this guy sold me $15 worth of a nug that looked like rock candy

butlerian jihad for sports gambling

left wing intellectuals on having kids: wow look at all these little joys, i am gonna make a special scrap book of why the family matters...omg is this conservativism?

right wing intellectuals on having kids: look we have to start getting teens pregnant if we're gonna outbreed all the undesireables

Call me AWS because I’m slow and having lots of issues this morning

Federal workers at #NoKingsDC showed up to take a stand against a wannabe dictator, because our oath is to the people. Federal workers are NOT pawns and we will not be used against the American people. We took an oath, now we take action! ❌👑 ❌♟️#WeTookAnOath #supportfederalworkers #NoKings

I always found this funny with trad divisions of labour where they're like "the woman takes care of the children and the home, and the man protects them" and it's like ok but one of those is a real job that actually happens and the other one is something you imagine while watching an action film

It was a flagship mission that was going to return samples from Mars, but it got canceled in 2023 for being way over budget. It's technically not fully canceled, since it's a joint project with ESA, it's in project limbo rn afaik. The cancelation caused massive staffing problems at Goddard and JPL.

yeah, although no nasa center is coming off unscathed from this administration, the hardest centers hit are the ones that focus on science and deep space, jpl and goddard, which after the whole msr mess, weren't even in particularly great shape at the beginning of this year

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

At some point we may have to reassess the whole “no taking money from rich people who earned it through evil means” thing. Is it better if the Sacklers keep their money?

remember this phenomenal fucking post

Oh, also The Lions of Al-Rassan (Guy Gavriel Kay), it's technically set in an alternate world, but it's basically a one-to-one retelling of El Cid and other elements of medieval Spain, very fun historical epic

G Willow Wilson's The Bird King is set in historical Granada but with magical/ magical realism elements, I remember it being very heartfelt and thoughtful

This is a replica of a complete set of Mycenaean armor that was uncovered in the 1960s. This dorky shit is what Achilles was wearing.

Absolutely beyond parody that Dave Chappelle is headlining a comedy show for Saudi royalty after what, a decade of whining about cancel culture

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

sir, two years ago you said “To defeat China, we must summon the Dread Lord Bulbax.” do you think your leadership had anything to do with Dread Lord Bulbax’s reign of terror?

Primary source material from today’s new Maintenance Phase episode:

There have been some very scathing dissents over the years, but I can't think of one where the accusation is so bluntly made that the majority is a bunch of partisan hacks who are politically subservient to a president.

People still: Look, we can't read history through a contemporary lens. There wasn't a consensus that slavery was wrong.

Every 18th c. pamphlet: How can they do this? Are we SLAVES? In SLAVERY? The worst things you can be? Are they gonna put us IN CHAINS? Like in SLAVERY? Which is EVIL? Like SLAV-

the final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things