What's your "He actually broke his toe here" thing? The factoid you can't help but share whenever it comes up.
For me, it's how the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV actually wrote and recorded the song that he's playing because he was annoyed the original song they had didn't sound punk at all.
"Paul Verweij, professor of clinical mycology at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands says there's a "silent surge" in drug-resistant fungi and that it's mostly happening under-the-radar."
A good friend of mine works at NASA, and has spent the last TEN years of his life working on the Orion CPAS (Capsule Parachute Assembly System), testing it in the deserts of Arizona.
Ten years of design & testing. For this moment.
Science is so good, y'all.
Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?
I’m so glad somebody directly estimated this. It’s even more extreme on a per capita basis. The average American retiree gets more than 10x more public spending than the average young person.
I am a painter of landscapes but will often include a cat. I sketched The Great Catsby last week, the shop cat at the Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino CA.
Cap'n Crunch Ship Shake (1966-circa 1971): A line of powdered breakfast drinks ("liquid cereal") made with oat flour. Available in Chocolate, Chocolate Malt, and Butterscotch. Each packet featured a character from the Cap'n Crunch Expanded Universe, including Alfie, Brunhilde, Dave, and Carlyle
the dumbest form of politics is yelling at voters after you lose. if you lose it is *always* your fault. every confounding factor in the universe is your job to overcome. if you take a position that is unpopular and don't adjust to learning that, you are bad at running for office.
OpenAI and…the United States Military…are teaming up to notify YOU that your son has been KILLED IN ACTION. Click here to speak with your son via AI one last time
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
It's 2003
A republican is POTUS because Dems lost a winnable election against an imbecile & a complicit SCOTUS
GOP cuts taxes for billionaires, guts social services, & expands the military
Citing Jesus & Israel, GOP POTUS illegally bombs a Muslim majority nation based on WMD propaganda
It's 2026
Just this week:
- Administration is caught hiding evidence Trump sexually assaulted a 13 year old
- Pentagon demands AI companies allow it to use AI for mass surveillance and killer robots
- Trump launches unconstitutional war against Iran
- Pro-Trump oligarch buys CNN
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Everything is clear except for:
1. What is the legal justification for war?
2. What is the political objective of the war/what are the conditions for victory?
3. What is the exit strategy?
4. How sustainable is the use of force over time?
5. How is US national security threatened by Iran?
#Iran