Rowlf the Dog - like Kermit and a few other Muppets, had careers *before* the Muppet Show, and Rowlf killed on the Jimmy Dean Show and was a breakout hit for Jim Henson, who offered Dean 40% of his company in gratitude.
Jimmy declined.
“Finding a classical Greek literary text inside an Egyptian mummy is exceptionally rare & opens up fascinating questions.
Why was this text included in the burial? Was it meant as a symbol of education, status, or cultural identity? Or did it hold a deeper ritual significance?”🧪
Can we talk about how harassment and borderline stalking of trans women by gender critical activists has become entirely normalised?
Why can’t a trans woman do a bloody Parkrun without having her privacy violated and her data amassed on a website?!
I promise you that people in your community have no idea that this is true. You, historian, can help.
I hope six of you have already pitched this to your local paper.
The presidential primary calendar should not be set in stone but should change every cycle based on the prior presidential election, w/states voting in order of the closeness of their election. The closest swing states should be the earliest in the primary calendar & the safest states should be last
Longshot request- do any of my natural history nerds have a contact at the Colombo (Sri Lanka) National Museum?
Trying to arrange a behind the scenes tour.
I'd rather work in an abattoir. The kicker in the piece is the final sentence:
"The company is also reportedly planning to start laying off up to 10 percent of its global workforce starting in May."
I shall wager you one shiny penny that they'll use these metrics to determine who gets the axe.
The Iran war could drive up costs for petroleum-derived products like clothes and crayons
The Iran war’s most tangible and immediate effect for many people outside the Middle East has been spiking gasoline prices. But crude oil isn’t just refined as fuel. Petrochemicals derived from oil and natu...
It's almost like fash know they never had the arts to lose but very much do have sports and would rather give every child a genital examination and kidney failure before they'll ever allow sports to be gay (fun and safe for children and the adults children ideally survive to grow up to become)
"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."
The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!
Depressing prediction: many jobs lost in the coming recession will never be refilled because companies will (try to) replace those workers permanently with AI
Which will result in a big stepwise gain of enshittification that we just accept rather than ever correct, much like happened in 2008
X-Files: What if a mushroom trapped you underground, making you hallucinate while slowly consuming you and also making Boone, NC look like Southern California.
Two things can be true:
Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and
Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.
As part of the restoration of the rule of law, every lawyer in the Trump admin who touched this file needs to go to jail.
Sanctions and disbarment are what you do for private abuses of the legal system. Abusing the government power of criminal indictment is another matter, and they keep doing it.
Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.
There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.
Blue Ridge born and raised, I'm fired up beyond words by the chance to represent this beautiful new VA-6. From Charlottesville to Lynchburg, Rocktown to Roanoke, we're fighting to bring down costs and bring back our civil liberties. Together, let's turn the Blue Ridge blue!
we all know I have no life, so:
what remains to be seen:
—What Florida Republicans do in a special session next week.
—What Missouri's supreme court does with ballot petitions to block the new Missouri map (accounts for 1 GOP seat).
—What Virginia's supreme court does with the GOP lawsuit against the Virginia referendum.
A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.
You can't even get a single conservative to admit Republicans brought this onto themselves huh? Just a completely intellectually bankrupt movement. Top to bottom from the highest elected official to the random talking head to the rando anon person on social media its all trash.
This is the answer for the categorical imperative posting I saw earlier
You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.
Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.
Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.
Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.
"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now
"The community resistance on both sides of the aisle is so enormous. This feels like the one thing that is connecting everybody together."
My new @truthout.org roundtable with three organizers across the US fighting data centers - and their lessons for others.
Worth noting how many organizations like SPLC neutered themselves and the work that they do, trying to avoid this very moment. Especially since Trump won again. But MAGA was always going to come for them. And eventually, we'll all be targets. No matter how much we tried to remain nonpartisan, etc.
According to previous anti-vax cycles (it is a recurrent cycle, an outbreak of hysteria every 50 years or so) the antivax fever will end after mass death of children. That usually does it. One would think we could skip the mass sacrifice, but no. We won't. #MedSky
