New context for me -- thank you

It's never about hello.

Actually, no.

1) Interviewee is a research scientist who is expert in public mass violence -- not a pundit.

2) He draws the distinction between public mass shootings and DV/violence toward women incidents. Those are the 4 relevant factors; misogyny is not one of them.

@Valdevia_Art 28 days ago Biogeodes, also known as Flesh Stones, are organisms that live encased in a rock deep underground. It is thought that they survive for millennia in this stable environment. Breaking the rock and exposing the creature to outside air invariably kills it, making its study difficult.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

Reid over here winning hearts and minds

Suck on it.

Hello Peabo -- what game are you in?

The Mind of a Mass Shooter: Narcissism and Violence - Ragy Girgis M.D. YouTube video by Brad Carr

Four common factors motivating public mass shooters:

1. Fascination with/affinity for firearms
2. Nihilism, which manifests as suicide in its most extreme form
3. Malignant narcissism: the desire to perpetrate aggression upon others
4. The desire for fame

per

www.youtube.com/watch?v=go57...

The Mind of a Mass Shooter: Narcissism and Violence - Ragy Girgis M.D. YouTube video by Brad Carr

Four common factors motivating public mass shooters:

1. Fascination with/affinity for firearms
2. Nihilism, which manifests as suicide in its most extreme form
3. Malignant narcissism: the desire to perpetrate aggression upon others
4. The desire for fame

per

www.youtube.com/watch?v=go57...

Imagining what the state of this world would be if we had been calling Nazis Nazis then and ever since, and concluding that it would be a much better place.

Would this century have been different if those killers had been described as Nazis rather than as nerds in black trenchcoats?

there is a war going on for your delicious brain

Thought that was spelled Theeloniois -- guess I've been calling him "*Thee* Irishman" for nothing.

Defund the hostile domestic troops who wage war against the civilian population of the United States.

*wank wank wank*

you lost me at the nazi tattoo bruh

😂

Yeah, the “he contains multitudes“ is the icing on the cake of this shit sundae skeet. He contains multitudes? Ok bro — so does my nutsack.

Man wearing a literal Nazi tattoo and people are still beating the DONT RUSH TO JUDGMENT drum while the rest of us roll our eyes.

“We don’t need another Fetterman in the Senate,” says Graham Platner.

Irony just choked to death on a clam strip.

Certainly this technology will never be put to misuse.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

The ultra-rich decided it was cheaper to buy Congress than support public goods because then they could also make Congress shoulder the blame for killing public goods. read the @raxkingisdead.bsky.social essay that scott is reacting to.

We are so far beyond even Teapot Dome levels of "government captured by private industry" in this country, and Democrats genuinely seem to believe their unpopularity is driven by being too nice to trans people, instead of being driven by their screamingly obvious hypocrisy about this.

Matthews is one of our unlikeliest real ones, he's the son of South African Quakers and left the country rather than serve in the apartheid military

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

Arrogance to achievement ratio approaches infinity
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

How do I get better at first-person shooters? "Are there any good games, new or old, that encourage learning this mysterious combination of moving, pointing, and shooting that I seem to lack?"

In this week's advice column, @midimyers.com explains how to get better at aiming and also gives the letter-writer a thought experiment to consider based on the games they most enjoy, which is... do you need to?

Facts About Wonder Bread's Dark Origins Until the mid-19th century, your average loaf of bread was grainy, heavy, and dark. With innovations like mechanical slicers and refined flour, however, bread became white, fluffy, and in the perfect ...

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woah. I looked this up and learned some things

white bread/whiteness = pure
dark bread/nonwhite = dirty

Recalling a story I read as a child where the (Jewish/Eastern European) immigrant was othered via their consumption of dark bread.
Understandable in broader context now.

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.