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Cambridge article talks about it being a hypothetical "hycean" world - that is an entirely water ocean-covered world. If there is life, and if there is life more complex than bacteria and pond scum, it would be aquatic.

mineral deal

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/strongest-hints-of-biological-activity

technically yes

I didn't got to Harvard, I am way too dumb. The Bar Association thing, there is the national association (ABA), state associations, and local associations. It's a voluntary entity separate from being admitted to the bar. I'm only a member of the state association, so it doesn't impact me directly. But the concept is that the ABA is pooling together legal talent it represents from across the spectrum to speak in a somewhat authoritative voice. If the ABA is getting involved the reaction should probably be "I bet they're going to make some good points" but fascist wannabes believe in silencing countervailing viewpoints etc.

(the news app refreshed and I lost the link sorry)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-expands-retribution-to-american-bar-association/

the sinuses are swelling more than they are filled with goop you either gotta relieve the swelling or relieve the pressure of the swelling by embiggening its boney prison

potentially neat

Everyone in the NY is anxious of Lawler: he's won twice in a blue congressional district in Westchester/Rockland because he always shows up and he's somehow carved out a moderate persona. Stefanik would thoroughly nationalize the race in a way Lawler has a path to avoid, and her district is the North Country so the only thing she is known for beyond that is her abrupt pivot to Trump sycophancy. I welcome her to the race.

idk I was reading things like Jurassic Park and LotR in elementary and middle school, and they were good and fun and people thought I was reading ahead of the curve at the time. But the moment something was required in class it became a chore, and then when it escalated that the broccoli wasn't even being disguised in kid shit, I guess that was it for me.

It was probably a combination of (a) being forced to read it in the summer, (b) the heavy handed allegory, and (c) just not being emotionally ready for that kind of literature. I just remember how the English teacher was making such a huge deal out of the fact that the doctor was constantly described as fat to draw a connection to greed, and in my head I remember thinking that characterization seems mean to fat people. I think I liked Old Man and the Sea, or at least it was impactful enough that I would dwell on parts of it after the fact. But I was uninterested in English/Lit as a kid, I remember when we started reading To Kill a Mockingbird in 10th grade and that as an adult I'd definitely categorize as super important literature but I just remember the first chapter or prologue being about the mystery of the Boo Radley House and being intrigued about that like haunted house setup, then feeling like there was a huge bait and switch where the book immediately sidetracked into "grownup things" and didn't circle back to the fun mystery until the end. Maybe I was a textbook case as to why English class was important, I had zero intellectual curiosity.

They just told him to fuck off https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-senator-lands-el-salvador-seeking-release-wrongly-deported-salvadoran-man-2025-04-16/

I never read that book in school I do remember how much I hated The Pearl by John Steinbeck, which was required summer reading (possibly why I hated it) before 9th grade.

hbd to muttley and all his birthday twins

I've been unable to get the "mistaken" deportation thing out of my head all night. Everywhere I look it's either people articulating how bad it is, or goblins gloating about it. idk man, I know I'm underselling it but it's extremely terrible

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ensures-national-security-and-economic-resilience-through-section-232-actions-on-processed-critical-minerals-and-derivative-products/