"USian" oh come on, it's just too easy
God Bless Haley Stevens to look at all the dooming and cross-coalition sniping going on in the Democratically-aligned world as we all ramp up our collective traumas and anxieties for E-Day and deciding "No. This cannot stand. I must give them a figure to hate, together. I must do this alone."
this is a perfectly reasonable list, imo these four are all monumentally awful on trans issues and this is a more than fair place to draw the line, especially given how the elections currently look - three of them are in the house, where dems will romp regardless, and iowa can do better than turek
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last wk.The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.
Two right answers for wildly different reasons
Shrew@shrewshrew.bsky.social · 2mo agoAll these posts about "Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring" and y'all showing pictures of powerful men. When human men famously were instantly disqualified in LOTR? Mr Darcy who spends half his own book being a prideful shit? Look at yourselves Anyway the answer is Fanny Price
GERALT: Hhh. Seven Monster cans. Empty. And a diet Dr Pepper. If you're lucky, you've got a pack of small gamers. VILLAGE HEADSMAN: And...and if we're not lucky? GERALT: One really big one.
Screamer Jim@screamerjim.bsky.social · 2y ago*finger to the air* a turn up god stood here
This is what passes for 'evidence' for the lab leak: - The CIA says it (other intelligence agencies disagree) - They were doing gain of function research (this is common and has never led to a lab leak) - They had lax safety standards (untrue and also so do lots of other labs)
I'm not sure if he intended it, but the line actually makes sense if Odysseus is referring to Hesiod's Ages of Man. It's anachronistic to when the Odyssey was set, but not when it was written.
the kelp of discontent 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴@dov.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Our age of bronze is collapsing" being an actual line made me feel violently ill. We get it, Nolan. You read a book. You know the lore. Shut up.
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
Climate denier MO: zoom in and start at the warmest year you can find. They do this every time
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3mo agoA recent viral graph found fewer days in the contiguous US above 95F/100F/105F today than in the 1930s. But the graph is misleading – it fails to correct for changing measurement times and techniques, and overstates regional warmth. I take a deep dive at The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink....
Have a video of two very goofy GBH fighting.
"Traditional Chinese Medicine" is a pseudoscience legitimized and massively promoted by the Chinese state, to the degree that skeptics sometimes face political persecution and job losses. It is also a $92 billion pharma industry.
Stone Butch Blue Velvet@jennyllello.bsky.social · 3mo agothey have cranks and racists and crystal/herb medicine and if you drink out of a plastic container you will die poor sad and lonely but unlike the USA those people do not have any power beyond annoying the people next to them. and it DOES seem to work a lot better, this century at least.
Pre-agruculture utopia people when you ask why all the bones have marks on them:
@rprobbins.bsky.social · 5mo agoA different take on that statement from an archaeologist 💯💯💯🎯
The oil and gas industry thought it could get away with hiding its toxic waste in injection wells. What to do with oceans of toxic oil and gas wastewater? Just blast it all underground and forget about it. Until it returns. This is just beginning.
Oily sludge is flooding their dream home. Oklahoma regulators say they can’t help.
The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...
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googling "grandparent rights" after my daughter said i wasn't allowed to see my grandchildren anymore after the second "i bet she's not actually allergic to cherries!" incident. my phone beeps. inbox full. every newspaper in the anglosphere wants to talk to me.
L Ron Mexico@lronmexico.bsky.social · 6mo agoCaught in a barb wire fence, twisted sideways, pants ripped down to my ankles. Outsmarted again by gophers. Suddenly, I see dust billowing up from the horizon. It’s a convoy of rental cars! Hundreds of national reporters are on their way to ask me about gas prices and woke
This isn’t excusing the military, of course. “Instrument of inchoate violent spasm kills thousands” is not a compliment.
found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.
Aldi and Costco are in a competition to create the most brutally efficient shopping experience imaginable. I, for one, fully support their efforts.
dxmnkd316 🦃@dxmnkd316.bsky.social · 9mo agoWhoa. Costco with some serious apex predator tech being deployed. They now have roving helpers at checkouts that prescan your entire cart using *fingertip* scanners while you wait in line. They just point and it scans. Nothing comes out of your cart. At the actual checkout, it’s just card & pay.
Found this in a thrift store in 2015
Pluribus is a show about how you should never open attachments from an email if you don't know the sender.
“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin
We've successfully gone from "billions dead collapse of global systems" to "make everyone poorer by about 10-15%", which still isn't great. +2C target is probably not going to happen at this point but every fraction of a degree is a lot of lives.
Sam Bergman@violanorth.bsky.social · 12mo agoLot of people are already passing this around with the usual "WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING" shrieks, while ignoring the fact that the article literally says that this is a *significant* decrease from the warming that we were on track for even a few years ago.
This is why The Long Dark is about as enjoyable as a hangnail.
Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · last yr.I love the "it's realistic.. Real life is brutal that is why you starve to death if you don't eat an entire roast chicken every 15 minutes" as a gaming philosophy.
A lot of geology discoveries are surprisingly recent. Plate tectonics wasn't proven until the 1960s and there was still debate on it into the 70s.
Talia al Ghoul 🏳️⚧️@usili.bsky.social · last yr.As a fun reminder, the paper to come out with the first hard evidence that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs didn't come until 1980 *and* the Chicxulub crater wasn't officially identified as the source until 1990 (despite its discovery in 1978).
The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
Jeffrey J. Hall@mrjeffu.bsky.social · last yr.Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.
Comedians being recast as great truth tellers with some piercing insight into society is a neat piece of self-serving rhetoric that we’ve obligingly swallowed since Carlin. Unfortunately, some of the worst people you’ll ever meet in your life are good at getting a laugh- it’s not a mark of virtue.