tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

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cut and paste from an actual industry report

If you're worried about AI data centers, Congress is taking notice — not by passing any laws, but by spying on critics through its new intelligence bureau: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Braid borders also were popular in childrenswear. In 1863, Peterson’s magazine describes red braid on piqué as a popular choice for dresses of ‘quite young children’, boys as well as girls. A similar shape to our dress is worn with a blouse in the plate below from 1866 ‘Mode Illustrée’. #1860sdress

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

the resurgence of the moustache is a great coup for me, not because i have or want one, but because i enjoy imagining people as walruses and baleen whales

A Snake Sculpture 6th-11th Century AD, from U Thong Thailand.

First trailer for "The Ribbon Hero" anime movie, based on Osamu Tezuka's manga "Princess Knight". Directed by Yuki Igarashi at Outline / Twin Engine. Character designs by Kei Mochizuki & Mai Yoneyama. Coming to Netflix on August 8.

What a man. A dragon-man.

Enron casual

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Can we normalize piracy?

Congratulations to her

they're censoring me

“how’s your day going?” “they’re making the omelas hole bigger to fit more children” “alrighty”

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

This is musicology.

Drew a Circle at 97% regularity on mino.mobi/draw

It's ironic that working with VHS and cassette tapes is infinitely easier than DVDs and the majority of early digital media. Physical degradation and environmental conditions notwithstanding, it's far easier to get a quality scan of a VHS tape than it is to deal with a burned DVD or CD from 2002.

They forgot “Dr Eleanor Janega talks about how Medieval people were silly little freaks (affectionate)” or “Dr Irving Finkel demonstrates how to summon a Sumerian ghost”.

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

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

This is a really weird way to frame “people can’t afford food anymore.”

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Sabu-chan, a larger than average cat, promotes the annual cat festival in Yushima, Tokyo.

"I never really know what (my disabled son) should apply for, what the process will be like or whether he’s likely to get the support he needs without a fight. And here’s the bigger problem: You’re not supposed to know what you or your loved ones qualify for." Feeling this IN MY BONES right now

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Uh huh.

On the same day that the conservatives on Supreme Court gutted the last provisions of Voting Rights Act they all dined with Trump and a King. No liberal justices invited. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

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How do you feel about Donald Trump's actions as president so far? [adjacent to an artful and flattering black-and-white sketch of me] Jon, 43, white "I no longer call it the Sun. I call it the Hot Moon. You cannot catch and eat the Hot Moon because it moves too fast because it is late for school."

The short answer is the new owners stopped paying us for our work so we quit and started @ggtribune.com because we love making funny stuff together, and if we aren’t getting paid we may as well not get paid writing for our own website. We are paying our own writers though, unlike Sumerian.

BABY 🖤 Dusky pygmy rattlesnakes are already small, and this is a tiny child at that. She could comfortably curl up on my watch face. Pretty chill, though I did not test this thoroughly.

A student handed in a lab assignment, and one of his answers ended with "Is there anything else I can help you with?" and I want to leave teaching forever. Not only did he feel the need to ask the environment-destroying plagiarism machine, he didn't even have the motivation to delete the evidence.

My favorite picture of Terry Pratchett

(to the tune of hot to go) S-L-U-G-G-O He gets paid in woims y' know

dir en grey lyrics reflect the arc of an average lesbian relationship

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This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

oh yeah i wrote a blog post lol

Van Gogh spent a lot of time in Arles, France. There's a restaurant that used to be a hotel where Van Gogh stayed and in a letter he wrote that the food was bad and they overcharged him for wine. Directly next door, sharing a wall, is this Dragonball-themed barbershop.