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@RubenGallego It’s funny, because right up to that point, they figured they had the sheeple tamed, whipped, broken in like a saddle horse. They could rob ‘em, lie to ‘em, sacrifice ‘em on the altar of Mars himself, with complete impunity! Then they heard a sound. Peasants coming down the hall.

@nursedanakay @mayemusk Elon Musk’s mom is a hottie, bro! Is she married?

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@bendreyfuss Chick woulda probably got all creamy when she heard she’d married a dangerous bad boy.

I have a question about legal ethics for Lawyer Twitter: In the “based on a true story” TV miniseries DIRTY JOHN, this woman in California gets married to a surgeon she hardly knows and very quickly starts to get suspicious that he is a dangerous lying creep. She goes to the lawyer who has helped her with various low level things over the years and that lawyer says “ok, the first thing I’m going to do is run a background check on this guy. Let’s find out who he is and see if you should be worried. If he is a bad fella, we’ll get your quickie Vegas marriage annulled.” Then a few days later the lawyer calls her and says “he is a violent felon who has defrauded, assaulted, stalked, and robbed lots of women all across the country. He’s not a doctor. He was imprisoned for stealing drugs from a hospital. He did not serve in Iraq. He was actually in prison then for harassment. He is in fact on parole. Furthermore, I have looked into a number of suspicious charges on your shared credit card and it appears he is spreading out purchases of gun parts from various shady online suppliers in what what appears to be an attempt to make a ghost gun. I cannot stress highly enough how much you must get out of this marriage.” … “However, because this guy is very litigious and appears to file lots of nuisance pro se lawsuits against any lawyer who helps his victims, I can’t help you. Good luck. Wish you the best.” My questions: 1) is this allowed? For some coward lawyer to abandon their client because of the possibility of nuisance lawsuits? I understand if you’re a small practice that some jackass suing you a bunch could genuinely be a resource strain, but there isn’t some professional rule about how you can’t leave your client in a lurch without at least helping secure them another lawyer? 2) The fraudster husband might file lots of lawsuits, but he is a moron. He is a drifter using Ask Jeeves for help with these legal filings. After the first few inane scribbles he files, can’t you get them declared a vexatious litigant to stop that sort of harassment? 3) if this is allowed and a lawyer does it and then the violent lunatic with the ghost gun does something violent to the former client—as happened in DIRTY JOHN—would the coward lawyer be open to liability somehow? In Dirty John the guy tries to kidnap his stepdaughter and the stepdaughter kills him in self-defense but if she hadn’t been able to fight him off, she’d be dead. 4) even if you are a total pussy lawyer who doesn’t want your name on any lawsuits against this hobo, couldn’t you nevertheless help prepare some sort of memo about why he was a naughty dangerous lunatic that the wife could take to the local DA or something? 5) this dude is already on parole, isn’t the ghost gun thing probably enough just to get him violated? He also threatened her family. He’s a persist violent ongoing threat, who by virtue of being on parole, would seem to be one piece of paper from his parole officer from being sent back to prison. 6) if none of these things I have suggested are reasonable, then what is the lady supposed to do? Like if all the lawyers are refusing her case and she can’t get law enforcement to get him off the street, what are her next steps?

@SkateClipsOnX First thing kids did when they woke up in 1990, if it wasn’t a school day, was start calling everybody and seeing what everybody was doing that day. Then once you know which house to head to, you hit up Mom for some quarters because you might need to play some video games at 7-11

This picture of New York in 1933 looks like it's from the 2070s

@HistContent Oh, shit, I didn’t read. I thought the Icarus statue was an ancient ruin, sorry

@HistContent Maybe that’s the way it was designed. Icarus was the dude who flew too close to the sun and crashed back down to earth, right?

The engineering contrast here is quietly strange. A 2011 bronze Icarus lies in front of the c. 430 BC Temple of Concordia in Agrigento, Sicily, where Greek Doric columns still hold their rhythm after centuries. Look at the broken wing beside the body. One object performs collapse, the other performs endurance. Which achievement is more impressive: the ancient structure, or the modern illusion of antiquity?

