This year, I wanna be a bit more goth Smarter? Nah, I’m good. Thinner? Nah, love food. Play better on drums Draw more monster buns Go in the woods and pretend I’m a moth

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani sworn in as mayor of New York City.

*This* could be the year that we....

And then accidentally hitting the world wide web button and then madly pressing the end button as fast as you could to stop it from loading so you wouldn’t get dinged with a $20 ‘accessing the internet charge’ 😂

Happy New Year 🎊

What in the off Vegas Strip fuck is that supposed to be?

Oceans have been battlefields for ::checks notes:: millennia.

“We are removing” lmao no, the Supreme Court is making you remove

don’t forget tonight to set your calendars ahead a year

DC oomfs, remember there’s free metro bus and rail 8pm to 2am tonight!

the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans

It’s New-Year’s Eve and looking back on the 815 species of #bird we saw this calendar year in Cuba, Costa Rica, England and the US, these Pygmy Nuthatches we saw in Deschutes County Oregon make my #favoritePic of 2025 Happy New Year bluesky friends!

The next administration needs to COMPLETELY disband ICE. No remnants.

Sometimes when I’m making a left turn and I see a driver taking in the squidmobile and smirking, I give ‘em a little wink just to give them a little something extra to talk about.

And the free, full-text primary source for the study shown at the top of the thread: "Under-expanded supersonic CO2 freezing jets during champagne cork popping"

The champagne corks "pop" is produced in a way that is similar to a sonic boom. The gas is traveling at > 400 meters per second (900 mph), which is supersonic (Mach ~1.17). Sci-comm article here on 2023 paper "Simulating the opening of a champagne bottle."

The bank handling my 401(k) estimates I’m going to live to 98. 🥴

They are losing it lol

GRIM. “The stillness isn’t apathy. It’s self preservation.” www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

You should still hate Republicans, look down on Trump voters, etc. But notice how the GOP can manufacture a bullshit story on chud media, have it amplified on Twitter, and then use the power of the federal government to make it an issue that breaks through. We could learn from this.

Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.

Shiiiiiiiiet

He's using the CIA as an end-run around Congress. Trump installed Michael Ellis as General Counsel of the CIA back in September and got him to write a memo saying these attacks are legal. Ellis was part of the group that hid the "perfect" phone call with Zelenskyy that led to Trump's 1st impeachment

Unannounced office visitor

Ok here it is - out of 44 FDA approvals this year, 31 are small molecules (70%), 26 of those are oral drugs (84%), 22 of them are chiral (71%). This is the largest number and percentage of chiral FDA approved molecules in a single year. Fitusiran is not a small molecule, bonus.

I do not want a SINGLE AI thing in my whole life. Anywhere. Nothing. Not one thing. It's existence has not improved any part of my life. In fact, it has tangibly worsened many parts.

More incredible heterocycle work out of the Levin lab.

Not sure people are getting the real importance of the Russians fooling Trump about the Ukrainians attacking Putin's house. It was to demonstrate just how much they control his thinking--how much he is in their pocket. And it worked.

I used to live in Palo Alto and it felt like a Disney imagineer’s glossy production of a college town. I sort of loved it and I was sort of horrified.

Yes, my wedding has a website Yes, I have also included modelling of the expected temperature on the day Yes, I did this by fitting a Bayesian model to 45 years of temperature data Yes, the wedding website has an easter egg with a little link to find a writeup of how I got the numbers

A life-sciences job in Boston used to be a sure path to a high-paying career, but empty labs and unemployed grads now herald tougher times in the city.

The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care. We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.

Wtf is is with evil tech bros naming their creepy companies after things from Lord of the Rings?

Share a great female villain:

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Each vertebrae reveals a mystery, Pray on my spine, it’s a rosary (Maybe it’s the lapsed Catholic in me, but this is one of the hottest lines in any song I can think of.)

We need to bring back secret passages

The concept of having a glass of wine and an edible and listening to Lux in hi-fi

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

Too many of us are asking the wrong question about the Trump-Epstein saga. We keep asking if there is a smoking gun. Instead, we should be asking why so many people in power have done nothing about where smoke has been pouring from for years.

One of the pervasive themes in betting ads seems to be contempt for their audience.

Cool contrasting collapse patterns side by side on the leeward side of the crest of a sand dune in Mesquite Flats. ⚒️

This was an absolute banger of an invention.

Thinking about that time Jessica Kirson said the Lesbian version of Grindr is “Crier”