We can just give this town to Canada. It’s like 12 feet from the border anyway.

Welcome to 2011!

a big reason the research drain under Trump 2 is so bad is there just isn’t enough infrastructure in the world to pick up the slack here even if other countries want to nothing out there matches the sheer scale of the university system in the US and you can’t spin it up that fast what a disaster

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

Over the hill

‘We aren’t socialists, we’re just better at accounting’ is a killer line.

The blue sky is never clear.

*points at my pinned post, again*

The academia "it is 2022 and nobody has ever used genAI for anything useful" bubble is fascinating.

Slightly increase a band: Sustained Windser

This is why none of the reformers in the 19th and 20th centuries were religious. Especially not that Dr King guy.

The woman who founded Mother’s Day eventually came to despise the commercialization of it. In 1943, she began a petition to rescind the holiday. People from the flower and greeting card industries had her committed to a sanitarium, where she died.

Right up until energy gets cheap again, and it will. Energy cost more than this (in the US) from 2008 to 2014, with small breaks.

hold on hold on man survives wound to head then has image made of him is ringing bells

As a progressive homeschooling parent, the "parental rights" framing drives me nuts. I don't homeschool my kids because it is my right against the government. It's a way to help them learn about themselves and grow in a cooperative community. Safeguards do not impede that goal at all

Tahoma, California Pop: 867 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoma,_California Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22420842 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127707704 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=176775452

The real question is whether Tom Homan felt the same way when he worked for Obama.

A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.

My "this is not a golden calf" shirt has people asking a lot of questions answered by my shirt.

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

The Pope doesn’t want the USA to have nuclear weapons either

Sixty years after Israel assembled its first nuclear weapons, the US policy of pretending they don’t exist no longer makes sense, if it ever did. open.substack.com/pub/joecirin...

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

The sourdough He destroyed his cage Yes YES The sourdough is out

Interesting. Who was President six years ago?

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Writing Minecraft

This 👇 is what the Republican Party is now bsky.app/profile/asel...

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

Hmm… 1) Also Tolkien and/or Lewis 2) Clocks and time 3) The software I write 4) The Nicene Creed (“Intro to Heresy”) 5) Security and risk

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Oh shit horse fight!

The red and blue button hypothetical is providing loads of evidence that people are bad at both game theory and moral reasoning.

Am I the only one who has no memory of gas being $5 in 2022?

Rochester NY gas prices today

I’m real glad the way I walk isn’t subject to this much analysis…

In 80 years: ”In the 2020s and 2030s, the Academy briefly considered banning robots from winning awards. Of course, this civil rights violation was quickly corrected after protest.”

We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.

Looking at this chart, I’m recalling how Kevin Sorbo recently pined for the safer, more civilized New York City of the 1970s.

I've already seen MAGA types claiming that blue states have expensive gas, while it's cheaper in red states. Look at this big list of blue states with the top gas prices. Nevada, Ohio, Indiana, Arizona, Alaska, Idaho...

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER YE MIGHTY bsky.app/profile/fion...

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

Everybody thinks "Sciences Po" is a silly name, right? It's not just me?

Orb. I think we ought to have 22 planets.

Welp

It was a real nice break for everything to be precedented for a few years under Biden.

Last time gas was even more expensive than it is today (2008 - 2014-ish), we saw a renaissance in EV and hybrid vehicles.