Not a big deal — it’s not like the U.S. Navy has any large-scale operations going on right now or anything.

This is honestly the sort of leadership we need right now -- the "give no fucks" attitude

Today has been an interesting day of ups and downs. On the plus side, I had a dental checkup and my teeth are okay.

This is the same judge who tried to block the vote and failed twice. VA Dems expected it to happen.

The whole gerrymandering thing reminds me of right wingers excited about civil war — it’s only fun when you pretend the other side doesn’t shoot back

Up to 56,000 people died from COVID-19 or RSV last year RSV was associated with 190,000 to 350,000 hospitalizations from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, as well as 10,000 to 23,000 deaths, according to new CDC data.

RFK Jr: I terminated the COVID vaccines because it didn’t make any sense. COVID is gone.

Note: From July 2024 to June 2025 in the US, COVID19 caused up to 450,000 hospitalizations and 53,000 deaths.

COVID ain’t gone, shitbird.

Need to remember that this is one GOP judge, this isn’t surprising, and there’s SCOTUS precedent for this being allowed.

For AI to be good at this, it has to be trained on this and only this. Machine learning. You can't just insert an LLM in that step. Those are just randomness. Christ, people. This isn't magic.

Sigh

Yes Robert it’s called “being wrong.” Every student I’ve failed on a math or physics test had “a different way” of solving problems.

I would've burst out laughing if I heard Leavitt say "you should take our word on it."

Nobody should, in fact, take the Trump administration's word on anything

NOTHING RECEIVED TODAY AS OF NOON 🕛

i would but i don wanna

It’s just a free thing—join and let’s be kinda weird together. Think about it like social media before it sucked. I will write stuff and you can write stuff back.

Something needs to be clearly understood here: Dems hate partisan gerrymandering. We want it abolished. We abolished it in California, and Virginia. But we SURE AS HELL aren't going to stand by while MAGA gerrymanders its states out of a Kantian commitment to principle. It's a war and we will fight.

really excited to announce that as of today, i will be the executive editor at @liberalcurrents.com. LC is a project i have been involved with for some time now, and it's really come to mean something to me: an ideal of liberalism with both discipline and convictions

Things do seem to be very rough these days. I've noticed a lack of enthusiasm in general among students. I feel like all the crap from the last decade is all starting to hit hard.

This piece is incredible because you're like "oh so that's what did it" like five times and by the end you're just like "jesus christ make it stop"

Once again Republicans confirm my suspicion that they do not understand the linear passage of time and that things can change as time goes on

This shit is getting really old.

Still one of my favorite movies of all time and so unlike almost anything else ever made

Look, if I know how to do my Trump percentages correctly, we're only through 50% of his estimated timeline

A village crowd watches as two hooded figures prepare a torch to light the branches piled around a guy tied to a big stake. Above them all, a figure in a silver spacesuit emerges from a hovering golden portal.

Frank Kelly Freas, “Saved by the Future,” 1975

I am very sorry to this man’s family but we must have term limits. We can’t go on hoping we don’t lose our rights because octogenarians die or become senile. That has been the story of the last ten years.

Woke up one morning
And there were kittens
Bella meow
Bella meow
Bella meow meow meow

Not familiar with it!

"You know, for a man who abhors violence, I must say I took great satisfaction in doing that..."

"Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks" episode 3 (1973). #DoctorWho

One fun thing of searching my last name on Bookshop is that it shows there are a lot of variations of Gbur that I didn't realize existed: Gbúrová, Gburski, Gburzy, Gburek, Gburton

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Incidentally, if anyone wants my upper undergrad/graduate level Electromagnetic Optics book, bookshop dot org has the paperback for $34.50!

(I actually didn't even know a paperback was coming out!)

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