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no, I’m from New Jersey- I only work in outer space. (she/they) (scrappy comic relief on Jeopardy season 39)
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Oh, man, not Gene Hackman. 2025 can just fuck right off. Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

No more work-from-home, government workers, except for Kash Patel, who will run the FBI from Las Vegas www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

When we say #insulin4all we mean *all*

If you see this, post a skeleton

Alternatively, if you're going to use AI for a literature review: don't. Not only does using it waste everyone else's time and resources, it defeats the entire purpose of conducting a review.

Since the next step for people like Trump is to blame the consequences of his actions on others, the most effective response to people like this is "It sounds like they lied to you." You can't turn these people into overnight liberals; you *can* shake their trust in the people who deceived them.

Some of us are absolutely the enemy. Nerd is a character class, it does not imply alignment

Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants. As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Elon Musk’s ❝Department of Government Efficiency❞ mimics private equity — clueless consultants slashing essentials. Tom Krause, who led brutal PE-backed cuts at Citrix, brings familiar devastation. The pattern? Gut, flip, and leave bankruptcy behind. ⤸ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

I studied late 19th century Russia, can confirm

Someone is going to write a piece about how that executive order claims it’s defending women but now the National Science Foundation is shuttering programs that serve women and trying to cancel grants that mention women, right? 🧪

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

I. CHI. ROOOOOOO

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

TikTok users aren’t actually stupid. Many have noticed the U.S. has failed to meaningfully regulate Elon and Zuckerberg’s loathsome social media platforms. I suspect many think U.S. lawmakers look like shady hypocrites when they rail against Chinese social media but let US companies go feral.

I’m sure this has been said a million times already but the CW’s “The Flash” series ran for nine seasons and 184 episodes

At least 11 librarians in LA lost their homes in the LA Fires. A thread of their gofundmes:

“Governor Gavin Newsom has described the fire outbreak as “unprecedented”, and NBC News has reported that at least 49,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes.”

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

I had a teacher for 10th grad and senior AP English who was obsessed with Hemingway, and this was part of why I loathed the stories/novels. Was very proud to write my AP essay on Long Days Journey Into Night, out of love and spite.

everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there

This. In the last 3 months I have seen so many amazing creative and brilliant jobs in the arts and charitites with high expectations of responsibility and seniority. That pay between £25k (living wage for 40 hours a week) and £35k.

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

the problem is, and I know this from personal experience, trying to explain this stuff to someone who's not very online makes you sound like an insane person

Copied (with permission) from a discworld group I’m in if anyone can help even if it’s just a share

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

TFW Mary McDonnell and BSG were such a huge part of your college years, and now La Mary is playing an entirely opposite character in The Fall Of The House of Usher @sarken.bsky.social

Sure NFTs have lost all monetary value but can you put a price on knowing that multiple ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape? Yeah probably.