Is this how babies are made

Hey I know life's been tough recently BUT do y'all know how much $$ you can get for those tears?!

Our American tax dollars at work, killing children

Just imagine for a moment a US elementary school having been hit and leveled after an attack by a foreign power violating international law. The outrage. The press coverage. The attention to the parents‘ grief.

My mom heart hurts reading every line of this.

Our govt is run by monsters.

I'm going to start using "I was in the circus" as a justification for literally anything, e.g. "you can't tell me what to do! I was in the CIRCUS" or "please go easy on me, I was in the circus" or "I didn't mean nothing by it, I was in the circus you see"

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in their car as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip Israeli police have killed two young Palestinian brothers and their parents in the occupied West Bank, shooting all four in the head and face as the family returned from a Ramadan shopping trip. Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire. Continue reading...

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank

a clown is sitting at a desk with a computer ALT: a clown is sitting at a desk with a computer

I store all my photos in the clown

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Seems pretty niche but I hit this one all the time

I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now? Our 25th most-read article of 2025. - - -Guten tag. I’m just wondering if anybody else can relate to this feeling I’ve been having that I just can...

Sadly, more relevant than ever. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

View looking north from the Door County Maritime Museum overlooking the historic Sturgaon Bay Bridge in the Sturgeon Bay. // Image captured at: 2026-01-10 18:36:21 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@sturgeonbay6701 // Current Temp in Sturgeon Bay: 32.48 F | .27 C // Precip: light snow // Wind: WNW at 16.106 mph | 25.9 kph // Humidity: 93%

Current* conditions near Sturgeon Bay, WI:

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

ESA/Webb's final Picture of the Month for 2025 features Westerlund 2 containing many of the Milky Way’s hottest, brightest & most massive stars. Located 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Carina

Link for more info: esawebb.org/images/potm2...

Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA

This chemist had a tenure-track job offer in the US when they decided to leave the country Why Evan Spotte-Smith made that choice, and how they are finding the experience

We are losing our best and brightest. We are losing the next generation of excellent researchers and mentors. Thank you for sharing your story @ewcspottesmith.bsky.social

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women

“Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband. Protect her.”

—Marla Maples to the mother of a 14-year-old girl at one of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago bacchanals.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

"Civil society institutions have been buoyed over the years by federal government support. Now that the government has turned against them, they can stand for freedom and the rule of law, or capitulate to illegal pressure. The choice should be clear."

Seen on CMU campus ❤️

(ragu tagliatelle)

"I am assuming everyone remembers exactly where, when, and how they realized that the man who had led a multi-month campaign to nullify the result of the previous election and incited a violent insurrection... was going to return to the most powerful political office in the world"

"the average American benefits significantly from environmental regulations — and stands to lose a great deal if the contrary view prevails"

Veterans and Firefighters Have Higher Exposures to Forever Chemicals. New CMU Research Could Improve Detection. New research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science aims to understand how forever chemichals build up in the body.

What my lab is up to currently...

One of the saddest and most disturbing things for me right now is watching scientists (early career and established) tie themselves in knots to avoid "banned words" in proposals. You are readily giving up your integrity as a scientist.

46 states already require daylighting to keep intersections safe.

New York State does, too — but New York City exempts itself. It’s time to close that loophole.

@cmjuliewon.bsky.social's Intro 1138 would allow pedestrians and drivers to clearly see each other at intersections.

Reverse Twins If two people’s ages differ by a multiple of 9, then every 11 years their ages will be mirrored.

x.st/reverse-twins/

A New Jersey city that limited street parking hasn’t had a traffic death in 7 years Hoboken, New Jersey, recently marked seven consecutive years without a traffic death. Officials there credit their decision to take away some street parking, a change that increases visibility for mot...

Daylighting — the practice of improving intersection visibility — saves lives. The policy is endorsed by the National Association of City Transportation Officials @nacto.bsky.social. It's the chief intervention responsible for the first U.S. city to reach Vision Zero: apnews.com/article/hobo...

Seconds earlier, her husband had been abducted by masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a warrant, did not give any lawful grounds for his detention.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

"a billion dollars—or ten billion, or a hundred billion, or four hundred billion—are not necessary for that lavish lifestyle. The only thing that that amount of wealth is necessary for is the domination of others"