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To be fair, those guys are in some other category of rich where they don’t have to care what any of us think about their ugly shirts and slacks.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Same reason I can’t put in contact lenses without opening mine.

#FACTS

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

I’m white, but a cursory search of my social media posts and replies over the last 9 or so years would be enough to identify me as unsympathetic to the regime, and that’s enough to make me not want to go anywhere the US border while the current lot are in power.

Honestly, when have we needed RATM more than now?

It’s almost as though the US is being run by an utter simpleton with no desire to understand how anything works.

Right? Even by their own nonsense logic, this is nonsense.

The match is the skull that doesn’t cover most of his jawline?

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

White smoke over the oil refineries in New Jersey means they’ve chosen a new Jon Bon Jovi.

It’s *great* photo. Glad there was someone there with more than just an iPhone to document it.

I went to see Krapp’s last tape in London once, my friend Dave got the tickets, I was blown away, came out thinking “I bet John Hurt would do a great job in that role”, subsequently discovered that I had actually just been watching John Hurt for an hour. I was a young fool.

Kissenger, who had one of the largest body counts of the modern era, made it to 100.

As Days Get Dark, by Arab Strap.

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

This man is, without question, a eugenicist. He is repugnant and should be opposed by everyone at every step.

When you have someone this cunning and quiet, you want him running the country.

RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

Orr is apparently guilty of the incredibly antisemitic crime of quoting a line by a Jewish comedian. This is pretty thin.

This is high art

Make it Ghibli: Howl’s Moving Castle and GenAI Slop Back in 1986 my grandmother—the late, great Diana Wynne Jones—wrote a book called Howl’s Moving Castle. Years later, it was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into an Oscar-nominated film of the same name. …

"an insult to one of the greatest living filmmakers—someone who is on record saying that the use of AI tools in artistic production “is an insult to life itself.” From the grandchild of Diana Wynne Jones, the writer of Howl's Moving Castle.

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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

They can't keep spewing carbon.

They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.

They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

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Whoever puts this on their list of five things they did this week should get the employee of the year award