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LAUREN BACALL: you just put your lips together and blow HUMPHREY BOGART: holding nintendo cartridge i know how to get it to work lauren

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Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

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Me: that’s weird… who would leave a pie out here? My friend who studied Traps in College: NATE NO!!!!

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Visit the Museum of All Things (MoAT), a nearly-infinite virtual museum generated from Wikipedia. This incredible digital space is made by downloading text and images from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons! Made in Godot and available for Win/Mac/Linux. mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...

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"DEI on campus ... was starting to act like many faculty members' direct supervisor and telling them how and what to teach" I'm sorry, what? I've never experienced this myself and I've never heard another faculty member anywhere ever complain about anything remotely like this.

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Priest: he was best known for inventing the jack in a box, and now a short musical interlude Pallbearer: starts winding a tiny handle on the side of the coffin

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

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Why we have and need a US Department of Education 🚨 New from @brookings.edu scholars, an initiative to walk through the federal role in education, particularly the ongoing need for a Department of Education and all it does www.brookings.edu/collection/w...

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And what’s more: I am 32 years old. I am so young. I am just starting to blossom in my life. I have worked so hard. I won’t cede the prime of my life to these motherfuckers. Not when I have been blessed with the resources to not have to.

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Why doesn't Bruce Wayne use his enormous wealth and powerful physique to procure high end equipment and employ martial arts in the fight against crime

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Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

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[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

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My new one is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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Trump's sudden 90-day suspension of USAid funding – which accounts for 40% of humanitarian aid globally – threatens countless lives around the world. It's also a "perfect opportunity" for China: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Throughline on NPR just did a great episode about the origins of Birthright Citizenship in the US.

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There has been reporting on this by big outlets with international reporting teams. There are far more reporters covering domestic politics; arguing against my own interest here but if you want to ignore that coverage and read foreign coverage you can find it. www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...

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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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ICYMI: Andrew Natsios, USAID administrator in the George W. Bush administration, doesn't pull any punches in his @NewsHour interview about Trump/Musk/Rubio assault on the agency. Video worth watching. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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At least three dozen Democrats plan to take over the Senate floor all night tonight, for 30 hours, to oppose Trump's budget office nominee, Russ Vought. “He’s the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

submitted 23 days ago • 211 comments

Broke out the Tumblr to write some thoughts on the BioWare situation, and how despite it being divisive, The Veilguard may have just become one of the most important games in the studio's catalog. It's the final word from a team that wanted the world (both ours and Thedas) to be better.

submitted 28 days ago • 30 comments

ME: writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

submitted 33 days ago • 269 comments

in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine

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interviewer: ...and the references on your resume? me: those are futurama quotes and then theres one from roger the alien

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BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere BOURDAIN: chuckling wow

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BIDEN: EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT HAS BEEN RATIFIED www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

submitted 42 days ago • 39 comments

In England, chipmunks are called crispmunks.

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I just learned about "The Bustling World," a video game inspired by the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" scroll painting and now it's the only thing I care about. youtu.be/AY0uqU-LADk?...

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where does the new york times even find these people

submitted 52 days ago • 742 comments

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

submitted 59 days ago • 27 comments

I pace back and forth while people fall asleep.

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Why do Chinese characters have only one “radical”? For example, 煮 (Mandarin zhǔ 'boil') has only the [FIRE] radical 灬 which is an abbreviated form of 火. √煮 = ±火 #sinography #sinology 🀄️📚 #langsky #linguistics #hieroglyphs 1/

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Chinese students in US advised by universities not to leave country for holiday, in case Trump bars returns – SCMP

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Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

submitted 64 days ago • 74 comments

A "pig butchering" scam might open with a simple “Hi” or some good-natured confusion about why your phone number seems to be in the person’s address book. It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life. (Published Sept. 2022)

submitted 65 days ago • 24 comments

You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇

submitted 67 days ago • 1368 comments

Let’s talk about Written #Cantonese #廣東話 #粵語 🇭🇰! #sinology #sinography 🀄️📚 #langsky #linguistics

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