Kelsey Atherton

The American Nuclear Family is nothing compared to the American Thermonuclear Family, which allows for greater miniaturization while increasing the devastating force of its detonation.

Favorite B-52's song

Idea: An HBO Max multi-season series of the History of the Peloponnesian War where every city state is cast with actors of a particular accent.

I think the Corinthians will have a nasally Boston accent. Athenians New York melange. Spartans Texas.

CNBC Lora Kolodny article: Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says Key Points A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash. The company must pay a portion of $329 million in damages to victims and a survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages. Tesla had argued that the driver’s behavior was to blame for the fatal crash, while plaintiffs claimed Tesla’s Autopilot technology was flawed and deceptively marketed.

Elon tweet: "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.

Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"

oh noooooooooo that'd be awful

Walk the Moon

2024: forgot to switch registration to your new home but told pollsters RFK Jr in the summer
2020: Biden day-of when a friend dragged you to the polls
2016: Told people you were Bernie in the primary but did not vote in primary or general
2012: KONY

Where Wolves: Part II This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly newsletter from Inkstick Media and The World. Subscribe here. When wolves are exterminated from an environment, their wake is marked by abundance...

Wolves reduce deer/car crashes & deaths but hard to make a spooky story of deaths prevented

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Where Wolves: Part I This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly newsletter from Inkstick Media and The World. Subscribe here. Conserving the natural world means conserving natural predators within it. In Europ...

I wrote a little about it back in 2022 inkstickmedia.com/where-wolves...

Wolf attacks predict far-right voting | PNAS Does the return of large carnivores affect voting behavior? We study this question through the lens of wolf attacks on livestock. Sustained environ...

The far right especially benefits electorally from media coverage of wolf attacks www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Latest Weapons Against Wolves: AC/DC and Scarlett Johansson To protect livestock from the predators, the government employs drones that blast alarming sounds like heavy metal and humans arguing

Wolves good & important but easier ti sell them as scary than good
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

I think claiming the economy is good when it’s bad will be harder than claiming it’s bad when it’s good.

If you want to destroy my Death Star
Steal these plans and then pass away

Meet the Squonk, Pennsylvania’s depressed, pig-like creature “It’s gone from ‘what’s a Squonk’ to ‘Hey, that’s a Squonk’ to ‘see you at Squonkapalooza.’”

Look I don't like John Fetterman either but he has a name

The guys building the stupid fucking ballroom are going to get not paid like no one has ever been not paid

Tracking Senate Votes 2025

Democratic senators with the most votes with Trump this session so far:

Fetterman: 95
Hassan: 93
Shaheen: 90
Warner: 87
Rosen: 82
King: 78
Slotkin: 77

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Tracking Senate Votes 2025

Democratic senators with the fewest votes with Trump this session so far:

Markey: 2
Murphy: 3
Warren: 4
Sanders: 5
Merkley: 7
Van Hollen: 9
Hirono: 10

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

That question has bothered me since the Social Security Administration sent out an official mass email claiming the new Republican budget law eliminates taxes on Social Security benefits for “most” Americans. It doesn’t.

Read my op-ed on the SF New Mexican!

The big, ugly lie about Social Security How do you tell seniors their government lied to them?

How do you tell seniors their government lied to them?

www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/comm...

the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it

this is how it starts and then before you know it we have to live in a society

expecting a candidate running as a socialist to have an answer for ICE

If I had to guess how many Americans even know that Israel systematically demolishes Palestinian houses I'd put it at somewhere around <5%. This seems like a good way to make it >20%.

Blumenthal (D-CT) Blunt Rochester (D-DE) Booker (D-NJ) Duckworth (D-IL) Gillibrand (D-NY) Heinrich (D-NM) Hickenlooper (D-CO) Kaine (D-VA) Lujan (D-NM) Markey (D-MA) Merkley (D-OR) Murphy (D-CT) Murray (D-WA) Ossoff (D-GA) Padilla (D-CA) Sanders (I-VT) Schiff (D-CA) Schumer (D-NY) Smith (D-MN) Van Hollen (D-MD) Warren (D-MA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

Only 23 Dems voted against confirming former Congressman Marc Molinaro, an opponent of public transit, as Federal Transit Administrator.

usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/06/w...

The 21st century version of the business plot is Musk and really Thiel convincing the other plotters they don't need a coup if they have DoD contracts

TRANSPARENT YELLOW. You re normal. DARK YELLOW. Normal. But drink some water soon. AMBER OR HONEY. Your body isn't getting enough water. Drink some now. SYRUP OR BROWN ALE. You could have liver disease. Or severe dehydration. Drink water and see your doctor if it persists. PINK TO REDDISH. Have you eaten beets, blueberries or rhubarb recently? If not, you may have blood in your urine. It could be nothing. Or it could be a sign of kidney disease, tumors, urinary tract infections, prostate problems or something else. Maybe even lead or mercury poisoning. Contact your doctor. ORANGE. You may not be drinking enough water. Or you could have a liver or bile duct condition. Or it could be food dye. Contact your doctor. BLUE OR GREEN. Okay, this is different. There is a rare genetic disease that can turn your urine blue or green. Also certain bacteria can infect the urinary tract. But it's probably a food dye in something you ate. Or a medication. You won't die from it, but see your doctor if it persists.

# Value Color Beer Style 2 light lager 3 pilsner 4 hefeweizen 6 american pale ale 7 gueze 10 extra special bitter 13 enlish strong ale 17 red ale 22 dunkel 24 porter 30 stout 38+ imperial stout

Theorizing a single dual-use chart

the people cry out for Hildy Core

Jimmy Fallon's handlers getting him the Hulk Hogan branded beer on discount as he agrees to the format change

I mean I'm specifically asking about a left reconstruction, I don't think a third democratic presidency promising to look forward not backwards about republican crimes is compatible with contined democracy in this country

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

Look at that face and tell me this isn't Reddy Cuckalot