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I write about basketball and take lots of pictures of cats. [Temporary spooky Halloween name.]
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“This production makes that queerness explicit, reclaiming the story through the lived experiences of trans and nonbinary artists.” #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/28/s...

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Today in “Article III cannot solve what is ultimately a total Article I constitutional crisis.” The judicial branch has no enforcement mechanism to stop total lawless authoritarianism. The only one is impeachment & removal. Courts/judges can slow down the fascists, but only Congress can stop them

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As today is World Parrot Day I’m bringing back to the timeline my favourite rendition of Whole Lotta Rosie by Tico (parrot) and Frank (non-parrot) of Tico and the Man (a truly great squawk n' roll band)

submitted 4 hours ago • 19 comments

Experts reviewing RFKJr's magnum opus MAHA health report conclude that the whole document was faked by someone using Chatbot AI, and was probably never even proof read. They're not just fraudsters, they're very lazy, too. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

submitted 23 hours ago • 62 comments

The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly www.notus.org/health-scien...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

This regime is using "generative AI" to write its policy papers, and they are are not checking the outputs, and the results are literally exactly what we warned you they would be. I mean we literally warned you about exactly this. JFC.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

The amount of space this particular strip occupies in my mind and has since I was a kid is hard to convey.

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“i’ve been kissed harder than that”, nice reggie, romance is alive in the ecf

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Q: A NOTUS investigation found the MAHA commission report cites studies that appear to not exist. Does the WH have confidence in the info coming from HHS? LEAVITT: Yes. I understand there were some formatting issues but it does not negate the substance Q: Did they use AI? L: I can't speak to that

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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

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ive sort of been fixated on the MAHA ghoul section of the trump universe because trying to take it all in at once is just too boggling, so i read a bunch of the surgeon general nominee's book, and now i wish i hadn't, but at least i got a very angry column out of it

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Tesla FSD 13.2.9 will still run a kid down while illegally blowing past a stopped school bus with red lights flashing and stop sign extended. Elon Musk how many kids does FSD need to run over before you fix this? I warned about this danger at the 2023 Super Bowl!

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

A transcendent being with extensive powers and the highest manifestation of wisdom. Sat next to Buddha.

submitted 4 days ago • 107 comments

He lied about South Africa. vm.tiktok.com/ZMSYoCkn3/

submitted 7 days ago • 90 comments

lol mtg is fighting with a computer about god

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In "Doonesbury," Andy Lippincott died 35 years ago, on May 24, 1990. Andy was not only the first openly gay character in newspaper comics but also the first one to die of AIDS. Here is that strip and the ensuing sequence:

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments