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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Charlie Kirk was an asshole who did not deserve to die because a well ordered society does not make being an asshole a death sentence. It also does not make it a crime to truthfully recount who they were.
September 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Charlie Kirk was an asshole who did not deserve to die because a well ordered society does not make being an asshole a death sentence. It also does not make it a crime to truthfully recount who they were.
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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Tom Lehrer died today. He was one of the great comedians our culture ever produced. Without Tom, there's no Weird Al, probably no that entire branch of comedy.
He went alone and beat the odds.
youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...
He went alone and beat the odds.
youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
youtu.be
July 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Tom Lehrer died today. He was one of the great comedians our culture ever produced. Without Tom, there's no Weird Al, probably no that entire branch of comedy.
He went alone and beat the odds.
youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...
He went alone and beat the odds.
youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...
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“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
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Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare
May 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare
I need a clip of Billy Birmingham as Bill Lawry yelling "Gottim, yeeessss, piss off, you're out."
May 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I need a clip of Billy Birmingham as Bill Lawry yelling "Gottim, yeeessss, piss off, you're out."
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
Feels like it's time to start the rumour that Musk has had Trump fitted with a neuralink prototype and can make him say whatever he needs to.
February 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Feels like it's time to start the rumour that Musk has had Trump fitted with a neuralink prototype and can make him say whatever he needs to.
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It’s remarkable how quickly the Trump team has sabotaged all the things that actually made the U.S. influential on the global stage.
Free trade economics, strong diplomatic networks and alliances, the soft power of democratic culture and values, the hard power of a competent military …
Free trade economics, strong diplomatic networks and alliances, the soft power of democratic culture and values, the hard power of a competent military …
February 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It’s remarkable how quickly the Trump team has sabotaged all the things that actually made the U.S. influential on the global stage.
Free trade economics, strong diplomatic networks and alliances, the soft power of democratic culture and values, the hard power of a competent military …
Free trade economics, strong diplomatic networks and alliances, the soft power of democratic culture and values, the hard power of a competent military …
I thought a Project 2025 backed Trump administration would be lawful evil rather than chaotic stupid, but it was always going to be horrifyingly destructive. I will be permanently astonished that anyone voted for it.
February 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I thought a Project 2025 backed Trump administration would be lawful evil rather than chaotic stupid, but it was always going to be horrifyingly destructive. I will be permanently astonished that anyone voted for it.
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Suffering is a necessary part of life, because it tells you something is wrong and forces you to do things, but gratuitous suffering obscures that signal and is little more than pathetic self-mutilation.
Suffer when needed, but only when needed.
Suffer when needed, but only when needed.
Ways to tell the person you’re talking to is has a brain haunted by the ghost of the Calvinist Yeoman smallholder:
“I’d love to have my own garden and live off the land”
“The only way you can [lose weight/ find love / be content] is to [suffer]”
“I’d love to have my own garden and live off the land”
“The only way you can [lose weight/ find love / be content] is to [suffer]”
January 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Suffering is a necessary part of life, because it tells you something is wrong and forces you to do things, but gratuitous suffering obscures that signal and is little more than pathetic self-mutilation.
Suffer when needed, but only when needed.
Suffer when needed, but only when needed.
US politics right now feels like watching the iceberg scrape along the side of the ship and wondering what's going to happen next.
December 12, 2024 at 10:40 AM
US politics right now feels like watching the iceberg scrape along the side of the ship and wondering what's going to happen next.
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The PM says, "When it comes to the wellbeing of young people ... I want Australia to be one of the leading nations in the world."
Spare me. One in six kids live in poverty but instead of raising the rate or building public housing Labor's ramming through a social media ban. We see you.
Spare me. One in six kids live in poverty but instead of raising the rate or building public housing Labor's ramming through a social media ban. We see you.
November 25, 2024 at 2:43 AM
The PM says, "When it comes to the wellbeing of young people ... I want Australia to be one of the leading nations in the world."
