1) I absolutely do not believe in ghosts and can give an entertaining lecture on how the brain works and can and does produce "ghostly" effects. 2. I believe with absolute faith that there is a vast ocean of shit I don't know. 1/

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

This is how my Akitas reacted to the spitfire kitten.

The part that blows me away is how many people are *convinced* that the people they're cruel to will learn some kind of lesson that isn't "those people are my enemies who literally want me dead".

Remember, the goofiest character in “The Death of Stalin” is literally motherfuckin’ Scarface compared to the clownshoes cartel in the White House right now. When cholesterol inevitably comes to collect their king, the aftermath is going to be “Monty Python Presents Game of Thrones”.

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

"It just says OVERRANGE."

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook. MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops! ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

I grew up with a pet pig. 1) I knew that creature was intelligent enough to understand that I was too. 2) I also knew it was *thinking* about what to do with me. I feel ZERO guilt about eating pork. I'm all for humane farming and slaughter, but eating them at all? I'm just first.

The inability of the media establishment to deal with being straight-up lied to is a major contributing factor for this mess.

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

Also the discourse here sometimes makes me want to grab people and say, "you know, in the old days we sometimes processed feelings privately, without shouting them to the world. It has a certain appeal, you should try it."

I thought we'd all agreed as a culture that it was Hackers.

David Lynch's Shawshank Redemption

I'm about 95% sure my dog just thinks my species is incredibly vocal and treats the noises I make as social babble that occasionally has meaning, like I treat a chatty cat's chirps and meows.

Lotta things that motivate conservation, and there has to be a compelling motivation for people to not just stand around feeling kinda guilty. "Defensible space" is a good one.

Tom Clancy's Madame Bovary.

It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.

Both things can absolutely be true at the same time. It's when the specific dude in question goes NO IMPOSSIBLE YOUR KIND HATED ME FOR BEING NERD because girls he didn't want to fuck were invisible to him that it turns into the reddest of flags.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

If you can read about a bunch of dead kids in TX, and your first impulse is to say, "But who did their parents vote for?" or some shit like that, I don't want anything to do with you.

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy, but isn't a selfie.

Among other things, I'm just so pissed that a country that once made winning WWII its whole personality is now building concentration camps

What is common knowledge on your field, but shocks outsiders? First-line decontamination tools for radiological contamination are a bottle of Fantastik, a roll of paper towels, and a roll of tape.

Absolutely bodied by meemaw. Such master race. Very ubermensch. So intellect. Wow.

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

The President of the United States posted this last night. This goes beyond stupidity and goes to full-on psychosis.

Why does NATO give opposing aircraft models cool names? Like, don't call it the SU-57 "Felon" when you can call it "Buttnugget."

sometimes the right thing to do is unrewarding, uncomfortable, and unsatisfying

Kid's out there speaking truth to power.

Out of context quote of the day: "I'm just going to put this out there: this is like the tit lasers."

Big. Fucking. Mood.

This might be the single stupidest statement by an alleged MD I've ever seen. Waiting for her to come out swinging against the Krebs cycle.

I'm fascinated by his inclusion of "mean" in there. Just, why? Is it some sort of traditional masculinity package in his mind? Why would you be better off with mean construction workers? A jackass on the job site definitely doesn't make the work go *better*.

Way to go, Encyclopedia Brownshirt.

I think a very easy calculus for all the problems of American journalism and politics more broadly is an inability to draw a distinction between what is annoying and what is dangerous

the pronoun thing is so incredibly stupid at so many levels, imagine knowing that you live a life so devoid of anything interesting that you have time to sit around steaming at what someone else put in their bio, like why would you ever confess this in public

The subtext is rapidly becoming text.

Look, I'd never tell anyone how to run their franchises, but give me a movie with Helen Mirren as Bond coming out of retirement for one last mission to crack some heads, with more sex and violence than all the Craig Bonds combined, and my wallet will leave a contrail on the way out of my pocket.

I've lived here 22 years and "Doing Weird Shit In A Very Earnest Fashion" is a much better state motto than "Land of Enchantment". I realize it's kind of long for a license plate but it'd be fantastic on a border sign. Or shot glass.

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

New Very Fine People just dropped.

a second health bar appears above the vatican as the pope enters his next boss phase

i'm just saying it's worth asking if theres a link between the growth in childhood vaccination rates and the increasing number of adults in this country

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.