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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

DAMN I just realized a major marker of our generational divide is whether you:

- Come up with several short search terms encompassing the main subjects and string them together b/c you were trained on encyclopedia and fucking Dewey decimal

OR

- Type a wholeass sentence into the search bar

Oh @tkingfisher.com—something for your next D&D game. Or novel.

Imagine if this is a mutually beneficial arrangement! the gastropod slowly takes the wasp's nest to different food sources, the wasps keep predators off the engine of their gastro tour bus.

"i am doing my best attempt at science communication under extremely adverse conditions" deserves to be a copy pasta on here

biting my lip to not snark "but did they control for the Benadryl" (yes this is a joke) (for the people who don't get it: the studies linking long-term Benadryl use and dementia risk didn't control for the insomnia/untreated MCAS participants were using it for)

SCHMIGADOON! Will Open on Broadway in 2026 It's official: Schmigadoon is headed to Broadway! The stage musical based on the Apple TV+ series of the same name will take to the Broadway stage next year, in a limited engagement at the Nederlander...

Yay! Was sorry to have missed this in DC www.broadwayworld.com/article/SCHM...

You guys.

No

Do better

The president is lying

Hegseth to upend troops’ access to watchdog, whistleblower complaints New Pentagon directives will overhaul the channels that allow troops and defense personnel to file whistleblower complaints, report toxic leadership or point out discrimination.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he will overhaul the military channels that allow troops and defense personnel to file whistleblower complaints, report toxic leadership or point out discrimination based on race, gender, sexuality or religion.

The famous unicycling Darth Vader on a bridge in Portland. He is playing flaming bagpipes.

War ravaged Portland

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

I remember when an affair was enough to blow up someone’s security clearance because it made them vulnerable to extortion and blackmail.

Did I ever tell you guys about the epic email I got around ten days into January 2000?

Okay, for context, I went to a Christian college, right, and this was in the PINE email days (like fifty of you just had a flashback to those black-with-green-text terminals) and it predated email lists. /1

As People Mag Points out, a treatment for autism Dr. Oz just announced Trump’s FDA is approving is sold by a supplement company owned by… Dr. Oz.

people.com/what-is-leuc...

Alt-text: A Tumblr post by user thoodleoo. The first part is a commentary about reading ancient philosophy and feeling personally attacked by it. The second part is a quoted passage from Marcus Aurelius about getting out of bed at dawn, followed by the user’s exasperated reaction. Transcription: thoodleoo the worst part about reading ancient roman philosophy is that sometimes you’ll read something expressly saying that people shouldn’t do something that you do frequently and it’s like diogenes threw a plucked chicken at you from 2000 years ago thoodleoo like At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?” marcus aurelius just fuckin @ me next time

It’s time to check the USAID cut death toll.

It’s over half a million now.

I am begging men to do this.
Begging.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Dinotopia market looking cool as hell with people and dinosaurs living in peaceful coexistence

some of us still believe in the promise of a better future
some of us out here refusing to give up on the dream of building a dinotopian society

The legendarily cursed blue bronco of DEN

ALL HAIL BLUCIFER

jfc if we had a functioning government they'd be freaking out over this.

...course, if we had a functioning government...

I miss soft power.

I'm seeing people deciding to let their season passes to Disney's theme parks lapse, which might be the thing that ultimately gets the company to regain its spine

Disco Elysium is truly the most leftist game of all time, the studio immediately collapsing into bitter infighting demonstrates the depth of its authenticity

My kid rocked a 3-piece suit last week so naturally we ordered him an NA Sprite “martini” with a twist. Neither shaken nor stirred.

A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

If you don't know the lyrics to Barrett's Privateers, are you really even a broken man on a Halifax pier?

Missing poster for the Lost Boys cast

How are these kids still missing it's been, like, 40 years now