Nishigori

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

Imagine caring this little about people

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

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Two panel comic. Panel 1: a museum display of a megalodon jaw fossil, with some museum goers standing around it. There is a graphic on the information tablet next to the fossil, depicting the approximation of the megalodon’s full size compared to a human. Panel 2: “3.6 million years ago:” we see the true megalodon as it existed, a small shark with ludicrously large, juicy lips.

This is so funny

But also deeply troubling

But also so funny

A moment of silence for all the promise that was lost

My family is from that area of Colombia going back generations and I've never heard of the grease fish. I wish it were still around to see 😭

Pleading with people to understand the scope of this.

It won’t just be for immigrants.

They will use these camps to detain anyone they deem as an “other”.

The disabled. The homeless. Trans people. Political dissidents.

Your tax dollars will be spent incarcerating people without due process.

You're right, it's LESS than nothing, it's actively working against Democracy and gleefully throwing every vulnerable group under the bus, all while giving yourself a shiny gold-star sticker.

Softies are the most hateful creatures, just pancakes made of anger 💚🐢

Last October.

And if gaining ultimate power, a female character has about a 90% chance of being "driven insane" 🙄

Who's going to tell these losers that the original Muppets special was titled "sex and violence".

I see we're calling just about anything labor now, huh?

mix them you coward

mmmmm yes

Haolonggood Haolong dongi figure when?

Any day you get to chat about turtles is a good day!

Excuse me but Ursula's design was famously based on the legendary drag queen Divine. This is an insult to her filthy memory!

The map for gay people is completely green

Security Gamera

I'm a thermal engineer and ... this is not possible. It's actually hilarious how impossible this is. Even with radiators with e=0.98, you would realistically need 3-5x that ideal area and massive heat pipes (which quickly lose efficiency as a function of length) to dissipate that much heat.

Wow, you really hate yourself

Cats 2019????

Lol, I'm watching that exact video right now as well

Add one more to the enormous pile of crimes against humanity.

Tremblay's "The Beast You Are" is a fabulous novella with this type of falsified verse and reads much better once your eyes learn to ignore the pointless line breaks.

"little operating or maintenance cost" is a WILDLY INSANE thing to assert regarding anything space-based, and it's not even the third wildest claim in that pile on nonsense

Here is my reading wrap-up for January from #thestorygraph #booksky

graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.

This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
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