Spare me. One in six kids live in poverty but instead of raising the rate or building public housing Labor's ramming through a social media ban. We see you.
Spare me. One in six kids live in poverty but instead of raising the rate or building public housing Labor's ramming through a social media ban. We see you.
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honestly you have an unprecedented opportunity to do what the government won't bc the supplement trade is totally unregulated:
tell us what's IN those things
tell us what's IN those things
Does anybody need millions of dollars worth of supplements?
November 15, 2024 at 1:21 AM
honestly you have an unprecedented opportunity to do what the government won't bc the supplement trade is totally unregulated:
tell us what's IN those things
tell us what's IN those things
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Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
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Welcome to the small-targetification of our lives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Kids these days have it easy! So what we need to do is ban them from talking to each other on the internet | First Dog on the Moon
We would have terrorised the community a lot less back then if we had been glued to our phones
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Welcome to the small-targetification of our lives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It will be an absolute travesty if Trump loses because of his advancing dementia or some gaffe like the Puerto Rico garbage joke, when he should lose because he's a lying bullying con-man with nothing to offer but hate and violence.
But I'll take it.
But I'll take it.
November 4, 2024 at 8:02 AM
It will be an absolute travesty if Trump loses because of his advancing dementia or some gaffe like the Puerto Rico garbage joke, when he should lose because he's a lying bullying con-man with nothing to offer but hate and violence.
But I'll take it.
But I'll take it.
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/2 There is an ethos fashionable in America that if YOU think foreigners should be detained in camps and I think you are a shit for thinking so, that makes ME the intolerant person.
It is not an ethos for which I have any respect, and I am less and less inclined to conceal that.
It is not an ethos for which I have any respect, and I am less and less inclined to conceal that.
October 31, 2024 at 2:36 PM
/2 There is an ethos fashionable in America that if YOU think foreigners should be detained in camps and I think you are a shit for thinking so, that makes ME the intolerant person.
It is not an ethos for which I have any respect, and I am less and less inclined to conceal that.
It is not an ethos for which I have any respect, and I am less and less inclined to conceal that.
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dems: burning billions of tons of fossil fuels is heating the ocean and will cause freak weather events to become normal events
gop: that’s insane
(freak weather events become normal events)
gop: the democrats have a secret hurricane spawning machine
gop: that’s insane
(freak weather events become normal events)
gop: the democrats have a secret hurricane spawning machine
October 8, 2024 at 6:56 PM
dems: burning billions of tons of fossil fuels is heating the ocean and will cause freak weather events to become normal events
gop: that’s insane
(freak weather events become normal events)
gop: the democrats have a secret hurricane spawning machine
gop: that’s insane
(freak weather events become normal events)
gop: the democrats have a secret hurricane spawning machine
I have no particular insight into Biden's cognitive health, but I'd really love to see someone deepfake Biden and Trump giving each each other's speeches and see what the commentariat made of it.
My bet: "Trump steps up on policy detail" / "Biden's decline accelerating".
My bet: "Trump steps up on policy detail" / "Biden's decline accelerating".
July 21, 2024 at 9:27 AM
I have no particular insight into Biden's cognitive health, but I'd really love to see someone deepfake Biden and Trump giving each each other's speeches and see what the commentariat made of it.
My bet: "Trump steps up on policy detail" / "Biden's decline accelerating".
My bet: "Trump steps up on policy detail" / "Biden's decline accelerating".
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When I read Hitchens "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" the thing that disturbed me about it was that very little of it was "Kissinger did this bad thing". Most of it was "Kissinger was in charge of US foreign policy when the US committed the following war crimes..."
November 30, 2023 at 7:31 AM
When I read Hitchens "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" the thing that disturbed me about it was that very little of it was "Kissinger did this bad thing". Most of it was "Kissinger was in charge of US foreign policy when the US committed the following war crimes..."