Dr. Wizard

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Wyland has said any financial recovery from the suit would support public art, ocean conservation, and environmental education through his foundation.

>look inside bar

No, it’s like asking every Muslim post 9/11 what they think about Al Qaeda. It’s like being suspicious of any person who MIGHT look middle eastern.

Aka, fucking ridiculous and prejudiced.

How the actual fuck did we get from “learn to recognize fascist dog whistles and have a zero tolerance policy about them” to “selectively interrogate members of minority groups you think are suspicious about whether they’re one of the good ones?”

Bruh let’s imagine for a moment that two people walk into your bar:

Person A is not German, but is wearing a literal iron cross. You ask him if the literal iron cross is a Nazi thing. He says that sure, that’s maybe the origin of the iron cross, but obviously he’s not a Nazi, and you need to stop jumping at shadows. The iron cross is really just a symbol of resistance against modernity, and embracing tradition. He wears it because he believes it’s important to preserve ethnic divisions and maintain cultural purity. He thinks stopping modern degeneracy is critically important – in the politics, and also in the arts. There are a lot of sick, evil people out there who are trying to destroy communities, but groups like his are trying to resist that. “We’re stronger together,” he says. “That’s why we need to protect our own.”

Person B is dressed completely normally but he speaks with a German accent. You ask him to clarify whether or not he’s a Nazi right this instant because “all Germans are Nazis until proven otherwise,” and he tells you “fuck off, you racist piece of shit.”

"Jews think you can't criticize them"

"Vile stench"

"Victim complex"

"Global Jewry"

"Parasite"

"The extermination you deserve"

"The world is noticing"

"Clean Jewish people"

My mom is a "classic" boomer, born in the 40s to a WWII vet, and raised in a very rural, conservative town. She didn't know queer was an option. She knew what she was "supposed" to do: grow up, marry a man, have babies. So she did that.

Then her teenage daughter started dating a girl and... wait? That's a thing women can do? Date... other women???

Except this was the late 90s. Matthew Shepard's name is etched so deep in our memories that time will never wear it away. Gay marriage won't be legal in Massachusetts for another 5 years; Obergefell v. Hodges is nearly two decades away, but we didn't know that yet.

In rural America, with our backyard bordering a corn field, queer was still a risky thing. It didn't just mean divorce; it meant losing friends, being ostracized by the community, putting your job at risk, potentially even putting your physical safety at risk.

And my mom was scared that even her daughter wouldn't forgive her.

So I got to give the speech.

texas tech's quartback, brendan sorsby, was investigated for sports gambling. i know sports betting is all the rage right now, but athletes themselves are not allowed to do it. it is Rule Number 1 and it is the highest priority rule for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), who governs all athletic programs at about 1,100 colleges in the US.

the invesitagetion of sorsby revealed that, not only did he place more than 9,000 sports bets when he himself was a collegiate athlete, but 40 of those bets were AGAINST HIS OWN TEAM when he was playing at indiana university. immediately, this threatens the integrity of the sport, and especially because indiana is the hottest team right now as the defending national champion.

the NCAA, which is largely a sham organization these days (they've truly lost their grasp and college athletics are the wild west now) actually enforced their Number 1 Rule and told sorsby his career is over, that he would never play college football again (and, subsequently, that he would never get drafted into the NFL because his college career was cut short).

well, because the NCAA is a husk of its former self, sorsby and texad tech immediately took this to court. MANY athletes have learned these past few seasons that if you can find a judge who's a fan of your team, you can get any NCAA ruling overturned. that's exactly what texas tech did. they filed a suit in Lubbock, where the university is located and where every judge is an alum of texas tech. so sorsby was granted an injunction and will now only be suspended for the first 2 games od the 2026 season (which are alwayd against no-name teams that will be destroyed regardless of who's suspended).

every other school in the country immediately went on the defensive because this is a very clear integretiy issue. so nebraska and georgia (sic em dawgs) released statements saying that all currently-scheduled competitions witb Texas Tech in ANY sport will be canceled and there will be no future schedulings. at least 3 of the major conferences (SEC, Big 10, Big 12) , who account for almost all division 1 sports teams in the country, are also in discussions about cancelling comtests. Texas Tech is part of the Big 12, and there is serious talk of all other teams in the conference shutting texas tech out.

now would probably be time where i say that texas tech is one of the wealthiest programs in college football becaise there is a single billionaire alumnus pouring money into the program with hopes of essentially buying a championship. so texas techs integrity has always been questionable. anyway, the university president put oit a statement that he doesnt care that sorseby violated regulation and that texas tech will sue any school that refuses to play them because it jeopardizes their championship prospects if they're umable to play any games.

Original post by @morallygrayautisticscientist here, this post was so funny I decided to draw it lol.

For those of you who joked about Stratt projecting her period cramps on Grace, I drew that too here.

Panel by panel below:

Skin-piercing blood-sucking moths V: Attacks on man by 5 Calyptra spp. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) in S and SE Asia

In a chronology of 11 cases, male adults of scarce C. bicolor, C. fasciata, C. ophideroides, C. parva and C. pseudobicolor are proved for the first time to attack man (the author) and pierce the skin to suck blood under natural conditions in the field. […]

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