Motion to refer to ecosystems as "biological jenga towers" in the hopes that maybe people will understand you can't just go evicting random blocks because they inconvenience you without precarious knock-on effects

So beautiful that the collective awe of millions registered on the instrumentation

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Slightly diminish a book De rei natura

One Thousand Nights

I hope the _____________ puts the _____________ in the _____________

Here are the top 5 dogs of April!

I would love a country where we could have both huge Knick leads *and* a Voting Rights Act

The Knicks woke up and were like what if we redid the Red Wedding?

I just saw the Knicks-Hawks score.

What time do the Hawks start

Sorry, Atlanta, but this game could not be more fun to watch

I'm not sure @nytimes.com knows what "but" means

Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, and Liam Neeson on the set of Excalibur by John Boorman (1981)

“Recent evidence suggests that [insert university name]’s upper administration sees its own faculty as a problem that needs to be solved.”

Man, I give money to the SPLC and learning that they paid informants to infiltrate hate groups might be the least defrauded I’ve ever felt about anything

Yankee batters don't challenge challenge (impossible)

Nice one, Alma Mater!

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

I *thought* the moon looked particularly cool tonight

Sing it to the rafters!

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

"chat,"

We have to raise our political expectations.

Listen to "Brimful of Asha" in her honor please

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

how much money does the marine corps lose

Can the magic feather come here for a minute?

I can't be the only person who might pay for a monthly box of good lathe swarf

the thing about a publicly funded space program is that you get to be represented by these people as opposed to, say, Jeff Bezos's second wife

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Germinal in the year 234. Germinal is the month of sprouting. Today we celebrate the radish.#JacobinDay More information on the radish

Like I always say...

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

My southerners, you know what works great? Making grits in a rice cooker If y'all knew this and weren't telling me, I am so mad at you right now

🏺 Today was the last day of the City Dionysia (Διονύσια ἐν ἄστει) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysia#City_Dionysia

Today (2026-Apr-04) is Elaphēboliṓn 16, ἕκτῃ ἐπὶ δέκα Ἑλαφηβολιῶνος, day 283 of 384 in the year 2025/2026.

Pheidippides of Athens says:

I’m cautiously hopeful this crew will give us something as memorable and optimistic as Apollo 8’s reading of Genesis

“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?

From “Vietnam and other American fantasies”

Man, I hope being a nerdy cinephile teen now is *anything* like being a nerdy cinephile teen was in the 80s

Full moon. Right now.

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Wow. One main stage into high Earth orbit is a pretty big advance over Apollo's 2.5 stages to low Earth orbit 🌎 🚀 🌕

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

🏺 The City Dionysia (Διονύσια ἐν ἄστει) continued today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysia#City_Dionysia

Today (2026-Apr-01) is Elaphēboliṓn 13, τρίτῃ ἐπὶ δέκα Ἑλαφηβολιῶνος, day 280 of 384 in the year 2025/2026.

F271.4.3 Fairies spin.