The view from Garfield Place in Brooklyn at the start of No Kings

Our Cow Angus We bought a cow!

MSCHF bought a cow and presold the meat. The catch: if within two years most buyers felt remorse and canceled their orders everything would go unfulfilled and Angus would live.

I am happy to say that, at the very last moment, 50.1% of buyers cancelled their orders. Angus lives!

An Epoch in England Wherein the author gets lost in the Devon countryside

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Disgusting. Tom Bombadil doesn't "fuck." He "makes sweet love."

Where do we register our complaints that we liked the old caption better?

This is too harsh. If there's one thing we know about Trump voters, it's how much they value decorum.

There was an inquest in the UK recently which is why it's in the news again.

Trump has no intention of treating the current residents as citizens of the United States. Not that that counts for much these days.

Will this hellish reign of socialism ever end?

It's established that a sledgehammer won't do it, which is why a construction company is hired.

Also, there were active investigations and appeals and releasing files can fuck up your ability to prosecute those cases. The Justice Department typically doesn't release materials for that reason, although here in retrospect the public interest here clearly outweighs that concern. 2/2

The Justice Department is supposed to be independent, and make decisions separate from the White House and without regard to the party currently in power. That's largely been true under Democrats; that's why the investigation into Hilary's emails didn't get quashed. 1/2

Pretty sure Hegseth couldn't lead a wino to a bottle of booze in a liquor store, let alone a military coup.

On second thought that's a bad choice of example for Pete, but I think my broader point stands.

I think everyone going for the Nazi SS is overreaching. It's clearly just what the person making the placard hears if the person demanding it is slurring their speech for some reason.

The Republican vision of a "race-neutral" society looks an awful lot like the Jim Crow South.

While US fair food is certainly world class in the fry-something-already-incredibly-unhealthy competition, I assure you the average Glaswegian chip shop is equally innovative.

I take it as direct evidence of the current dystopia that it took me two minutes to realize this wasn't ad copy for a real company, and even then I had to Google it to be sure.

They're working to fix that glitch.

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The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.

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The impressive thing is that the economy has been doing as well as it has *despite* them botching things in a half year. It'll be interesting to see how long Wall Street continues to convince itself this is all a momentary blip.

I can finally watch Oppenheimer as it was meant to be seen: silently on my neighbor's screen with subtitles on during a transatlantic flight.

i think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up

Oh God I'm playing it wrong.

Am I the only one who feels like you can't describe someone as getting "gored" and then later describe is as "minor injuries?" Is it really possible to be "gently gored?"

Likewise! And here I was getting kind of fond of the angry lizard.

See, the weird thing is you got the whole your/you're thing right on the second try in the same damn sentence. So it's kind of a marvel of low-energy posting.

If I were Canada I would already have passed a massive amount of funding establishing a flagship biomedical research program based in Toronto and be well into recruiting the absolute top talent from the United States.

Is this already happening? Ditto in Europe? This feels like such a no-brainer.

Social media these days feels like one of those Super Mario games where you have to keep jumping from one platform to the next before it falls into lava and if you pause for half a second you end up dead. Or arguing with incel Nazis. I think I lost control of the metaphor, but you get the point.