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Contrary to popular belief, more time on social media doesn't make kids anxious or depressed: kids who are already anxious or depressed spend more time on social media, because it's where they find support, community, and help from their peers.
December 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Contrary to popular belief, more time on social media doesn't make kids anxious or depressed: kids who are already anxious or depressed spend more time on social media, because it's where they find support, community, and help from their peers.
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Otis smells like a warm grilled cheese sandwich, further proof I have been infected with toxoplasmosis.
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Otis smells like a warm grilled cheese sandwich, further proof I have been infected with toxoplasmosis.
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Someone who bought a frog facts advent calendar for a friend's kid last year just emailed me.
Apparently that kid got a different advent calendar this year, and when he opened it he said, “These are HORRIBLE! They’re not teaching me anything about frogs!”
This kid gets it.
Apparently that kid got a different advent calendar this year, and when he opened it he said, “These are HORRIBLE! They’re not teaching me anything about frogs!”
This kid gets it.
November 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Someone who bought a frog facts advent calendar for a friend's kid last year just emailed me.
Apparently that kid got a different advent calendar this year, and when he opened it he said, “These are HORRIBLE! They’re not teaching me anything about frogs!”
This kid gets it.
Apparently that kid got a different advent calendar this year, and when he opened it he said, “These are HORRIBLE! They’re not teaching me anything about frogs!”
This kid gets it.
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Clearly he needed to stop after ‘I don't think’.
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Clearly he needed to stop after ‘I don't think’.
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I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher
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Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to the people.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to the people.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
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We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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Yep.
August 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Yep.
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It arrived!
My own duplicate of Ea-Nasir's complaint letter!
My own duplicate of Ea-Nasir's complaint letter!
August 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It arrived!
My own duplicate of Ea-Nasir's complaint letter!
My own duplicate of Ea-Nasir's complaint letter!
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Finally, a united nation.
August 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Finally, a united nation.
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Buy my books, help me keep Ben in blankets!
July 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Buy my books, help me keep Ben in blankets!
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Can’t believe JNCO is doing a “Kevin Smith has great jeans” ad campaign
August 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Can’t believe JNCO is doing a “Kevin Smith has great jeans” ad campaign
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Short fiction is fun, inspiring, and soul-nourishing, but the current economic environment makes it so hard to publish. Uncanny has been doing stellar work, and you should back them.
Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns!
Funding to support Year 12 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!
www.kickstarter.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Short fiction is fun, inspiring, and soul-nourishing, but the current economic environment makes it so hard to publish. Uncanny has been doing stellar work, and you should back them.
Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
Good point
He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses
Chronically Ill? In Kennedy's View, It Might Be a Patient's Own Fault www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
August 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Good point
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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
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4th August 2025 07.23
August 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
4th August 2025 07.23
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CNN: An auto parts maker in Detroit just had to layoff 100 workers and shut down a warehouse. The owner specifically blamed tariffs.
STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails
STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails
August 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
CNN: An auto parts maker in Detroit just had to layoff 100 workers and shut down a warehouse. The owner specifically blamed tariffs.
STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails
STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails
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"Good news all around" -- Newsmax hosts blatantly lie to viewers about the terrible July jobs report, then immediately pivot to pushing conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"Good news all around" -- Newsmax hosts blatantly lie to viewers about the terrible July jobs report, then immediately pivot to pushing conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton
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Absolutely true, and certain chains have worse franchise agreements than others. Subway and McDonald’s are notoriously bad
Here's the cruel rub - most restaurants in the USA are independently owned, and that's the experience employees have, but from a customer POV they're chains! Because franchising is the most successful scam ever devised to steal workers' rights without even benefitting small business owners.
Restaurants are in fact one of the businesses statistically *least* likely to be owned by a giant evil corporation
August 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Absolutely true, and certain chains have worse franchise agreements than others. Subway and McDonald’s are notoriously bad
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would u rather be the night watchman for the ventriloquist museum or this place
I sadly didn't get to go, but there is a DISGUSTING FOOD MUSEUM in Malmo, Sweden. I *did* get to go to the toy museum in Stockholm and that was full of haunted, cursed toys from years past, and it was delightfully weird.
This is just a sampling of the photos I took there:
This is just a sampling of the photos I took there:
August 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
would u rather be the night watchman for the ventriloquist museum or this place
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They’re so jealous you can write.
They’re so jealous you can draw.
They’re so jealous you can make music.
They have all the money in the world, but they’ve been driven insane because they don’t have your joy.
They’re so jealous you can draw.
They’re so jealous you can make music.
They have all the money in the world, but they’ve been driven insane because they don’t have your joy.
Writers should never modify their own prose as a reaction to what stupid fucking generative AI is doing -- that shit stole from us, and it stole poorly, incompletely, and has none of our magic and zero of our humanity, our experience, our wonder and fear, and it never ever will. Fuck AI. You do you.
August 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
They’re so jealous you can write.
They’re so jealous you can draw.
They’re so jealous you can make music.
They have all the money in the world, but they’ve been driven insane because they don’t have your joy.
They’re so jealous you can draw.
They’re so jealous you can make music.
They have all the money in the world, but they’ve been driven insane because they don’t have your joy.
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The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing Americans that Republicans are good for the economy
CNN points out that June turned out to be the weakest month of jobs growth since December 2020 -- the last full month of Trump's first term
August 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing Americans that Republicans are good for the economy
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Here are some nice mushrooms
July 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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I was nominated for “Girl of the Year” at the Philadelphia Citizen’s RAD awards, and did I win??? NO! But another scientist won so that rocks. She cures rare diseases in children. Pretty important 😂
A win for scientists is a win in my book!
thephiladelphiacitizen.org/2025-rad-awa...
A win for scientists is a win in my book!
thephiladelphiacitizen.org/2025-rad-awa...
2025 Rad Awards: Dr. Sarah McAnulty
Philadelphia biologist Sarah McAnulty brings science to the masses in classrooms, through burlesque, at meet-ups and on telephone poles
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
July 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I was nominated for “Girl of the Year” at the Philadelphia Citizen’s RAD awards, and did I win??? NO! But another scientist won so that rocks. She cures rare diseases in children. Pretty important 😂
A win for scientists is a win in my book!
thephiladelphiacitizen.org/2025-rad-awa...
A win for scientists is a win in my book!
thephiladelphiacitizen.org/2025-rad-awa...
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Dude explaining how he made his first $10 million:
1. Get up at 5:00AM every day
2. 90 minutes of cardio
3. Take a cold shower
4. Journal
5. Schedule out your day
6. Dad owns Fortune 500 company
7. Meditate
1. Get up at 5:00AM every day
2. 90 minutes of cardio
3. Take a cold shower
4. Journal
5. Schedule out your day
6. Dad owns Fortune 500 company
7. Meditate
July 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Dude explaining how he made his first $10 million:
1. Get up at 5:00AM every day
2. 90 minutes of cardio
3. Take a cold shower
4. Journal
5. Schedule out your day
6. Dad owns Fortune 500 company
7. Meditate
1. Get up at 5:00AM every day
2. 90 minutes of cardio
3. Take a cold shower
4. Journal
5. Schedule out your day
6. Dad owns Fortune 500 company
7. Meditate