The Pirate Sloth

Just a slothful Pirate trying to make my way thru life.

[The Pirate Sloth @ThePirateSloth]

@icreatelife

[Yeager 🇳🇬 @14_HK_]

Lasagne has to be the most pointless food on the planet

[Zdenek Vrozina @ZdenekVrozina]

The largest longitudinal map yet of how COVID wakes up the dormant viruses almost all of us carry just dropped in Nature. Peer-reviewed.
1,154 hospitalized patients, 20 hospitals, followed for a year - and they measured more rigorously than most work before it.🧵

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.

[The Pirate Sloth @ThePirateSloth]

@scrumble_eggs

[The Pirate Sloth @ThePirateSloth]

@briangaar Not without the Game Genie though

[The Pirate Sloth @ThePirateSloth]

@tomangell

[Tom Angell 🌳📰ⓥ @tomangell]

YIKES: The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy's chief medical officer claimed that “the number one drug of addiction is marijuana”—arguing that it is important to “remember the victims of marijuana, the people who’ve died from marijuana harms.”

https://t.co/2EOYb4bjFd

[The Pirate Sloth @ThePirateSloth]

Hear me out: A LifeAlert Service System dedicated to helping those in the unfortunate situation of a sleeping dog or cat trapping them.

[Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold]

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Jeffrey Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @RonWyden
🎁 🧵 https://t.co/ykJ1pCYGMG

[Vipin M. Vashishtha @vipintukur]

Six years into the pandemic, COVID-19 is no longer just an acute respiratory illness—it has become a chronic public health challenge.

A new review highlights how our understanding has evolved:

➡️ #LongCOVID has emerged as one of the pandemic’s most significant legacies, with persistent symptoms affecting multiple organ systems and substantial impacts on quality of life.

➡️ At the same time, vaccines and early antiviral treatment have dramatically reduced severe disease and are increasingly being investigated for their role in lowering the risk of LongCOVID. 1/

[The Pirate Sloth @ThePirateSloth]

When you suddenly remember the kief in the bottom of your grinder and then add it to the middle of your bowl.

[Linda Hill @bulldoghill]

At 9:23 this morning, the White House abruptly dismissed the press traveling with the president of the United States while he was away for the weekend at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. With the cameras now gone, just three hours later at 12:32 p.m., Donald Trump would share the first of 42 posts on Truth Social in a span of less than 3 hours and 15 minutes. The president’s public meltdown began when he posted his disappointment with one of his appointees, “I don’t know what she was thinking?” before he jumped straight into more delusional and dangerous images. Among the flood of posts, he shared an AI-generated image of himself kissing Jesus on a golden crucifix. He shared a “TRUMP 2028” campaign poster, a fake image of himself walking beside a handcuffed alien on a military base, and a renewed threat to invade Greenland.

He didn’t stop there. He posted a painting of himself as the commanding general, leading Revolutionary War soldiers into battle with his mouth open in a battle cry, while flames consumed the battlefield behind him, and a battered American flag flew overhead. This is how he sees himself. Not as a president spending the weekend at his golf course, but as a warrior king leading his nation into battle, one he would have never had the courage to actually fight in. That fantasy is not harmless, because right now he is leading us deeper into a real war where real people have died.

He also shared a fake image of his face merged with President George Washington’s, split straight down the middle, under the words “250 Years / In God We Trust.” It was a deliberate attempt to place himself alongside the founder of the American republic. Because he sees himself as his equal and inseparable from the nation itself. He’s saying he is Washington and he is the republic.

He posted a map of South America with Venezuela filled in as an American flag and labeled “51st State.” He shared an actual photograph of himself stepping out of a golf cart, hunched forward, a white USA hat in his hand, looking every single day of his eighty years, but with the caption “President Trump ages in reverse!”

Then there was the created image of himself as Elvis Presley in his iconic white rhinestone jumpsuit, with a deep V-neck and with his chest exposed, and a bald eagle embroidered across his heart. In it, Trump, masquerading as Elvis, stands in front of a microphone as though he is about to perform for a waiting crowd. And I couldn’t help but think about the irony of Trump choosing Elvis in this moment, knowing that he spent his final years overmedicated and isolated, surrounded by enablers who told him what he wanted to hear while his body and mind deteriorated. And how Elvis died alone in a bathroom at Graceland while the people closest to him pretended everything was fine. If Trump was trying to choose a metaphor for where he is right now, he could not have picked a more accurate one.

He just kept going. He posted an image of himself as a young man in a military school uniform, seated across a table from present-day Trump, with the caption “Same Guy. Even more energy now!” Present-day Trump is staring adorably at younger Trump. But what the image actually shows is the distance between who he was and who he has become. The young man in the uniform is upright, sharp, but not too far away from bone spurs and draft deferments. The man sitting across from him is eighty years old, and struggling. The fact that he felt compelled to post this, to insist publicly that nothing has changed, tells us everything about what he is afraid of. People who are fine do not need to prove they are fine. People who are declining do.

[Ken Jennings @KenJennings]

If Better Call Saul is really set in 2004, how come no one is ever talking about Homestar Runner?

[The Pirate Sloth @ThePirateSloth]

@Trace_Cohen @KenJennings Fuck yeah light switch rave

[The Pirate Sloth @ThePirateSloth]

When you announce you brought donuts and someone replies "how fun" with no fun or excitement in their voice, it makes you not bother telling them that you brought a donut specifically for them.

[The Pirate Sloth @ThePirateSloth]

My personal best of the B52 songs

[𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 - 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 - 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞⭐️❤️ @NgocThach74]

One of the most underrated American bands in history.
B'52 - Private Idaho

[The Pirate Sloth @ThePirateSloth]

@paularambles

[JT Cestkowski @JTCestkowski]

HAPPENING NOW
Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.

I am live now @StatusCoup