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AOC was on track to secure the votes to become the next ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.

Then Nancy Pelosi threw her weight around to secure the votes for 74 year-old Gerry Connolly, who announced he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer last month.

Nancy Pelosi needs to retire.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Has anyone tried googling for "comic sans"? Try it and see if you notice something different. Might be the most cursed Google Easter egg.

Bluesky Hits 25M Users As Exodus From X Continues The social media platform has added over 10 million users since U.S. Election Day.

Whilst X drowns in bots, extreme content, misinformation & its own vomit Bluesky Hits 25 Million Users👏

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Omg

When you forget to switch to your burner account

Go on a magical journey

Neural responses to social rejection reflect dissociable learning about relational value and reward | PNAS Social rejection hurts, but it can also be informative: Through experiences of acceptance and rejection, people identify partners interested in con...

🧠 How We Learn from Rejection

Social rejection hurts - but it teaches. A @pnas.org study finds the brain tracks two lessons: relational value (how others value us) & rewarding outcomes.

These insights guide us in building supportive relationships.

🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#SciComm 🧪

Cats: “I will strike down this bird in the midst of its wild and joyous life 😼”

People: “No no no…it needs to suffer /the whole time/ 😈”

Pig, starring Nicholas Cage, is the best dissection on male trauma and how norms shapes male mental pain, it's expression and management. It's baffling how deeply perceptive it is. Watch it.

Silent Night!

You and me both

Oh you mean steal and claim you invented it?

The fact that Joe somehow became a big name in democrat circles is really a sign of how lost the party is.

Can’t believe FlashbangBruce, GunDick98, and br1s got snubbed again this year.

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

Add chewable and you're full dog

I thought they used them for heroin, but last I asked they went like "Ugh dad nobody does heroin anymore" so now I'm not so sure

Good thing the US will be ready on all fronts should this come to pass...

A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3.4.4b bovine influenza H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to-human or even human-to-h...

🔬🦠 Influenza Mutation Alert

A @science.org study reveals a single mutation in H5N1 could switch its binding from bovine to human receptors, hinting at pandemic risks.

There is still no confirmed transmission, but when might that change?

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt0180

#SciComm 🧪

I guess violence is, in fact, the answer!

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo

a man wearing glasses is asking if he is a bad guy ALT: a man wearing glasses is asking if he is a bad guy

Up is the sequel to Falling Down. Didn't you know?

Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.

This algorithmically motivated "content", nothing more. Putin will drive engagement, heck, being detained in Russia might be an alrorithmic jackpott!

I applied "for fun", thinking I wouldn't get it and now... well... here I am.

I think part of us wants to think that the world is "just". Coming to terms with the fact that it isn't would also mean coming to terms with the fact that the difference between ourselves and, for example, the homeless are a matter of circumstance, not agency. A truth most are unwilling to bear.

Wealth doesn’t lead to expertise. We know that this is true, but our culture inclines us to half forget it - and give huge testimonial credibility to wealthy people who haven’t got a clue about the world or themselves.