Rocks are people too. Ask any Republican. Source: @npub185tg...vel3

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Celeste Labedz (@celestelabedz@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image I'm a geologist and this isn't cute or funny. Rocks only climb trees like this when they're very stressed.

@npub1yvrn...tm6h Great line, Corp. And good posts! You’re likely to get many more followers if you tell us a little about yourself in the profile. https://mastodon.social/deck/@eldubuu

Huh. Funny that nothing I post is showing up in my own timelines today. I suppose I should check more carefully? maybe Xitter is just totally broken now? https://twitter.com/Shoq/status/1696909086179123230

or Dasha Burns, Ali Vitali, Sahil Kapur, and on and on and… Source: @npub1e5cj...zwue

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Well, here comes Andrea Mitchell. That's my cue to turn off MSNBC and go be productive somehow.

Strenuously disagree. You’re falling right thru the Overton window without a net. We’ve moved so far right, the previous fringe right is now mainstream. Reagan and his reciprocal fealty to Heritage, Federalist Society and the rest of the neoliberal crackpot think tanks that almost single handedly dismantled the concept of the “big gubmint” that built our entire culture. He effectively trademarked “Government is the problem.” Source: @npub14jth...x6e5

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Chris Brennan (@chrisbrennan@mastodon.social)

@shoq Respectfully, and without intending to defend his policies, Reagan never threatened the basic foundations of democracy. Like his VP did, Re...

After seeing record traffic, Bluesky adds rate limits to improve network stability

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After seeing record traffic, Bluesky adds rate limits to improve network stability | TechCrunch

Twitter/X rival Bluesky announced it will impose rate limits to improve its network stability and security, but assured users their posting experience

As I might have expected, my hernia swelling has gone way down today. I want it to be huge when I see the surgeon tomorrow because I want my repair to be fast tracked.

Tim Scott is telling us what he's going to do if he ever gets to the big house.

If you turn the sound off, the Republican debate looks and sounds a lot like Fox News.

Jesus, Asa Hutchinson looks like he was embalmed just before the debate.

Tim Scott is exciting in that same way a good foot fungus is exciting.

Whenever there's an important breaking news story at midday, my first instinct is to switch to any news channel without Andrea Mitchell hosting. I have standards.

When the extreme weather is decimating their profits and lives, conservative sociopaths will whine, “why weren’t we warned?” Global Warming Timeline “1971 SMIC conference of leading scientists reports a danger of rapid and serious global change caused by humans, calls for an organized research effort. ”

The Discovery of Global Warming

A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause climate change. An abridged web version of Spencer...

They claim the plane is really going to take off, here at the smallest airport in the universe. I remain skeptical.

The universe is insisting I not leave this island. Delta has borked my flight for a second time. Delayed just enough, that it would take three connecting flights, and 16 hours to get back to Fort Lauderdale. At least this time they changed it exactly 3 minutes before we shoved off for the airport at 4:00 a.m. Spent next 2 hours of haggling to get a supervisor who got us on tomorrow's booked flight via accommodation seating they block off for flight crews and special needs. Such as my hernia?

Has there ever been a human being more revolting, on as many levels of revulsion, as Donald Trump has been? The only thing that would make him a better contender for the worst world leader who ever lived would be a robust genocide. And some dimwits want to give him a second shot at that. It’s just uncanny how mindless, thoughtless, valueless, and racist over a third of America has proudly become, thanks to Fox News. (Or perhaps it just made them far more visible?)

Remember when hearing the word "fascist" was almost cringeworthy? My, what a difference a decade of craven Republican malfeasance and turpitude can make, eh?

House Dems ask Garland to open a Clarence Thomas probe over gifts

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House Dems request DOJ probe of Clarence Thomas over gifts

Several Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging him to investigate the Supreme Court justice over lavish — and undiscl...

The American right may want to elect a convicted felon as president, but somehow I think the rest of the world may have to weigh in on that issue. It's about time they spoke up.