@AndrewMLeber @CarnegieEndow Think there’s any way to unwesternize the continent? Let ‘em all go back to just chillin‘ and obeying the local kings or whatever? I doubt it. Too many “interests” down there.

"The war’s economic effects will reach deeply into African governance and political life. In particular, it may reshape the already fragmented trajectory of democracy across the continent." - @CarnegieEndow's France Brown justsecurity.org/139565/iran-wa…

@vocalcry I knew some crack dealers back in the 1990s and they’d pool their money and rent a hotel suite on the beach where the Fort Lauderdale air show happened every year. The jets would blow past the windows so close the pilots could probably smell the weed smoke coming off the balcony.

Just heard a supersonic jet fly by and remembered it's the most disruptive weekend of the year (Miami Air and Sea Show)

In his autobiography Carnegie tells a story about running into Gladstone out in the middle of the night. Gladstone was hooded, lurking in the shadows. Carnegie explained it as Gladstone anonymously enjoying the sight of his constituents or some such silly shit and it seemed fishy

Nobody has any idea what I’m talking about

Sky Brown

NASA has now confirmed more than 6,280 exoplanets orbiting stars in over 4,700 different planetary systems—and the count keeps climbing fast.Just three decades after the first rocky discovery around a Sun-like star, humanity has entered a new era of cosmic census-taking. What began as a handful of strange worlds in the 1990s has exploded into a rich catalog of alien planets: scorching hot Jupiters, rocky super-Earths, icy mini-Neptunes, and even a growing number of potentially habitable candidates.The official tally, maintained by the NASA Exoplanet Archive, recently surpassed 6,000 confirmed worlds, with the latest updates pushing it to 6,287 as of mid-May 2026. These planets are spread across thousands of star systems, many of them hosting multiple worlds in complex, tightly packed orbits that look nothing like our own Solar System.This explosion in discoveries is thanks to powerful tools like NASA’s Kepler and TESS space telescopes, which have scanned hundreds of thousands of stars for the tiny dips in light caused by planets passing in front. Ground-based observatories and next-generation instruments have added even more through direct imaging and gravitational wobbles.Each new planet tells a story. Some are bizarre “puffy” gas giants larger than Jupiter but lighter than Saturn. Others orbit so close to their stars they glow red-hot, with molten rock raining from the sky. A few orbit in the habitable zone—where liquid water could exist—raising tantalizing questions about whether life might have taken hold elsewhere.And this is just the beginning. Astronomers estimate there are hundreds of billions of planets in the Milky Way alone. For every star we’ve examined closely, many more worlds are waiting to be found—some free-floating as rogues, others hiding in dusty systems, and a rare few perhaps resembling Earth.With the James Webb Space Telescope now probing the atmospheres of these distant worlds and future missions like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on the horizon, we’re no longer just counting planets.We’re starting to understand what they’re made of—and whether any of them might be home to something alive. The galaxy is far more crowded with worlds than anyone dreamed possible. And we’ve only scratched the surface.

@maxraskin Should be piece work. Get paid when the job’s complete.

Why don't doctors work on commission?

@ehutchinson1513 How do you know? Sometimes agnosticism is just the safest position.

Of course the Trojan War was real.

@bendreyfuss Forcing companies to make decisions based on the good of the people rather than the good of the shareholder? There’s a name for that.

The left loves the “the company fired people while also making profit” talking point but it’s not totally clear to me why I’m supposed to think the latter should preclude the former.

This giant was carved for movement, but the journey never happened. In the ancient quarry above Apollonas on Naxos, Greece, the unfinished Kouros of Apollonas still lies where Archaic sculptors left it, sometime around the 7th to 6th century BC. Notice the rough rectangular arms and the face only partly released from the marble bed. For archaeologists, the mystery is not just who it represented, Apollo or Dionysus, but why such an ambitious monolith was abandoned before completion. Was this a failed statue, or a successful quarry project that became impossible at the final step?

@HistContent Probably cracked somewhere and they had to start a new one.

It actually says that on their name tags

@Jalopnik Not with that grill.

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some Willy Wonka shit