“everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” So that’s a 100% failure rate, then. All those people who were supposedly “protected against measles infection” actually got measles. Can I wake up, now? I don’t like this dream.

Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hope Rs who voted for him are pleased with themselves. And remember when I said MAGA Rs back policies that kill kids? MAGA freaked out. I was sadly right. www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...

Trump will kick Canada out of Five Eyes? I think he’ll just find Four Eyes staring right back at him, waving goodbye to the one-eyed lunatic.

Alex Panetta@alexpanetta.bsky.social · 2y ago

A lot of the details in this NY Times story are previously reported but this part - this part! - is new. It's either wild freelancing from an unconfirmed nominee; a vicious negotiating squeeze; or Canada is in severe peril with the threat coming from Washington. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

HOW did they decide this was a mistake? Upon what criteria? Public outrage? Toss of a coin? Musk’s say so? Musk’s cat’s say so? I don’t know who the hell ever thought this cretin was a genius. He’s an incompetent idiot with severe impulsivity problems.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."

Struggling to agree? “Yes, the Martians have invaded and they’re killing everyone in sight, but what should our messaging be, here? Maybe we need to run a focus group…” Jeez.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2y ago

This administration is less than a week old but we are already covering it like a horse race.

Is it one of those "help! I'm being abused" secret signals that we're all supposed to know about? Should we mount a rescue operation?

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why do I fuckeeeng sit here?

Thanks, Graham!

Graham Fox@pleasemyfox.bsky.social · 2y ago

Delighted to find the godfather of artifical life @enchantedloom.bsky.social on bluesky. Creatures 1 & 2 were some of the most influential pieces of software in my life

The chickens had hundreds of millions of years to evolve, yet they still won’t clean up after themselves. They had their chance and blew it. Easy choice. (I’m starting to feel much the same way about humans.)

Adrian Bowyer@adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Currently stuck between something non-urgent that I want to do (write a Python program to evolve an electronic design) and something urgent that I don't want to do (clean out the chicken run before they come in at dusk). Buridan’s Ass...

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the problem with tackling "wasteful government bureaucracy" is it's like deleting files from your computer called hostserver.dll that look useless and take up a lot of space and then your computer stops working

I've been lurking here for a whole hour now, and what I've learned is that the levels of snark, tribalism and psychopathy are higher here by ten whole IQ points. So that's good, I guess.