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Me to the IRS: To be clear, I’ve paid all the taxes that I’m able to pay. There’s about 5000 dollars worth of taxes that have been withheld for boat payment reasons.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Also want to be clear...i don't want more "breaking news" i want more sickos who are like 'i've spent the last 19 years thinking about only liquid natural gas and how you move it and here is a thread about the current sittuation'

I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it

A presidential memo saying officers carrying out Caribbean boat strikes can’t be prosecuted is a confession the attacks are war crimes. Virtually every lawyer across the political spectrum identifying them as blatant, unambiguous violations of the laws of armed combat is because they’re war crimes.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Honestly can't tell what's sports bsky and what's politics bsky anymore

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

Excited for the sequel, “Fuck like a brand”

This is gonna seem like a nitpick, but I think it's significant: It's not a professor, it's a graduate TA. Thinking back on my time as a TA thirty years ago, universities use TAs as cannon fodder, asking them to hold certain rigorous lines but reliably failing to support them.

Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Just before he went into politics, Dr Oz was invited to speak at a Walk for Women’s Health we attended. He talked about cancer screening…more specifically his colonoscopy. Not breast or ovarian cancer. It was cringey. Read the room, bud.

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are: 1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways. 2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.

One of the biggest flexes I ever had was asking some junior financial analysts watching their phones on a bus if they needed $20. They said for what and I said headphones. They got so mad.

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

Clumsy ‘cause I’m falling in love (with Cu) #chemsky #chemchat 🧪

that’s right

there was a moment in 5th grade when a teacher (a very nice one) wanted me to do a demonstration of nuclear fission with toothpicks stuck in gumdrops (and then breaking of the toothpicks?) to symbolize energy release? I very weirdly refused to do it because I did not see the analogy?

I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.

on top of Abbott's other crimes, that ffi ligature is fucking killing me

And the owner of the paper will repurpose the opinion section the journalist wrote for to propagandize for the regime trivializing his death, while pretending he’s all about “personal liberties.” One might think this included the personal liberty not to be dismembered with a bone saw

Find you a man whose bone-sawed his journalistic opposition, and you can have Trump look as pleased as this.

I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.

It's 2004. We're ~3 months into my freshman year of college. GWB has just won reelection, in no small part due to fearmongering over gay marriage. I find a gay classmate sobbing in the stairwell about "why do people hate me so much?" It's 2015. 11 years later. Gay marriage is legal nationwide.

Illegally, without Congressional approval

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Given the recent Wapo opeds I've read I'm genuinely surprised they haven't said the MBS did the right thing by having Khashoggi killed.