Grooveless Plorn

"Puipui" was taken. "Puipuipui" was also taken. "Puipuipuipui" seemed excessive. "Wonderpuipui" was there for a while but never seemed to fit right. We'll see how long this one lasts.

[liberalsarecool]

Bingo.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[toddcoward69]

Elder Scrolls 6 development leak :

[afloweroutofstone]

My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)

[afloweroutofstone]

This program had its funding cut during the DOGE cuts last year and now the parasitic worm they were trying to slow the spread of has officially arrived in the United States.

[kuttithevangu]

The thing I dislike about alt histories where real life monarchs have been made both gay and unproblematic is that it seems to imply that gay monarchs have not existed in history but if they did they would be cool. Which isn’t true. They have existed and they were just as bad as straight people. And I think it is disrespectful to real queer history to pretend that queer people have never been absolute bastards

[unspeakablearchives]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

cards folks paid for/redeemed on stream today! I'm live writing these every sunday at 3pm est, twitch.tv/miathecalligrapher

IDs in the images, they've been requested, in order, by:

@adhdlion (the first five) @stargateinmybasement (the next three) @toaster-strooder @ghostchilismoothie @jackthebard @ebony-draygon

[originalcrime]

dead wife who was MEAN and slept without a TOP SHEET and only went to the beach when it was OVERCAST to SCOWL at the waves

[liberalsarecool]

"That’s what makes Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York so unsettling to the old order. New York City is not just another municipality; it’s a sovereign-scale entity. Its population surpasses 38 states. Its metropolitan GDP trails only Texas and California.

It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.

It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.

What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.

If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."

- Jackie Summers

[leavesofgas]

[ashstfu]

reading a good interesting book after a horrible reading slump and suddenly you can feel the sun shining again and the sky is more beautiful than ever and birds are all singing songs to you

[bowlby4]

[jammernews]

[ID: To the people who say Ocasio-Cortez's proposed 70% top marginal tax rate on Americans making over $10 million a year is too radical, remind them of this: under Republican President Eisenhower the top marginal tax rate was 91% on Americans making over $200,000 a year which is $1.7 million in today's dollars.

-- Vox]

[chanteligence]

I rarely draw Kuwabara because he’s such a challenge for me, but whenever I do end up drawing him, I always have so much fun! :D

I used this color palette to practice with a limited palette, and it was quite fun :)

[sophsun1]

Happy Pride 🌈 | The Golden Girls (1985-1992)

[prokopetz]

The whole "Elvis sighting" thing is hilarious because, like, the first documented career Elvis impersonators began working over twenty years before the guy even died. I wonder why a public figure who has a whole industry of people who look and sound like him would generate an unusual number of posthumous sightings? It Is A Mystery.

[bluestockingbaby]

[saywhat-politics]

Researchers say this new Trump rule could destroy American science as we know it. They’re fighting back

Scientists across multiple disciplines are raising the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how scientific resea

Scientists across multiple disciplines are sounding the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how scientific research gets funded and allowing political appointees to decide whether to approve scientific grants.

Critics of the proposed rule say it would codify the administration's attempts to destroy the scientific research enterprise in the US that has led to remarkable discoveries on treating cancer, HIV and rare diseases — as well as understanding weather and climate science and developing artificial intelligence. It could have far-reaching implications on what kinds of research topics get studied in the first place.

One of the main casualties in OMB's proposal would be the country's longstanding scientific peer review process for grantmaking. Peer review has been widely used since the post-World War II research boom, and relies on panels of experts in their fields judging federal funding decisions on the scientific merit of the grant proposals, rather than any politically-motivated criteria.

The proposed rule would also ban research on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as gender, and stop federally funded international scientific collaborations. And OMB's changes could target more than scientific research — applying to other federal grant awards from agencies to state and local governments.

"This proposal does not just apply to scientific research funding, it applies to other federal awards in all kinds of contexts," said Stanford Law School professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette.

Kate Marvel, a climate scientist who recently left NASA due to political interference in climate-science research there, said peer review has long been an enabler of America's scientific leadership.

"One of the reasons the USA has historically been such a research superpower is that we've had a merit-based science funding system, where research is funded by the federal government based on the assessments of other scientists," she said.

"The system wasn't perfect, but it wasn't stupid," Marvel added. "Putting uninformed political hacks in charge of it is deeply stupid."

[sycamorality]

op disabled reblogs but i really wanted this post on my blog again