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just put laundry in the washer. there better not be any wet laundry after this

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This is such a skill

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I tried to find photos of the interior, but I guess it's not on the market yet.

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We will start letting one kind of bird ride the train but which one?

#grackles! they deserve it

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Thinking about how shocking it was for me to see people in Tokyo leave their stuff in their bike baskets while they went into a shop, or leave their phones on tables in crowded restaurants, just the complete understanding that this is fine and no one will take it. Meanwhile if my bag isn't within my eyesight at all times I will have 6 stress dreams in a row. Once on a train from London to Glasgow I left a bottle of something at my seat and came back to find a man lifting it up as I came back through the carriage door. I said "nice try" and he just crawled sheepishly back to his seat.

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Saw an old lady today that looked like an old lady and was dressed like an old lady except she was wearing big goth stomping boots like this

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This Friday's meme is: the perfect being

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I think having a baby niece is great cause my brother will send me just a constant stream of messages that sound indistinguishable from how someone at Jurassic park would text if they were being hunted by the raptor

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Why does this shoot darts

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Atlas being a pancake 🥞

Did you know many lizards will inflate and flatten themselves to absorb more heat and UV while basking? They will also do it after feeding in order to help with digestion and is commonly referred to as "pancaking"! 🏜

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Name: Atlas

Age: 5 months

Sex: Male

Species: Ackie Monitor (Varanus acanthurus)

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Vicky whenever I walk by her terrarium

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In my new report, I provide the first ever look inside of a US military program known as the Secretary of Defense Executive Fellows (SDEF) program, which gives major government contractors like Lockheed Martin and Boeing a way to influence senior military policymakers.

The program sends US military officers to work at major corporations for nearly a year; when they return, the fellows submit recommendations for reform of the Pentagon based on their observations of the private sector. 

We document numerous examples of companies using this program to pass along self-interested policy recommendations to US military leaders, including: more outsourcing, corporate subsidies, deregulation, less oversight, more political power to contractors, looser arms export rules, and more. We also analyzed a sample of former SDEF fellows and found that 43% of them go through the revolving door and work for military contractors after leaving the program. As such, the SDEF program uses government money to help subsidize the military-industrial complex, placing corporate interests above the public interest.

You can read my summary of the report here, along with coverage by The Lever here.

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