ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect
This in Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio by the way. Could not love this any more :)
And there are researchers who study this topic, not suggesting I’m novel in suggesting this (quite the contrary). A systematic review in Frontiers in Psychiatry (Maguite et al., 2024) is a place to start.
There is also an interesting conversation to be had about “theory of mind” and overlaps between psychopathy and neurodivergence/autism, without implying that ND folks are all sociopaths!
As someone with a Ph.D. who studied psychopathy and also has read it in French and English (though long before the grad degree), I agree. Doesn’t read as sociopath to me. Could be read as neurodivergence, could be read as commentary on absurdity of human actions.
The thing about Camus' The Stranger is I can't help reading Meursault as neurodivergent rather than sociopathic as some have found him.
When he reluctantly justifies the murder, he tries to explain that he was overwhelmed by the Sun. The sensory overload was described in minute detail.
Microessay?
⚡ KFF’s Latoya Hill explains how new data showing declines in use of early prenatal care, particularly among people of color, points to widening disparities in maternal and infant health. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/3MVuOn3
I hope you've all been keeping up with the saga of Punch-kun, and I hope you also know that Punch-kun got hugged by the adult monkey Onsing today.
The Trump admin is pushing to terminate rules that mandate basic rights & sanitary conditions for detained children.
Already, CBP is detaining kids in tents, airports & prison-like settings, according to lawyers
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Howard Lutnick's sons just made a buttload of money: www.wired.com/story/cantor...
How's your day going, Trump?
Oh:
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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
weird random tariffs that were probably generated by Grok and included an island only populated by penguins, we barely knew ye
Apfelschorle is amazing, I don’t blame you
A couple of weeks ago @sesmith.lol demanded I capture baby harbor seal activation noises and I failed until about 20 minutes ago
FREAKING ADORABLE!
Bonus western gull in pursuit. 🦭 🦑 🪶
I'm home now, which means its time to edit baby harbor seal pictures!
Great job everyone!
Good morning from the harbor seal factory!
We got several working harbor seal families ready to challenge the establishment!
Here you can see a mother teaching their baby about the union.
Get em started young!
#UnionsForAll #SealSky 🦭 🦑
You can find copaganda in all kinds of media. Here, let me show you, with 5 (more) instances of copaganda in media.
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Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
This is part of a pattern that is impeachable: Trump cuts previously appropriated Congressional funds, but only to states led by Democrats (California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota).
What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent.
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
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Dr Oz defends his comments saying kids should work right out of high school & older Americans should put off retirement to help pay down natl debt: "If we make our people healthier, they'll want to participate in life. You shouldn't work longer bc you have to. You should work longer bc you want to."
The fact that New York has a baby podium but there are not more baby press conferences is deeply silly.
Death Camp For Cutie over here
They're literally running out of lawyers in a state where the district judges are practically at war with the administration.
Dogs pass a kind of mirror self recognition test, but for smell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In the late 1800s, when people started using the word "donate", it made some folks mad. The word is a back-formation of the word "donation" and was seen as a degradation of English.
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
The president is setting up his own slush fund with oil money stolen from a foreign country.
