Curse those evil polar bears!

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... • © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t.

You dumb chucklefuck.

In one of my college writing classes, my work was being reviewed by my peers. The feedback was pretty harsh and demoralizing. When it was over, as the rest of the class was packing up to go, the professor leaned over and whispered to me, "Pearls before swine."

O, U!

Anyone can fall down an internet rabbit hole. But it takes a special personality to follow a rabbit hole via interlibrary loan.

crude drawing of a smiling anthrpomorphic dog with a word bubble reading i want them to pay for what they've done

🤗

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

- Harry Truman

As Trump proves often, the reverse of this is also true.

It’s amazing how much you can fuck things up when the only thing you care about is getting the credit.

Happy to back this!

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

Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic for reporting on his drinking. When asked why such a high number, he said, "I owe a lot of bartenders a lot of money."

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

"How was it for you?"
"It was... it was good."

Writing tip: Make the perfect the enemy of the good. Then it's way hotter when they fuck at the end of the book.

"... We'd like to steal what's left."

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

I've avoided reading it pretty much to avoid bite mood.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

2 days ago.

Salute to an all-time tweet

This is one of the trends that legit gives me hope for the future of humanity

They gave the Mucinex mascot its own show?

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Quick and Meaningless Data Collection Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…

I NEED HELP!

Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!

I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!

Please circulate widely!

Hey, Beshear, Lis Smith, & associated Majority Dem-types:

If you want to kill group-speak, how about we start with “officer-involved shooting,” “ice agent involved-shooting,” “weaponized vehicle” & other mealy-mouthed obfuscations of state-sanctioned murder?

my 2011 ford galaxy could have done it in about five minutes

Danged younguns just don't appreciate the classics no more!

Yes, the fact that I'm attending the White House Correspondents Dinner might SEEM like a supine gesture of complete deference to the insane dullard who demands total obedience from the press, BUT that's until you see the secret message I have on my pocket square

6 days after Trump made 13 celebratory posts in a hour claiming that Iran surrendered to all his demands and the war is over, he’s back threatening to blow up power plants and bridges.

It seems like a Prime Minister who continues to get his corruption trial delayed for years because his government is engaged in wars has a personal incentive to keep wars going as long as possible.

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