Violet D. Blood

Got damn

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

it is good that mr. cenobite apologized

Choose better heroes

A photo of comedic actor and singer-songwriter Matt Berry, a cuddly dude with a beard and long, dark hair, looking contemplative

Yet again, I see that People Magazine is too cowardly to admit who the real Sexiest Man Alive is:

"Liberals" and "Centrists" who ensured Trump's return are attacking people who BEGGED Biden/Harris to offer a bold alternative to fascism and genocide. They're GLOATING about the looming horrors. Rotten to the core, mirrors of their MAGA partners.

That's an all-time update to the abstract

The Final Pitch

Free covid tests by mail program revived by Biden administration People can again order four covid tests per household. The move comes ahead of an expected winter coronavirus wave.

You can get 4 free COVID tests again from covidtests.gov

Israel closes Al Jazeera bureau in Ramallah: All you need to know At 3am, heavily armed Israeli soldiers raided the office of Al Jazeera in Ramallah, throwing the team out.

During the Iraq war/GWOT, the U.S. attacked Al Jazeera relentlessly, bombed its facilities, killed its Baghdad correspondent and locked a cameraman in Guantanamo. Israel has repeated this pattern. All journalists must condemn these violent assaults on freedom of the press.

aje.io/rg3e2h

Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild

Last spring, Washington state passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming.

Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.

I know there's no way for this to be against the law but feels like it should be

Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

Potato Consumption and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality – A Long-Term Follow-Up of a Norwegian Cohort Potatoes are a staple food in many traditional cuisines, yet their impact on long-term risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality is unclear, …

All the anti-potato "evidence" is from population studies, which are hopelessly confounded & inaccurate.

But here's one that says potatoes are just fine.

Live by the sword ...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seattle Police Officer Fired Over ‘Cruel Comments’ About Pedestrian’s Death The officer, Daniel Auderer, was heard laughing as he discussed Jaahnavi Kandula, who was struck and killed by a speeding police S.U.V. driven by another Seattle officer.

NYT grownup. Seattle Times not. NYT's Jaahnavi Kandula story, having researched local news, saw PubliCola drove the story from the start. Thanks NYT for linking PubliCola, something Seattle Times rarely does when repeatedly piggy backing @ericacbarnett.bsky.social city hall & homelessness coverage.

And you know what they always say:

A man who will lie about genocide is definitely a man you can trust to defeat fascism.

Newborn babies now have little chance of survival in Gaza, hospital director warns Mothers are so malnourished they cannot breastfeed, so their babies are dying - literally starving to death - because they cannot get the vital nutrition they desperately need.

'Mothers in Gaza are so malnourished themselves that they cannot breastfeed, and so babies are dying, literally starving to death, because they cannot get the vital nutrition that newborns need.'

Yes, but does it meet the definition of genocide that I made up?

news.sky.com/story/newbor...

Sir Raymond Douglas Davies having a cuppa

Sir
Raymond
Douglas
Davies
is Eighty

Curated meme by unknown author with text and images. Text reads: Me in the produce section. Below is four images of Spock doing mind melds, touching the tips of his fingers to someone's head.

It's really weird (it's not really weird) how states that ban abortions are also states where women can't get leave to take care of their children.

A mental health melodrama for your weekend reading.

Alito is mad that too much money is funding ProPublica to do real investigative reporting on his and Thomas' ethics violations.

Hmmm...

You may not want to admit it but Netanyahu is correct that the ICC should not be targeting him and Israel and should be focused solely on Hamas terrorists. Everyone who aided and funded Hamas’ operations should be immediately hauled before the ICC,

oh my god David shut the fuck up
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/o...