I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

This is fantastic!

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

While this is just some random website I got from searching, it seems reliable enough? I definitely didn't know they were different, either!

www.daringgourmet.com/british-flap...

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

#Archaeology

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Yep: "Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst"
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I can't stand to have multiple tabs open. I keep it at one on my desktop. Mobile gets more of a build-up because it likes to open things in new tabs rather than the existing tab.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Day #8 of Republicans keeping the government shut down because they are refusing to fix the health care crisis they created.

Hopefully this is just "first real cold of the year" hiccoughs and they'll be on top of it from here on out. But speaking from our car experience, that drop in battery capacity once you hit 40 and below is wild to experience. Our battery goes from 53ish miles in the summer to, like, 30ish? Suuucks.

The statue of it in Point Pleasant is one of those things that lives very vibrantly in my memory. There's a fair bit of neat tourist stuff in Point Pleasant, but none of them have the clarity in my memory like that statue.

I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma.

Wow.

There's no indication this is ICE. This is copaganda.

Ohhhhh, I know what I'm giving to my fire marshals tomorrow to make them sad and delve into The Code. futurism.com/future-socie...

There's no indication this is ICE. This is just copaganda.

I've been looking for more reporting on this. NVIDIA has an increasing number of deals where it is paying companies to buy its chips. sounds very bubbly.

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

Looks like a prairie dog to me.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie...

Last day for the 10% introductory discount for Love, Ghostie on the Switch!!

Thanks to everyone who has been playing and sharing! It really helps out our small team, so we can keep making more cute, fun stuff like this 😄

I hate being irritable. It is one of the worst developments in my life over the past 5 years. It's so frustrating and I don't know how to deal with it.