Mike and I watch episodes of this podcast to make fun of on our own show, and the download counts on our episodes absolutely blow Katie Miller's show out of the water. Her attempt at a podcast is a complete dud. It is worthless. Everyone can see what's actually going on, right?

When you walk in on the world’s tiniest sleepover and both attendees are already passed out from being too baby. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme

It occurs to me in all the strange raging about 'historical accuracy' and 'Christopher Nolan' and 'is Helen hot enough that I personally, here in my pyjama pants, would start a war over her' many people in the world do not in fact have a proper understanding of how truly unhinged Greek Myth is.

[via North Carolina Zoo]

Sand cat kitten getting a checkup. (Not happy about it.) [via North Carolina Zoo]

Wattle, Bluegum, and Aggie have been UPGRADED to the studio space! They're a little worried to be meeting Big Cats Who Like Kittens.

Good food brings joy and I refuse to acknowledge 'food noise' as a legitimate replacement for 'normal human appetite' wtf. 🫠 Who chooses perfume over a delicious meal? If that's what glp-1 does to people its fucking bleak and I'll just stay 'fat' thanks.

Today was the day I learned about the word 'Coddiwomple' for the first time. It means "to travel to a vague destination with great determination". I think I might be a coddiwompler.

Portland bar and club managers talk about "It" happening like medieval Europeans talked about Prester John. Times are bleak now, lads, but one elderly man's failing organs are all that stand between us and 150 million Americans launching a drinking binge.

Barista, smirking and looking directly at my mask: Can I ask you a question? Me: OK. B: Why are you wearing a mask? M: Covid. B: You have covid?! M: I don’t want it. B: That was like, 4 years ago! M: it’s still in circulation. B: (thoughtfully) it’s still in circulation. 🤷🏻‍♀️

NEW: 2021: Conspiracists said QR codes were somehow used to rig the 2020 election 2024: Georgia bans QR codes in elections 2026: No new system has been agreed on, and conspiracists are using the ensuing chaos to push to remove voting machines completely www.wired.com/story/conspi...

Statius in the Achilleid writes Achilles as an angry force-feminized youth scheming to assault a princess. Louis XIV's sibling Philippe commissioned a marble statue of femme Achilles in full Amazon warrior garb. Unusual gender modalities of Achilles have existed going on three millennia. IT WOULD BE

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Morning 😂.

Thread. (And, dear Muses, save us from dingbats incapable of reading the classics with some fecking NUANCE.)(headclutch)

For my newsletter, I wrote about the 22 foot tall golden statue of Trump that was dedicated by a host of conservative religious leaders and went long on how some sects of prosperity gospel worshipping in American religion are corrupting this country. www.burnsnotice.com/the-evangeli...

(blep)

RFK Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s comments about teen sperm count and “underbabied” Americans at a recent women’s health event underscore the White House’s pronatalist agenda.

VAN HOLLEN: The article says agents with expertise in Iran were fired for their role in the classified documents investigations PATEL: The article, just like all the others you cited, is false. I terminated everyone that weaponized law enforcement V: I see. So it *was* related to the docs case

Tragically spot on: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

its very funny to say “i was the hunted now im the hunter” at a mid-day meeting where you fell asleep at your desk

This is Fugitive Slave Act bullshit — the petty tyrants of one part of the country want to force the rest of us to enforce their chosen assholery, whether we like it or not

It is kind of a tell when they're like "we're trying to reduce your access to SSRIs and family-planning medications and also food and the vote"

Ah, memories of an argument on rec.comics.* in which someone argued that there couldn't possibly be lesbians on Themyscira because it was founded in antiquity and everyone knows the older a culture, the more conservative it is, so they wouldn't have tolerated gay people.

Trump has destroyed federal guardrails meant to ensure secure and fair elections. Some fear his actions are aimed at making sure the upcoming midterms go his way.

NEW: Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach.” But the finding was never made public. This is how the state allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment or misconduct — to keep their credentials. With @kqednews.kqed.org

There’s a more accurate way of measuring who’s at risk for cholesterol-related health issues. So why don’t more doctors use it? www.wired.com/story/moving...

How many bodies would you guess the average country churchyard in Britain contains? When I’ve asked most people this, their answer has usually been “a few hundred” or “maybe a thousand”. The truth is usually at least ten thousand.

Animating on one 3DS is fun but using 2 3DS is even more fun :)

So anyway, turns out plasma in menstrual blood can completely heal wounds in 24 hours. hudson.org.au/news/womb-to...

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

Oh also, they discovered all sorts of stuff in there that can tell whether you have endo and is as good or better than a Pap smear/biopsy at telling whether you have cancer but watch OB/GYNs oppose this because they’d rather get paid to torture you instead.

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

Kickstarter is banning "adult content," so I thought of a version where all nudity is replaced by suggestive emojis and realized this is where Veggie Tales came from.

Years ago, I used Kickstarter to successfully fund documentary work on the decriminalization of pornography. Crowdfunding was critical because major institutions shy away from funding anything to do with sex. I'd be terrified now.

Here's V2!

Louie. Reskeet if you agree

NEW: A passenger returning to the U.S. from that Dutch cruise ship where the hantavirus outbreak occurred has tested positive for the virus, according to HHS. A second is showing mild symptoms.

Men are constantly killing themselves in attempt to look like He-Man instead of considering what it is about Tom Holland lip synching to Umbrella while wearing a corset that makes women lose their minds

the tiered network of regional special pathogen centers was established after the ebola outbreak in 2015 — as a RESPTC, TNMC/UNMC are very good at this. and they've gotten significant federal grant money to get & stay good at it MAHA says, "where's the ROI?" the ROI is you're not getting Andes

Whenever I read articles like this, I think about how $1.5m is enough money to live on the interest for the rest of my life, and never do another day of work. That'd be 60k a year at a pretty achievable 4% high-yield savings account interest rate.

When I had to get the meningococcal vaccine to live in a dorm, my mom unprompted said when she was a nurse in the Army, she saw a case of it, young people who should have been very healthy, suddenly laid low and they couldn’t do anything about it as they seized, limbs turned black, and they died.

Fuck capitalism. Celebrate insects. www.tom-cox.com/a-brief-guid...

“American Flag Blue”? Something is very off here. Trump’s turning the Reflecting Pool into a rushed vanity project w/a no-bid contract reportedly costing taxpayers $1.5 - $6.9 mill, handed to a contractor tied to his orbit, the same company that previously worked on one of his golf club pools. 🧵