We need to start calling them losers more often, because that's what they are, it doesn't matter how much money or influence they have.

Just marked down.

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OMG! Off to watch. No news orgs have this?!?

this could be us 👉👈 but you dropped the graphite 🥺

"Alan Moore's work is too rapey" is a really lame critique Most (NOT ALL) of his depictions of sexual violence are thoughtful and interesting, imo Moreover, Alan Moore is himself a survivor of childhood sexual assault, which must be taken into account: slovobooks.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/l...

The USA isn't awake yet but I predict this one might go viral among them when they rise

I am once again asking for your trash for things like this

ive ask for others many times but never had to ask for myself before. its desperate. i dont know what else to say.

the ideal soldier is a lightweight 5' 5" femboy who eats exactly one ration and can be stacked like cordwood in a strategic airlifter

I'm tired of hearing about how stuff is happening at Harvard, until they get an accounting program, Harvard isn't a real school.

This story is nuts - it's got hacking, IRL surveillance of white supremacists, internet radicalization, public embarrassment for nazis, and so so so much more. www.hyperfixedpod.com/listen/hyper...

Thanks everyone who's helped. Thanks to the past while, I'm very close for the last stretch of the month. Though it's still very important 1050/1600

It's obvious why we might prefer to substitute voting or shopping for politics: they're activities you do *alone*. You don't have to find anyone else to do them with you. You don't have to convince anyone else to do them with you. You don't have to argue about them or justify them. 26/

One of the things I find most amazing about these photos, when looked at closely, are the mundane details, like the fact that it is clear that the boxes used to hold Pu-239 hemispheres were sealed with Scotch tape — you can see it on the lid of the one labeled HS-6 R2, and on the edge of the table.

Work is instituting mandatory cameras on ahegao during morning stand-up. It's a new part of "agile" project management.

Jeff Bezos havinge opiniouns on the economye ys lyke a pickpocket havinge opiniouns on pants

We actually have a program for this! kagi.com/libraries

@doctorow.pluralistic.net alternative perspective on "chickenization" from @sarahtaber.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/mHaP-...

Possibly unpopular opinion? I think artists should get to sign the art they make for book covers. It should be right there, on the front, because it’s never been more important to showcase the humanness of art. And also there are many times when I see a beautiful cover and wonder, “Who made this?”

A beautiful #Roman glass bowl, in a deep cobalt blue with white swirly decoration, & ridges around the outside. It has suffered a few cracks along the way in its 2000 years of life, but still looks amazing today! #AncientBlueSky

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Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

You go to the gym and work out and get uncomfortable. You feel sore, you ache, you sweat. And pretty much everyone understands the benefit of that discomfort. And yet people are so unwilling to do the same for their intellect.

If researchers are not even reading their sources (or even verifying that they exist!), then what's even the point? Academia has lost the plot.

I had to spend a while looking for a citation in a language that I don't speak, only to find out that people had been wrongly citing it for decades. Turns out Hans Asperger never called autistic people 'little professors'

“a kennel of the least-charismatic chud podcasters ever to curse an RSS feed” 🙌🙌

This one got people mad LOL For a good time, go check out the comments youtube.com/shorts/zxlbB...

Stoppe callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "shitty plagiarism hellmouths" calmatters.org/environment/...

Best news: He missed and the seal is fine. The locals even gave an “environmental activist” award to the dude who beat his ass. (Vid in thread comments.) I hope they throw the book at the attempted seal-assassin, and I hope the book is (a) really heavy and (b) about seals.

"It [the Constitution] is intended to be the charter of a self-governing and free people, not a secret code that can only be interpreted by those who have been read into the proper mystery cult. The Constitution belongs to us, more than it does the faculty of Yale Law School."

In two weeks, Louisiana GOP leaders have: *Prevented a NOLA Black Democrat from taking office by eliminating the position *voted to cut N.O. judges *Suspended elections *Voted to cut a Black Congressmen's seat *Threatened to remove 8 more N.O. officials

"Queering nuclear weapons: How LGBTQ+ inclusion strengthens security and reshapes disarmament" thebulletin.org/2023/06/quee...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed an HIV vaccine candidate that achieves something never before observed in the field: inducing detectable neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) against HIV within just THREE weeks after a SINGLE immunization which was further INCREASED after an additional booster.

Shout-out to US community colleges: chief engineer of the Mars Perseverance Rover was a punk rock burnout who went to the local CC where I grew up, discovered his love of physics and eventually got his PhD at UW. It has its flaws and obstacles, but the US system does make this kind of thing possible

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

The US public and land-grant university system frankly ought to be reckoned one of the wonders of the modern world. At least for a little while, as a society we really believed we could make sure everyone could get a world-class education, _and_ that doing so would pay incalculable dividends.

love these getty images pics of justin bieber and eric carle goofing around on top of the empire state building in 2009

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

Saying mathbb as a term of endearment

If you are interested in a signed print of my Mr. Gotcha comic, I'll be offering them later today for the first time.

So I was bedridden for 16 months, and I've been focusing on getting employed since then. I'm making progress but I'm still up to my ears in debt from being sick for so long, and I'm out of food & rent money. If you've got a couple dollars, it'd really help. Thanks so much! ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Today in linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your language ability lets you understand sentences that have never before been uttered

My gender is I plead the fifth

This rules

You are not obliged to let your moral compass spin with the election results. You have a right to hold unpopular opinions. You have a right to your own damn principles. Remember that. Please.

he’s responsible for what may be The Perfect Joke: