Oh ... oh ... my heart

Honestly, you're serving

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

[Via @itep.org]

Lord I know it's bait, but my childhood is BURNING to defend Mafalda

Captain Planet could not have imagine villains this cartoonishly evil.

J.R.R. Jokin @joshcarlosjosh "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "Imao" said Gandalf, "well it has."

I kinda hate what they did the Data's formerly uncanny skin tone

NYT front page placing stories about Trump threatening genocide and Melania's Easter fashion choices with similar prominence.

You couldn't parody the NYT harder than they do to themselves if you tried for a thousand years. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social has a very hard job trying to match the NYT's lack of self-awareness.

The public doesn't distrust scientific institutions because we "didn't educate them", they distrust institutions because a billion dollar, multi-decade campaign to break the social contract between science & the public has been underway for the 40+ years & now those people are in office. 2/?

A bit late, but here's my #Storygraph wrap-up for March. #booksky

These are not serious people

Golf? ewww

US shop logo over an eagle and the star spangled banner

Not an April fools joke: I've opened a US SHOP!
All orders ship domestically:
- books and riso prints ship from Philly
- b/w prints ship from Utah
Now you can get my stuff for cheaper than ever. No tariffs!

Link in bio
(Note: check out the Original of the month tab on the shop menu)

I finally put in my order, been waiting for something like this since the tariffs went into place!

"centrist" 🙄

Aging is beautiful, if also confusing and terrifying

Another day, another illegal power grab leading to another constitutional crisis

I get it duck, I completely get it

Wow, this photo makes me *Feel Things*

Thanks for these! I always wish we could see the specimens better. Such a fun and edifying podcast you guys have.

I think I threw up in my mouth a lot

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives?

A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit.

Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit?

A: No, we didn’t.

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

Imagine caring this little about people

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

www.techdirt.com/202...

Two panel comic. Panel 1: a museum display of a megalodon jaw fossil, with some museum goers standing around it. There is a graphic on the information tablet next to the fossil, depicting the approximation of the megalodon’s full size compared to a human. Panel 2: “3.6 million years ago:” we see the true megalodon as it existed, a small shark with ludicrously large, juicy lips.

This is so funny

But also deeply troubling

But also so funny

A moment of silence for all the promise that was lost

My family is from that area of Colombia going back generations and I've never heard of the grease fish. I wish it were still around to see 😭

Pleading with people to understand the scope of this.

It won’t just be for immigrants.

They will use these camps to detain anyone they deem as an “other”.

The disabled. The homeless. Trans people. Political dissidents.

Your tax dollars will be spent incarcerating people without due process.