Rather Odd Pursuits 🦆

Every study about vaccines that comes out is like "this vaccine is 97% effective at preventing this disease & also 3 other diseases & it somehow helps you play the violin beautifully" and antivaxxers are doing their own research that's telling them they can cure measles by eating polar bear liver.

Israel has assassinated the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza, Netanyahu's government carried out the assassination after the team of journalists spent months reporting on Israeli war crimes, collecting daily evidence of ongoing atrocities.

Can't be to careful with splinter zombies.

Every morning, I wake up and think, "Maybe today is the day that my personality completely changes, and I start doing all the things I've been talking about doing for 40 years.".

they are murdering the people who tell the truth.

Newsom v. Trump begins tomorrow, Aug. 11, as a 3-day bench trial. For the first time in U.S. history, a court will decide whether a president violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using military forces as domestic law enforcement.

Here are the key facts: (🧵1/9)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A man (40s?) greets a woman (20s?) and says: "You're looking chill and happy. So good to see!"

She gives him a radiant smile: "I've been spending time with my dawg today. She's like furry therapy." (1)

Or set up a genetic rescue: bring in other subspecies of priests from other regions and release them in Ireland to breed with the native priests.

A retro future style toaster in silver and brown. Star of the Red Dwarf TV show as Talkie Toaster. Always asking if people want toasted bread products.

Would you like some toast?

White House scrambles to walk back gold bar tariff amid frenzy from traders President Donald Trump's administration caused an uproar of panic from traders when it appeared to apply new tariffs to the importation of gold bars — and is now scrambling to clarify there will be an exemption, Bloomberg News reported Friday."Industry figures had understood that bars would be exemp...

President Donald Trump's administration caused an uproar of panic from traders when it appeared to apply new tariffs to the importation of gold bars — and is now scrambling to clarify there will be an exemption, Bloomberg News reported Friday.

Ready to show up and make all the other guests look better by comparison.

I stopped watching a few seasons back because they were focusing too much on the drama and not enough on the clothes. Glad to see they decided to make it even worse.

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.

This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

Wait, what?

He also cut funding for mRA vaccines which was/is working on a universal cancer vaccine.

"Don't vote for this guy because he's just like you and that makes him bad."

It's a bold new strategy, let's see how it plays out.

And schools want their tuition money. They don't care how you plan to use your degree afterward. So they have no incentive in trying to weed these people out.

They call it fiber internet because it makes the shit come at you really fast

Two scrambled eggs: stirred, not shaken.

I'm so tired of stupid people being in charge and making everything shittier and more expensive.

It's only going to loosen if you are moving the monitors around a lot. If you are going to be moving and spinning them around I would recommend a mounted one rather than a removable clamp. But if you are just going to set them up and move them on occasion or just minor adjustments, you're fine.

Consider it a health cleanse.

Gotta try and be believable.

Isn't capitalism great, folks?

You should put some ice on your knee, in the form of ice cream via your stomach.

Feeling a little blahaj this morning are we?

Tweet and reply. Ethan Jacobs posts "OK doomscrolling is bad but have you SEEN the quality of the doom this week?" Noah Silva de Leonardi replies "It's only doom if it comes from Mt. Doom region of Mordor. Otherwise it is just sparkling abject terror"

The most interesting man in the world, from the Dos Equis commercials.