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Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

A gorilla in a food stained white tank top. He's smoking a cigarette, probably a Pall Mall.

"The next enclosure features the Western Lowlife Gorilla."
"You mean Western Lowland
Gorilla?"
"No."

God, a thousand times this.

That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.

I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.

While he was ultimately convicted, Guiteau was not alone in this argument.

Others had also accused the lead physician, Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss, of negligence.

That’s not a typo BTW. The doctor’s first name was Doctor.

Our takeaway from all this? Wash your hands.

“I did not kill the president. The doctors did that. I merely shot him.”

—Charles J. Guiteau, charged with the death of President James A. Garfield, 1882

Let’s get into it. 🧵⬇️

In light of today's trial in United States of America I decided to finish the lyrics to this 👉

A young child stands within a pentacle, made from and rimmed with toys. A stuffed ladybug sits at the center.

[3am]

Lily’s father awakens to the feeling of hot breath on his face and the smell of sulfur. He opens his eyes and finds himself staring into a pair of red, glowing orbs. The ladybug unhinges its jaws, revealing two perfectly formed rows of razor-sharp teeth. He screams.

I don't know if there's a right time for your preschooler to whisper, "are humans made out of meat?" in your ear, but I know that 3 AM is the wrong time.

[just trying to chill with my kid]

15: you breathe loud

Me: what?

15: your breathing, it’s annoying

Me: so…stop?

15: if you wouldn’t mind

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

I know absolutely nothing about baseball, but as a devoted cricket fan the idea of a game that grinds on for hours on end with no prospect of either side winning is EXTREMELY APPEALING to me

According to our guide "it's normal for the steam engine to scream when it's working"

You and me both, steam engine.

You know how they throw the ball into the crowd after they win the game?

That's not allowed in bowling. I know that now.

Movie theater

Me: pass the popcorn

Monster under my seat:
ya know…there's nothing wrong with going places alone

My mother in law is so strange

It’s raining super hard and there she is, outside my locked door challenging me to another game of charades

A large dark-brown bear, up on its hind legs, inspecting a modern bike that's chained to a railing on a wide paved path thar winds through trees. It's an Andean spectacled bear called Juan that escaped from his enclosure in the Berlin zoo. (Pic: Reuters)

It's been years since my circus career, and this one's a bit bigger, but they say you never forget how to ride a bicycle

I don't care if you left Twitter. Good for you. This isn't about your personal moral development, it's about the fact that there is a massive public forum that 90% of American elites us that is dominated by neo-Nazi, antisemitic politics.

An old woman walks a goose through a market on a leash.

Technically true or not, Enid was pretty sure that her husband George was never going to call her a witch again.

Trump shitting on America

New view from the White House

That was a great
interview by the way

[wedding]

PRIEST: repeat after me

GROOM: after me

PRIEST: ... [to bride] is he serious

BRIDE: no his name is gary

Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

Separation of Church & State protects everyone's right to however they want to practice (or not) their faith.

Among everything else fascinating about the Louvre heist, it's delightful it took place at 9.30am. Most of us, if planning a massive jewel theft, would be setting an alarm for the middle of the night. The French remind us you can have a decent night's sleep and THEN do it.

Looks like 1.8C (and higher) over the pre-industrial baseline is incoming.

We are all so much older now.

www.karstenhaustein.com/climate

Simple black and white line drawing of a long thin sausage lying horizontally across the page. It has a forked tongue pointing up halfway along, and two little dot eyes. Caption: If snakes were wide

If snakes were wide

Very close up photo of a jumping spider's face. The little tufts of "hair" are sticking up and the hairs across its face are all over. The 4 eyes we see have the reflection of a camera lens that makes it look like large pupils. The Background is reddish and looks a bit like the zoom backgrounds some people use.

When you have an 8 am zoom meeting and you woke up at 7:55 am.