California man arrested for allegedly swapping in pasta for Lego pieces then returning them Irvine police department announces bust in pun-filled social media post about alleged $34,000 Lego looting

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AI MAGA girl

This MAGA girl in your social feeds? She's AI-generated, cooked up by a scammer. @ejdickson.bsky.social has the goods:

www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

It was all, as one might say, “a bit on the nose.”

Saturday night: I dream Julius is brand-new, but still full grown.

He is so brand new, he’s like a doll out of the box. There are small plastic rings holding him in place. I have to cut them to give him freedom.

He purrs in my lap, grateful. I take a photo with my phone, but he is invisible.

Saturday morning: I’m waiting for Dar to get home with the car so we can go to the vet to help Julius. It’s too late. I whisper begging my mom to help.

Julius dies in my arms.

Friday night: I dream I’m scrambling to get him to the doctor, because I fear he will die soon. I want the doctor to help him cross over.

My mom (dead since 2014) appears. I notice we are in a nice but unfamiliar house. She assures me that together we can get him where he needs to go, it will be OK

Julius Exit Dream Trilogy No One Asked For!

Thursday night: I dream he is vomiting uncontrollably; I fear he will die soon

Friday morning: I wake up to him vomiting (not uncontrollably but still)

Friday evening: he quickly shifts from having an appetite and energy to being withdrawn and lethargic

In honour of his memory, here’s a couple more sexy poses he struck:

My favourite cat died yesterday morning. (He’s the one in my pfp.)

He had a heart murmur, and kidney failure, and he was about 15, and none of that softens it really because he was my favourite, and I know it’s bad to have a favourite, but the truth is the truth.

the last screenshot will def resonate on here

I swear to god if i see another fucking person posting with a pic of their cat or dog i will like it and possibly leave a delightful reply

A cost of not-dying adjustment 🪙

The poster as a baby, with her mother and grandmother — both of whom are legally Canadian, if only OP can prove it

Life has been A Lot so far this spring. I hold out hope for two things on Gail Day:

1. Proof of my citizenship, and thereby of hers — however posthumously;

2. Heaven, someday…with a swim-up bar, and freshly-laundered towels for barflies and our cats

My mom would have turned 71 today.

This “lost Canadians” quest I’m on is bittersweet for a lot of reasons.

I’m raising a Labatt Blue in her honour tonight.

(In her final months, aged 59, she swore Canadian whiskey was the only balm for her metastases. I do not regret buying a mL of it.)

this is a million times better messaging than this account's other post that included "global elites" slopulism

The road-user equivalent of trying to Get Picked

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

“Some of the studies are testing new treatment regimens for drug- resistant tuberculosis,” I explained, hoping I could convey the very real danger in terms that would register with this audience. “Thousands of enrolled patients are at risk now that their lifesaving treatment is stopped. But that’s not the only danger. We only have limited options to treat drug- resistant TB. We’re using our antibiotics of last resort in these trials. Interrupting treatment midstream risks the development of new, even more drug-resistant strains that could be untreatable. For an airborne infectious disease, that is a serious national security risk.” Adam thought for a moment and then responded, noting that the political appointees at USAID were “not health people.” It would be hard, he surmised, for nonexperts to understand this issue. And so he suggested that we draft a simple, “Barney-style” set of slides to help the political leadership grasp the dangers, referring to the purple dinosaur of children’s television. He recommended that we use the term “Super TB” instead of “drug- resistant TB” to describe the mutations that can develop when treatment is interrupted, because it might be more likely to “catch their attention.”

A Trump guy who was part of the team dismantling USAID didn't think political appointees could grasp the concept of drug-resistant tuberculosis so he asked workers to explain it as "Super TB" in "Barney-style" slides.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

I do admit that to tech billionaires, "what if you had an underling that didn't know how to do their job but brownnosed you at every opportunity" probably does seem like a breakthrough in computer "intelligence." Wow, it's so lifelike, etc.

Pope Leo on an airplane, standing in the aisle, holding a baseball bat.

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

The iron pyrite calf, right there

I guess a silver lining of AI slop proliferation is that McNaughton guy must be out of work now?

In fact, more men have lost potus elections than women have so maybe we shouldn't run men anymore.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here

he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor

and still, they threw him out

and you know what? they did it by voting

don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

I'm not a political scientist, but Viktor Orbán seems like a good reminder that every strongman seems infallible and unbeatable until they aren't