Justin

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Reminder for those with no interest in football: today is a great day to get rush tickets to Broadway shows.

Steeple
Syre, MN

a lego diarama version of the hot dog suit scene from I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE, complete with tiny hot dog suited tim robinson and hot dog car, all the business people have scowling faces

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

Cold days.. 😊

[wife holding box of mac & cheese] the powder packet is missing, weird

[me holding large glass of what looks like orange milk] that is weird

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

Well yeah I would say the two most important characteristics of the American electorate are being reactionary and also having medically relevant amnesia

this nordstrom rack knows what's up

(they're playing dr dog's heart it races)

hell yeah

People mostly say "Americans live in different realities" to talk about politics but it is blaring in my head reading the positive reviews of One Battle After Another

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

look what world war 2 took

is the cure for male loneliness showing up early and setting up chairs?

homeowners are offline, renters we run this joint for the next hour

Are any of these jack shepard or John Locke from lost?

Meme image. Text reads "I bring a sort of "please move all the way to the back" vibe to "riding the bus at rush hour" that "grown adults who know better" don't really like. Image is a black man wearing a black shirt and black backward hat, standing at the railing of a small deck looking out on a yard and roadway

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

you need to see the solo breakdown https://youtu.be/lhfwmH6Q5yA?t=253

Man what the hell these are high schoolers

Claiming your property rights were infringed because your property was rezoned to allow a wider variety of uses, is just such a laughably insincere legal argument.

Edgewater residents, businesses sue city over Broadway zoning changes A group of neighbors and business owners are accusing Chicago of violating property owners' right to due process, in addition to city and state zoning requirements.

“Get in loser, we’re lighting our money on fire.” - ERRD

chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...

NIMBYS out of Edgewater

The time between new year and lunar new year is always chaotic and bad tempered cause the heavens are unsettled and in revolt

pleasant town comics thread because I've just realized I can pin posts now

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

If I was in, say, Harvey Milk's place and you told me how long the lean times would last after my death I'd wonder what the point even was. But I don't think he would, so I have no right to.