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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Semi-regular reminder that, since the maritime tradition is to refer to the full count of all people aboard a ship, including passengers and crew, as "souls", the correct adjective for "uncrewed", "unmanned", or "autonomous" vehicles, should be "Soulless."

I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.

Preorder for the ebook will be dropping imminently. Out May 12.

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky?

Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices?

NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN...
Press release:
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Only a very specific baking audience is going to care about this but apparently the company that makes Silpat has abruptly shut down. I’m personally buying up ones I can find from secondary retailers cause these things are irreplaceable. I’m bummed.

I am absolutely infuriated that the best damned account in this place has been run off due to the ridiculously piss-poor moderation here.

Ae’o, Hawaiian Stilt #LongBeaks #birdoftheday #endangered #nature #birds #photography

Damnit, I’ve always liked Rolling Down to Old Maui, and I feel like learning this rather ruins the original shanty for me

Small stones and a curved stick making a face in the white stripe of a crosswalk.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Can I interest you in a smile on your face? Unmute. 🪶

As a rule I'm nuanced on how media affects public perception

Police procedurals make us think law enforcement officers are better than they are and normalize the extrajudicial killings of ordinary people.

I think we should stop making them. And for that to happen you should stop watching them.

I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is

Broke a foot putting on pants. Surely, no way I had done such an absurd thing, so then I walked across campus in increasing pain and ended up stuck on the other side before getting my freshman dorm RA aka person with car to take me to get an xray.

Clip from a Gothamist news article that reads "Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data from anyone who enters its supermarkets, according to new signage posted at the chain's Manhattan and Brooklyn locations earlier this month. Anyone entering the store could have data on their face, eyes and voices collected and stored by the Rochester-headquartered supermarket chain. The information is used to "protect the safety and security of our patrons and employees," according to the signage. The new scanning policy is an expansion of a 2024 pilot. The chain had initially said that the scanning system was only for a small group of employees and promised to delete any biometric data it collected from shoppers during the pilot rollout. The new notice makes no such assurances.”

Apparently Wegman’s is now storing biometric data on shoppers, including eyes voices and faces 😬
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you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks”

whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to”

don’t give them cover on it

“Everybody is very, very just totally, totally, totally, troubled.” Preach, Leader. Your oratory fills my heart and gives me strength in these troubled times.

Also this oldie but goodie:

my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them

Black and white cat with a cheerio stuck on her head

Amazed at how long this cheerio has remained on my cats head as she wanders about, under beds and couches.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

Again, the man who’s next in line for the presidency after this walking corpse has said he’s deeply influenced by this outright Nazi, so maybe we could get a little more attention on that?

Welcome to 2026. 🥳😮‍💨

Epic chicken sandwich — The Carlson Lab Invocation to Sandwich: April 22, 2025 The madness creeps in for the first time as a Master’s student in my lab is telling me about her job hunt. Did you know that Epic – yes, that Epic, the electron...

This was probably meant to be a late-night post: I spent eight months working on a stunt blog about a $200 sandwich. Or, no, I did an end-of-year post about my mental health and the federal funding crisis. I'm not sure which. Maybe you can figure it out. www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/epi...