James Webber

anyone who goes to these parties and claims to "secretly hate them" must prove it by upper-decking at least one toilet

Researchers on restrictive visas certainly depress the collective bargaining power of grad students and postdocs, leading to lower wages and worse benefits. But somehow I don't think Vance is arguing for open borders and stronger unions.

Legend has it that Aram will never age as long as he is the face of the UCSF BMI program

Please, Mister Maps was my father. Call me Atlas

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Last time Trump mailed out a ton of cash he was already on his way to losing 2020. The resulting inflationary spike completely torched the Democrats' chances in 2024. Pretty funny for him to try it again with even more money, two years before the next election.

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

It's mind-blowing how much cancer treatment has advanced in the past 20 years

the purest experience of social media: futilely running into the void, pursued by a mob of gibberish

5. No shirt, no shoes (this should be obvious) 6. If this is your first time at Animorphs, you *have* to morph

Humanity has inadvertently destroyed so many ecosystems and species through our greed and incompetence. ...but I think we should be allowed to eradicate mosquitoes, as treat

*whispers* there are a lot of people like that from before the AI era, too

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

photoshop a live raccoon into that dude's hands and run the rest of the story unchanged @bencollins.bsky.social

I'm guilty of this but if I had an *actual volcano* to throw them in I bet it would fix me

A good point that applies just as well to any closed-source search engine...

Herbert "DQ" Blizzard, so nicknamed because he was banned for covering the ball in magic shell alternative is Harold "chicken fingers" which is also very good.

Adam Smith doesn't understand supply and demand?

Steven Zirnkilton: "In the Minnesota public health system the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. There's the people who investigate most of the infectious diseases and stuff like lead poisoning or whatever, and then there's Team D"

Imagine getting your most fervent wish and it turned into such a colossal shitshow that your only remaining option was to drop dead

This kind of walkable housing couldn't be built in America today

I interviewed @josephoneill.bsky.social again to ask what he would do if he were Chuck Schumer (short answer: resign)

Whenever I have an even number of tabs I close half of them. But if I have an odd number, I open three links from each tab and also open another bsky tab

When there's nothing strange in your neighborhood, who you gon' call?

The first political party to run on a "donate once and we won't text again for 2 years" platform would raise a trillion dollars

Of all these made-up baseball names I think "Sport McAllister" is the most made-up

students studying relativity dog with an injured paw 🤝 confused about how a cone works

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.