Yes, the president leaked Tom Cotton's cell phone number, but you should not sign Tom Cotton up for Act Blue donation requests or testosterone pill scams or other things like that, because that would be very funny.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 7d ago

Holy shit.

The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.

this is the absolute best part of visiting pompeii the city is filled with graffiti like “Aufidius was here” and “I screwed the barmaid” and “Epaphra, you are bald!” people have just been people, forever

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”

Oh my god, yes. Not being able to share cultural experiences with anyone is incredibly isolating!

That book inspired the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing, which killed 167 people, including a bunch of kids in the building's day care center. In case you wondered how dangerous this rhetoric is.

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name@avel.kairos-research.org · 3mo ago

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

Me in AZ when people schedule 8AM CDT meetings on a Monday.

Sarah Andersen@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A lot of education tech is extractive. Schools are underfunded but governments keep shoveling money at tech as a magical cure-all. Most school districts don’t need more tech. They need well-paid teachers, never-ending school supplies, and good textbooks. They want in on the grift.

Mashable@mashable.com · 3mo ago

AI company Realbotix is piloting STEM robots for rural schools.

Taco Bell was one of the first companies to sign the "Yes, we WILL only buy tomatoes from farms that stop doing slavery" pledge with Coalition of Immokalee Workers. @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social

emily s.@emily.news · 3mo ago

i have strong priors (mostly based on vibes) that Taco Bell is the best fast food restaurant for how they treat their food and their employees and those priors keep getting confirmed

[Raises hand politely, clears throat]: Gay men actually count as men.

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

hopital

Audrey Farnsworth@audipenny.bsky.social · 3mo ago

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

ad nauseam

Rachel Cohen@cohen489.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the only legal analysis take I trust within an hour of a highly technical opinion coming down is that Samuel Alito is going to hell, which is helpfully also evergreen

Black, White, and Yellow by Marc Mendelson, 1952 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137458

I’d like to thank the BBC for trusting me to take over as showrunner of Doctor Who. I’ve got some big changes planned which I’m sure fans will love! For starters, instead of an alien from space, Doctor Who will now be a private investigator in Southern California who drives a Pontiac Firebird

For the first time in nearly thirty years, here's a brief glimpse of David Tennant's 1996 short film, 'Quality Control'! I'll premiere the full film on my Substack (link's in my bio) on Saturday, June 13th at 10:00 AM EDT / 3:00 PM BST. Make sure to subscribe - it's free! - so you can catch it!

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Goodbye to seasonal viruses as we know them: the first universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergies is now closer than ever

Scientists are getting closer to a universal nasal vaccine that could protect against respiratory viruses, bacteria and even allergies

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SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP

David Tennant Updates@davidtupdates.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New picture of David with his picks in the Criterion Closet via Criterion Collection on Twitter.

new conspiracy theory: Trump started the war to get out of going to his son's wedding

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Q: Are you attending your son's wedding this weekend? TRUMP: Uhhhh. He'd like me to go. I'm gonna try and make it. I said, 'This is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things.'

Read to filth by my 9yo while watching today's @gamechanger.dropout.tv - Jeremy's line was "Filthy, disgusting, and full of conservative dumb virgins" to which my kid whips around to me and says "That's you, Mom!" #ouch

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Derek Thompson is the canonical example of what staying on Twitter does to your brain.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed an HIV vaccine candidate that achieves something never before observed in the field: inducing detectable neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) against HIV within just THREE weeks after a SINGLE immunization which was further INCREASED after an additional booster.

Before it goes up… take a deep breath, remember how special it was, know that you are here as it ends, trust that we made it as special as we could and prepare to say goodbye.🩷✨🪽Thank you to the fans, thank you to the cast and crew, I am so unbelievably grateful that I got to play in this world 🩷✨🪽

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, a Democrat, holds a burning Confederate flag inside the Tennessee State Capitol as state troopers move nearby.

what's that name for the literary aphorism where if an author shows you something with a clear function early they should make it be important later on

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The U.S. Postal Service is considering allowing people to ship handguns through the mail for the first time in nearly 100 years

"Supervised probation" and 30 days in jail. Unbelievable. No meaningful consequences whatsoever despite causing immense amounts of terror and harm locally.

Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW: Kevin Pyles, a 33-year-old Glendale, AZ neo-Nazi, agreed to plead guilty to an amended charge (and another was dropped) in connection to violent threats he made blow up a Phoenix synagogue. Sentencing on May 20, but the expected terms are supervised probation and 30 days in jail.

The video game that cracked so many eggshells

Mike Ensminger Fan Account@laplanck.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?