Rob Reiner had a hand in writing, producing, directing, knowing a guy, pairing up talents, punching up a script on the down low, doing a cameo for like so much of the funniest shit coming out of Hollywood the last 50 years. His influence is seen everywhere

Rob and Michelle Reiner wrote the preface to one of my dad's books about parenting kids with special needs. They cared so deeply about kids and families and community.

- Pope Leo X in 1517, after being told about Martin Luther.

From the Widemouth Blindcat to the Pahrump Poolfish, the southwest US and Hawai'i are full of some incredible fish adapted to the extreme places they call home. Next up on the Great #25DaysofFishmas Road Trip: the rugged mountain streams, coastal rivers, and high desert lakes of the Northwest!

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

2019 TWITTER POASTING: lol hellsite. it sucks so bad here. psychic damage 2025 TWITTER RECRUITMENT: you have to come back, it’s so much worse now

Man if we don't rediscover the idea of the common good soon, we're really not gonna make it

Just thinking back to when Michelle Obama said that school kids should eat more vegetables and the entire conservative establishment lost its fucking mind.

can you think of a single time you read the words “private equity” in a headline for a story about making the world better? no? me neither

Big War on Christmas plot twist.

I find it lowkey hilarious that their message since Reagan has been “you should never make a sacrifice” and now it’s like MAGA Maoism. How soon before the backyard foundries?

I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

This is accurate and has been clear to anyone with an interest in the actual substance of this “war” for about a decade

Steve Bannon’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein deserves even more scrutiny. Every day. Bannon has manipulated press coverage for years, even while being a superspreader for rightwing extremism and idiotic conspiracy theories. Reporting every day. Bannon + Epstein.

Love Notes from Nature Calendars are how we're funding the 2026 Native Plant Project in Philly! We're planning to distribute 10,000 packets of native plant seeds in the city & doing a bar-level promo campaign w/local artists. We have 72 calendars left. Reposts v helpful! Get one at SquidFacts.Net

In a blow to Donald Trump’s irrational war against wind energy, a federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday overturned Trump’s Day One executive order that had frozen all leases and permits for offshore wind energy projects. Seventeen states,

I assume this batshit article found its way onto Nate's radar. www.piratewires.com/p/heather-co...

Brown University is a beautiful place, where people come to work and learn. I am filled with horror by news of this tragedy.

Apropos of nothing I am wondering if anyone else has had a slow, gong-like realization about how many people in positions of tremendous power are absolutely out of their minds on drugs.

If you put the words "LOCAL FOOL" in place of Elon Musk, the headlines make more sense. People who cover him should try it to see if it helps clear up their reporting. Local Fool Says He'll Build A Colony on Mars Local Fool Says AI Will Cure Cancer

#25DaysofFishmas Day 13 brings us a fish that shines like B-E-A-UTIFUL holiday lights! 🌟 Our road trip takes us to the deserts of southern Arizona + New Mexico to find the Beautiful Shiner (Cyprinella formosa), a small, threatened species that was briefly lost from the US but has been reintroduced

Our wordless one’s school took them to a high school’s special needs-friendly production of Between the Lines yesterday. Glorious time for all. Anyhoo, I’ve got the warm fuzzies this morning. Hope they’re contagious.

real police state stuff

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

whenever we talk about the eternal humanities versus STEM debate on here, it’s probably worth remembering that an American fascist administration is very actively trying to finish off the already-weakened humanities, even *more* so than it’s trying to do the same to all science it doesn’t like

I've made it. I've been quoted in a History .com article. And it's an excellent one on the FBI's investigatory interest in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)!

GF walked in and looked at the TV and said “baby this shit is really stupid”

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Liberals are constantly trying to indoctrinate our young people. You can see the proof in this colorful PragerU video presented by the Young America's Foundation at a Turning Point USA school club meeting.

Grumpy and embarrassed Cooper’s hawk missed a vole ten yards from where I was working. Stick to birds, pal.

Whoa hold up, a healthcare system where the wealthy get better healthcare? I’m not following you Mark this is all strange to me.

Measles is back, maternal mortality is up, healthcare delivery teeters evermore, and m’guy is going for Johnson bending and D-ball vending machines. We’re crushin’ it!!

Definitely a must-read. "Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old."

Also, one time my ferret was watching a hummingbird at the feeder, and the bird was watching her, and it was like, “omg are you a fairy??” And the bird was like, “are you a cat that had an accident?”

There’s a lot of talk about the Hitler youth types who are turning in their professors and not enough discussion about the ones who are feeling intense despair because they're going to school with the Hitler youth types and immigrants are being kidnapped and trans people are facing genocide &etc

🎶Come, they told me, pa rump (poolfish) pum pum pum🎶 🥁 Move aside, little drummer boy, it’s the Pahrump Poolfish’s (Empetrichthys latos) time for a solo! On Day 11 of #25DaysofFishmas, we say Vegas or bust and head to southern Nevada to meet a critically-endangered fish without a home

Happy United Nations International Mountain Day, raising awarenes of the need to protect mountain ecosystems, communities, and biodiversity. #Adirondacks #BlueMountain

“Currently”

at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it

Biff Poggi is the most Biff Poggi looking man to ever Biff Poggi

An opening pitch of, “Listen, loserz, we’re gonna take all your jobs which weren’t real jobs anyway you parasites. Enjoy the streets!!,” followed soon after to their cyber lickspittles with, “OMG, guys, why is everyone calling us a*sholes?!? lol wtf,” probably wasn’t the best strategy.

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

🪶🌎🧪 WE'RE HIRING!!! Want to band fabulous birds on a far-flung island in the Western Pacific? We need to fill this position ASAP. More information here: birdpop.org/docs/jobs/Ro...

Here's a feature, adapted from my book, that explores the recovery of Gila trout, and the continued threats posed by fire & invasive species. #25DaysofFishmas

Every so often, I come across an essay by Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social and keep a tab open until I have time to read it with care. Here, a writer‘s thoughts on libraries, community, generosity, time… lithub.com/on-the-infin...

Snow caught in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) cones.

Did you get her strudel recipe?!? I bet it’s wonderful!!