like all of this, as an explainer. but also the last paragraph

Incredible photo - the fall of Icarus by Andrew McCarthy www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMwJCuUH/

This is the most fun I have had watching Irish soccer in 20 years.

The Indian perspective on Indian call center scams. Turns out they are exploiting their fellow citizens just as much as they are people in the US and Europe. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Incredible what we’ve learned about ATLAS already. Apparently the outer layer has been irradiated and changed by cosmic radiation so it will be more difficult to draw inferences about its place of origin from the outgassing of the surface. www.iflscience.com/interstellar...

#nephsky Organ donation and subsequent hydroceles

Interesting how they caught these guys. The state has a system that detects out of state IPs, newly formed email addresses and multiple claims from the same IP address and flags them for review. Here there was also other family looking for the money of course. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/10/m...

25 years in the US and still no green card because she’s from India. The system really is broken. www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/11...

Pats win but here's that play where TreVeyon Henderson looked to the Pats sideline to see if he should score or go down

Last night at Copley square T station there were soooo many rats. I think I saw at least 10 frolicking around the platform. Given that they weren't crawling out of trashcans, dare I say that they were actually kind of cute? @universalhub.com

are renewables better for the environment than fossil fuels? yes. is it cheaper? also yes. is it less dangerous to extract? yes, significantly. but you've gotta understand if we switched, the people who are currently wealthy would not be as wealthy

No winners in this story. www.vice.com/en/article/m...

My TikTok algorithm is getting weird.

How did McSweeney's find my thesis file folder?

"Eight maids a cleaning" said my overprivileged daughter singing the Christmas carol the other day (we don't have maids, and certainly not 8 of them)

Not all heroes wear capes. xkcd.com/3163/

Aldosterone synthase inhibitor significantly lowered BP in resistant hypertension patients. This study shows again though how reversion to the mean is a real thing in trials and you always need to use a placebo. Mean reduction in BP for 2mg, 1mg and placebo was 15.7mmHg, 14.5mmHg and 5.8mmHg.

My Mom passed a while back. Her phone bill was paid through my Dad's old office which had been taken over by my brother so for years he had seen the bills coming in. The phone was her lifeline - we spoke every day - but in the last year or so, her hearing started to go and she used it less and less

A patient recently was able to finally come off the vent and had a speaking valve on. They talked about how hard it was to communicate and complimented (some of us) on our lipreading skills. But she said something so interesting. That trying to communicate on a vent was like being stuck behind glass

Sad to say that Julian Seifter passed last night. He was a mentor and a friend and I am the person and doctor I am today largely because of him. Such an incredible loss.

At the age of 80, Helen Dortch Longstreet--wife of former Confederate general and postwar Republican James Longstreet--worked in a Georgia factory helping to make B-29 bombers during WWII.

Tolkien once wrote that all his work was "fundamentally linguistic in inspiration". Conlangs were his "secret vice", and his aim with Lord of the Rings was to create a world in which an Elvish dialect he had invented "might seem real" stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/t...

"Hi! Your kid’s school here again. Just confirming the snack choice for the Halloween party to check that it meets our guidelines. Oh, your husband is the volunteer? I do see that on the form, but thought that must be an error or a joke. I can just write your name in."

Helbert Rondon and Rick Sterns throwing another grenade into the rate of sodium correction debate. (I agree with them btw). www.ajkd.org/article/S027...

15 billion dollars seized. This will cramp their style somewhat I would imagine. Now please sell it all at once. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I wonder what kind of odds you could have gotten that after 6 games of the season the Patriots would be ranked above Baltimore, Cincinnati and Kansas City? Absolute madness.

My 11 year old inherited a few thousand dollars this year. She hasn’t gotten it yet but I told her that it was hers to use. She said that she didn’t want it because she knew she would be irresponsible so that I should put it away. I was both surprised and proud. Don’t think I was that sensible at 11

Totem Inschrift, by Carl Heidenreich, 1963, 📸 by @GoslingPhoto

maybe the greatest pitch frame in baseball history

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

Resurfacing this piece because we love a septuagenarian art project, especially when it involves using Excel to paint 🎨 💻

These Patriots are 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙. Period. Forget rebuilding. After a statement win in Buffalo, New England is a playoff contender. http://dlvr.it/TNVgzW

Les vainqueurs de la Bastille devant l'Hôtel de Ville, by Paul Delaroche, 1831-39, 📸 by @marciojsanchez.bsky.social

Incredible story. Captured by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz in 1940. Eventually escaped and fought in the Warsaw uprising. Captured again and sent to a POW camp. After the war became an anticommunist and went back to Poland knowing that it was not safe. Captured and executed in 1948

Measure Twice, Cut Once xkcd.com/3149/

Canaries were used in coal mines MUCH more recently than you might think (1986!), but I have a really neat artifact to share with you & I hope it brightens your day. Canaries were used as indicators for clear & odorless carbon monoxide (CO) gas that was a hazard to human health in deep coal mines.

One down.

MLB Payrolls (Millions of $, Playoff Seed): 350 LAD 3⃣ 342 NYM 300 NYY 4⃣ 290 PHI 2⃣ 255 TOR 1⃣ 233 HOU 226 TEX 219 ATL 217 SD 5⃣ 212 CHC 4⃣ 207 LAA 201 BOS 5⃣ 179 ARI 178 SF 165 SEA 2⃣ 160 BAL 158 DET 6⃣ 136 KC 131 MIN 131 STL 129 COL 122 MIL 1⃣ 120 CIN 6⃣ 110 WSH 100 CLE 3⃣ 88 TB 84 PIT 79 ATH 79 CWS 68 MIA

Sunset in Boston

The NFL is coming to Croke Park tomorrow. A really nice potted history of the place here in the athletic www.nytimes.com/athletic/654...

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

@tomscocca.bsky.social nailed it, and we're just now getting into the joy of colorful fall

This is an incredible breakthrough for such a terrible disease.

Lowest opponent batting average allowed in 1st 100 career pitching starts, since 1900 (h/t @EliasSports):   Herb Score: .194 Nolan Ryan: .195 Freddy Peralta: .197 Ed Reulbach: .201 Shohei Ohtani: .202 Ohtani: 278 career HR Those ahead of him? 4 total (Ryan 2, Reulbach/Score 1)

"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

this kinda play would be the highlight of the average NFL season before 2010 and now there’s 4 guys in the league who can do this whenever they feel like it. we are blessed