Oooo that’s an excellent idea

CDC pauses testing for rabies and other serious infectious diseases Disease tracking is also temporarily halted for mpox and other common viruses, such as Epstein-Barr and varicella zoster.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

RZA for the Flying Guillotine?

Get Equipped with C.R.E.A.M

They do! Desperately!

A takeaway from this article about a guy making money with an AI-generated "MAGA hot girl" is that of all his attempts it worked best because
-MAGA men fell for it (or were so desperate to believe that they didn't care)
AND
-Liberals posted many negative comments/quotes, boosting it in the algorithm

Got a bunch of hair wrapped around the axles of my office chair. Can’t easily cut it off. Considering either lighting it on fire or dipping the wheels in Nair.

US armed forces circa 2027:

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

And just to be clear, all of these people were always crazy assholes. They may have positioned themselves as moderate or liberals or whatever but they were always insane assholes. And they dominated a lot of popular discourse.

It’s a schoolyard understanding of “religion.” “Oh yeah? Well it’s against my religion to let you keep your lunch money, why are you being so intolerant instead of giving it to me ya bully?”

Feels overdetermined

Physical Description Axis: 6 Diameter (in mm): 18 Weight (in g): 2.73 Series: RIC.7 Typological Description Object Type: Coin Date Range: 332–333 Denomination: AE2 Denomination: AE3 Material: Bronze Authority Authority: Constantine I Dynasty: Constantinian Dynasty State: Roman Empire Geographic Place of Production: Trier Reverse Symbol: -/-//TR•P References Reference: RIC VII Treveri 542 Administrative History Identifier: 1954.203.89 Department: Roman Collection: American Numismatic Society Provenance Acquisition: Lot 1954.203 (purchases: Ives, Mrs. Herbert Eugene), October 1 1954 Subjects Category: Roman--Imperial--Laterempire Rights CopyrightHolder: American Numismatic Society License: Public Domain Mark (images) Rights: No Copyright - United States Map In

A happy 2779th birthday to the city of Rome. You really don’t look a day over 2000. 🐺 numismatics.org/collection/1...

Joss Whedon did not commit the same abusive behavior on the set of Firefly that he did on Buffy because of Ron Glass. Whether Glass directly confronted him or Whedon was concerned that Glass would recognize his actions is debatable. Glass did have connections to stop Whedon's career from expanding.

$108 billion in debt from this coming Warner Brothers merger will be hard to handle if everybody cancels their Paramount and HBO Max Extreme Plus subscriptions.

They’re coming for Scholastic book fair.

Infowars’ endless afterlife The Onion may finally boot Alex Jones from his studio, but years of damage have already been done.

“His ideas and what he built are so ubiquitous now," a former Infowars employee explains. "It’s been in the White House for two terms. You have all these young people picking up the torch. It’s getting far worse. The damage is done.”

Alfred 'Pee Wee' Ellis With The James Brown Orchestra - Funk Bomb YouTube video by djblender

BOTD, 1941: Pee Wee Ellis (d. 2021).
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“Don’t gimme the babe-in-the-woods routine, Karen. We’ve heard you on those tapes.”

First: hilarious.

Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.

It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

Over on Truth Toilet, Trump said in his praise of Tim Cook, "I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to 'kiss my ass.'" And that's now the only way we should remember Cook: lips firmly attached to Trump's rear like a frantic remora.

Becky Quick finally got him to respond to a question about airline mergers. I honestly want someone to ask him if he can name all of the planets.

Don’t ask him about policy, ask “Mr. Trump, what color do you make by mixing yellow and blue?”

1% is well within the margin of error but it’s notable to see him drop *below* the Crazification Factor at all

When I was a teen, I know I annoyed adults in third spaces but if you weren’t out of hand/risking harm they let you cook. Now they’re calling the cops. There really used to be a code.

🧵 Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

The AI bubbles longest gift will be showing how easily some people gave up any morals AND technological sense

Just to be close to power and money

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

this is why Dems need to go as hard as possible on reforms and actually fixing things rather than kick the can, because "people will remember how bad things were and not put these folks back in charge" is a demonstrably false statement

We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold, the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon: he esteemeth iron as straw; the arrow cannot make him flee; darts are counted as stubble; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear!