They could have said “well, it’s been three days! Lal has learned everything there is to know and she’s off to the academy!” and then once a season or so we get a Lal episode or even just an occasional throwaway “I heard Lal’s at the top of her class!” or “Lal got a BOYFRIEND!” or whatnot

Oh no…

We have records of diabetes diagnoses going back 2,500 years. We only developed a reliable treatment (insulin) 100 years ago. Now we might have a cure. What an amazing thing to get to witness.

This account @sumosoul.bsky.social only has 1.2k followers but they post MANY sekitori level sumo matches of interest for the entire basho on here for easy consumption. More people should follow them. Anyway here’s Ura intentionally separating every vertebrae in his spine.

Drove through a storm and there was a sunset on the other side

Prosecutorial misconduct is nearly the norm, it almost always goes undetected and un-investigated because most defendants lack the money to expose it. I believe the presumption of regularity has never been warranted, and I think they're all a bit crooked, and that's what makes the system "work".

This is like trying to drill for oil through the ruins of Pompeii. Chaco canyon is one of the most significant native archeological sites in the United States. Absolutely disgusting to even propose it

forged in fire

Fun fact: North Carolina still hasn’t recovered from hurricane Helene, and Trump wants $2 billion to give people who smeared shit on the walls of the Capitol.

Which is why when he goes on morning media and says “You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens.” it’s factually correct bc he pays next to nothing but the media turns it into some kind of high-value, profound ideology and Musk RT’s “True” to 240M people. 😡🤬

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

Sweet story for your early morning scrolling 💕

the US and the UK are similar in that if 100 bigoted right wingers show up to a protest it can be top of the hour/front page/rolling cable news coverage. if 50,000 people do a left-coded protest they all ignore it

This is one of the (many) reasons why the rugged-individualist Great Men chud propaganda version of history and sociology, where every man should be a lone action movie hero, is so insidious: it chips away at the human inclination towards pro-social behavior! It takes A LOT to break that instinct!

I was BORN here, you asses

I will go to my grave particularly vexed about the Firesigns: they did a reunion tour in the early 90s and somehow my mom not only ended up going but she took my little brother along: neither of them had so much as heard of the Firesign Theater. I damn near spontaneously combusted when she told me.

Okay, yeah, I like this one. Introduce yourself with ten bands you _wish_ you’d seen: A Tribe Called Quest De La Soul original-lineup Anthrax Prince & the Revolution Jimi Hendrix Sisters of Mercy Elvis Presley Laibach Queen The Firesign Theater

what was even the fucking point of all that science fiction lmao this is something that heretofore you'd only see in fiction as satire, like borderline parody of a dystopia scifi authors worked on warnings for a hundred years, and they just tweeted it out

By Zdenek Vrozina: "This may be one of the more important long COVID papers in a while. A new study in Frontiers in Immunology suggests that COVID can trigger new-onset insulin resistance - and that this may drive abnormal NETosis in neutrophils months after infection." Published: 04 May 2026

Unlike the writer of this piece, I am borderline AI-abolitionist, though I am told there are some worthwhile use cases for AI. Also, some folks are struggling to stop using it. So in the interests of harm reduction, start small. Read this, and boycott ChatGPT. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m looking forward to seeing “The Mandalorian and Grogu” a second time. #StarWars

You can download a printable copy of this poster from my website: www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/...

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery

this is such a great thread. I'm right there with this being SAD. I just feel this devastating sense of loss that reading—one of the primary things I turn to help me make meaning of the world—is being compromised by people who don't even care about stories or storytellers. it's awful.

Movie where the woman who can kill with a smile and wound with her eyes from the Billy Joel song "She's Always A Woman" is set loose and the scientists who created her are forced to let Jolene from the song "Jolene" out of cryostorage to bring her back but instead they team up.

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

Dolly Parton is such a rare combination of ironically self-aware yet not at all self-loathing. The effect is a winking “Let’s have a great time together while I do this fun thing I do!” Ridiculously charming.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Extremist groups are actively targeting autistic young people. Not because autistic people are inherently dangerous and not because we're “easily manipulated" It's because many autistic young people grow up isolated, bullied, excluded, humiliated, and desperate for belonging.

America has been great for business because of social investment from our government. We (rightly) collectively absorbed a lot of these costs allowing entrepreneurs to start an enterprise. But the government played a key role in all of it. You didn’t do it solo and we need to kill the myth.

a company claiming to be worth $1.75 trillion reporting a $4.9 billion net loss on $18.67 billion in consolidated revenue for 2025, all run by a white supremacist fake engineer with a head full of cottage fucking cheese I'm sure it will go fine

Also, I have pattern recognition. Oh, you think that trans people aren't human and don't deserve human rights? Cool. Am I second, third, or fourth on the list of people you're going to put into that "not human" category? I don't really care and I'm not voting for you, but it's nice to have a sense.

you're going to spend the next three years being drowned in all sorts of extraction class corporate media efforts to pre-empt meaningful progressive reforms with half-baked bullshit, like Elon Musk and Sam Altman's fake support for UBI, and Jeff Bezos phony ass taxation plan

NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university" Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."

So basically what I'm taking from this was that they didn't even half-ass their autopsy????? Like, this is maximally a sixteenth of an ass.

never fucking forgive them for what they've done to the computer

The message shouldn't be "taxes are bad," it should be that you should get something for them, it's your money, it shouldn't be going to some rich dipshit's Dr. Claw-ass ballroom or into the pockets of J6 child molesters

need a German word for the disquieting experience of thinking a poster must be young because their views about the world have the raw dumbness of a teenager and then realizing they're in their 40s.

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

I found some badass Star Wars fan music but I now have a strong suspicion it was made via AI and now I want to kms. Can’t fucking enjoy anything anymore because then we get slapped in the fucking face by this shit, or have to exhaust way too much time trying to figure out if it’s human or not. :/

ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^

The intrusive thoughts overwhelmed my last two brain cells

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Not only is this efficient and beautiful, but it’s gonna make a bitching setting for a chase scene in some future classic film.

I want a WPA for putting solar panels on every building and parking lot. I literally cannot afford solar panels, but it would benefit the entire city if I had them!

so, to sum up: Americans elected a Black president, and in response the Republican Party declared war on both democracy and America itself They are currently polling at 37% approval

I've been thinking a lot about the top Ebola experts lost while serving patients. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

Quoting since I can’t reply. There is no program that can index a book well enough to be useful. There are some that can produce concordances, but that’s not useful either. Indexing requires human judgment and a human understanding of how people use words.

If there is one thing I absolutely believe after watching the supposed inevitability and societal transformation of crypto, of NFTs, and of the metaverse all crash and burn it's that techbro incantations of inevitability are trying to manifest it rather than predict it.

It is important to remember that these fascists are not invulnerable evil geniuses. They’re mostly evil nepo babies with unearned confidence, zero emotion regulation skills, fragile egos, deep cowardice, no loyalty, few loyalists, an old playbook, and a lot of money. And they can be defeated.