Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
Smooch Poseurs! Stolen valor, even!!
Blurry lip look trend is neat because sometimes the wearer looks freshly kissed, and sometimes they look like a Spaghetti Mouth Kid™️
Watercolour painting of a white bunny sleeping on a slice of avocado toast using a fried egg as a blanket. Theres are halved cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices scattered around them.
Bed and Breakfast 🐇🍳
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
TIRED OF TAKING THE DAMN PLANTS INSIDE
One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.
The graves of multiple children have been defaced.
One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.
a stylized 3d illustration of an alien with a suitcase walking out of my head, which has a desk and computer inside.
clocking out
You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.
His "Losing My Mind" from Follies is deeply underrated 🥹🥰
A black cat, huddled loafingly atop a pile of packing paper.
The same black cat, she had shifted positions and is now napping atop the paper
Update: there's nothing this baby likes better than being King of Trash Mountain for a day
A black cat show from above: she is on a pink blanketed lap, her back legs splooted behind her. There is crumpled paper on the floor nearby
Spoiled Kitty Sunday: fresh crinkly packing paper on the floor for her to romp in and a warm lap for sploots
Acrylic painting of three black cats half poking their heads out from behind a couple of mossy rocks and a tree, surrounded by an abundance of lush green plants
Sneaky 🐈⬛👁️
“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,
I must listen to the birds.
And in order to hear the birds,
the warplanes must be silent”
- Marwan Makhoul
No YOUR interior life is so deep and rich that the real world seems small shut upppppp haha
A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”
Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.
post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (for the good of the nation)
A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s
Looks we love
BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)
I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like
trying to post through it rn
article, for some reason, from the new york times titled, ‘Lena Dunham Is Still Trying To Figure Out Why People Hated Her So Much,’ with a comment underneath that reads ‘i think it was just the things she said and did’
just incredible. no notes
I know it's not the most important thing here but Quentin Tarantino didn't even write the fake Bible verse. He stole it from an old Sonny Chiba movie. And something about that last extra layer of bullshit really adds something to this whole thing, to me
Highlighted in red: "Political interference is inappropriately shaping or interfering in the conduct, management, communication, or use of science for political advantage or such that it undermines impartiality, nonpartisanship, or professional judgement"
"HHS works to promote a culture of scientific integrity by creating an empowering environment for innovation and protecting scientists and the process of science from inappropriate interference. Scientific findings and products must not be suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and must not be subjected to political interference or inappropriate influence. The responsible and ethical conduct of research and other scientific activities requires an environment that is safe and free from harassment and discrimination" Highlighted in red are "suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes", "subjected to political interference", and "inappropriate influence."
"HHS works to promote a culture of scientific integrity by creating an empowering environment for innovation and protecting scientists and the process of science from inappropriate interference. Scientific findings and products must not be subjected to interference or inappropriate influence and must not be inappropriately suppressed, delayed, or altered. The responsible and ethical conduct of research and other scientific activities requires an environment that is safe and free from harassment and discrimination." Highlighted in green are "subjected to interference or inappropriate influence" and "inappropriately suppressed, delayed, or altered."
Text, with "political" highlighted in red to indicate removal: I. Protecting Scientific Processes Scientific integrity fosters "honest scientific investigation, open discussion, refined understanding, and a firm commitment to evidence" (OSTP 2010). It also enables consideration and documentation of differing scientific opinions. Practices that support scientific integrity may include peer review and open science. Science, and public trust in science, thrives in an environment that prevents political interference and inappropriate influence from impacting scientific data and analyses and their use in decision making. It is the policy of HHS to: 1. Prohibit political interference or other inappropriate influence in the design, proposal, conduct, review, management, evaluation, communication about, and use of scientific activities and scientific information. Prohibit inappropriate restrictions on resources and capacity that limit and reduce the availability of science and scientific products (e.g., manuscripts for scientific journals, presentations for workshops, conferences, and symposia) outside of normal budgetary or priority-setting processes or without scientific, legal, or security justification. 3. Require that leadership and management ensure that covered individuals engaged in scientific activities can conduct their work objectively, free from political interference or other inappropriate influence, and free from retaliation.
HHS just published an update to its Scientific Integrity Policy. Notably, it has removed the concept of political interference, and no longer calls it out as something specifically to be prevented.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul... (deletions in red, insertions in green)
My company addressed the price hike by subsidizing an additional 10-15% of the total insurance cost...but only for Employee-Only plans. So fuck people with kids, I guess 👀
Read an article this morning about how Allbirds is pivoting to become an AI company and goddamn if a company turning from eco-friendly shoes to water- and power-guzzling AI doesn't feel like a metaphor for this entire era
we know
TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.
Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.
Hi! You can vote for @neverpo.st to win a Webby through tomorrow and we'd very much appreciate it if you did! We're nominated for our episode about how generative AI has contributed to the aesthetics of New American Fascism.
We need to be preparing for extreme heat futures NOW because we are in the future
I'm wearing my favorite color and having a good hair day and NICE THINGS HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME AS BAD THINGS AND WE HAVE TO HAVE ROOM IN OUR BRAINS FOR BOTH 😖