Does that seem fair to you?
Does that seem fair to you?
what is the largest animal you are confident you could expel, singlehandedly, from a medium-size bookshop?
RULES:
- you have no resources beyond what is available in the shop
- you must remain more or less uninjured
- bookshop has 2 floors; animal is on ground floor, you can choose where you begin
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68
actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
π³Wow. Iβm actually surprised.
CAPTION Annenberg Public Policy Center, Annenberg Science and Public Health (ASAPH) Survey Feb. 2026, N=1650, MOE=+/-3.5% CREDIT Annenberg Public Policy Center
This is encouraging.
Kennedy promised to restore trust in our health agencies.
He achieved the opposite.
Confidence in health agencies dropped during Trumpβs first year.
38% of people trust Kennedy.
Polls show more trust in professional associations.
π§ͺ www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Dragons are just iconic
Super rad
Dont mind me, just openly weeping tears of joy at work because my cats got another all clear for their annual checkups after a small health scare.
I donβt post on here enough, so Iβll just say this:
A wise man named Bill Nye once said that βScience rules!β Blue Sky shares great science news. Therefore, Blue Sky rules!
#BlueSkyRules #ScienceRules
"What'd you do with the bloody coconuts!?!?"
CONSTANTINE was released on this day in 2005 #filmsky
Good riddance
I canβt do any of his films
Def wild time
This song is really Nelson! π€£
Marceline Day with Lon Chaney in LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (Tod Browning, 1927)
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Travel memories
(Very) tangentially this reminds me of booking into a Lavender Hotelβ¦ which proved to be lavender in every way possible π
I should have known better as a few weeks earlier in a rush Iβd booked into an Orange Hotelβ¦β¦
Both were in peninsular Malaysia.
NEW: After an Epstein survivors' lawyer details what she says may be "the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history," a federal judge has now scheduled a Wednesday a.m. hearing & urged DOJ and the lawyer to bring their clients. Case 1:19-cr-00490-RMB Document 101 Filed 02/02/26| Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Government, - against - 19 Cr. 490 (RMB) MEMORANDUM Jeffrey Epstein, Defendant. To: Attorney Henderson and U.S. Attorney Clayton Thank you for your recent letters, dated January 30, 2026, January 31, 2026, February 1, 2026, and Februaty 2, 2026. I recognize your concern and the urgency of the issues you have presented. I will set aside a conference on Wednesday, February 4 at 11:30 a.m., if that is convenient for you (500 Pearl Street, Courtroom 17B). You are invited to bring your clients. I am not certain how helpful I can be. And, I encourage you to continue to resolve open issues in good faith. Dated: February 2, 2026 New York, NY
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Okay, odd, no messenger icon on the side of your profile
@thebmovievault.bsky.social maybe we could get you on an episode soon
FOXTRAP (1986)
I think weβve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think weβre really fast and strong before they kill us.
"I invented a device that sucks up crumbs. My advisors told me that's just a vacuum. Can you believe that? - invented the vacuum." -Elon Musk
Elon is the worst.
We can make it go lower!!
Truth
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the βwoke scoldsβ and your friend whoβs βtoo wokeβ were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
I did a little digging into David Leavitt when he harassed a Target employee back in early 2020. Everything about his persona is fake. IIRC, he was even making fake sponcon on Instagram.
www.businessinsider.com/david-leavit...
I interviewed two of the mods of r/Minneapolis about their tireless work this month: βI just wanted a local subreddit to know what was happening in my city, and now all of a sudden, weβve turned into this de facto hub of information for basically how to fight fascism.β
www.wired.com/story/reddit...
Kat is quoted in Thor Bensonβs madness. The text reads: ββIt's no surprise to me that the people at the top of the AI industry are closely aligned with not only Donald Trump's administration, but also authoritarian movements around the globe, because AI at scale is a tool of disillusionment and disempowerment,β Tenbarge says. AI is designed to ensure people don't know what's real, Tenbarge says, and that makes it helpful to anyone hoping to spread propaganda.β
I talked to @thorbenson.bsky.social about why and how people are getting their news from social media, plus how AI poses a massive threat to an already damaging and fractured media ecosystem madness.ghost.io/kat-tenbarge...