google has been trying for months to build a new data center not far from my house. tonight was the final city council meeting and they officially withdrew their proposal! the data center isn’t moving forward! public outrage works!!!

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

If you unsubscribed from Disney+, don’t resubscribe.

lol yes, actually, decades ago, after I watched a documentary about people trying to cure HIV with megadoses of intravenous vitamin C!

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

BTW, I'm taking zinc while I'm sick, largely due to this guy, Grant Harting. An extremely dorky dude who seems to revel in his own dorkiness and a licensed pharmacist in 4 states, he's turned me on to how many OTC meds are just... bullshit. www.youtube.com/shorts/6kjXA...

These images are 100 times funnier than AI.

Today's sick day weird hobby rabbit hole: One of those people who grows gigantic gourds for state fair contests. As I'm sure you could guess: It's very involved work. www.youtube.com/shorts/BoLt1...

text and word balloons can be treated with just as much craft and character as the rest of the comic page

shoutout to the 200 million new terrorists in the US today

Cooking is basically my primary hobby, honestly! My idea of a good time on the weekend is to go to the supermarket, grab whatever’s deep discounted, and build a nice meal around it. (I did not go to the supermarket sick, BTW, this was waiting for me in the freezer.)

Dinner. Sous vide eye of round, duchess potatoes, onion jam, cornichon, and au jus.

Still sick. But not so sick I can’t make duchess potatoes and bacon onion jam with balsamic vinegar.

i see elon took care of that nasty bot problem on the hellsite

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

“Fit for TV,” the “Biggest Loser” documentary series on Netflix, is… harrowing! Like, I think we all UNDERSTOOD that none of this shit could possibly be healthy, not REALLY, but WOW.

I am basically counting the days until the annual American Library Association conference returns to New Orleans, I’m going to use it as an excuse to stuff myself like a Thanksgiving turkey as a business expense

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Everything needs to shut down. Democrats need to not fund this oppressive government which is being used by Trump to oppress Americans. National Strike. Boycotts. This country, especially Trump and his billionaire friends, worships money. Green trumps the color White. Gotta shut it down.

Just to be 100% clear: I love Chicago, I consider it my adopted hometown, it’s literally the best city I’ve ever lived in. But. I have yet to find a single halfway decent Cajun restaurant around here, and it breaks my heart.

lol I rarely play steppe cultures/men, so this is the first time I've gotten this event. #CrusaderKings3 I'm literally being offered 5 separate women as concubines at this party I'm attending, but it's actually... a really important decision? They're all extremely talented in different fields.

Tonight's dinner 🍽️🍜: Momos, steamed dumplings from Nepal (these are filled with chicken) served with achar, a spicy tomato sauce. I found these tricky to fold with my homemade wrappers, but they taste great and the achar goes really well with them. Recipe from: nepalrestaurant.co.uk/how-to-make-...

obv significant that they admit this, but my understanding has been that this was self-evident? like you need a model of "what's true" in the system for it to be able to check against, and no such model exists?

Art motivation 💪

this exists it is called thinking

If you're having a rough time finding your footing in #CrusaderKings3, this is my recommended loadout for newbies. -Level-5 education in your specialty of choice -Temperate, Diligent, & Stubborn as traits -Another Trait of choice, plus Lunatic to get points back as Lunatic has near-0 effect on PCs.

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

We’ve got “MetroidVania“ and we’ve got “Souls-like” and that makes sense and everything, but pretty surprised I’ve never heard a phrase like “Rimworld–like“ or something. Because that game has been hella influential, I see bits and pieces of its UI and gameplay in a lot of other titles.

Victor Santiago (@/warpvector.net) has some cool comics for purchase and I ended up getting Weird Little Guys plus the Failure to Launch anthology.

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A timely reminder

"bluesky is just an echo bubble" "bluesky is irrelevant" "blueskyism is killing democrats" "bluesky is brain rot" "bluesky numbers are down" "bluesky is -- "

Welp. It’s not COVID. But I’ve got something. :,)

Game Dev: here is our new game, it is about a dead, rotting, dying world, full of misery, hopelessness, and zombies. You are the lone, unkillable warrior tasked with redeeming it. Me: dude I’m not playing that, that sounds depressing. GD: GD: OK GD: what if everybody was a cute bug Me: 💸💸💸

someone should go pick it up pick it up pick it up pick it up

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

Calling all Guild members, labor allies and anyone who believes in a free country — Join us outside the entrance to ABC's offices at 7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street, Manhattan) TOMORROW at 12 PM ET to demand that ABC bring back Jimmy Kimmel Live! RSVP: wgaea.st/kimmel-rally

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

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Yeah for real

what the fuck are you going to DO chuck? you're posting like a fucking INFLUENCER instead of a SENATOR tell us what you're DOING and what WE can do OUTRAGE is pointless without ACTION (and the midterms are too fucking far away, so don't fucking talk about THAT right now)

Pft, would YOU wanna go that far up Joe Rogan's ass to find them?

We can have better. We can have universal healthcare. We can have tuition-free college. We can have universal childcare. We can have affordable housing. We can have livable wages. We can have affordable food. We have to stick together & demand better for the working class.

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

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