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What's Your Billionaire Drug of Choice? Take our quiz to find out if your taste aligns with Elon Musk (ketamine and cocaine), Jeff Bezos (steroids and HGH), or Mark Zuckerberg (oregano that teens told him was marijuana).

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Musk is actively undermining air safety, potentially causing crashes, then awarding himself a $2.4 billion contract to fix what he is breaking? This is not conflict of interest, this is criminal insanity! Amount of money Musk is stealing from US is bigger than all his “savings” combined.

Crockett: Mr. President, guess what? Russia invaded Ukraine. Can we at least agree on that one? Facts matter. Is there anybody in here that has enough courage to say Russia invaded Ukraine? …. Crockett: This is the problem

Me as a shock jock: “Yeah, you know what I reckon? And let me preface this by saying, this is going to offend some listeners. More women should be put in positions of authority.”

The Victorians were insane. “Yeah, we’ll make children work till they die but, look here: we’ve got budget to make sewage-pumping stations look like cathedrals, man!” This is Crossness Pumping Station. To be filed under “real buildings that look like AI”.

"Promote personal liberties or you're fired" seems like a position that might be worthy of some self-reflection. It's giving real "the beatings will continue until morale improves" vibes.

Did y'all hear about Elon Musk new $2 BILLION FAA contract? Conflict of interest . . .👀 Instead of Republicans taking jobs and programs away, they need to be investigating this—but OH RIGHT—they report to King Musk. www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

Are we going to talk about health checks for US travellers into Australia - and health warnings for Australians travelling to the US? #auspol

Austrlaia needs to be asking the same thing. The “5 eyes” deal is rather porous now I suspect

"the country is like a household and will go bankrupt" is one of the worst analogies people make in politics and it's always deployed in bad faith in favor of terrible policies it's not true! we will not go bankrupt, we do not operate like a household, we even print our own fucking money

Romanian prosecutors allowed Andrew and Tristan Tate to fly to US but say they must return when summoned – live

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

Over the years, I saw individuals eventually reach some point of social change they just couldn’t accept—technology like the internet, social progress like gay marriage. I always wondered what the indigestible trend would be for me, the point where society and I would part. Turns out it was Nazism.

Bong Joon Ho and his plushie tardigrade are a delight. Even if I'm sad we'll never get Tardigrades, the Musical. youtu.be/hICOpUJmPrQ?...

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

And the social aspect of Substack is almost certainly overrated! The reason people’s newsletters grow is because other authors mention them and link to them. That has *nothing* to do with the platform! Other platforms (Ghost, Beehiiv, Wordpress, Buttondown, Medium) have better economics, too.

This is just so emblematic of these clowns, LOL:

“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.” “We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”

This was the first death from measles in a decade. In the United States, people had died from all of these more recently than the last reported measles death: -Eating too much black liquorice -Homemade rocket ship crash -Beach umbrella in strong wind It's unusual bsky.app/profile/wyde...

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f... posted without comment because I am speechless....

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

What the actual fuck variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Art and silence. My @smh @theage cartoon.

antivaxx is a luxury belief that only was able to fester because vaccines were so effective that people forgot how horrible these diseases are

Congress is about to cut #Medicaid by $880 billion. CALL THESE REPS. They are vulnerable--close margins in their elections and with lots of people in Medicaid in their districts. You may call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. List below. Call now and all day tomorrow. 1/

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Difficult to overstate just how concerning the new Australian university definition of antisemitism is — making criticism of Israel quite likely to constitute misconduct under Australian university policies www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish...

Resetting my "I cannot be shocked by anything he does" counter to 0.

Only the finest management and HR talent can end up spending $1.1 million on lawyers (just their own!) for an issue with a temporary employee who had two days left on her contract. In awe of the skills.

More of this.

Senator, welcome to Bluesky. Can you explain why you're sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 230, which would effectively make it impossible for Bluesky to do what it's doing today, creating this kind of space? Thanks. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

“Academics should learn how to incorporate AI into literature reviews.”

Just because the US lower the bar, we dont have to crawl under it. #auspol

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NEW: Strong from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Kyiv. "Russia may have gained an open ear in the White House but they have not gained an inch of legitimacy. Does anybody think some thoughtless conversations or reckless statements can crush our resolve? No, quite the opposite.“ [BBC] 🇩🇪🇺🇦

How da fuq is he paying all these legal bills? He isn’t one of Elon’s babies is he? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

Meanwhile, in Texas: "Individuals who were at Texas State University from approximately 3 to 7 p.m. and Twin Peaks Restaurant from 6 to 10 p.m. may be at risk of developing #measles due to exposure to this individual." www.fox4news.com/news/hays-co...

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More than 150,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship

The firings from the CDC and FDA are devastating. Just looking at how they gutted the medical device review part of the FDA. We already have an issue with medical devices not being appropriately scrutinized. Will we be able to trust any new devices going forward?

Federal employees - are you tired of Elon Musk trying to contact you? Have you tried pretending to be the mother of his children?

This headline for a policy that costs $8.5bn over 4 years, of a budget that by 2027-28 is expected to have total spending in a year of $826 billion.

Report: Morbid Curiosity Now Accounts For 79% Of Nation’s Snack Food Purchases theonion.com/report-...

Remembering those drunk driving ads from years back. If you're a Journalist trying to balance the opinions of the Left with Nazis, you're a bloody idiot.

If The Hate Potato is just going to say "we'll have what they're having" then there's nothing except the obvious lack of gumption stopping Albo from heeding the advice that good policy is good politics. Do stuff. Raise the rate. Fund health and education. Get dental on Medicare. Do good policy.