Isaac

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I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet

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Banner: Detail from "Christmas 3020" by Makoto Fujimura

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Apparently my accent is "Acela corridor"

Well goddamn if they didn't have me pinned. Gift link if you want to do yours. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Skamania County Commissioner for Waste Management

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Mark Lightly

This reminds me of the murder mystery game I found in a thrift store that had a treasure trove of pun names (and a Vincent Price endorsement lol)

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🏳️‍⚧️ The Josie Zone

It's cringe to like your state flag, but Maryland's flag is undeniably a banger

That Tricky Dick, playing both sides so he always comes out on top

politics now: indeciperable stew of bizarre conspiracy theories and tribalism politics 50 years ago: definitely not that, things were very rational

Yes, your description is correct But it should be worded differently

18-point gap between the Arizona presidential election (Trump +5), and the Senate race (Gallego +13), according to CBS News poll.

First portrait of King since coronation unveiled

First portrait of King since coronation unveiledwww.bbc.co.uk Queen Camilla is said to have looked at the painting and told the artist: "Yes, you've got him."

What throwaway Simpsons joke lives in your head full-time? For me it’s Dr Hibbert deciding not to eat at Moe’s and instead taking the family to the Texas Cheesecake Depository

May the Fourth be with you

I love Talking Heads

I love the B-52s

No, there is another

I regret to inform you that the privately launched, NFT-funded art installation on the moon, called Jeff Koons: Moon Phases, will likely survive longer than every single work of art in the Louvre and possibly humanity itself. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

How Jeff Koons’s Lunar Artwork Could Outlast All of Humanitywww.scientificamerican.com How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installation from artist Jeff Koons is inadvertently putting this question to the test

As with trans kids, the comparison to left-handedness is useful here. Are we inventing ADHD and autism diagnoses or have we started to describe these conditions in a non-stigmatizing way? The distinction between invention and discovery seems lost on a lot of people.

“No one had ADHD or autism when we were kids! We just had Chatty Cathy and Johnny the class clown who never stayed at his desk and Timmy who never spoke to anyone unless it was about trains”

The U.S. has more solar than ever before (yay!), which makes dealing with the eclipse a little tricky heatmap.news/sparks/eclip...

The Eclipse Will Be a 3-Hour Boon for Gas, Batteries, and Hydroheatmap.news What happens to the grid when the sun goes away?

Cool, cool. “With its visual ability to go as deep as detecting objects measuring 10 centimeters, it's possible for the Albedo satellite to not only make out a person, but also discern whether you are naked or clothed.”

A New Class Of Scary Satellites Is Ringing James Bond Villain Alarms - SlashGearwww.slashgear.com New satellite technology and imaging capabilities means new potential privacy issues, especially as the technology allows for higher resolution surveillance.

Rolling up to the vending machine at the Dune 2 showing

LEAP DAY POST FROG

By God, that's Leon Kass' music chicagoreader.com/blogs/leon-k... h/t @whet.bsky.social

these weirdos want to dictate how you eat ice cream

“A Democratic consultant who worked for [Dean Phillips’] presidential campaign paid a New Orleans magician to use artificial intelligence to impersonate President Joe Biden for a robocall that is now at the center of a multistate law enforcement investigation.”

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Pavel

Imagine what might have been if this had taken off

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Proof of Burden

wait why isn’t everyone posting this one?????????

Charles Vess' illustrations of the dragons in Earthsea were sooo good (Inshallah the rumors of an A24 Earthsea series come true)

Besides being correct, let's also take a second to marvel over the comically huge synthesizer used to make Talking Book

My hottest music take: Stevie's 1970s output is _minimally_ just as good and just as important, musically and socially, as the Beatles' discography.

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Chris Hayes

I liked the dorky headphones

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ryan cooper

There was a good thread about this at the other place last night

Pulling out this old chestnut

Tonight’s exhibit of debasement.

With the introduction of Fedallah in today's reading 🐋, I thought I'd share this highly meme-worthy image

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Ryan North