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First they came for James Comey and I did not speak out because honestly fuck that guy

New springtime dress style just dropped

I've never had Alka-seltzer. Does it just taste like seltzer?

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There's a thin layer of iridium-rich rock covering almost the entire world called the K-Pg Boundary. It was the first clue that led scientists to propose and then prove that a meteor killed the dinosaurs. If we're extremely lucky, that's what the 2020s AI slop era will be reduced to someday.

Neighbors I barely know invited me to go to a park with them. I politely declined. As they drove away they said "we're on the hunt for a pirate transmitter" and my heart is broken

To the cyclist who passed me on the Longfellow and then again by BCEC and yelled "I need to study your route": I took Charles, then cut through the Common to Park St station, down Winter and Summer to Dewey Plaza. Maybe you avoided Downtown Crossing? Not worth it.

When I play an RPG I always save my healing potions for later, and no boss ever feels like the right time to use them. This time it isn't a game but the Senate Democrats are still saving their best tools for a perfect moment that'll never come.

On this Pi Day, I want everyone to remember that the stupidest thing Carl Sagan ever wrote was at the very end of the novel Contact, where Ellie found a pattern in the base-11 representation of pi. 🧵

The jerk store called. They voted 11-3 to unionize! Everyone welcome Jerks Local 217

A006052: Number of magic squares of order n composed of the numbers from 1 to n^2 1, 0, 1, 880, 275305224, 17753889197660635632 oeis.org/A081263

Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That U.S. Will Dominate Al.

I spent a chunk of my early adulthood being ashamed of my reading habits and trying to read more "respectable" books. It really just made me less excited to read. I'm trying to raise my kids to love what they love.

After an 8 year break, snowboarding is a lot like riding a bike. I can still do it pretty well, but it was easier when I was younger and lighter

Zipcar: Please update your credit card or your account will be canceled Me: Oh, I still have this? Please cancel my account Zipcar: You have to update your credit card to cancel your account Me: I have a better idea

The first American to go into space, Alan Shepard, did so in a space suit that he had pissed inside www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/06...

Tolkien's costliest mistake in Lord of the Rings is almost certainly not using the IPA in Appendix E

IF IT AINT EXECUTTABLE IT AINT FOR ME - dashare.zone ADMIN

Lyftwaffe is that anything?

I always imagined that an "8 ball" was a quantity of drugs the size and shape of a billiard ball and I refuse to learn otherwise

It's Spatchcockin' Time™

Cold water

The New York Times has many bigger problems, but that doesn't change the fact that this sidebar sucks