Does it hurt to get shot with a gun? The HHS has issued new guidance that it actually hurts more not getting shot with a gun. Health watchdogs warn that promoting getting shot with a gun will make more people get hurt from bullets, though the actual science is disputed by some researchers

How the Grinch Swole Christmas

A doctor and patient sit across from each other in a doctor's office. The patient has cow-tool-shaped lumps growing out of his body, a handled lump,p on his knee, a Prongler from his elbow, a crude saw from his back. The doctor is saying, "I'm afraid you've got cow tools, Mr. Farnsworth."

it's terminal 😞

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BLS officially cancels October CPI report.

"BLS could not collect October 2025 reference period survey data due to a lapse in appropriations. BLS is unable to retroactively collect these data. "

November CPI to be released on December 18

My immigrant parents didn't know how to do Thanksgiving. My sister and I would bring home tidbits from classmates ("We need to buy 'cranberry sauce!'") and bit by bit, we built Thanksgiving. Not cos-playing, but participating.
It's my favorite holiday.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png

If reversing the fertility decline were my thing, I would have this tattooed on my forehead.

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Seeing this chart as an impressionable young man was a formative moment in my political development

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

I don’t think unrealized gains should be taxed.

However, getting a loan against unrealized gains should count as a realization of those gains. Borrow $10 million against the $1 billion company you founded? Great job! That is $10 million you earned and should be taxed on

You don’t have to burn the bridge, just stop rebuilding it.

Semaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes by baseline and changes in adiposity measurements: a prespecified analysis of the SELECT trial The cardioprotective effects of semaglutide were independent of baseline adiposity and weight loss and had only a small association with waist circumference, suggesting some mechanisms for benefit bey...

The benefit of Ozempic (semaglutide) for protection from major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) is independent of weight loss magnitude and baseline adiposity, likely related to the GLP-1 anti-inflammatory effect
thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Figure six a man being bombarded by invisible rays saying I don't feel a thing

When someone asks how I stay sane while being extremely online

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

@estamatakis.bsky.social , not recently active on #Bluesky, on the health value of each minute of different physical activity intensities against 6 health outcomes.

The Euro zone is a system where fiscally responsible countries subsidize chronically irresponsible ones like Italy & Spain. This happens via open-ended, no-strings-attached transfers by way of joint EU debt issuance and periodic ECB yield caps. A system that will fail because incentives are broken.

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

"Why Support for Political Violence Is Not as High as It May Seem" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Contrary to literary tropes, besides the "gets away with it completely", that's normally how suffering works.

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

Cat ‘arrested’ with mugshot taken for attacking Thai police, amusing netizens One compassionate officer takes the mischievous feline home for the night, preparing food, litter box, toys for his unexpected guest.

Reading this article made me feel like I was in the news environment of the early 2010s
www.scmp.com/news/people-...

this is the GOAT tumblr post and always will be

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

Children offered chickenpox vaccine on NHS All young children in England and Wales will be offered a free chickenpox vaccine by the NHS from January 2026.

Finally!

CBO analysis of the One Big Beautiful Bill and how it impacts different parts of the income spectrum:

—A net resource increase of $13,600, on average, for the top one-tenth of U.S. earners.

—A net resource decrease of $1,200, on average, for the bottom one-tenth of U.S. earners.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

We're getting extremely close to the day when America spends more money to build data centers than office buildings

Only 5 years ago, office construction spending was 7x data center spending

Maybe not the most beautiful experiment in biology but certainly top ten.

What are your nominees?
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