Interesting events are afoot in Waco today. And Baylor just agreed to allow other Senate candidates to speak on campus since Paxton is speaking at the TPUSA event today. Which means we'll get to hear from James Talarico & maybe even escape the shackles of the BGCT. What a time.

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This keeps getting weirder. TPUSA now denying all press access to its Baylor event. What are they afraid of?

Grim but useful read. Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster economist.com/finance-and-...

I've written up some tips on installing solar panels in the UK if you're lucky enough to own your own home (and roof). These are just tips that worked for me - I'm sure others will have more. If it helps anyone at all I'll be delighted.

in the section for @404media.co subscribers at the Supporter level, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social introduces us to the concept of "tokenmaxxing," a very normal and probably fine thing startup founders are doing now

specifically Obama. these people are ***racist***

I was dreading going to a cocktail party on Friday because I had nothing interesting to talk about, but I just got a factory recall notice for some non-stick pots & pans we bought 6 years ago. They replaced the whole set. For free. So yeah, I guess you could say I’m excited to go

Stay right to the end to hear how @theonion.com thinks Democrats would exploit a split among Republican pedophiles

“Are you the branch manager?” “Yes I am, how can I help you?” “I would like two branches, please.” “How would you like that?” “Two big sticks, four little sticks.”

How does a law firm that bills $1,000 to $2,000 an hour submit AI generated legal documents that no one reviewed? The amount of blatantly shoddy work being delivered in the name of AI adoption is quite embarrassing.

This is in response to the chancellor of NYC schools sending around another note about their AI guidelines, btw. If you live in NYC and want to offer up your thoughts before May 8, here's what I posted previously: bsky.app/profile/azal...

if i lived in popeye town and one day i saw a ropy little sailor punch a huge guy so hard his skeleton flew out of his mouth thats the only thing i would talk about for the rest of my life

Lay's WOW! Chips (1998-2003): A line of fat free chips, made with Olestra, a fat substitute. Available in Original, Ruffles, and Dorito varieties. Each bag stated "Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools." Check this thread for a *COMPREHENSIVE* look at this infamous snackline!

Dallas, and after the last few summers, this tracks

Temperature change in four major cities of Taiwan — i.e. Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung, and Tainan — over the past 160+ years.

NEW: Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. That didn’t pan out. When reporter Molly Parker started to investigate what went wrong, she found the printer disassembled on a flatbed truck at a country repair shop. Then things got weird. With @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

I never cease to be amused by how this app has a community that hates the staff and a staff that hates the community and both sides are completely open about it this isn’t a retirement home it’s a Waffle House

They think you're stupid.

Happy Earth Day

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

“Voters went along with it” is a hell of a way to describe democracy functioning correctly

No LGB without the T And as a queer person I just don’t get the hate coming from “inside the house” #TransLivesMatter

The same dem consultants that bought us "nothing will fundamentally change" and "no daylight, kid" and muzzled Walz to a 30 second soundbite in support of trans people and are backing Cuomo and Adams against Mamdani, and supporting Newsom, would *love* to run on bikeshedding and policy wonkey.

Real mystery about the appeal of this guy. I mean, how could Democrats possibly replicate this kind of popularity and success? What might be the secret key to connecting to constituents and earning political capital to followthrough on election promises???????????

BREAKING: DOJ announces charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center based on allegations of paid informants in an indictment in the Middle District of Alabama. "This investigation is very much ongoing," FBI Director Kash Patel said.

Benzene: classed as cancer-causing in humans by the IARC

While we’re waiting for Virginia anyway, you can freshen up on why the SCOTUS decision matters with this great piece. boltsmag.org/voting-right...

Polls close in Virginia in an hour, at 7pm ET, and the result could all but decide the fate of four US House seats in November. And then tomorrow, at 10am ET, the Supreme Court could issue new opinions, and as you know if reading this we’re waiting for what the conservative justices do to the VRA.

“What are you in for?” “Felony bralessness”

💯 The real high-risk science is “Let 1,000 flowers bloom“ science, which spreads money around to many many different individuals to pursue their best ideas. 🧪

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Wow. This is 100% not how work-for-hire was meant to work. In fact, come to think of it, I don't think reporters DO work-for-hire, I think it's contracted authorship, and this is not just bullshit, but dubiously legal.

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why doesn’t the US increase the number of corners in the four corners area for more tourists?

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.” My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

(I really wish people would stop fat shaming Piglet. She has Pectus excavatum and was re-homed multiple times before we adopted her. She has lost a lot of weight. People just have no clue how hard rehabilitating an overweight cat with a rare genetic condition is.) 1/2 🧵

If these ghouls had ever read a book they'd know.

Flu spreads efficiently especially in close quarters like military troop lodging facilities. If you are in the military you are required to get several vaccines because of how devastating outbreaks can be to troops and also because they are more likely be targeted by agents of biological warfare.

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

most of the time, i can look right at a person and tell if they are as online as i am

You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2. A few warnings: Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is. Absolutely /do not/ lick it. Keep far away from any Supermen. If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts. Let's talk about the science here.

it’s so funny that the drunk tv host in charge of the military is like “real warriors don’t need vaccines” when all the greatest generals in history would have done anything for a jab that kept their armies safe from disease

Bond villains are also rarely complete tweakers. All of the ones I can think of at least come across as either sophisticated or very buttoned up military types. Nobody's out here just acting the fool in public.

Palantir's CEO is like a James Bond villain. (Except Bond villains are better dressed.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/palantir-s...

Saying "Department of War" in public without shriveling into a curled millipede hugging themselves in the fetal position due to embarrassment is a red flag

Dunked on this yesterday but in reality the first order of business needs to be punishment. I'm not kidding. We can't start fixing anything until we punish, and punish hard, the people who put us here. That needs to be done to send a message. And if we don't punish, nothing else will matter.