A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

Toilets are the new water fountains

Exciting moment tonight at a horror writers’ panel where it struck me that the “you have to set your story in the past cos of mobile phones” era is over, cos now your phone will lie to you, mislead you, freak you out, let you down, and do all sorts of sinister uncanny shit.

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

One month ago: “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things”

He has to lie his ass off because the UNCC only reversed course away from the worst case scenario projection because the explosion of renewable energy around the world changed the planet’s previous climate trajectory, and admitting this would require him to admit the Dems were right all along.

I never took a marketing class but I feel like rolling out your new technology by saying “ENJOY STARVING, YOU OBSOLETE BITCH” to anyone with a job was likely to cause an unwelcoming response.

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guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

We failed that “don’t give a wannabe dictator a secret massive police fund” test. So let’s not fail the “don’t give the flailing. warring tyrant another half trillion to start wars abroad and at home” test?

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

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Look, when the cow licked the hoarfrost from the frost giant's eyebrows to form the boundary between the world of gods and the world of men it clearly put doing anything about climate change out of our realm! /s

@bskyplays.bsky.social needs to play Leather Goddesses of Phobos!

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I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

Hey Homer do you care if we cast a black woman as Helen of Troy

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BEN: Then the Emperor has already won. You were our only hope. LUKE: Yoda spoke of another. BEN: Oh yeah he must’ve meant Ahsoka Tano, a fully trained warrior badass who’s alive just offscreen. She’s got two lightsabers LUKE: That’s badass. BEN: You only have one and you lost it

My D&D character is trying to get involved in harem intrigue solely for the chance to say "It's a eunuchs' system, I know this!"

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Rogue is the most justifiable blanket hog of all time.

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We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

Roe V. Wade

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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Yeah farmers are a lot more classist than people realize. Like... that whole "We're real America & better & more authentic than all those city folk" thing? That's not farmers bein' folksy. That's just millionaires doing classism. They think they're better than you because they have land & estates.

😦what now

i write abt this in my book: J6 was so bad that initially GOP blamed violence on antifa "provocateurs." Eventually 58% of Trump supporters believed J6 was a "mostly an antifa-inspired attack." but GOP discarded this scapegoat when it felt fine to take credit for the insurrection, to celebrate it

99% of germs

Okay, yes, three people died, but... I think I'm going to hell for laughing.

yes x100 - i got incredibly lucky and was pregnant at the same time as three friends, and since then have been a source of advice for other new parents on vaccines. literally had someone ask me “dang there are a lot of vaccines, the internet says it’s not good, is that true?”

The "out of the way swine" comic is great but this is the best comic strip of all time

JOHN FOGERTY: I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain JAMES TAYLOR: okay, you’re not gonna fucking believe this

In theory, if you keep patching and patching a piece of software it will eventually be in pretty good shape, but the complexity of human language is effectively unlimited. The LLM *will never be secure* as long as it's ingesting user input!

Man, it’s almost as if this SCOTUS Republicans stole is wholly a part of the conservative project to permanently install Jim Crow into law.

One of the many ways that paying attention to politics makes you feel like you're going insane is that it's hugely controversial to claim that the most recent SCOTUS decision was entirely about helping Republicans win elections, and meanwhile the President keeps screaming it at the top of his lungs.

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

Off-grid in WV meaning no one can regulate but the state air quality agency and legislature. 864 train engines running side by side 24/7. This is not a comparison; this is literally the plan.

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Communism is the worst thing ever and also we’re gonna build and give away 120 million penthouses.