I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

And forcing Heritage to pay everyone's bills. I'm not joking. Either they pay the bills, or get the fuck out of lives.

1600 Pensylvania Ave, Northwest, Washington, DC. Which is over 1000 miles east of where you're speaking, couch fucker.

Hi, for those of you unfamiliar with this sort of weather -if the power goes out, trying to heat your home with the clay pot + candle method is not a great idea, try personal warmth (ie blankets) and blocking and sealing drafty areas instead if you can

Military-esque group mans way station for divinely-created space-tunnel only to start a war with their counterparts on the other side.

We haven't tested if a bullet through Kirk Milhoan's head will kill him. Then only way is through a real-world experience. For legal reasons, this post is satire. Also for legal reasons, this post has the same exact message as Kirk Milhoan below.

YES! A step in the right direction. After a horrendous year for science & the #NIH, it is imperative to protect it from political interference. NIH's success is due to decisions based on science, not political ideology. Science does not belong to politicians. 🧪 degette.house.gov/media-center...

Finally found it, the gender fluid

I only have $11 for food until the 4th of next month. I could really use some food money. Any amount helps.

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

heartening thread here. there is real, meaningful work we can do to protect our communities, we can learn how to do it from each other, and we don't have to do it alone.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

🧪IMPORTANT! This graphic explains how science all over the US is funded. Congress approved a 2% increase in the #NIH budget for FY 26. Buried in the bill- Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr. Russel Vought is behind this.

I feel so bad because I haven't talked to people I would like to talk with in a long time. And it makes me feel like I'm a terrible friend.

Every member of ICE should be locked in a prison and forgotten about.

The volcano erupted, destroying most of their homes and public edifices. I saved what I could, and tried to bring serenity to the survivors. I met a little bird that spoke in riddles, but nonetheless was helpful. With many thanks to the magnificent @hoggan.bsky.social

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”

Imagine you're a scientist trying to publish a new study, and being told you can't, unless you do background checks on co-authors who aren't U.S. citizens and send their names to national security staff. Also, studies about climate change or DEI written w/foreign scientists = rejected. ⬇️

If you hate Mega Feraligatr's design give me TWO MINUTES to explain why this is one of my FAVOURITE MEGAS in Legends ZA and how it applies perfectly the design principles that make Pokémon memorable

Yep. A bit of salt in the wound.

Anyone who is celebrating this bill either hasn’t read it or hasn’t put two and two together. Early career researchers will be wiped out, budding lines of science will be snuffed, and RFK Jr. and Podcast Jay will select pseudoscience bullshit “studies” to be funded for years.

It’s a technical accounting way to fund far fewer grants because instead of funding every grant year by year, they set aside the funding for the entire grant in the year it is selected. It’s that simple. This is an OMB/Vought tactic. Actions to come! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Here’s the deal with the FY26 NIH funding bill: One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science. The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%. THIS IS BAD.

Woke up to a message from a scientist at a university I was rejected from. Too early for me to check, but it feels like I'm gonna have salt rubbed in a wound.

Please enjoy this local news: “Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is evicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit from a county-owned building where it has occupied an office for about three years but never paid rent… “We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”

My grandma (Gelty's mother) will stay with us until he recovers. We're gonna need some help to pay the hospital expenses. For what I heard he has a broken foot.

Alex here, Marc's (Gelty) nephew. Sorry for the late update, my uncle's phone doesn't charge correctly and we couldn't charge it until now. The last update we have is that my uncle is partially awake and still in ER. Thanks for sharing the link, he's gonna need it after this.

This is why everyone crying that "Democrats have no power in Congress" should be mocked. Mamdani has no power in Congress. Yet he remembers that, as mayor of New York City, he has a platform he can use to push policy.

I don't care what anyone says, this why I love comic shit, it's because you can have the stupidest lines like this and then have also have this

From Sunday night. Really like how it came out with my phone camera.

Important perspective from Greenland.

Then RFK Jr. needs to gouge out his eyes. What?! If radio waves are dangerous, then concentration those waves into small wavelengths (and therefore higher frequencies) is also bad. And that's what visible light is.

Oh yes, oh yes. Let’s let this trend catch on.

Well I spoke too soon! The Guinea-Bissau study is still going forward, though currently without approval from a US or European ethical board. Still withholding vaccines from newborns. Keep the pressure up, all the ethical people -- we don't need to do another Tuskegee experiment!! 🤬

Trump openly committed treason, and the Democrats gave up. Democrats would rather everyone else did their work for them.

Thank you, here's the link: www.paypal.me/geltydrake

I knew he was struggling with life and his economy but not that much to do what he did. His sister and I sent him some money, but we can't do much either. If you guys know how to make him receive some help, please do, put a link here to his paypal thing so he can have something when he comes back.

Alex here again. Mark (gelty) is not doing very well at the moment. He's still in the ER. I got more details. It seems he walked into oncoming traffic and got hit by a car, which launched him several feet away. He's stable but not awake.

Being tokupilled means going from "wow these effects are pretty corny" to "this is literally the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life".

Hello, Mark's (gelty) nephew here. He’s been in the ER since 4 a.m., and we’re still waiting for updates. Police said it appears he entered oncoming traffic and got hit by a car. I can't answer, but I'll keep this updated. Share this where he normally chats to inform his friends.

There's a couple people on the bus talking about anime. And hentai.

From just before last Christmas.

Con panel/meetup proposal: People who wake up at 6am and need breakfast but can't find anyone who is up that early to join them.

Still feeling like shit from grad school rejections. So went on a walk to work.

getting awful sick of hearing liberals use domestic abuser logic to chide protestors for property damage as the state murders people

To be clear: Lura Thok in #StarfleetAcademy is Klingon on her mother's side and Jem'Hadar on her father's side. If you can believe that Humans and Vulcans/Klingons/Betazoids can have offspring, you can also believe that in 800 years the Founders/somebody else created Jem'Hadar who could be fathers.

Cassidy sentenced countless children to death, knowingly, by confirming RFK and Trump stabs him in the back anyway I hope it eats at him every miserable day of the rest of his life