🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
Brain drain rocks US science community; Impact on our ability to innovate will be felt for decades. More US-trained PhDs are fleeing after graduation than any time in past 30 years. This does not bode well. We not just passing the torch; We’re yeeting it. 🧪🔭 doi.org/10.1063/sr.2...
A sentence I would rather never hear, yet here we are: "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly". #ClimateChange 🧪 Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118804
It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.
“a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet”
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Starship Troopers (1997): Arachnid Warrior Bug, animatronics testing by Amalgamated Dynamics
Small Town’s Make-Out Point Purchased By Multinational Make-Out Conglomerate https://theonion.com/small-towns-make-out-point-purchased-by-multinational-make-out-conglomerate/
On the other hand, my thesis for the Charlie Daniels Band's smash hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is that the Devil deliberately loses the contest because one catchy tune about how a mediocre fiddlist can out fiddle the devil is worth way more than a single fiddler's soul.
Invoking the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act just goes to show how much this admin is working against America.
This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.
I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Well, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:
Vulture@vulture.com · 2mo agoThere are 118 feature films, plus galas, talks, podcast recordings, and more at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Our guide to the movies and events worth lining up for.
Flock is the surveillance nightmare we all knew it was. www.gadgetreview.com/a-texas-depu...
A Texas Deputy Searched 83,000 Flock Cameras To Track Down a Woman Who Had an Abortion
Texas deputy searched 83,000 Flock Safety cameras for a woman who had an abortion — no warrant required, crossing state lines freely.
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Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy
They’re coming for the whole damn BLT! 🥪
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · last wk.Over 12,000 pounds of bacon recalled. See affected products
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
Call me old fashioned, but I would simply not link my financial security to a man known for erratic drug-fueled meltdowns, banning people on a whim, and who also repeatedly posts white supremacist content
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · last wk.oh good the full self-driving of money has finally arrived
The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.
"French wildfire creates lightning storm as it threatens Bordeaux" is not a headline that should exist in real life
No one you've blocked was ever gonna show up with a lost long treasure map and invite you on an adventure. You've got nothing to lose.
Kira Leigh 🏳️⚧️@kiraleigh.bsky.social · 2w agoblock whoever you want. mute liberally. unfollow for any reason.
The post-credits scene of EBENEZER reveals the "what day is it" boy to be Oliver Twist, launching Phase 1 of the Dickensverse.
who do we want? the funk soul brother when do we want him? right about now
Final trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme