Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Special (proper order) - incl. California Raisins - YouTube

Bc the same guy who did the raisins had an animation studio and got to do what he wanted. It's a Christmas staple in our house; we've had it on DVD for 15 years youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.

He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.

By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.

Oooh! Native or Asian?

Thanks for this. I often think that the hero worship that characterized 18th- 20th century science distorted it by emphasizing personal glory over truth. Watson’s story feels like a perfect distillation of that effect.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

So you're saying the Funko bubble might

Pop

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

people.com/armed-agents...

Hahaha. Too real.

There was a lot of toxic shit about early bluesky but I will always be grateful for it instilling in me how easy and mandatory alt text should be.

He just got a trillion dollar package, and sure it's bullshit and imaginary but still, imagine inking a deal where you get a trillion dollars, more than anyone has ever had, and then going to your little computer and asking it to make a fake woman who pretends to like you. Weapons-grade cringe.

Somebody needs to send the Pope a Cubs shirt and invite him over to render necessary pastoral asdistance. Let’s see if they arrest *him* when he rolls up with a monstrance. 😁

LESS GEN AI

MORE SHONEN AI

$39 a year folks. Thats what killing 600,000 to date will save you.

Would it be nice to live on a world where every country with the means worked to make the world a better place?

Yes. Of course.

In the meantime if you say preventing the deaths of millions isn’t worth $3 a month, fuck you.

TBH there's not a better example of "everybody is 12" than this. The whole reason we have food aid is because if we don't send food, we'll eventually have to send troops and that's a lot more expensive.

Something something innuendo?

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

Man, I miss Mirage

A bunch of pretentious dudes who don't read, let's be clear

Gotta be honest with you, after the first $480M work week, I'd go home, spend the weekend arranging to pay my friends' mortgages and setting up scholarship funds... after the second $480M work week I'd have some community aid charities all topped off... I'm not sure I'd still be working in a year.

Video game people: wow they really want us to pay 70 bucks for a game

Lego people: Just got this for $300 what a great deal

SNAP isn’t just a program – it’s a statement of our values and our commitment to our neighbors in need. 680,000 Marylanders and more than 40 million Americans across the country rely on SNAP to put food on the table.

What a banger

I met him once after a lecture he gave at my university and he was a real grumpy asshole.

Wonder if labor suddenly got more expensive at slaughterhouses and processing plants or something.

Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).