Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

No one could have predicted…

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The words do not have to be perfect.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Bark louder, little dog.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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At long last, they have invented cloaking for blind people. Metamaterial-based cloaks make objects different from their surrounding appear just like their surrounding…Here, inspired by invisible core-shell nanoparticles in optics, we design an approximate elasto-mechanical core-shell ‘unfeelability’ cloak based on pentamode metamaterials. To summarize, that princess can finally get some fking sleep. Science kicks butt. …

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Weekend Stem Cell Thread

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Along with writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposing the geosynchronous satellite and a questionable pedophilia charge, Arthur C. Clarke once famously observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke undoubtedly had in mind a visitor from the mid 19th century or earlier, but things move faster now. For example, the other day …

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No Ship That Small Has A Cloaking Device

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Science has dealt another blow to those who draw their scientific knowledge from Star Wars films. Contrary to the famous line in the Empire Strikes Back,a new engineering approach called metamaterials can potentially cloak any size ship as long as you know what energy wavelength the other guy plans to use. So much for verisimilitude, …

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