A pair of beer cans labeled “A Wizard Is Sometimes THICC”. The other side of the can has a purple hat named Wizard with Dat Ass.

What is the lesson we learned today?

i get my fellow lefties not liking the bulwark, and that's ok! but fwiw, my irl experience is that it provides the boomers and ex-republicans in my life a reality-based news commentary source that isn't virulently anti-queer and trans like everything else out there. that's important to me

Jon Bois @jon_bois the shift key is the most useless key on the keyboard. it doesn't do anything. don't 2 me 11:07 PM 3/19/22 Tweetbot for Mac 14K Retweets 699 Quote Tweets 204K Likes

It's time for overtime playoff hockey which calls for an iconic Jon Bois tweet

[Legionnaires' disease outbreak caused by an electric fireplace-like interior product generating ultrasonic aerosols] - PubMed Objectives An epidemiological study was conducted of 43 cases of Legionnaires' disease reported to the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama-Kodaira Public Health Center and other health centers between September 3...

This is WILD! 21 Legionnaires' cases "...after visiting restaurant, had no other shared behavioral history, & showed concordant genotyping results, indicating that outbreak was caused by aerosols generated by the electric fireplace." [which had a vapor tray]
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42002930/

Despite what the legislator is claiming, this isn't theoretical. Louisiana cops cited this woman for "indecent" exposure for wearing a crop top.

Even with a dismissal, that's legal fees, sleepless nights and public shame.

Harassment is meant to send a message.

Every time I talk to or hear from anybody about some job, no matter what it is, they say the same thing. They cut staff in half. They're asking us to do the same amount of work or more. And they just did that last year. And the year before. The only new flavoring on it is "they said it's because AI"

Talked to a few people this week about considering other job options and despairing there's none. Every field I know people in is facing the same problem, being asked to do more with less, amped up to unsustainable levels. Tech, media, animation, games, writing, teachers, doctors, nurses, on and on

If only it wouldn't get cold on its way from Pearson to Washington.

I have not yet had the wherewithal to try this but I guess at some point I have to, don't I?

GOOD POST

The right's offering to prospective parents is "Have kids! You'll plunge yourself into poverty and there's a 20% chance the kid will die of measles."

This is not a compelling argument.

if you are "sick" — which, again for RFK is a function of race, class and perceived purity — then there is nothing you can do in the face of disease and death, you are destined to succumb. the upshot either way is we do not need vaccines or most modern medical interventions.

These guys and their hype. No, “AI” has not discovered new drugs. Human chemists have designed objective functions based on our understanding of molecular structure, genetics, and physiology, and then used computers to optimize those objective functions.

Jelly, I offer you your greatest challenge yet.

it's great and cool that the establishment press treats stuff like this and Obama/Biden liberalism as equally responsible for the culture wars

The socialism of fools, in a sense.

News! Christopher Franke has just released a ton of Babylon 5 soundtracks on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora and others: six large volumes and smaller, six episodic soundtracks. Available yea unto this very moment.

We asked Canada's premiers if they fly private. Here's what they said | CBC News Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reversed course on the purchase of a $28.9-million private jet for his travel — a controversy that has raised questions about how often Canada's leaders fly on private ai...

It’s kind of fun that the CBC’s position here is “Fine, if you think there’s a ‘double standard’ at play when it comes to scrutinizing premiers, then we’ll ask all the other premiers if they fly on private jets, but you’re not going to like the answers.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Doctor to patient: "Try to reduce your stress level, and if you somehow succeed please let me know how in God's name you did it."

I thought this felt relatable

It would be nice to block or mute a bunch of people with an automatic time limit on it so that you don't have to do anything manually or think about it any more, and can read them again in a couple of days when they're done having their little piss fights

The Ford Nation parallels never cease to stun me.

My big irritation this cycle is just like - if every American currently threatening to throw the election if Gavin Newsom is the candidate were to vote in their local primaries we just wouldn't have to worry about it, especially if we can agree to tolerate AOC, Pritzker or Harris.

“CONAN HOLDS YOUR PRIVACY SACRED Our encampment processes personal data, wielding the power as cautiously as Conan wields his sword. Should you wish to cover your footsteps and forbid us from sharing your secrets, strike at the 'I wish to cloak my presence' rune. I WISH TO CLOAK MY PRESENCE”

Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.

I’m sure if Jill Stein wasn’t in her non-election year hypersleep pod she’d have a lot to say about the war.

A number of space science organizations offered support for Isaacman's nomination because he is a proponent of space exploration and claimed he would support science. But now that science is on the chopping block -- and human spaceflight isn't -- he is volunteering to give NASA the DOGE treatment.

i love living in the first village of an rpg man. friendly neighbors, music is chill af, we even got that one kid we adopted into the village of whom the ancient prophecy was written about. anyway there’s a big ceremony tomorrow can't wait to still be alive after it

Trimming some errant eyebrow hairs is the most involved thing I've done today. I'm sure my parents would be disappointed if they had any expectations left.

this is maga mentality in a nutshell, only they are real people with feelings and reactions, everyone else is just a programmed npc there to facilitate their glorious journey. a movement of millions of people united by having the internal voice of a dead rat

Final sentence of this post is an entire fucking thesis

Two years of Trump as president with a bicameral democratic Congress will see lots of events unprecedented in our nation’s history, even just in the preceding decade. He’s been creeping toward wholly usurping Congress’s power of the purse, and if they don’t oust him for it he’ll simply have done so.