Marcus Mauney

All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.

This feels right to us

Lots of people — even credentialed political experts! — don’t understand that literally nothing is ever settled, because the opponents of progress never go away & never stop fighting, especially after they’ve recently lost. It’s 1 of many reasons I think much of the field gets US politics all wrong.

rip gandalf, you would have loved vaping

CLICKHOLE LIFESTYLE Groundbreaking Discovery: Paleontologists Have Agreed To Start Saying That Stegosauruses Had Beautiful Singing Voices Because It's A Nice Thought And It's Not Like They're Hurting Anyone OCTOBER 16, 2017

this is where i'm at mentally these days

Show me your quick getaway vehicle.

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

That said... in your face Marin County.

A spiral staircase in a lovely concrete carpark. Out the top of the stair you can see the sky, Edinburgh Castle, and the Red Arrows.

Haha! It worked!

I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh?

#Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

Season Finale is Cuomo losing his race to become Treasurer of his local HOA, which he learns about during a neighborhood block party catered by a vendor who denies Dershowitz pierogi.

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

I wept for it was like the first turning of the leaves, the promise of a new and better season, full of possibilities

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. HAVE YOU EATEN TODAY?

Because someone told him he couldn't.

NEWSMAX * • Follow NEWSMAX 2d • Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz was once again refused a pierogi from an unwilling vendor at a Martha's Vineyard market, the latest in his controversies over pierogis in the celebrity hot spot. newsmax.com Dershowitz Again Denied Pierogi, Told to Leave Farmer's Market 1.2K 750 comments 66 shares

Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.

getting clout poisoned on bluesky is like getting high off oregano

I laughed too hard at this!
😂😂😂😂

Trump's Confederacy rises again The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.

"This embrace of Lost Cause propaganda is more than just a quirk. It’s MAGA policy. The perversion of Civil War history is of a piece with the Big Lie about the 2020 election, which Trump still insists he won, and the January 6 attack on the Capitol." — @playtyperguy.com

Late night comedy didn't change. Half of America joined a cult.

before and after of the Oval Office covered in tacky gold

no but this is crazy

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

Yes, this is how you fight, Governor!

Following my own strict rule of always sharing this when it comes across any social feed.

A French lemonade from 1651

Andrew Cuomo tweet: In case you forgot, I’m Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @zohrankmamdani This is a two man race. You look tired already. It’s just the second round.

*after getting my head punched clean off my neck in the first round* ah but now it’s round two

I had completely memory holed this lolol.

Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record — BBC News Reefs have been battered by cyclones and starfish that eat coral, but heat stress driven by climate change is the main cause of damage.

Bleaching was once a warning. Now it’s a death mark. Entire stretches of reef aren’t bouncing back — they’re gone. When an ecosystem that took millennia to build dies in front of us, that’s not “alarmism.” That’s reality.

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ICYMI: Lina Khan wrote at @nytopinion.nytimes.com about our campaign's connection to small businesses and why we need to fight the concentrated economic power that too often suffocates them.

It's not just good for a thriving local economy — it's good politics too.