Jack Womack

A friend tells me a 2-bedroom apartment they looked at in Cambridge, MA is 6800/month. I’m sure to move would also require first, last, and security ($20,400). That doesn’t cover moving costs.

Who is affording this? Who can afford this?

It was $60ish a barrel in January. It’s $114 right now.

Experts anticipate $150/barrel, or 250% of the price it was in January, before summer.

Way to go, America. Thanks. Really gonna be great having everything even more expensive. Good job.

ANALYSIS | SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here's how that could impact us here on Earth | CBC News Scientists are deeply concerned about SpaceX's recent proposal to launch one million satellites into orbit around Earth. Their concerns range from a loss of the natural night sky and our access to spa...

“Recent studies have shown that when satellites reach the end of their lives and burn up upon reentry, they leave behind metals like aluminum and lithium.

The consequences of this are not yet known. But that's [only one thing that] concerns scientists…”

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Attacks leave dead vs killed

I never thought leopards would bomb my oil refineries

my grandparents thought the start of WWII meant the 2nd Coming was nigh; my mom and her sisters were confident it’d happen when JFK (a CATHOLIC who totes followed the ANTICHRIST) got elected; I was told it’d drop in the year 2000 (since Jesus’s birthdate was miscalculated by a few years); yada yada

I bought a used copy of Mr. wizard’s science secrets, and it turned out to be autographed. I used it for an afterschool science club for fourth graders, one chapter a week. And figured out how to relay a snack to each of the topics.🍿💦🧊🧪

Servos with no fuel MELBOURNE, VIC. — Several service stations, known in Australia as 'servos' aren't just charging more at the bowser. Many servos now have no fuel to sell anyway as fuel wholesalers begin rationing petrol and diesel supplies across Australia.

Servos with no fuel

MELBOURNE, VIC. — Several service stations, known in Australia as 'servos' aren't just charging more at the bowser. Many servos now have no fuel to sell anyway as fuel wholesalers begin rationing petrol and diesel supplies across Australia.

Iranian journalist reports in front of the flames of a burning Oil depot.

hypothetically, couldn't the regime itself bet on its own existence

The prices at the gas station across the street have jumped almost $1 this week so far

Purity culture *is* pedophilia and rape culture. It inherently sexualizes children, keeps them ignorant and controlled, and victim-blames them when they are abused. There's nothing redemptive or protective about it.

There’s new book about Edmonia Lewis! She is one of my favorite artists and the source of a tantalizing piece of lost media. In 1866, one of her early sculptures was photographed. It was just a draft depicting a freedwoman with her child. I don’t know if the photo survived but I’m still searching. 🗃️

these kids are gonna love RASHOMON (1950, dir. Akira Kurosawa)

This is the country where about 60 million people reacted to being told to take an injection to not die gasping for breath in agony as though they were the most oppressed people since the Rohingya

the thing is that it won't matter because Americans react minor inconveniences the way people in other countries react to a sinkhole opening up and swallowing the national capital during a presidential address

sure does, more so by the day

Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock

If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time

This is absolutely hilarious and deserves a Veep-style TV adaptation.

“You know the ones” in legal deposition form.

Bahrain News: Proposal to allow abortion in exceptional cases approved

Bahrain is moving to ease its total abortion ban. Abortion would be allowed when the pregnancy poses a serious risk to the woman’s life or when the foetus suffers from severe deformities incompatible with life after birth. Islamic "religious guidance" was sought for the proposal.

Oil Prices Surge Above $100 a Barrel for the First Time in Almost Four Years

“It was the first time in almost four years that the global oil benchmark, known as Brent, cost more than $100 a barrel. Oil is now around 50 percent more expensive than it was before the United States and Israel began attacking Iran on Feb. 28.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/b...

Still unbeaten in military serial killing and unquestioning acceptance of illegal unjustified orders. That's what warfighters are for, raining hellfire on boats who aren't equipped for self defense.

"maintaining editorial independence" means coddling autocrats and shitting on progressive reform

I once interviewed an expert on oil consumption that focused on consumers. He said low gas prices are a religion for Americans and they will do absolutely nonsensical things to access them, like drive miles and miles out of their way.

If you wanna lose votes as fast as possible, raise gas prices.

Starting to wonder about the wisdom of summer air travel…

Stokes’ Firing Over Kirk Post Chilled Speech at University of Mississippi, Faculty Testify The University of Mississippi’s firing of Lauren Stokes for sharing a post criticizing Charlie Kirk chilled speech on campus, faculty testified.

“Men older than me spat on me in public,” Lauren Stokes testified, speaking about the days after the University of Mississippi fired her for resharing an Instagram post that called Charlie Kirk a racist. “People are still saying vitriolic things to me. I’m still suffering and humiliated.”

These people are so incredibly fucking stupid. Evil and stupid. Murder clowns.

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