Maybe I’ll tell y’all about Thanksgiving in Uzbekistan, where I was in the peace corps 2000-2001. I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/

This album crushes

Here's my latest contribution to the "Lost Science" series at the New York Times: Jay Falk, a scientist who studies why some female hummingbirds look just like males. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qF7Qje

COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”

It’s more important than ever to support creators & artists you love - so happy to support @cbbworld.bsky.social ✨

Blockety block block BLOCK!!!

Over a year after the state approved $2 billion to help schools repair and replace their aging buildings, around three dozen superintendents told @idahostatesman.com and ProPublica that their buildings are still not fully accessible.

NOOOOOO!!!! 💔💔💔 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Other trans journalists have also covered Mamdani’s incredible ad. It was so meaningful to so many.

I love Portland Frog and the AMPHIFA movement so I made some protest art to go along with the movement. No AI was used to illustrate the frog - I drew it myself. Feel free to use this image - just don’t claim it as your own or sell it.

FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC

This is unbelievable. Conversion therapy increases fatalities. It does the opposite of what treatments are supposed to do. We ban medical treatments that claim to heal while actually harming. That's not a free speech issue, it's a malpractice issue. We are in such an upside-down world.

Here is a bat emoticon you’re welcome /|\^._.^/|\

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When writing an article/book, you may experience the situation where you make a non-trivial change every time you look at it. This means one of two things: i) You're on the right track, so keep on editing (and presumably, improving) it. ii) You should have submitted it a month ago (or longer).

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Instead of the next judicial education session, all the judges watch this tiktok instead.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

From the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. If you are pregnant, listen to your obstetrician for guidance on what's safe and recommended.

This guy would fail elementary school exams.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

I have low vision and a degree in data science. My advice: use longer image descriptions for code, offer cheat sheets in a format other than PDF, provide copies of content shown on the board so student can view on their own device, allow use of VSCode or other IDE for robust screen reader support

"Well, maybe I'll just use Instagram for..." No. Get off Instagram, get off Threads, stop using any Meta product, do not start using a new Meta product. There is no flavor of toxic waste that is good to eat.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

This is how the most epic side quest begins. Do NOT miss this chance.

This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

Art in all its forms has thrived and evolved time and again when people have been oppressed. It's so human to express our *real* truth and pain and love through Art. They think they're silencing us, but they are just feeding our flame. Make art! Tell your story! Connect through music!

they are furious to the point of rage over the fact that obama reminded them he is black and in doing so implicated them in racial prejudice

Life is feeling more and more like one big DnD campaign

Queen

Coates just doesn't miss. He doesn't. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Ta-Nehisi calling it like it is

Clemson doesn’t have a law school and it shows.

I hope every mlb team that made tributes, Democratic legislator who flew flags at half staff, and pundit/online-type who scolded people for reminding us of verifiable past statements learns that they just helped them get to this. Your decency can only be used against you now.

How dare he lie straight into one of my favorite microphones, the Electro-Voice RE20. That mic:

I’m not a football fan so I’m far from an expert but it seems like this absolutely sucks

WSJ: SHOOTER IS A TRANS ANTIFA *shooter is in fact a cis groyper* WSJ: A young man's descent from model student to suspect.

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

I took this photo of @grahamformaine.bsky.social on the day I met him in 2023. He’s the smartest and fiercest and he’s going to vanquish Susan Collins finally. His oysters are terrific too. Anyway going to a meetup with him tonight at 6 at Lucky Jack’s on Orchard if you feel like meeting him

For my 1st post here, I’m excited to announce that the final chapter of my PhD is now published online with Freshwater Biology and it’s open access! Here, we examined how multiple environmental stressors interacted to impact disease dynamics in tadpoles. 🐸 1/3 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america