Dylan Chartier

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[Dylan Chartier @dylyness]

@LanaDelRey can we get a remix of Bartender with @KaceyMusgraves 🥃🍸🥂🍹🍷🧐🤠 @jackantonoff #NFR #bartender #lanadelrey #NormanFuckingRockwell

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Congress is not serious.

We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…

BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.

Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,

but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump ousted all three members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, a bipartisan agency that works with state officials to ensure free and fair elections.

Nice try, Mr. President.

We won't let you sabotage the midterm elections. This is a democracy, not a dictatorship.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[TUPACABRA @tupacabra]

Old NASA video seems to be corroborated by Trump’s new UFO file drop! 🛸

The 1996 tether Incident occurred when a 12 mile long tether snapped in space and was immediately swarmed by unidentified orbs of light.

This is almost identical to what the Apollo astronauts reported out of their window.

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

This was very well done. It’s not left vs. right anymore no matter how hard they try to force us back into the paradigm.
It’s a simple yes or no question. The answer cannot be “well, was Biden mentally fit?”

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Melania Trump says Jimmy Kimmel should be canceled. Last week her husband commented on Robert Mueller’s death: “Good. I”m glad he’s dead.”
Said Pretty much the same about my old friend Rob Reiner.
People who live in glass houses should’t throw shit.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Florida resident: “I struggle everyday and now I’m taking care of my mom who’s older and denied [insurance] simple simple things like breathing meds…so I don’t eat this week because I have to take mom to the doctors tomorrow…so you decide what’s more important…you’ve got to make tough choices and tough choices today is tough for anybody, whether you’re from this country or not.”😢

Velshi: “So I don’t eat tonight… in every other developed country in the world, no one ever has to say that. That’s the Donald Trump economy in which we live in now…”

[Nostalgia @nostalgiaa]

Nobody:

Me and Grandma when we used to chill together:

[Nostalgia Daily @nostalgia_]

SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Michelle Pfeiffer whipped the heads off the mannequins for real, and in one take, in BATMAN RETURNS.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[gabrielle @legitimatetiger]

how it feels to accept that reality is just a carbon-based simulation where your infinite consciousness gets to play as a human avatar and remember itself as the creator of all experience despite the inherent limitations of a fragile physical existence

[old memory @old_memory]

miiss it

[THUGGA @THUGGABEY]

BEYONCÉ AT THE ACT III TOUR:

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

I have been wondering for a while how long it would be before Trump started going after the Pope.

I expected some snide remarks. Some all caps posts.
I did not expect him to threaten the Vatican with military force.
That I confess, I never imagined.

Alas.
Here we are.

[ABC News @ABC]

At least 254 people have been killed and another 1,165 have been injured in Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Wednesday, a Lebanese Civil Defense spokesperson confirmed to @ABC News. https://t.co/VE2pLdgTea