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“If I don’t win I won’t pay veterans poisoned by contaminated water on their base” is a hell of a closing strategy 😳

This is great. I wish my alma mater had a wildflower quad.

If you're backyard is close to water, consider building a frog sauna to help treat chytrid!

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

time to dig this out

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

'Autumn' entered English in the 1300s. "The fall of the leaves" was shortened to 'fall' in the 1600s.

For my part, if I am going to invest the time into reading a book - fiction or non-fiction - I want to know that a human invested the time into writing it. That's part of the deal. Even if our current machines could produce Hamlet, I would not want robo-Hamlet. I suspect I am not alone in this.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Humaning.

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

as someone who has read far too much military history i think this is as wrong as can be. america did not send warriors to win world war two. we sent shopkeepers, and farmers, and accountants, and millions of ordinary people who did not dream of glory and death. and we won.

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

Trump's getting that look you have when everyone you worked with on the Lufthansa heist is turning up in the back of ice trucks and Jimmy Conway isn't returning your calls.

My latest in @usniproceedings.bsky.social: "The warrior ethos is no longer a useful philosophy... While once that spirit offered some utility... the warrior ethos now is largely a stumbling block to the professional and ethical development of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines."

LOL they literally settled as I was typing. Only $17 billion but product changes are major: •limit minors’ access to 2 hours/day •blocks from midnight-6am •Notifications blocked between 10pm-7am & during school hours •concealing likes for minors •banning beauty filters •can deactivate the news feed

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not

Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

This is great. No notes.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

After the final whistle, Leandro Paredes of Argentina displayed more of the grace and class that his team is known for.

The past is terrible, be glad you weren't there.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

To think people were already complaining about this in 1921!

DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."

Now this is a thread full of useful information.

Every year, people are betrayed by their optimism. "Fireworks have exploded in other people's hands, but surely they will not explode in mine. My hands are different."

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 22,1960

Happy Father's Dad! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/number...

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

💀🐴🐺 #myths #norsemythology #loki #comics #webcomics

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

I'm concerned people think I'm joking about this.

There's no way to say "It's time to lubricate my roller skates" without sounding like a dork.

There's a screenshot going around of authors admitting to AI use and one of them appears to write hardcore monsterfucking fics and this makes me sad. If you're not writing monsterfucking fics for the sheer, genuine love of the game then what the hell are we even doing here?

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So today I had to dig out the name of the funeral home that buried my mother (and her parents) for a cousin whose father wanted to be buried in the same place. The funeral home's Yelp listing reads "Walk-ins welcome." They were actually super nice and helpful, but even so.

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.