The Dapper Chef (minces garlic, not words)

things I didn’t have on my 2025 bingo card:
(1) rooting for Harvard
(2) rooting for the current peer review process.

We truly aren’t talking enough about how scary this is

Wow, three stories about the stock market in a row

NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it. A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

I pressed “quote repost,” but I find myself speechless.

Fun new euphemism for “penguins”

Okay but what if we start referring to (a lot of) cosmetic surgery as “gender affirming care”…?

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He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center. ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.

The leopards are getting indigestion

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

I have been listening to @kairyssdal.bsky.social report on the economy since the 2008 recession. This hit really hard.

NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

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James Scott AF

Hmmm, do you think that maybe it was a bad idea for universities to not support students protesting last year? Would be sort of nice to have some of that energy now.

James Scott AF

It does. But the dad joke is no less bad 🤣

😒☠️

Why did I just get a targeted ad for a biblically accurate cardigan?

Same. ☠️.

I’m wheezing

We’re less than one day into 2025 and the perfect metaphor has already dropped.

Ugh we just did the same. Blackboard is horrible. Brightspace is somehow worse. It’s just blackboard with LaCroix vibes and less functionality

This is how I cook steak — low and slow in the oven, rest, and it dries the skin perfectly to get an amazing sear to finish it off.

twas the night before christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring. the risotto was ruined

Did you… post wordle spoilers on the day of the puzzle? I thought we sorted wordle etiquette in 2020. I’m stuck home with covid and this was all I had to live for tonight. Where is cancel culture when we need it.

When you start writing a substantive paper, but end up with a method paper.

They were right. Once you let us change our pronouns, anything will be able to identify as anything.

Okay, I've cracked and used the invite code that's been languishing for two months. Hello, world.