It’s really annoying how people confuse cynics with skeptics.

There is nothing “skeptical” about flat-out denying the efficacy or safety of vaccines; there is abundant evidence of both. Refusing to accept plain facts because your livelyhood depends on it is just plain cynical.

SCOTUS basically told him to.

They found a whole den of “lone wolves?!”

Their reuben might be the best sandwich I’ve ever had. Just perfect.

Guilty as charged!

Thanks for noticing 🥰

From Hydraulics of Roman Aqueducts : Steep Chutes, Cascades and Dropshafts (PDF warning):

The designs of dropshaft cascade, as well as steep chute followed by dissipation basin, show that the Roman aqueduct engineers were able to design specific features to cope with steep sections. It remains unclear whether they had some understanding of the hydraulic principles, or worked by observations and trial and error.

Most aqueducts were enclosed (covered) along their entire length, limiting the possibility for gas transfer at the free surface. Thus, the downstream waters were low in dissolved oxygen content unless reoxygenation devices were installed. I suggest that dropshafts may have been introduced in place of steep chutes in order to reoxygenate the water as well as to dissipate the energy of the flow. Aeration technology is commonly used today to reoxygenate depleted waters and to enhance the water quality. I recommend that further work by archaeologists focus on the excavation and survey of chutes and dropshaft to confirm this hypothesis.

Look who hates Mondays.

Jocund: cheerful and lighthearted.

From Romeo and Juliet:

Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

Crucifixion was the original t-pose.

But if you get the app you can unlock the crisper drawer+ for only $11.99/mo and get those extra fresh veggies that you crave!

Archbishop Harold Holmes by Jack White

I think it’s called “playing dumbentia”

Counterpoint: he told Wesley to shut it.

Right? Who does Mike think he is calling Picard out of the blue without even a text message first?

Unless it reinforces their reactionary beliefs.

Isn’t sinking what submarines are built for?

I have a friend with a daughter here in Texas who has a genetic disorder that causes serious developmental delays and seizures.

Her kid was kicked off of Medicaid last year despite being eligible, and it took months to get reinstated. She had to pay for OT, PT, GP, and drugs out of pocket in the meantime, which she couldn’t really afford, because she stays home full time to care for her daughter.

Fuck every Republican right in their ear.

The Catholic Church thinks they own their employees.

When I was promised a cyberpunk dystopia, I was hoping it at least wouldn’t be the theocratic kind.

Don’t forget Mary Anning!

Anning searched for fossils in the area’s Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone cliffs, particularly during the winter months when landslides exposed new fossils that had to be collected quickly before they were lost to the sea. Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton when she was twelve years old; the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany; and fish fossils. Her observations played a key role in the discovery that coprolites, known as bezoar stones at the time, were fossilised faeces, and she also discovered that belemnite fossils contained fossilised ink sacs like those of modern cephalopods.

Anning struggled financially for much of her life. As a woman, she was not eligible to join the Geological Society of London, and she did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions. However, her friend, geologist Henry De la Beche, who painted Duria Antiquior, the first widely circulated pictorial representation of a scene from prehistoric life derived from fossil reconstructions, based it largely on fossils Anning had found and sold prints of it for her benefit.