?Dear everyone who doesn’t run websites: it’s not usual for us techs to take down a site for 25% of its weekend heaviest traffic.? Sarah Kliff on Twitter

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Dear Tom and Kellyanne: Megabus only charges $26 if you book a week in advance. Dan Diamond on Twitter

Seriously, fuck the police. TC on Twitter

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If we get Trump-branded single payer, I will laugh and laugh until I die at an advanced age I won’t otherwise reach Kilgore Trout on Twitter

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This thread is fucking terrifying. Conservative think tanks wargaming post-conflict scenarios in DPRK. Laura Rozen on Twitter

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Michael Weinmayr I assume you already know this exists, but if not, I see no reason why I should be the only person utterly disturbed by it. CLOSER By Nine Inch Nails Featuring the Muppets.

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I’m thinking militarization and blatant lies are older, but certainly this accelerated their adoption as the new normal. Myke Cole on Twitter

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So in other news, 6.5% of the people born the same day and year I was are dead. (Bookmarking this site because of the very useful “how far have you traveled” orbital calculators, which I sometimes try to do by hand.) How old are you getting? Let us explain it properly!

Hurricane Irma is literally sucking the water away from shorelines

Mental note to bookmark this video and post it every time I ever see the words “politically correct” again. Katie Mack on Twitter

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Barbuda. Holy fuck. This reminds me of Hiroshima 1945.

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