Screenshot of ap news story with text reading "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's comprehensive Palmer Drought Severity Index not only hit its highest level for March since records started in 1895, but last month was the third-driest month recorded regardless of time of year. It trailed only the famed Dust Bowl months of July and August 1934."

Is that good meme

Going to be one hell of a summer

Napkinless Man With Grease-Covered Fingers Realizes He Trapped In A Prison Of His Own Creation

Napkinless Man With Grease-Covered Fingers Realizes He Trapped In A Prison Of His Own Creation theonion.com/napkinless-man-with-grea...

oh man. iranian state media reporting that the strait of hormuz is open, but only to those who can answer the blind old man’s riddles three. not a long term solution, to say the least.

I am also saying this right now

The Wild Wild Western Water Wars As a changing climate bakes and dries up the Colorado River, the seven basin states can’t agree on how to share the declining water resources.

Everything involving the Colorado River Basin is complicated. buff.ly/TTKfUVW

Exactly one year ago today:

A post by @jay.bsky.team explaining that AI tools are used to write the code for Bluesky. This is followed by a series of responses that are not currently loading because Bluesky is broken, presumably by AI fucking up their code

Incredible

A list of foods that are rich in magnesium which are commonly recommended by doctors as part of a healthy diet, but naturopath shun in favor of expensive supplements.

Naturopaths hate this one weird trick!

They are offerings to the Spirits.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's opposition leader Peter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded his election loss in a phone call.

Extremely on brand that buzz balls were invented by a woman who got drunk and wanted to drink a candle

he drinks an Irn Bru / he drinks a Mountain Dew / he has a Surge or two / his highness dog at Kew / he sings the songs that remind him of the good times / he sings the

Hey is this ID? Can we do a quick in person curbside before I have to run to the ED to see another consult for a traveler from an antique land? Meet me by the two vast and trunkless legs of stone outside the cafeteria

I would just blink.

low key why the Climate Corps is a idea. men should graduate college, get a few years romping around the forest planting trees and shit to get these hangups out of their system so they can realize working in AC sending emails is chill instead of making it everyone's problem

My positive male identity is built around being physically and mentally capable, useful to my community, and maintaining clearheadedness is difficult situations. But guess what, all those things can be part of a positive female identity too!

I have never been more vindicated in my life in the rejection of the vision of masculinity offered to me in childhood

Stop listening to/watching podcasts that teach you to be unemployable

MELANIA: You want me. Out of nowheres. To remind every one. Of my best friend, and child sex monster. Jeffrey Epstein?? (squints evilly)

NATHAN FIELDER: (voice over) The First Lady loved my idea.

captcha that asks you to identify which posts are jokes before replying

Famed mountaineer Jim Whittaker, first American atop Mount Everest, dies at 97 | Cascadia Daily News Longtime Port Townsend resident inspired generations of alpinists, defined an active NW outdoor lifestyle

An American hero passes: Jim Whittaker, a Northwest icon and climbing legend who in 1963 became the first American to stand atop Mount Everest, has died in Port Townsend at the age of 97.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social • 2h I think people should respond this way any time they are asked this question bsky.app/profile/ dipl... Holy fucking shit it's real lol Olivia Reingold of the Free Press asks Abdul El-Sayed "does Israel have a right to exist as a Jewish state?" AES: "What do you mean by a Jewish state?" [...] "If you can't define the question, I'm not gonna answer it. Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social • 2h With condescending snark?

Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social • 2h With condescending snark? Adam Serwer • @adamserwer.bsky.social • 2h I think asking people to define what they mean by "Jewish state" before answering whether you support it or not is neither condescending nor snark Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social • 2h What do you mean by "United States?" See the snark? Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social • 2h no i don't. there's no ethnic component. If you asked me if I supported the us existing as a "christian state" I would say no. Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social • 2h Me too! Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social • 2h Right so the questions are not at all analogous. Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social • 2h They certainly are. The Jewish State exists. So does the United States. 14 02 .•• ••.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social • 2h no one's asking whether it exists, we're asking what the definition of a jewish state is Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social • 2h The question is exactly about existence. Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social • 2h right he's asking her to define the terms of that existence. Would you like to do that? Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social • 2h lol wut no Adam Serwer • @adamserwer.bsky.social • 2h after all that sarcasm about the question "what do you mean by jewish state?" you also can't answer it? Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social • 2h Not taking your bait here. Love your "Cruelty is the Point" article. 52 ••• lan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com • 1h Could not have asked for a better illustration of the principle in practice. Thanks Rick 10 57

incredible

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

Average Cadbury cream egg enjoyer

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

tweet from @theseantcollins: JESUS CHRIST (ninth hour): Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? GOOFY (present at the crucifixion): Gawrsh

tweet from @david8hughes: Judas: still on for Friday? Jesus: Friday? Judas: yeah, the last supper Jesus: the what? Judas: supper. Normal supper with the fellas

there are two absolutely canonical Good Friday posts

if your goal on social media is just Improved Social Media Metrics you're using it wrong. that's antisocial behavior bro. bluesky might be dying for guys like you, but for people who actually enjoy writing and/or reading posts it's alive and well

got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it