he is the just best little guy. I love him so much.

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

She was lovely, and a gentle inspiration to things like writing poetry.

If you need more Matthew Rhys while Widow's Bay is on hiatus, please watch his incredible turn as Perry Mason for HBO's noir series. I am absolutely NOT the audience for a 20s noir legal drama and I found it absolutely captivating with a stellar cast (which also has Stephen Root).

Before y'all tell me Europe doesn't need ac: in pure numbers heat kills more people in Europe annually than guns do in the US. No one sane would argue we don't have a gun problem in the US. Europe has a serious heat issue they don't admit bc enduring heat is seen as morally virtuous.

They’ve already started removing his name internally; this is 100% about avoiding the humiliating spectacle of a public party when it comes off the physical building.

Josephine Baker, Paris - Boris Lipnitzki, 1926

Watch a former assistant to Obama talk about how anything short of specific high-level diagnostic tests can be performed at the White House. She personally walked into the on-site med center for indigestion and they ran a battery of tests, including checking her for a ruptured ovary.

How? After the Iranians blast the pumps/level the place what use is it?

The Unionists "Want Ireland Back, they Want to Be Irish"... is probably news to them (granted they sort of "want Ireland back", as a dependency of the Crown, and under British Heel, but I don't think that's what he thinks he's saying)

Northern Ireland is Part of the UK. Pogroms, he's praising Pogroms, and encouraging them in the US.

8. These are all conservative portfolios! If the equity market goes up another 20% you will not capture much of that upside!

6. Obviously the older you are / closer to retirement the more you want to be focusing on income and capital preservation, ie bonds, so that 50/50 portfolio starts edging towards like a 75/25 or 80/20 at retirement

5. And that 50% in equities you can split 2-3 ways between US large cap, international, and mid or small cap. I wouldn’t get out of US large cap totally but you can de-emphasize it.

4. If you like digging around in your 401k’s allocation options yourself, you can also rebuild your portfolio as a more conservative 50% bond / 50% equity split, with the bond allocation focusing on core / investment grade.

3. If your portfolio is all equities right now, you can also switch to a Target Date fund that automatically reduces equity (eg risk) exposure as you get older. Again, not perfect, but it’s a one and done.

2. The simple thing to do is to switch to what’s called a Stable Value fund, which looks to preserve principal. That may still have some exposure but it’s generally MUCH more conservative and bond-based.

1. If you’re just unhappy about SpaceX, make sure your equity allocation is to funds that benchmark against the S&P 500. If you also want to get out of AI, then you’re looking at reducing your overall US large cap equity allocation. There are a few ways of doing this.

If you have a 401(k) and you are worried about being overexposed to this nonsense, here’s a few things you can do (1/?):

Triple passive voice!

(it's the page that all historians know)

looks like the obituarist didn't get as far as page 562

The whole GOP Cuck Seeking/Avoiding fetish.

The assumption of hyper-masculinity in Black men puts them into a zone of exception where their existence within the Democratic Party doesn’t really count when fretting about how feminine they imagine the party to be. If anything, their prominence is proof that the party is not masculine enough.

Somehow, they don’t count when discussing the need for a more “masculine” approach. Everyone intuitively understands these men aren’t understood as “smoothgroins” because of the racialized understanding of masculinity.

Obama, being a basketball fan, is taken for granted. Cory Booker, being a former football player, is taken for granted. Jamaal Bowman, who was a gym guy, is taken for granted. Collin Allred, being a former football player, is taken for granted.

A team of South Korean researchers suggested the universe's expansion may have entered a deceleration phase, caused by the influence of dark energy weakening over time, but the new study says those conclusions were the result of a scientific misunderstanding. Read more 👉 ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

The thing is, that incredibly warm water in the Eastern Pacific was already here. In an El ninlño, they warm up. This is going to be so hard on marine mammals that depend on the food in the cold California Current. And hell in places like Peru, where towns slide downhill when the rain is torrential.

Want to lift this up a bit because it highlights how the conversation around masculinity is centered around a lot of racialized assumptions as well.

5,100 apartments....

It’s simple: tenants have the legal right to safe and habitable housing, and my administration is committed to making sure that right is upheld.

New Yorkers need affordable homes. New Yorkers need great public libraries. So we're building both. Today, we took the next step toward creating a brand-new library and more than 200 affordable homes at the New Utrecht Library site in Brooklyn. Because public land should serve the public.

Who the hell decided "No don't broadcast the Wu-Tang court performance, just do the halftime-show banter over it"

CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale hasn't conducted an on-air fact check of Trump in more than three months, a stretch that coincidentally began around the same time Paramount announced its merger with WBD www.status.news/p/daniel-dal...

Disgusting. The Navy, and Air Force cite "anti-DEI" directive. The Army says Birthday Celebrations (251 years) conflict. The Marines say "we meant to, but y'all cancelled. The Army is the worst, because sending a few people isn't gonna scupper the Birthday. taskandpurpose.com/news/women-s...

Columbia, South Carolina. Where irony came to die. Foreground - plaque commemorating the armed forces who defended America against its enemies. Background - monument to the confederate traitors from the Palmetto State.

that should read "about 7 miles south" and as of about 45 minutes ago, was 70% contained. www.abc4.com/utah-weather...

Update on the fire about miles south-southwest of my house: #SouthMountainFire morning update: Fire remains at 1,863 acres and 40% containment. Overnight, crews reported torching in the juniper trees along the ridgeline, but fire behavior has moderated with no visible smoke coming from...