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Today's AWESOME EARWORM:
youtube.com/watch?v=ddFTxCzP…
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The word ‘futz’ is thought to have come from the Yiddish phrase “arumfartsn zikh,” the literal translation of which is “to fart around.”
Feel free to keep futzing around on your phone.
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The stereotype that highly-educated "childless cat ladies" aren't getting married is false. The decline in marriage rates is exclusively among women without college degrees.
(note: this is measured at age 45)
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Thanking Tesla for making a safe car and then immediately explaining that that car autonomously drove itself over a curb and into a light pole at 40 MPH is actually insane.
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If anyone still follows me here, I'm going inactive (too damn much work archiving/deleting tweets, and I refuse to let anyone gank my handle, so I'm not deactivating). Still on FB and Bluesky, though, so you can find me there.
Go ahead, Lone Skum, you Shitler-enabling Nazi yourfuckingself. This is a fucking junta, not an administration.
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Rhys Ifans (who previously schemed as Otto Hightower) joins For All Mankind's spinoff show Star City as the "Chief Designer" behind the Soviet Space program:
reactormag.com/star-city-for…
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Remembering the crew of STS-107: David Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael Anderson, William McCool, and Ilan Ramon
On February 1, 2003, the seven-astronaut crew was lost when Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry.
ALT Crew portrait with seven astronauts in orange flight suits.
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Don't ever question why Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons.
JUST IN: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, Fox News reports.
Hegseth has also directed the acting Inspector General to convene a review board to determine if Gen. Milley should lose a star in retirement for allegedly undermining the chain of command during Trump’s first term.
The Pentagon will also remove a second portrait of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon.
Fairly sure I've never been sent AI-created or even -assisted manuscripts, and I have zero interest in correcting machine-generated slop. Don't ask me to, as you will not like the results.
Y'know, for all the fine names for Lone Skum's flagshit car (among them such hits as the Incel Camino, the Wankpanzer, the Deplorean and the Swastikar), I am disappointed that I have not yet seen:
Shitty Shitty Bang Bang.
Yes, it was in the midst of a terrifying, deadly pandemic... but for a glorious moment, everyone's cats could SHINE.
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ADM Fagan by all accounts was a very good head of the USCG, she just wouldn't take a loyalty oath to MAGA and they knew it. This firing is a shot across the bow to all generals and admirals that unless they pledge undying loyalty to Trump, they will be fired.
MORE: news.usni.org/2025/01/21/adm…
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You all know what he just did. Don't try to hide from it. Our unelected co-president just celebrated his theft of our government with a Nazi salute.
This is what we've been warning you about for ten years.
Well, it's here.
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RFK Jr. opposed the life-saving Covid vaccine just six months into the pandemic. Peddled anti-science conspiracies. Waffled on women's reproductive rights.
And he wants us to trust him to make health care decisions for Americans? I have serious concerns — and 175 questions.
Elizabeth Warren has questions for RFK Jr — 175 of them.
"I ask that you review these questions and arrive prepared to answer them," @SenWarren writes in a letter sent to Trump's pick to run America's health care agencies.
