“We have raised the age of enlistment in case you want your relatives to be deported”

Victor Wembanyama has 33 and 12 with 2 blocks in *19 minutes* in a game the Spurs are winning by 25 or so. Sure. #NBAsky

At least a little bit of “radium inhalations” vibes to ai hype these days

What is the best “said the name of the movie out loud in the movie”

lol

can someone who does military history tell me if the side that raises its recruiting age to admit old stoners is usually the side that's winning

Any politician who wants to derisively use the term "litmus test" should have to be able to explain how the chemical reactions on actual litmus paper work. Can't list some of the species of lichen from which litmus is derived? Sorry, no dice.

I haven't done any in the better part of a decade so maybe I'm just way behind but is it WAY more expensive than it used to be to register for various running events, your 5ks and 10ks and such? I keep getting sticker shock when I consider one.

Offering a free online class titled “how to ignore the thing you don’t like on the internet”

will never stop scrolling but

“extract uranium from Iran” cool let’s do rejected Bond plots now

The glass-half-full view here is that Dems (writ large, whatever that means right now) are letting the various loud steam pipes vent their laughable bullshit well in advance of the time when actual reasonable candidates show up. There is, of course, a glass-half-empty version as well.

Here’s the actual (not yet peer reviewed) paper this is based on. Let’s say I’m skeptical of some of the hyperbole here. Plenty of reasons to hate ai data centers without this, of course. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20897

Another good one, the no-options broke-ass teacher stuck in the Australian outback in Wake In Fright shruggily assuming if he could get home he could easily get a reporter job

I assure you that if 8 million right leaning protesters had turned out against Obama it the NYT would have given it banner treatment eg POPULIST REVOLT

Sea surface temperatures inching back toward record-breaking territory, in plenty of time for hurricane season...

Wild for Trumpworld to watch his approval sink into the earth’s mantle and the party get blown out in special election after special election and each subsequent protest day break records for the biggest one ever and have their only response be “oh you hated all that well watch THIS, mfers”

Like a third of the country is under red flag warnings (high fire danger) today

Trump’s posts are the Hawking radiation of Truth Social, the only thing that ever escapes that place

I wrote this last summer when the protest overshadowed his little birthday parade www.jezebel.com/sad-parade-e...

“Protest politely” -dumb guys

Things that can be immaculate: -conceptions -vibes

Hm does anyone in the GOP feel like reining in the guy approaching country invasions like a psychopathic toddler getting bored with torturing one small animal before moving on to the next

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

The only reasonably chosen words in this headline are "Iran," "Trump," and "With"

Muting the unskippable streaming ads and prancing around like the AC/DC guy

I would accept an AI buddy whose only job was to assess the power of seasonal allergy sneezes and give me awards when I exceeded various thresholds

Seriously though why would you want to engage with a place so clearly subsumed into one malevolently dumb guy’s world

They probably only let him out to avoid having him die in ICE custody. Really a 360-degree assault — decimate cancer research, send health insurance premiums skyrocketing, then detain thousands of people and deny them healthcare. Death cult.

Pondering the degree of psychic damage a normal person would incur by insider trading on deadly war plans and then inverting the concept to reveal, more or less, Donald Trump Jr

If I ever get the Memento disease my dog will convince me to feed her ~75 times per day, she will die quickly but blissfully

remember how Biden wouldn't put his name on covid relief checks

Good rundown from @howardbeck.bsky.social on looming NBA expansion and how 30 very rich people (or ownership groups, etc) might just water down the best league on the planet to get half a bil richer #NBAsky

Eh, engagement bait because I like these stories, what is the weirdest place you ran into someone you knew? In the 70s my dad had his passport stolen in Madrid and heard "Levitan??" from behind him in line at the Canadian embassy and it was his college friend who had also had his passport stolen.

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Good afternoon

Imagining Elon as an ovum in this image is honestly not the worst way to think about people who still hang out there

Happy opening day and all but I must once again insist

Canada lynx kitten

A sculpture on Kharg Island I chanced upon via google maps.

Oh is it time for the Monthly Debasement Session already

What does a win probability chart look like when you come back from 13 down with three minutes left in overtime to end on a 15-0 run? #NBAsky

My resignation letter

I know people like it but still is Nope the most underrated/unfairly forgotten movie of the past 10 years

The ball podcasts have all been doing “is Wemby the best player in the league” the last little while and it’s all sort of silly but also… I think Wemby might be the best player in the league. #NBAsky

He has seven (7) blocks in this game

I dunno I think he’s torn between “blowing things up is fun and feels good” and “people should give me gold trinkets”

At least some of the incredible lack of foresight re Iran can be explained by the fact that he is incapable of accepting the idea that he might lose. Like, anything. Elections, court cases, etc. Probably puts a crimp in contingency planning.

When twitter was perceived as liberal it was a bubble and people should not take it seriously. But now that it's a cesspool of right-wing propaganda it's the Soul of America and the libs ignore it at their peril