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In not *world on fire* news, researchers taught rats to drive little cars and I fucking love it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mZO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mZO...
Rats prefer driving over walking, researchers say
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In not *world on fire* news, researchers taught rats to drive little cars and I fucking love it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mZO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mZO...
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Keep scrolling if you’ve already watched a tortoise and a dachshund playing with a soccer ball today ⚽
📽️RudyJanssens
📽️RudyJanssens
April 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Keep scrolling if you’ve already watched a tortoise and a dachshund playing with a soccer ball today ⚽
📽️RudyJanssens
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The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:
April 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:
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April 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Deeply strange entering middle-age at a time in world history where things are getting measurably worse. Just a continual psychic struggle of “is this fogeyism or are things just not what they used to be?”
March 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Deeply strange entering middle-age at a time in world history where things are getting measurably worse. Just a continual psychic struggle of “is this fogeyism or are things just not what they used to be?”
I'd watch a series of films/shows set in this universe.
See if you can figure out what this ad from 1984 is selling before the reveal…
March 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'd watch a series of films/shows set in this universe.
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hey here's this week's cartoon (in phone friendly format) which regrettably hasn't become any less relevant since monday
tinyview.com/this-modern-...
tinyview.com/this-modern-...
Already happening
TMW cartoon for March 25, 2025
tinyview.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
hey here's this week's cartoon (in phone friendly format) which regrettably hasn't become any less relevant since monday
tinyview.com/this-modern-...
tinyview.com/this-modern-...
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It’s a DOGE eat DOGE World
March 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It’s a DOGE eat DOGE World
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Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
www.rollingstone.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
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THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: EEOC admin judge Karen Ortiz resisted an order to hand over all LGBT cases for “review” and told colleagues to resist too. She knows she’ll likely to be fired.
“I can exist on cornflakes and community if it means that my soul is intact.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
“I can exist on cornflakes and community if it means that my soul is intact.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk
Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: EEOC admin judge Karen Ortiz resisted an order to hand over all LGBT cases for “review” and told colleagues to resist too. She knows she’ll likely to be fired.
“I can exist on cornflakes and community if it means that my soul is intact.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
“I can exist on cornflakes and community if it means that my soul is intact.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
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The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning
February 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning
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Your outie documented five things they accomplished in the past week.
February 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Your outie documented five things they accomplished in the past week.
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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
February 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
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Don't do this.
oh no oh no oh no oh no storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Don't do this.
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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
February 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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“People try to hack in every day.”
Leaders of SC courts, DMV warn what could happen if ‘ancient’ technology isn’t upgraded
scdailygazette.com/2025/02/19/s... by @jmholdman.bsky.social
Leaders of SC courts, DMV warn what could happen if ‘ancient’ technology isn’t upgraded
scdailygazette.com/2025/02/19/s... by @jmholdman.bsky.social
Leaders of SC courts, DMV warn what could happen if 'ancient' technology isn't upgraded • SC Daily Gazette
South Carolina’s courts and DMV are running on software systems that are decades old and in need of massive upgrades.
scdailygazette.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“People try to hack in every day.”
Leaders of SC courts, DMV warn what could happen if ‘ancient’ technology isn’t upgraded
scdailygazette.com/2025/02/19/s... by @jmholdman.bsky.social
Leaders of SC courts, DMV warn what could happen if ‘ancient’ technology isn’t upgraded
scdailygazette.com/2025/02/19/s... by @jmholdman.bsky.social
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Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving.
That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.
That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.
February 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving.
That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.
That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.
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I'm watching news in discrete batches only, with a primary focus on things I can do stuff about and things that directly affect me, not trying to be more than broadly informed about everything else, and aggressively and ruthlessly forcing myself to take large chunks of time for personal activities.
I'm not being flip here. I am wondering how you people are doing this without having a complete emotional or mental breakdown
I don't think I can look at the news anymore today
I am just wondering how those of you who are still mainlining news all day every day are not in a psych ward??
I am just wondering how those of you who are still mainlining news all day every day are not in a psych ward??
February 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I'm watching news in discrete batches only, with a primary focus on things I can do stuff about and things that directly affect me, not trying to be more than broadly informed about everything else, and aggressively and ruthlessly forcing myself to take large chunks of time for personal activities.
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Holy Hell
Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:
February 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Holy Hell