Demon Copperhead

Why should we trust OSU leadership when it comes to investigating anyone’s backgrounds or giving their opinions about the other’s backgrounds?
“An unnamed source came to the board of trustees recently to tell them of Carter's inappropriate relationship…” and then he resigned when confronted with it

Thank ya, I'm trying to stay centered today, but... yeah.

Okay

Basically

Do your own homework, man

Well, like you said, you don't pay too much attention, but thankfully there's been a lot written already. I'll wait

He is, in fact, all hat and no cattle

Breaking News out of nowhere....Ohio State President Ted Carter is out after divulging an inappropriate relationship to the Board/

This is the second OSU President in a row to resign early in their tenure. IMO, hard to do worse than Carter, but we'll see!

www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

My first impression of this guy was him enthusiastically supporting the complete train wreck. He made out of graduation, insisting on a speaker whose business he had financial interests in… just watch that dude‘s speech and you’ll see what I mean

Welp Ted Carter apparently resigned, wonder if he’ll still make people call him Top Gun

Got some devastating news about a family member last night. Please, *please* all of y'all, make your mental health a priority. You're worth it, every one of you.

It's been 65 days since Donald Trump invaded a sovereign state, abducted its leader, and declared the US will "run" the state indefinitely

It's been 9 days since Trump launched a war (his word) against Iran without congressional approval

No House member has filed articles of impeachment for either

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

YouTube video by Kev The Ripper Goosebumps The Haunted Mask | 1995 FOX Full Episodes with Original Commercials

I'll have to bookmark this upload of GOOSEBUMPS - THE HAUNTED MASK that was ripped from the original 1995 FOX broadcast (including commercials). It'll be fun to watch next Halloween.

Nor do I, I think I worded that poorly

I was meaning good people who are pro-science, but are stuck surrounded by pro-disease

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

Dyke Knights! Now in colour!

Calling all Willie fans! New OBW hitting next week. Hear Kenny Chesney, Taj Mahal, George Saunders, Tami Neilson, Jamey Johnson, Matt Berninger, and way more...talking on why they love Willie Nelson.
Hear the new trailer here: bit.ly/4aZa3yU

I have lots of good people stuck among them without the means to leave, and I just want to make sure I leave no path unexplored in trying to resolve things

I try to remind myself of that imbalance, and what’s important - that there’s a lot of harm going on, and that my anger isn’t the best tool to help, at least not in this situation

I know in excruciating detail :/

On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

This has been the hardest part for me to deal with since the pandemic started - how to play nice, or have patience or grace, for people who are actively putting my kids’ lives in danger

I love this band. I took this (at Bowery Ballroom, I think?) in 2008:

this is a joy to watch

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Baturday
Bat World Sanctuary

a metal robot arm extends from the top right of the frame, holding a plastic kitchen brush with bright white bristles out toward a very large, dark red squid just behind it. the squid's arms are splayed open, with the bright white suckers facing outward

hey did you know that a viable way to get a DNA sample from cephalopods is to literally scrape them with a kitchen brush

this is ROV SuBastian from the Schmidt Ocean Institute deploying the KBOS (Kitchen Brush Of Science) on a megalocranchia which is understandably less than thrilled 🧪🦑

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below