James S. Pumpkins

One. Met him when he visited my university during grad school!

400,000 barrels is about 77 minutes worth of gas and diesel usage in the US.

Most of life on Earth exists as worms, beetles, or bacteria. Sorry to break the news, yo.

I have a lot of questions about this. He was initially diagnosed with superficial clots, which don't normally cause emboli... but was told not to sleep, which is primarily a precaution for unstable/new DVT? So did they know he had a DVT and let him play anyway? This makes no sense to me.

You can use any milk you want because the difference between any of them on a daily basis is essentially negligible.

When I was in grad school I was working late one night when I heard someone yell from the hallway. I went to check & another grad student had picked up a bat that landed in the hallway and it bit him. I had to drag him to the clinic the next day for vaxxes. He was here on a Fulbright scholarship.

Going out is made up of things very sensitive to inflation, staying in is mostly things sensitive to Moore's law. You might as well have drawn this in crayon.

Lol article is good but this headline is an all-timer.

Dollar Rent-A-Car call center. Absolutely miserable experience. 2.5 months.

Dude might actually end up breaking crazification before this is over.

Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral for Tax Purposes

The Ohio Republican Party had to cancel a statewide ticket appearance tonight in Columbus if you want to know how it’s going for them.

If these were different people, ones with self awareness and humor, I'd think this was a bit to tweak the people interested in it. But they aren't, and it isn't.

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

"I'm not a pedophile protector, I'm *you*"

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Not only should brooks and others shut up. But Ossoff is the best example in the country of a Democrat playing dominance politics and using it to control the whole terms of his race.

Some replies ask you to open the thread to see the context, other replies positively BEG you to.

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:

If vaccine injuries were as widespread of a problem as he believes, he wouldn't need a federal initiative to find them.

This is utterly vile and anyone who watches it for non-journalistic purposes should be airlifted to a remote island in the Pacific Ocean.

This was about Texas but it applies broadly. Enjoy their suffering, even if it's ephemeral, you deserve it. Lighten up and feast on the temporary sorrow.

oh hey look it's your-bluesky-handle-is-relevant-again o'clock

The only theory of Trump you need is that it is always and forever about him to the expense of everyone else. All things flow from there.

30 more days of this for Republicans, bahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha <gasp> hahahhahahahhahahahhahahaha

Honestly, I think it's a lot easier to generate pathos for internet personalities through TikTok (and to a lesser extent Instagram) because video and audio are generally more compelling, so the platform has shifted as tech advanced.

This is why they went so hard on indirect costs/overhead in the first round of this. That money goes directly to universities to pay for core facilities and upkeep/maintenance costs.

Do not forget that Linda McMahon covered up the systematic abuse of young boys by two of her employees and personally hired them back after they were fired, after which they continued their systematic abuse.

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Man, all of this talk makes academic job interviews seem positively normal and sane.

Inshallah.