Sans from Undertale

Morning !!!

Earthrise.

Taken #OTD 56 years ago.

In terms of seeing that we're all on this one single planet, it's one of the most important photos ever taken.

“Holy infant so tender and mild” will never not be funny, don’t write lyrics when you’re hungry.

I play too many games

Wow. Amazing how Buddhist poets over 2000 years ago perfectly anticipated social media

"Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass & metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools HAVE to. That’s the question that needs to be asked”

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...

This one must have been sent from The Lake House.

She strikes me as a woman who knows how to
TAKE
CONTROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.

Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.

www.propublica.org/article/unit...

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(handing ballpark organist a folded piece of paper) ORGANIST: your walk-up song is "duck tales theme song"?

Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'

Steinbeck: What did you think of my draft of 𝘖𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘯?

Publisher: It needs more characters.

Steinbeck: I'll see what I can do.

Trump says RFK Jr. will investigate the discredited link between vaccines and autism: ‘Somebody has to find out’ Researchers attribute a rise in autism diagnoses to increased screening and changing definitions of the condition. Hundreds of studies have found childhood vaccines to be safe.

This is the ultimate expression of the “just asking questions” bullshit. This HAS been studied and investigated in many different countries, Andrew Wakefield’s grifter claims HAVE been completely discredited. THERE NO FUCKING CONNECTION BETWEEN VACCINES AND AUTISM!!

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Took me a bit but I've found the framing to put into words a way to express to the people fretting about the death of the UHC CEO why we just aren't heeding their admonishment:

The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it.

But it's more than that.

Jesus Christ be praised!

I have two young kids so Bluey soundtrack was the entirety of my post played, but "Follow You Into the Dark" has been top of my list.

Also fitting that Spotify found this to be my "Scratch" soundtrack.

Report: in a bid to capture the “chaotic energy” of early Bluesky, Threads is trialing a new algorithmic feed where every 4th post is a poorly lit photo of a flaccid penis

A photo of the crescent moon with craters and mountains visible in the side of the moon facing the sun. In the larger shadowed region, Earthshine is faintly visible. At top right is the star Spica.

A high dynamic range photo (HDR) of the crescent moon this morning after an occultation of the star Spica. HDR enables us to see the dim Earthshine in the shadowed areas of the moon and the surface features in the relatively bright crescent area in the same photo. #astrophotography #moon #spica

In my headcanon DB Cooper is Tommy Wiseau and nothing can change my mind.

I have been suffering from depression and my extraordinary husband just sent me the attached and you should follow him, he is a remarkable man, as courageous as he is insightful, as strong as he is empathetic, and brilliant all the time: @bendavison.bsky.social

SAM: But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.
FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?
SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.