This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Rancid Meat

Rays at Yankees Boyle vs Fried

There are two ways to get your pierogi at Veselka

My proposal for US-China relations after Trump is to start a direct, uncle-to-uncle cultural exchange program where we being all of the most Dongbei guys over here to meet midwestern dads, and we send southerners over to Sichuan province. I think it can fix things.

Colored droplets in corn syrup seemingly blended together can be returned to their original state by reversing the direction of mixing, a form of laminar flow called "Stokes flow".

Credit: UNM Physics & Astronomy

The default counter to drones in the U.S. Army’s new tank platoon doctrine being to “just shoot it down with coax and 120mm canister rounds” is so hilariously out of touch with the realities of modern drone combat that I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Released as single 43 years ago today

"If the Kids Are United" - by Sham 69

If the kids are united, Sham 69, Steve Hillage, Reading Festival 1978

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I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.

The situation with Russians killing a toddler with a drone is especially despicable when you realize this wasn’t a stray artillery shell that landed 50 meters off, or a Shahed drone that hit a tall building, but an FPV drone, guided in real time by an operator watching it live

San Antonio police walk back statement dismissing possible hate crime in Jonathan Joss' murder "Shouldn’t have done it. [It] was way too soon before we had real information, and I will own that," San Antonio Police Chief William P. McManus said Thursday.

We got another update on Jonathan Joss’ murder in San Antonio. The SAPD are walkkng back on their statatement that his murder was not a hate crime. I’m glad the attention to this case is forcing the police department to investigate this as what it was. A hate crime. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

And to think, Canada could have been a part of this well-run real grown-up country for the low-low price of $61-billion for a missile defence system that won't work

The New York Times insists on treating Christopher Rufo not as a far-right activist who has been successfully pushing an ideologically defined rightwing agenda, but as a respectable conservative voice and a serious interlocutor on key political issues.

That is an active, deliberate choice.

“Bacon, cheese and egg”

No better testimonial than this one on how federal job cuts put lives at risk.

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Again, why do they dress like a band of highwaymen instead of a properly constituted police force? They’re inside the security envelope of a public courthouse.

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WHAT IS THE CHARGE? EATING A MEAL?! A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL?!

1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults In the 1980s, The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization co-founded by Tipper Gore and the wives of several other Washington power brokers, launched a political campaign against pop mus...

1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults www.openculture.com/2025/05/1980...

They received presidential pardons for this ‘message’ and it wasn’t seashells on a beach.

Who Attacked Flights Near the White House? After a deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C., pilots started receiving alarms that they were next.

Update on phantom TCAS alerts in DC: "…a reliable government source told me the Secret Service had been testing equipment at the Naval Observatory, which is the vice-president’s official residence. 'They didn’t tell anyone or coordinate with anyone,' the source said." nymag.com/intelligence...

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
- Douglas Adams

"Why doesn't the vaccine I got for covid work against this new strain??"

"Windows wants me to update my virus definitions again?? I just updated them last month!"

Red October standing by.

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"Die, Die My Darling" is a song by the American horror punk band Misfits released in May 1984, seven months after the band's breakup

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