So Bsky open request, but say I kinda sorta wanted to have a business plan for a queer campground (entertainment geared toward gay men, but inclusive otherwise) - how do I put that document that the banks and the investors want together?

Worth noting here that nothing in the published evidence changed. Just a hack at the head of HHS was enough to shift behavior.

Man, folks are so primed to believe every suicide is a conspiracy that I happened across some FB weirdos that are saying Aaron Swartz was "Da Fedz" and uhhhh like... Y'all need to get help/learn about base rate prevalence/etc etc.

Imagine watching the wristband back-half of The Pitt and being like "It's an exciting time for Emergency Medicine!"

Oh hey I took a month off because I was living life bouncing around gay campgrounds, but I do not want to ask about the news apparently.

Every now and then I do consider it a blessing for my life circumstances that LeGuin and Dianna Wynn Jones and Butler are all already done. And then I hope @maxgladstone.bsky.social and @tkingfisher.com and @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social don't mess it up. (Y'all are great tho.)

The honest posting one is to admit about the time I made my dad cry with the insult. He was yelling at me after I had a bad semester in undergrad and I said I didn't want to take career advice from a man who did nothing but complain about how unhappy his career trajectory was.

My big silly goose would like to show you her new big silly goose.

couldn't decide between a star and an angel, so i went with both

So my Christmas adventure was trying to help my great uncle get his smart TV set up for YouTube when he barely knows he even has an email (since it doesn't like guest mode anymore)... And then learning he's putting in a new TV next week.

they misspelled christmas on the title card lmao

An aside (so quoted): I've not seen this so much in law, and only rarely see it in physics and math, but altmed cranks in particular absolutely love to compare themselves to Galileo. It's weird how that specific type of crankery draws that same analogy.

Wondering now what the Uno equivalent of Beerio Kart is.

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

Someone should sit the new members of ACIP down and explain what their job is and is not to them in simple terms, and maybe teach them some basic law. Dr. Malone's claims here have several misunderstandings. 1/n

my edwardian horror comic Impasto is now half off — forever! happy holidays sjmiller.itch.io/impasto

This video almost single-handedly justifies TikTok

Big news out of Montana: Dr. Thomas Weiner has lost his license and will never practice medicine there again as the medical board finally responds to reports that he hurt and mistreated people. They noted Scott Warwick, who got 10 years of chemo etc, died from it, but never had cancer. Context 👇

people on here will tweet anything. "Charlie Brown had disciples." No he didn't. That isn't true.

It is honestly *bizarre* to look at the recent steep decline in violent crime stats when taking a range of decades and somehow still a bunch of ignorant assholes think cities are violent hellholes that only get worse year over year (when really their rural towns are violent hellscapes).

"One human actor all others muppets" with Steerpike as the one human for Titus Groan and Gormenghast; Titus as a muppet among humans for Titus Alone.

"One human actor all others muppets" with Steerpike as the one human for Titus Groan and Gormenghast; Titus as a muppet among humans for Titus Alone.

Huh. So I had the passing thought that this narrator of Everything is Tuberculosis kinda sounds like Hank Green but not exactly. Turns out the author, John Green, narrated the book himself, and is in fact Hank Green's brother.

Some of my favorite interactions on here are little things like this.

my holiday vibes this year are these

keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is

Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y.

“I can do no wrong for I do not know what that is.” It’s Sunday, so here! Have some “Cosmic Horror for Kids”. You know. As a t(h)reat.

This should be unspeakably terrifying for many, many lawyers.

USA Fencing is running ads on podcasts now? Seems bizarre.

People, I'm BEGGING you: If you are going to share that leaked 60 minutes segment, INCLUDE SOME COMMENTARY in your post that makes it necessary for readers to have access to the full video to understand the commentary. CBS has a deep black eye over this and the odds that they'll look to punish ppl

Since Ioannidis is quoted in Science today, I'd like to share something many of us probably (mercifully) missed. Six months ago he published the most insane under-estimate of Covid mortality averted by vaccination I've seen: 2.5 million deaths globally in 2020-24 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers..." Pro-death administration.

Kinda irritated with my algorithm, it should have been showing me this guy YEARS ago. Gonna try his chicken stock tonight. He's very relatable, too, cuz if *I'D* ever worked directly under Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck, I'd never shut up about it, either. :V www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k20...

So just in the interest of sharing things with other sleepless folks, this Chrono Trigger mix list mostly pulling from OverClocked Remixes has been a staple for my night listening lately.

"Chim-chim charoo" as I take a big old huff of Rush.

Weird relationship vibes where my chill out is Chrono Trigger/FFVI/FFVII/FFIX/FFX mixes and his is more party scene south beach dream trance (e.g. Robert Miles) stuff.

If Bari wants to be respected as a reporter instead of a political hack, maybe she should go undercover as a CECOT prisoner for a month.

Man, Facebook is still recommending Lane V Rogers among "People you may know" and that's just weird.

man I love avocados but I really wish they weren't so hard to cut

hawthorn

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

Getting together with family is a GREAT time to talk about familects, the words and phrases only your family understands! "Why do we say ____?" You can also record them to share on the Grammar Girl podcast here: www.speakpipe.com/grammargirl I play stories every week, and people love them.

So Niel Bradbury's A Taste for Poison is a really good low level toxicology explainer with case studies, but the cyanide chapter has one thing that really should have been caught by editors and fact checkers.

Man, it's like almost 3am I hate how this has me messed up even though I only knew the guy very casually, because he was just a little younger than me and knew so many people I did.