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Right after Disney won a bunch of Emmys for Andor LOL. Anyway, seems like things are really going great when media figures can be yanked off the air for insulting Dear Leader. Replace Kimmel with the North Korean News Lady.

If you see someone not properly mourning Robert Redford on social media, report them to their employer and get them fired

AI Is Making Online Dating Even Worse What happens when users are inundated with machine-generated profiles and pick-up lines?

Every day I discover a new reason to glad I'm asexual
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RIP to a legend. As a Gen Xer, I grew up watching so many of his movies over and over again. In the Trump era, All The President's Men has become a comfort watch for me, because Nixon resigns in the end. The era when Republicans could still be shamed is long gone.

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Someone on Reddit said Kash Patel "Looks like the guy who gets bitten in a zombie movie and is trying to keep it a secret" and I am DYING

Why does he always look like he's having a psychotic break

"Political violence only leads to more violence" separating immigrant families, demonizing trans people, refusing to do anything about gun crime directed at children are all forms of "political violence" so the reactionary centrists mewling this cliché are correct in ways very few of them intend

South Korean Women Sue U.S. Military for Decades-Long Role in Sex Trade Dozens of "comfort women" filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit to target the U.S. military’s role in their exploitation.

They've already won a similar lawsuit against their own government, hope they win this one, too
www.jezebel.com/south-korean...

Dingus of the week: Malcolm Gladwell And the ourodingus

Like thank dog more people are waking up to the fact that Gladwell sucks, watching his bipartisan popularity over the past couple of decades has truly been a I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS experience
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Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease - Nature Ecology & Evolution The causative agent of sea star wasting disease has been elusive. This study used genetic datasets and experimental exposures to demonstrate that a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida caused di...

Some good news for once: the bacteria that causes sea star wasting disease has been identified, which means marine scientists can start figuring out how to stop it and restore the population of a keystone species.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.

The Trump administration lacks object permanence, something most toddlers have learned
www.404media.co/constitution...

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

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Today I cooked: baked gingerbread 🍩 with bourbon glaze; 🐔 Kiev meatballs with scalloped 🥔 and green beans; Watergate salad

But I just got my Cybertruck wrapped with Bill Clinton's head on Hulk Hogan's body!

The GOP pedo-washing has started (but it only applies to straight conservative white men)

Please enjoy this photo of 84-year-old Joan Baez flipping the double bird

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Saw a comment in the Gen X subreddit that was like "It's our time to take the reins from the Boomers!" and I'm just like, ugh. There aren't enough of us to do that, power will bypass us and go to the Millennials, and I for one am fine with it. They can have this insane circus of rabid monkeys.

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"Trump is the head of a cult that has figured out how to turn fear, precarity and pain into the top of a sales funnel that destroys anyone who gets caught in it."

If these people had lived 100 years ago they would have posed, smiling and laughing, in photos of lynching victims

Sausage gravy Drown your sorrows (in gravy)

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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills Day 171 of begging the media to acknowledge the yawning chasm between what *should* happen and what actually *is*

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Why Calling RFK Jr. ‘Anti-Science’ Misses the Real Point Battling over truth, facts, and evidence doesn’t work in a post-expertise world.

A social compact between the People and the Experts has broken. We live in a world where a thousand theories about health and wellness bloom in different echo chambers every day, a development that cannot be reversed.
nymag.com/intelligence...

Today I cooked: Irish coffee doughnuts, chicken cordon bleu casserole with green beans, strawberry pretzel salad

My country is taxing billionaires to maintain a social safety net that virtually every other citizen will need at some point in their lives!

Some paintings I've done lately, mostly watercolor but with some details in acrylic

Me if you even care

The Bezos-Sánchez Wedding Was a Real 21st Century Fairy Tale (Derogatory) This is what a fairy tale looks like in 2025: the world’s worst people descending on a drowning city, throwing money at problems they created, and asking everyone to please shut up so they can eat cak...

"But this is what a fairy tale looks like in 2025: the world’s richest, worst people descending like a pack of Marie Antoinettes on a drowning city, throwing money at problems they created, and asking everyone to please shut up and let them eat cake."
www.jezebel.com/bezos-sanche...

Today I cooked: breakfast sandwiches, pizza, and chocolate peanut butter cake

Some watercolors I've done lately