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Someone has STOLEN the Surplus Sid’s on Saturday night. Barry wants it back. You know what to do, internet

Using the words "sky daddy" in earnest gets you an instant block

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time

Judith Butler Apology Form: Reason for Behavior: The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s I miss not thinking about gender I was jealous of their nonbinary swag I never actually read their work I didn’t realize how much of society is built on gender Mercury was in retrograde I will hereby respect Judith Butler and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes

Tom Holland Isn't Tall Enough To Catch Zendaya | The Graham Norton Show YouTube video by The Graham Norton Show

His ability to make this joke about himself is another good sign

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Same photo from original post, with big red arrow pointing at grumpy-looking brown tabby

Chief mousecatcher and bottle-licker, goes by Cookie

AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models

You can also just write your prompts in verse: arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

Infamous Twitter exchange in which Tyler Austin Harper proves he’s the dumbest mofo on the planet and The Atlantic should fire him: [Tweet:] Charlotte Clymer @cmclymer • Oct 18, 2024 Can someone please explain to me what exactly it is that young men want to hear from VP Harris that she's not already saying? And please be specific. I want to hear *exactly what you'd have her say to them. x.com/travishelwig/S... [Quote tweet:] Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper I'm not going to send you to die in another pointless fucking war in the Middle East. Specific enough?

I don’t know, dudes, what is every city without billionaires, which is many many cities in the country and the world?

I’m not saying you can’t debate the economic impacts, but framing this as if the presence of billionaires drives *the identity of a city* is, frankly, extremely goofy.

Old Father William - Sammy Davis Jr YouTube video by WolfGirl04

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What stands out to me is treating productive capacity as a political variable(!)

Moving from 500 to 1,400 shovelers at $30/hr is a real foray into capacity expansion organized around a clear public standard, instead of letting the “how do we pay for it?” frame set the ceiling in advance.

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have been in a generally grumpy mood for days and felt better today and realized it's because the sun is out and i have a large glass of water. i'm literally just a plant that's been cursed with the ability to complain.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Grey and white tabby kitty with white belly looks adorably at the camera

Ok but only if you look at this one

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Relatively mainstream liberals and leftists are sliding into BlueAnon batshittery over the Epstein files. It's scary.

The birds all went silent because they thought it was night. It was truly one of the eeriest things I've ever experienced and I'd driven several hours to be there. Imagine if it just happened out of nowhere

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America

or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

In einer anderen Timeline haben sie Walter Bejamins Thesen über den Hampelmann der Geschichte und ich bin neidisch

Google correcting my spelling of “hors d’ouevres” to “hors d’oeuvres.”

You can practically hear Google sighing as it corrects me

“hors d’oeuvres” is the bane of my existence

I am a former spelling bee champion (okay, it was my elementary school bee but it COUNTS, okay?) and I have to look up any word with a whiff of a French origin

President Barbie

Happy President's Day!

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

imagine if every time you tried to go to a broken link in your browser, the computer made up a fake version of the website it thought you wanted instead of giving a 404, and it still charged your credit card when you tried to buy things on it that didn’t exist

I have an ex who got all his dress shirts custom made and if you can afford it, it makes a difference

A friend once referred to Ossoff as a "terrifying Vineyard Vines droid." I'm sure he meant it to be (derogatory) but I thought it was pretty (complimentary)