Interesting new approach by blusky to encourage alt text.

I want a Rebbe with a short skirt, and a long jacket...

1:21 in Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' Crimson and Clover live.

RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Same picture meme, left Jeffries and Schumer, right Lange and Venkatesham

Oh, what a hell of a fight!

Somehow, one of them was for Cuti.

Getting regardless, but... Appropriate for an 8 year old Wings of Fire fan?

There's a special place in hell for people who benefit daily from state of the art medical treatment and then argue that the means to discover the next state of the art treatment should be eliminated.

Save the ONPRC

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One quick way to #standupforscience is to submit a letter here.

Deadline is 2/6 at noon PT

Please repost!

Characters from musicology duck saga: all players are boy who won't get off bus till union station, frank is driver

TBF, no one reads the AI summaries either.

It'll bring you down...

As it has been for the past several years, my New Year's resolution is 1920 x 1080.

Alt-text "Anonymous Yankee"

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is 'slop' Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

When I wrote graffiti my name was...

Minard info infographic on Napoleons army march to Moscow with Chicago written over it.

1919 Reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.

Eve Ewing's (Wikipedia Brown) excellent book of poetry is on sale at Haymarket Books.

Take it easy, but take it.

Labor Day Is a Government Scam Even if the holiday wasn’t always intended to be a rip-off, it sure is now.

Enjoy the day off (if you’re lucky enough to have one) but don’t forget: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....

13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

New Music from Anti-Fascist Folk Singer Woody Guthrie Released With this reveal of 22 previously unheard songs, the Guthrie family hopes the radical messages in “Woody At Home” will inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.

"The rise of fascism in the United States convinced the Guthrie family and their associates that the music scene needed a dose of Guthrie’s anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, Nazi-punching ethos." #woodyguthrie #folkmusic #antifascist

This is such an important point. The VAST majority of funding for research comes from NIH. Stand Up To Cancer just had their telethon. In 2023 they raised an impressive $60 million for cancer research. But the NCI (at NIH) had a budget of $7.2 billion that year. Charities cannot compete.

New Music from Anti-Fascist Folk Singer Woody Guthrie Released With this reveal of 22 previously unheard songs, the Guthrie family hopes the radical messages in “Woody At Home” will inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.

The tapes were recorded in the living room of Guthrie’s Brooklyn apartment between 1951 and 1952, on a portable tape recorder...

@caroleine.bsky.social writes that the Guthrie family hopes to inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.

inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

"Efficient"

I had to pay back $0.31 because I tipped 20% on the bill AFTER tax instead of before tax.

Marshall Ramsey even. @mississippitoday.org

It's not like she wanted a wedding cake...

constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ has deleted sections 9 (habeas corpus) and 10 from Article 1.

Department of Health and Human Services—National Institutes of Health—Application of Impoundment Control Act to Availability of Funds for Grants Congress appropriated amounts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out various research objectives for fiscal year 2025. In accordance...

BREAKING: Watchdog government agency finds the NIH and the Trump administration have illegally withheld funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, and rips into HHS for failing to justify its slow-walking of funds.

www.gao.gov/products/b-3...