I already have to see a PCP to get a referral to see a specialist (which could lead to expenses my employer-provided insurance might not cover). What are you talking about? Do you just book appts with specialists and pay out of pocket? Also, what if you've misdiagnosed what specialist you need?

Oh, is there a new episode of Lizza? Would anyone care to favor me with a link?

Random fear: what if I became famous, but some of my fans sucked? Advice to fans of any celebrity: please at least try to be likable if you reply to someone who doesn't know you. It's okay if you're not that cool! Just be nice if you want other people to become fans or at least not haters

"there's a new serif in town"

Moral cowards are worse than physical cowards. So many people I thought I knew turned out to be so averse to the risk of disagreement from people in their social circle who kinda suck anyway

Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?

Today I realized Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon are different people

Does anyone know anything about this? www.twitter.new

I learned a fact the other day that I've been thinking a lot about: Homo erectus, one of our species early ancestors, didn't go extinct until 108,000-117,000 years ago. Which means that they overlapped with us H. sapiens for at least around half of our existence

washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch

This book is so fucking good! I read it because @acollierastro.bsky.social recommended it on her Youtube channel, and she was right.

Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan: "[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."

bisexuals are so confusing it's fucking annoying. do you have sex twice a month or once every two months

hi my dame is what, my dame is who, my dame is chika chika dench judy

I am once again asking for a link, kind readers, even though at this point it might not be worth reading any more of this saga. Also, I might be behind, since the last post I read ended with Nuzzi being afraid RFK Jr would kill her

Imagining a children's book about the dangers of relying on LLMs, titled AmelAI BedelAI

A podcast claimed Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary partly out of spite, but I can't find confirmation. I'd love to believe that Americans trolled some English guy so hard he spent 7 years compiling a full list of English words just to be like, “And you’ll notice, ‘eggnog’ isn’t in it!”

“everyone is twelve” theory has reached Senator Kelly

What's up, broton nuclear magnetic resonance?

Fuck Hulu. I cancelled my subscription and still got charged this month. I should have known better than to bother subscribing in the first place just to binge one new season of one show. And now their support queue is too long for them to help me. Of course.

I don't want to give Ryan Lizza money, but I want to read Part 3. Please halp

Martin Scorsese's "The Secret Garden"

So this sucks. I used to love studying in the library as a student :( Barker is especially beautiful www.reddit.com/r/mit/commen...

I would love a little hummingbird camera! Maybe if it looks like a flower, I could get a lot of hummingbird pics. Might need to make it a sugar-water feeder somehow so I'm not just disappointing them

NVIDIA is brat

The paint on the walls ends a foot below your crown moulding? Problematic beige gap

I had forgotten until the Larry Summers Epstein news broke that I was a grad student in applied physics at Harvard when he said women were biologically unable to do STEM at an elite level. I was struggling as a student in my first year at the time.

Did you know only female Anopheles mosquitoes can spread malaria from person to person? I drew a comic randomly inspired by this fact.

There needs to be a montage where tech bros pitch a Peter Thiel-looking guy their ideas for monetizing kindness with stuff like wearable cameras that send your data to an AI system to rate your kindness, a blockchain for favors, and a tiresome number of social credit score apps

Dark comedy about a billionaire who hears the phrase, "Kindness costs you nothing," and drives himself insane trying to find a way to monetize kindness

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

Someone just reacted to an email I sent with an emoji. Like, I got an email "🎉 So-and-so has reacted to your message:" I didn't know that was a thing. Is it a thing? Or is replying to an email with a picture of an emoji reaction just like a meme I haven't seen?

The best part of getting into a show based on a book series is that I can just read the books instead of waiting for Season 3 to be released to find out what happened #silo

Can Jack Dorsey bring back Google Reader, please? Thanks!

this applies to several republican representatives right now and i think it would be very good practice to observe it.

when they go low there's no benefit in going high if you're not gonna open fire

One of the funniest parts of these Epstein emails is how astonishingly fucking illiterate these elite slimeballs are. Their sincere minds are the ur-dreck that dril channeled as comedy.

This guy was in charge of Harvard for years, and he writes like he's posting on 4chan? I bet he thought that IQ line was so clever. He probably told it to everyone he knew. He seems like that kind of guy

These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text

If the UK had surrendered halfway through the Blitz, many lives would have indeed been saved. But many more would have been lost under Nazi occupation AND THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T SURRENDER TO FASCISTS! Nothing about this deal tonight seems like a negotiated peace of any sort. Just a capitulation.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

From the sound of it, this is still going on

Anti-fois-gras protesters outside of Pammy's, near Central Square in Cambridge. Police were rolling up as I was walking by.

Báthory would be a good name for a brand of high-end bath soaps