panda, the aloofful scientist

my working memory has quiet quitted

we do love a good reboot

I continue to be very glad I don't drive. Whenever I need to go somewhere I simply let myself be devoured by a swarm of rats and then reconstitute in a wet steaming embryonic blob at my destination.

Winston Churchill was an early proponent of simplifying the English language. In 1936, he stopped using vowels. Then he removed adjectives and nouns. Toward the end of his life, he was just yelling verbs at people.

Want to own a copy of Unbelievable History? It's more likely than you think.

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the cat: *eats some food*

me: *crying sobbing throwing up with happiness*

“not like other girls” weren’t we all

old man cat is doing better, which means i can keep my office door open during the day, which means my cat can hang out on the back of my chair again. hash tag blessed

Sam Reich of Dropout on Game Changer holding up a gold plaque saying "THIS BIT 10X". The caption says "You've done this bit 10 times."

Incredibly deployable image for Bluesky posts

he’s eating with minimal fuss, so i’m happy.

his belly was trimmed for an ultrasound, so undignified.

he’s a DANGEROUS* and WILD** boy

*lethal levels of cute
**no yeah this is accurate

stressful weekend notwithstanding, using no added sugar PB in the oat snack recipe made them absolutely perfect and not overly sweet.

also the cat is snoozing calmly, which is good to see.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

this is freedom toast erasure

mass psychosis of horrifying proportions.

it was the blurst of times for real

we also got this shit, including People naming him one of the sexiest men alive

I really cannot overstate how completely bonkers the Iraq War era was if you didn’t live through it

Let me remind that in the run up to Iraq 2003, 'realist' scholars who opposed the war, some of whom had been regular oped contributors before, couldnt place in the NYT or WaPo at all, eventually paying to run an oped as an advertisement.

that sound you hear is the deafening laughter of trans people

nothing good

i’m not a war machines expert to be clear, it’s just what i first thought of. my relevant experience is in making crafts to sell :p

manufacturing capacity is key. stockpiling over years is one thing, but if there’s escalation, building up manufacturing takes time.

especially if we don’t make key parts—say, electronics—in the US.

it would suck if there were issues with tariffs of something, you know

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsk... •3m She/Her yeah like the other part of the conversation is, how did an environment get created over time where a guy with a Nazi tattoo and Nazi-ass opinions was like, "I could probably win a Democratic primary" Sydette Th...• @bl... • 7m Harder part is gonna be us having the ugly convo about how much "Nazi shit" has been allowed long before old boys tattoos came into play

The very first thing is that people need to look at the fact that for yearssssss Jews have been saying there is antisemitism on the left and for yearssssss we’ve been told that’s *impossible* and we’re lying.

i am unsure there is a subject to be an expert in here frankly

sounds like heaven

i want my politicians to have well-formed opinions, not to just agree with whomever says words that sound “right”!

Even if Platner isn’t an antisemite (he absolutely is), if your judgement is so fucking bad that you REGULARLY do an antisemitic whoopsie because it has never occurred to you to just fucking look something up then you ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE.

if you don’t mind me never getting out if 1st gear, then yeah, for sure, i can definitely drive your car ;p

CDL Class (A, B, and C) Licenses | DMV.ORG There are different classes of commercial driver’s licenses that allow you to drive different CMVs. Here’s a breakdown of CDL classes.

not really? it’s primarily weight based. the intended use is also a factor, esp for commercial licensing. but that’s irrelevant to the “can you drive a car” question, i think

www.dmv.org/commercial-d...

(altho i got my license in 2001/2002, so i don’t count)