High Desert Otter

Does it wear off the next morning?

The most dreadful part of that experiment, imo, was that Harlow repeated it long after it was abundantly clear that the effects were severe and non-reversible. I suspect that the chatbot parenting experiment will also be repeated long after we "learn" that it was a very bad idea.

The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything

I had a dog who was a coffee fanatic, and got really tired of being told that coffee is outright poisonous for dogs. The data from the College of Veterinary Pharmacy was that a 75 pound dog would have to drink 127 ounces of coffee to be acutely poisoned. I did not leave 127 ounces in my cup.

Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“

Who has made this 🤣

Most interesting. I'm southern and talk about biscuits more than seems rational, and I've never heard of this. Can't wait to try it, and declare you either a true cousin or a heretic.

She is a true beauty. Grumpy or not.

Sorry. Hope tonight is at least a little better.

The Dr. Evil laugh just seems to be our background noise these days.

What a fascinating creature. I have literally never seen a picture or heard of it before.

Tom, you're a true Dad.

Yes. I have treated a few such parents, and down underneath the other emotions was primal fear of what happens to their kid when they get sick or die and gnawing guilt at the visions of their child without any certainty of good help and real services.

Thanks for promoting actual medical facts. The Bluesky docs give me a ray of hope. Some patients are still getting actual evidence based advice.

Oh, I’m not letting go of this one.

Had to post this from that other place.

"to, and with." Autocorrect is a grammatical ignoramus.

Maybe with snakes. Snakes really like me. 😂

Not really, I admit that they're fairly indifferent, but I love them anyway.

I'm good too, and with, animals and plants. Not as good as you are, but not bad.

Agree, @eff.org sounds like the right entity to give us a sketch of our risks.

Picture shows Trump standing on the stage with the head of FIFA, who is saying to Trump "This is your peace prize. It is also a beautiful medal that you can wear anywhere you want to go." Gavin Newsom's Press Office quote-posted it, saying "I WANT TO CONGRATULATE DONALD J. TRUMP FOR WINNING THE "YOU DIDN'T WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE BECAUSE YOU'RE A WARMONGER AND A CLOWN BUT WE STILL NEED YOU SO HERE'S A HAPPY MEAL AWARD YOU CAN WEAR TO YOUR CABINET CONCUBINE MEETINGS SO YOUR HAREM CAN CLAP LIKE CIRCUS SEALS" MEDAL."

I think I'm in love with Newsom's press group. I might vote for them for president.

I don't feel I should say exactly what the risks are because they vary by state and I'm not a lawyer. But they are startling in my blue "safe" state. Please, tag real lawyers on Sky who might be willing to do a brief summary of the risks.

I'm adding an addendum to my original reply. Thanks for asking!

I enjoyed level 7, the rotation one, enough to decide I was done when I finished it.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Ritual humiliation is a MAGA fetish.

@kenwhite.bsky.social has summed up the tortured rationale of our logic-challenged War Sec and his acolytes more succinctly than I thought it could be done.

Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.

Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

As a ma'am, I know whereof you speak.
Say, would they sound better if we called them ma'amograms?

I guess not. It's the pressure, not the name.

You tell 'em.

People have been so kind to Bobby during the more than two months that he has been in his clinical trial at Ronald Reagan Medical Center at UCLA -- the support that he has received while his doctors are "rebuilding" his kidneys has brought him this far!

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