My 6-year old just learned about Godel’s theory of incompleteness and is now asking everyone he knows “Do you know that you have unprovable assertions at the heart of your belief system?! How can you live like this?!?”

Elizabeth Nolan Brown@enbrown.bsky.social · 2h ago

My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”

A really funny complaint about the Zohran discount grocery store idea is that non-poor people could use it when there’s a grocery store half a mile from my grocery store that has everything cost 20% more that rich people go to because they don’t want to shop with normal people.

4) He's a long-shot, but puts a supposedly safe rural Red state Senate seat at least possibly in play. Together, all 4 of these developments signal a profound shift away from the politics of the recent past—not just Trump and MAGA, but the neoliberal order that preceded and helped produce him. 5/5

COOKIE MONSTER JUST ATE HIS SPAGHETTI

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 7h ago

ELMO PALMS SWEATY, KNEES WEAK, ARMS HEAVY

Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...

Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.

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several studies that go into how fast/severe your brain atrophies even with short term use makes me think a lot of people will be severely fucked in the coming decades

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 20h ago

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

halogen torchiere lamps lurk behind every corner, WAITING! They can strike at ANY TIME! They want to KILL YOU!!!!

as someone who has owned both kinds of shoes, this is 100% true can confirm

Aaron Ross Powell@aaronrosspowell.com · 13h ago

The important thing to know about boots is that Dr. Martens was bought by a private equity firm a while back, the boots are now garbage in terms of construction quality, but Solovair set up to make similar boots on the old equipment in the old factory and their versions are much better quality.

As I’m getting my Fall classes ready, I feel grateful to have had an academic career in spite of its frustrations. I just thought that by now I’d be lecturing on things like the location of the Ark of the Covenant or the reality of vampirism.

Seen in the wild: "Using AI to write a book and calling yourself an author is like ordering a fast food meal and calling yourself a chef. Or driving to the finish line and saying you’re a marathon runner. "

You're in your Heinlein Era. You're Harsh Mistress-Pilled. You're line marriage-maxxing.

What's unusual about China's developmental trajectory is that it's followed the classic "move up the value chain" strategy of building strength in high-skill, capital-intensive manufacturing, while ALSO maintaining dominance in low-skill, labor-intensive manufacturing. www.piie.com/sites/defaul...

In the US in the 1970s there was a popculture fad of movies & teevee about Truckers Having Adventures and I feel a need for a revival

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 16h ago

average sikh lorry driver names his truck, decorates it with handmade art, puts all kinds of signs on it to ward off evil eye and usually a message at the back saying "if you're mad at me go fuck yourself" they treat that thing better than half of them treat their kids.

❝ many of the most unhinged claims about the pandemic are now being presented as established facts, and by prominent GOP politicians, not just some guy on the internet ❞

David Schraub@schraubd.bsky.social · 22h ago

I'm going to be brutally honest: watching people speedrun conspiratorial revisionism regarding COVID just five years after the pandemic killed one million Americans makes me understand how Holocaust denial took root in living memory of the death camps. It is the same basic sick instinct.

Like, I need one of these ghouls to explain to me what actually *happens* when a cis person is being confronted. How are they meant to demonstrate their "biological sex" to the satisfaction of the person yelling at them?

Efforts to police bathrooms are evil and will impact peoples' health. Segregated bathrooms themselves must be done away with, it's the only solution. I reported this question out, years ago for @99pi.org 99percentinvisible.org/episode/wher...

Where Do We Go From Here? - 99% Invisible

Sandy Allen is a reporter and writer. They live in upstate New York and they often go into New York City to run errands and go to meetings. But when they go out, finding an accessible bathroom can be ...

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I have one answer.

Remember the Obama-era freakout over Jade Helm, and how the fantasies fueling that GOP panic turned out to prefigure this year’s occupation of Minneapolis? This is the same dynamic. They don’t feel bad about atrocities, as long as they solely experience them as perpetrators.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 2d ago

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

Look, I'm not saying the media might be a tiny bit biased, but this is how they're reporting a progressive candidate beating the establishment candidate, he's fucking WON the primary, despite his opponent vastly outspending him & everyone to the right of AOC calling him a commie (or worse)

Politico@politico.com · 20h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

what did you think vote blue no matter who meant? essays? papers? vibes?

Mizrahi Israelis present a problem for knucklehead antizionists who need to believe that Middle Eastern Jews lived in harmony with other groups until Ashkenazi colonialists screwed everything up

Dalassa@dalassa.bsky.social · yesterday

Reposting with alt text because this is jaw dropping racism

the Trump vote in 2024 was a change vote, a change election. The Biden vote in 2020 was a change vote. The Trump vote in 2016 was a change vote. The elections in 2026 and 2028 are also going to be change votes. i don’t think D leadership in Congress is ready

Some comedians are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some have greatness thrust upon them and tragically cannot refuse it.

Andrew Berzanskis@aberzanskis.bsky.social · yesterday

"Instead of a portrait of the head of state, Zelenskyy suggested people hang portraits of their children in their offices, so they could look them in the eye and think not about upcoming elections but about the future." —Dmitry Bykov, "V.W.: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Making of a Nation"

I just introduced a civilian friend to ‘Order Of The Stick’, saying: ❝ First & foremost a series of gags about the absurdities of D&D … and at the same time a true epic of breathtaking scope, featuring one of the greatest villains in anglophone literature. ❞

Damn he gets it:

Ron Skolnik@ronskolnik.bsky.social · yesterday

El-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

If you have not yet seen ‘Violent Night’, I envy you. It manages to sustain the gag of Die Hard With X where X = Santa Claus — working both as comedy and as action-thriller — plus it ALSO hits all the marks of an X Saves Christmas movie. A true Xmas miracle.

Violent Night 2 | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Universal Pictures

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Fae: I adopted the voice of my target's loved ones, but I still couldn't get them to enter into any bargains with me. Other Fae: Oh, yeah, the mortals invented a machine that does that to steal money from old people, they're wary now.

Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 2d ago

When you’re reading a romance involving Fae bargains and you start to hear a sweet little distant melody chiming through the air… Then you realize it’s an ice-cream truck. Then you remember you live on a side street backed up against the woods and have never once seen an ice-cream truck here.

If you list all the crimes Trump has been credibly accused of, even just the ones he's confessed to, it genuinely reads worse than a mafia don. No wonder we feel like we're losing our minds when the media treats him with presidential deference.

I wrote yesterday: "Oil markets might even be easier to manipulate [than the general public], since they're inflected with the motivated reasoning of people who own capital and demand it appreciate in the short term. Tomorrow's problems are for broke boys to worry about."

US says deal to open Hormuz possible ‘today or tomorrow’

US Treasury chief says deal would include freedom of movement for commercial ships, as another vessel hit in Hormuz.

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