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She's already proverbially kicked one of the world's wealthiest men in the balls; now she's going for psychological testicular torsion. 🤣

A bunch of emperor penguins right near the camera with text overlay that says “surveying for bird flu involved lots of… birds. Curious, adorable birds.”

We captured 18 birds today and then we surveyed the colony for bird flu, which we thankfully saw no evidence of.

Cape Crozier remains magical!
🌍🧪🦑🦉

“Why is literacy important?”

Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*

Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!

like yes! let's have a united front! you have to tell your colleagues to stop folding like a lawn chair

Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

Boy watching Homer beat up the krusty burglar: Stop! He’s already dead!

We've all been there.

👇👇👇👇 Literally all the suffering of all the people was for nothing. NOTHING.

The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.

Shocking.

Wilde the tuxedo cat is sitting on a red blanket on the couch. He's facing away from me/the camera.

Wilde the tuxedo cat is still sitting on the couch. He's now looking at me/the camera, and his ears are perked up.

"We can't reform the Dems, we need a new party" is the political equivalent of "we can't fix climate change on earth, we need to colonize Mars" in that however hard the former is, the latter is *way* harder

and you'll just need the D voter base so you wind up with the Schmemocrats, anyway

you cannot create a viable third party without changing the constitution.

to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.

anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.

Yes, and we all need to put in time, not just money. We can't buy the right kind of candidates, we are going to have to be them or build them with our own hands.

also, there are plenty of text to speech tools that just record and don't analyze and they've existed for nearly my entire life. we've got to stop allowing people to conflate direct, non-generative tools with genAI when they have a financial incentive to do so

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

AIPAC should be abolished but they and Israel have absolutely nothing to do with the shut down or the Senate democrats caving on it. Y'all please get a *grip*

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years

"I can't believe they are trying to take our rights away"

Weren't you just making content throwing other queer people under the bus? Kink at pride discourse? Cruising discourse? "Nobody wants to be monogamous anymore"?

Babygirl you are a foot soldier on the side of the assault on queer rights.

narrator: It was in fact super negotiable

That's why I don't think of this in terms of, "Ohioans don't deserve a team," but rather, "the players who come there will be subjected to state laws and government, and that's not fair to them."

Oh yeah, it's so common for major cities to be blue and be surrounded by red. I was talking to a guy from Dallas who's in the same situation. Even here in Illinois, Chicagoland is blue, and everything downstate is red. It's just that Chicagoland is big enough to drown the downstate out.

This is abjectly false, but the Democrats really aren't doing themselves any favors on terms of appearances.

I am not looking forward to hearing some variation of this hypothesis a million times next month.

Wilde the tuxedo cat is in the bathroom, peering at me in the bath from outside the tub. You can just see his head from the nose up

"Whatcha doing, human?"

you just stopped fighting though????

This is genuinely top 5 dumbest thing any American politician has ever said. These fucking people.

I mean they do fear the base, which is why people who are not in the immediate line of fire didn't vote for this. They just don't think there's a large splash zone for that rage or that it will last until they're on the block

This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:

Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever

I'm sure a lot of lovely people live in Cincinnati, but my unpopular opinion is I care about player safety than fan enjoyment.