Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming!

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

Exclusive | Staten Island Democrats embrace Zohran Mamdani, turn on Andrew Cuomo: ‘Voters have spoken’ Staten Island Democratic officials in the city’s most conservative borough are jumping on the Zohran Mamdani for mayor bandwagon in what critics are calling the political equivalent of a &#82…

“While Zohran builds real support across all five boroughs, Cuomo’s campaign is withering as New Yorkers learn he stands for absolutely nothing but his own ambition, dogged by scandal, corruption, and a record of sexual harassment and humiliation,” @DoraPekec said. nypost.com/2025/08/03/u...

look at these vote totals and understand that senate democrats are still backing trump nominees despite everything we have seen

Liz Warren to her absolute credit shows up on CNBC and is willing to call everyone a stupid piece of shit in a way that even Bernie would refrain from

always reskeet the shrimp mammal

Did I write about the scene where Hundra keeps eating a turkey leg while killing off a guy? You bet!

If you're a fan (or even just baffled previous consumer) of any of these films, you might enjoy this piece

Dzień dobry 🔆 Spokojnego poniedziałku i dobrego nowego tygodnia wszystkim

Guten Morgen ☕ Habt einen schönen Montag und eine gute neue Woche

🏔️ Tien-Shan, Zailiyskiy Alatau, Kasachstan
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Hilary Cass was told this directly, she was completely uninterested.

Yet more anti trans bullshit completely debunked.

The Blackthorn Beast - a taxidermy hoax in which a black dog's head was given cat's eyes, whiskers, horns and a forked tongue to create a demon-like appearance.

How your email finds me.

( must watch; trust me )

This is incredible

< remember, things could always be worse >

TERFs like to ask the big questions but they are absolutely terrified of big answers.

"Ancestors become…fairies…corporeal beings…in a different dimension…only occasionally intersecting with us…not just shades of the once-living…
The transformation of ancestor to fairy is more like the metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly than the sub-Christian notion of the ghost."

It's so funny the guy who claims to have lowered drug prices by 1500% says he fired the head of BLS because she was bad at statistics.

One thing we're likely to see sooner or later is a total collapse of legitimacy in at least one state government.

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

The North American nebula reclines below the Pelican nebula. Dark red-orange swirls of dust are present, with hues of blue and green above. A blanket of stars is scattered throughout.

North American Nebula and the Pelican nebula

I spent 11 hours photographing these nebula in narrowband. I know I've spent a lot of time photographing this nebula, but it's one of my favorites, and I do a little better each time.

#astrophotography #photography

"Conan was preceded by several attempts to capture the zeitgeist, the apparently deeply weird, oiled-up zeitgeist, of the early 80s. And it was followed by many more. "

This is why I love Bluesky

This will probably be mildly fun but I really wish they'd instead done an episode where they go to a planet inhabited by Jim Henson Creature Shop puppets. Give us some really strange new worlds.

YouTube video by Siddhant Nayak Chernobyl (2019) (HBO) - How does an RBMK reactor explodes? Lies ! Vichnaya Pamyat - Episode 5

In case you missed it, the HBO Chernobyl series wasn't *really* about the Soviet Union. It took a lot of historical liberties.

It was about the relationship between truth and power in situations where those in power don't like inconvenient truths

In other words, it was about the US right now

Language allows you to understand sentences that have never been said before

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If there were a Public Editor, she/he would dig into this story— and see who is telling the truth.

Lacking a Public Editor, NYT really needs its leaders, many of whom are former student journalists, to say more about provenance of this very damaging "Harvard bending the knee" report.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

how is pritzker the only one who seems to remember that he's the governor of a sovereign entity too

a dorito or whatever's your fav, but, yknow, more like real cheddar etc. Mexi-snacks.

For awhile in the 90s they were everywhere, but distribution slowly dried up. (Hmmm…)

I got so mad at pre-Amz Whole Foods refusing to carry them, even though they were organic, bc of annatto coloring! WTF guys.

Hahahaha, I don't typically have that level of persistence, but I can relate to the lingering resentment.

I'm still mourning a long-gone N Cali brand of Nacho Cheese chips made with organic stone ground corn, nice'n thick & textured but inhalable, with the best cheese flavor ever—just as piquant as