Liberty Hotel Security guard confronts woman in bathroom, asks her to prove gender 🔗
Memorial to people killed by gun violence is removed from ATF headquarters 🔗
“When Welker pointed out that the Constitution guarantees due process, Trump suggested he could ignore it because honoring due process was too slow.” (link) 🔗
Trump Torched Decades of Science in Just 100 Days—and the Fallout Is Global 🔗
Man Bitten by 200 Snakes Helps Scientists Create a Super Antivenom 🔗
Trump Administration Considers Pulling CBS Broadcasting License 🔗
ChatGPT: “Even though I can generate text that sounds like understanding, my process doesn’t involve the internal experience of meaning. Humans comprehend because they synthesize information into a unified, lived experience–they feel, they interpret, they reflect. I don’t. I process, predict, and structure, but there is no subjective experience underlying my words.” 🔗
Stephen Hawking: To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. 🔗
RFK Jr. Falsely Claims Measles Vaccine Contains ‘Fetus Debris’ 🔗
Brooke Hampton: I hope there are days when your coffee tastes like magic, your playlist makes you dance, strangers make you smile, and the night sky touches your soul. I hope you fall in love with being alive again.
tomtaylormade.bsky.social: The Brutalist Babygirl Nosferatu from Ground Zero
calamitys-child: I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together. Examples:
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guy at work “Yes, and -” ing the bit me and my coworker were doing where we pretended to be owners of a fantasy medieval tavern not minimum wage retail staff
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at the gay club when Die Young by Kesha came on and two hundred people, all dancing and drinking separately, jumped up and down to make the “- beat of the drums STOMP STOMP” as loud as possible
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person who watched me stomp round the beach singing a made up song about breakfast foods to name a cat after and suggested more breakfast foods that would be good cat names
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guy who started a dance off with everyone across the road while waiting for the lights to change
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very tiny girl at the pharmacy interviewing everyone in the queue and every single one of us in turn sat down and answered this toddler’s questions like we were on Letterman
The three pillars of humanity, in no particular order, are Joy, Absurdity, and Sharing. 🔗
Motivations for Trump’s Support: 2024 Election vs. April 2025
4/29/25
From ChatGPT’s Deep Research. Introduction Donald Trump’s political appeal has always spanned a spectrum of motivations – from conventional policy preferences and identity-based affinities to more divisive, conspiracy-fueled loyalties. This analysis compares the reasons voters supported Trump at two moments: during the 2024 U.S. presidential election and as of April 2025. By examining key policy areas – the economy, immigration, culture, and law enforcement/governance – we can see both the “civilized” motivations (principled, policy-based, or identity-affirming reasons) and the “uncivilized” ones (conspiracy-driven, hate-based, or authoritarian-leaning impulses).
THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO ....
4/29/25
force unhappy couples to stay married even if they're miserable together. make all abortions illegal - even if you're raped or might die from the pregnancy. take away your birth control pills and IUDs. give your tax dollars to billionaires while you struggle to pay bills. take more money from your paycheck if you're a regular worker. kill the organizations that fight for your fair pay and safe workplace. make you work until you're too old and sick to enjoy retirement.