I'm going to go out on a limb and say that firing tens of thousands of federal workers in Fairfax County was not, on the whole, a strategy that endeared them to the Trump administration.

I was and am still unsure if you mean the TV show or the Peter Gabriel song, mostly because the meaning of the song was never adequately explained to me.

Sometimes think these morons just need a reframing:

“A vaccine is a live-fire, in-theater exercise in which your body trains against a defanged opponent, gaining combat readiness in preparation to kill the actual opponent with maximum lethality”

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$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn b

While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits.

Yes, $30 million per HOUR.

All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.

I just love having my privacy retroactively violated every fucking day

Big “tell the Coldstream guards to play the Star Spangled Banner after 9/11” energy here.

I read this is a William Carlos Williams “plum poem” voice and still think I am not wholly wrong.

Technically I’d go for Reconstruction-era “yeah it’s illegal now but things aren’t really gonna change” vibes. But yeah.

🙄

Literally anyone. Because I know very, very little about the overall military logistics process and even I was like "hmmm that might be a problem soon"

Yeah I think Louisiana has a history involving unpaid labor, they called it something else, though, can’t remember the word.

this is just to say

I have had an issue
fetching the posts
that were
on the timeline

and which you
were probably
hoping
to doomscroll

forgive me
the takes were so hot
and so
rate limited

--Great businessman with a little capital (never sells candlesticks to do it)
--Sympathy for former employee when she's arrested
--Warns Eponine of danger in the streets when revolution is gonna pop off
--Merciful to Javert when he could have ended him
--Endangers self to save wrongfully accused man

Megalodon set to become Maryland’s state shark The Bay State is now home to the first state shark in the country.

Proud to be the first state to have an official state shark. 🫡 How about that, @whysharksmatter.bsky.social?

I didn't know if it's true that one uses different parts of one's brain, but I do know reading what I wrote aloud catches a whole bunch of simple grammar and copy-edit errors, and it's a practice I recommend for every writer.

Boys do it, bees do it, even fishes underneath the sea do it.

Unfortunately the fishes are in the European time zone and are being paid according to their cost of living, so it’s not workflow- or economically viable to hire those of us on land in the U.S..

Stella don't* miss.

*doesn't

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

For many years people have avoided fucking corpses. Jeffrey Dahmer is taking a different approach.

The Secretary of State attending a UFC fight while wartime diplomatic negotiations fail would generate an explosive, front-page, above-the-fold headline for any previous administration

Wait...I think science has explained it...over and over and over

Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May 2025)

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

Maybe if historical dramas showed how disfigured people were from what are now vaccine preventable diseases we'd have fewer anti-vaxxers

Did lice write this?