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his grandson, Chimpulse

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

All I can hear is it to TMBG's Science is Real

I just ate dinner and now I'm hungry.

Honestly a 100% straight "they can't see him" gag would be a great bit.
Open: scooter tells Kermit Mr. Cena's hadn't shown, with him right there.
Every act is them trying to do a rehearsed act with him without him. While he's there, obviously in full costume, having practiced.

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

The only good news is that they act all coy but it takes about 30 seconds of specific questions to get them to extensively tell on themselves.

definitive proof that all those miserable spam texts you hate and can’t get rid of aren’t even raising money for the candidates they say they are

shut the entire machine down immediately

Our sellers were amazing -- not only minipots of all three colors, but fill crayons matched to the floors and cabinets. Also a nice vacuum.

The faucet thing though is a bear -- previous owner had done bathrooms and noone can figure out our shower thingy, which is likely to be a problem soonish.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

this: when automated tooling reliably fixes my citation errors and generates a ToA, I'll think about using it for research.

LES Jews were generally Dodgers fans, from a sampling of those who remain Big Mad about the betrayal.

It’s not just the dollars. It’s the goodwill the US generates, the connections we create student by student—what a devastating loss

I've always liked "wingnut welfare"

Americans are still waiting on Trump's pledge of IVF treatment for all On the campaign trail, Donald Trump said the U.S. would be "paying for" IVF.

Oh you mean he lied about it, no way www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

It's looking like one of those consequences will be Walky back on the rebound, so at least she's got some upside.

This is also part of why Americans love Disney World, especially the resorts fyi. You don't have to drive anywhere.

The reason so many people who went to a four year college with a live on campus structure think fondly of their experience is because they lived in a walkable community with easy access to their friends in an environment that intentionally fostered human connection

This reminds me of @avramg.bsky.social 's joke about how they honor those who invent calculus.

A photo taken through the window of a train. The name of the station "Newton for Hyde" can be seen on a sign. Inside the train a piece of paper is held up to the window with a sketch of a bewigged gentleman holding up a sign saying "Leibnitz for Jekyll"

Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.

Americans Say No As Terrified ICE Agents Flee from Angry Citizens "It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming. Every day, anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!" a rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in Kansas.

"Did you not realize what this would be, being f*cking Gestapo? Quit your job. It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming...anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!” A rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in #Kansas. www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/americans-...

Oh look, my position since Likud got back into power.

Might as well say, again, the other leg of it: A two-state solution is the only way Israel continues to exist. Nothing else is possible long-term.

“I think there’s a recognition that Netanyahu is making Israel and Israelis and Jews unsafe all over the world,” said Sen. Brian Schatz. “More and more of us are saying so and voting accordingly.”

Whatever you want to ‘get done’ while conceding the enemy’s hatred, will be done according to the enemy’s hatred. You are seeing right now what three decades of conceding Republican arguments on immigration have led to. They did not simply turn a switch. The apparatus had been built for them.

this sort of shit is why a bunch of Germans and Hungarians built the bomb in New Mexico.

Anti-semites wrecking civilisation under the cloak of fighting anti-semitism is so fucked up

"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social

My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

new stroller enables Full Grogu Mode.