John W. Tomac
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the Black Panthers were right
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the Black Panthers were right
Gary Kelley is the best
February 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Gary Kelley is the best
In the late ’90s, Novartis was ready to squash the development of Gleevec (imatinib), a drug that turns a rare and deadly form of leukemia into a manageable condition, because they didn’t think there were enough patients to turn a profit.
They relented when the research team tried to buy the patent
They relented when the research team tried to buy the patent
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 1:18 PM
In the late ’90s, Novartis was ready to squash the development of Gleevec (imatinib), a drug that turns a rare and deadly form of leukemia into a manageable condition, because they didn’t think there were enough patients to turn a profit.
They relented when the research team tried to buy the patent
They relented when the research team tried to buy the patent
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Here’s a periodic reminder that MLB is full of shit. There aren’t rich teams and poor teams … just rich owners who spend on their teams and rich owners who don’t. And the latter will do anything they can to distract you from this fundamental truth.
What would MLB look like with a salary cap? Explaining the wide-ranging, game-changing effects
From free agency to guaranteed contracts to franchise values, a salary cap would completely remake the MLB landscape.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Here’s a periodic reminder that MLB is full of shit. There aren’t rich teams and poor teams … just rich owners who spend on their teams and rich owners who don’t. And the latter will do anything they can to distract you from this fundamental truth.
Spring training starts today and people are saying that the R train added 15 pounds of muscle in the off season and is in the best shape of its life.
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Spring training starts today and people are saying that the R train added 15 pounds of muscle in the off season and is in the best shape of its life.
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Here is the Czech pair dancing to their AI rip-off of You Get What You Give, replaced for the Olympics by an AI song with “original” lyrics that sounds pretty much the same
February 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Here is the Czech pair dancing to their AI rip-off of You Get What You Give, replaced for the Olympics by an AI song with “original” lyrics that sounds pretty much the same
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wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 PM
wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
I’ll never understand why the slop enthusiasts expect people to spend time to read a story, look at art, listen to a song, watch a show or even pay attention to an ad campaign when they brag about having spent no time to create it.
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I’ll never understand why the slop enthusiasts expect people to spend time to read a story, look at art, listen to a song, watch a show or even pay attention to an ad campaign when they brag about having spent no time to create it.
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This is so incredibly messed up that people have to raise money for their co-workers and former co-workers in foreign countries suddenly without visas, an income or a way home.
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:54 PM
This is so incredibly messed up that people have to raise money for their co-workers and former co-workers in foreign countries suddenly without visas, an income or a way home.
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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The great success of art is when you now *have* to do it indefinitely in order to survive
February 7, 2026 at 12:39 AM
The great success of art is when you now *have* to do it indefinitely in order to survive
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The idea that technical skill is somehow an unsurmountable barrier to the production of art betrays a very, very limited understanding of what art is and how it's made. Marcel Duchamp is one of the greatest artists ever to live and many of his most indelible works are *about* the absence of skill.
February 6, 2026 at 9:14 PM
The idea that technical skill is somehow an unsurmountable barrier to the production of art betrays a very, very limited understanding of what art is and how it's made. Marcel Duchamp is one of the greatest artists ever to live and many of his most indelible works are *about* the absence of skill.
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Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.
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In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.
December 2, 2024 at 9:15 AM
In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.
Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor who will kill that miserable rodent, huh?
abc7ny.com/post/groundh...
abc7ny.com/post/groundh...
NYC's Staten Island Chuck sees his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter
Staten Island Chuck made his prediction for six more weeks of winter on Monday, February 2, 2026.
abc7ny.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor who will kill that miserable rodent, huh?
abc7ny.com/post/groundh...
abc7ny.com/post/groundh...
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It is our civic duty to eat more birria tacos, conchas, mapo tofu & bao! The community is counting on us!
Was told at a community meeting today that many of the restaurants along 5th and 7th Ave in Sunset Park, BK are seeing up to 90% less business this year, between the snow and fear in the community of leaving the house. So, if you can, plan a trip or order out this week.
February 2, 2026 at 12:50 AM
It is our civic duty to eat more birria tacos, conchas, mapo tofu & bao! The community is counting on us!
I am very much looking forward to getting the Measles vaccine in July.
I was vaccinated as a kid because my parents aren’t morons.
I lost my immunity to it and everything else because of cancer treatment.
I was vaccinated as a kid because my parents aren’t morons.
I lost my immunity to it and everything else because of cancer treatment.
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 1:09 PM
I am very much looking forward to getting the Measles vaccine in July.
I was vaccinated as a kid because my parents aren’t morons.
I lost my immunity to it and everything else because of cancer treatment.
I was vaccinated as a kid because my parents aren’t morons.
I lost my immunity to it and everything else because of cancer treatment.
Bay Ridge is the best
January 26, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Bay Ridge is the best
January 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM
This guy's been the main character for 10 years despite being corrupt, incompetent, pedophile, racist, rapist, traitor, war criminal and would-be autocrat.
Because we're governed by cowards and the media treats him like the voice of "Real America", we've been burdened for what feels like eternity.
Because we're governed by cowards and the media treats him like the voice of "Real America", we've been burdened for what feels like eternity.
January 26, 2026 at 1:12 AM
This guy's been the main character for 10 years despite being corrupt, incompetent, pedophile, racist, rapist, traitor, war criminal and would-be autocrat.
Because we're governed by cowards and the media treats him like the voice of "Real America", we've been burdened for what feels like eternity.
Because we're governed by cowards and the media treats him like the voice of "Real America", we've been burdened for what feels like eternity.
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January 25, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Zohran, shovel my bus stop!
December 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Zohran, shovel my bus stop!
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Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
January 24, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
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Guys nothing personal but if you rub your a.i. generated anti-ICE, anti-Trump memes in my face I gotta unfollow and mute you and also you’re dead to me.
It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.
It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.
January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Guys nothing personal but if you rub your a.i. generated anti-ICE, anti-Trump memes in my face I gotta unfollow and mute you and also you’re dead to me.
It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.
It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.