when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

The biggest endorsement I can make for Bluesky is that replacing Twitter with this app on my phone probably improved my general mood when I’m on my phone by 20-25%. I know there are better reasons but it is what it is!

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

He would be proud

Heyyyyy so Andor kind of ruled

me on Mother’s Day

“Righteousness without power is just an opinion”

*JLD says as she reaches out of the screen to strangle non-voters

The US federal government was actually less wasteful than most big companies and other large organizations, not least because government had an amazing asset: highly experienced, educated, knowledgeable, talented people choosing public service when they could make a lot more in the private sector.

‘Andor’ uses real colonial horrors to re-forge the Star Wars saga (Chapter 3: Ep. 7-9) The latest chapter of 'Andor' is a powerful, pulse-pounding trio of episodes defined by small acts of resistance.

The penultimate arc of “Andor” echoes colonial history—from the British Raj to modern Gaza—resulting in nail-biting, heart-wrenching genre television. Star Wars has never been more invigorating. It feels, in a way, reborn. joysauce.com/andor-uses-r...

Andor and its eloquent writing is such a gift in political times like these

Steely Dan Unknown Pleasures t shirt

enjoying the music

Is it okay for judges to be arrested by the FBI? It depends on their political beliefs.

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

This is asinine. “They look down on you because you live in rural America!” is a right-wing myth and Democrats’ policies are objectively better for working class white people than Republicans’. These people aren’t victims of ‘both parties,’ they’re victims of propaganda.

Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

congrats to diarrhea

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

me: hey! it's marisa kabas friend: Hey! I've been reading your stuff How's it going? Still texting in all lower case, I see

brutal.

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough."

Corey Booker, just now.

Deaths peaked at 2,584 in last winter's COVID wave

Deaths peaked at 1,030 in this winter's COVID wave

Good news is rare these days so here's some: This winter's COVID wave was less than half as deadly as last year's
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10,000 Maniacs releases “Candy Everybody Wants” 32 years ago today — a song Natalie Merchant herself called “very subversive.”

Rolling Stone said it was about “the American appetite for televised sex and violence — and big business's willingness to satisfy that craving.”

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

when you say 20 years ago do you mean the 80s or the 2000s