“Resilience is the only viable answer. If AI collapses the timeline for designing biological weapons, the United States will have to reduce the timeline for responding to them. We can’t stop novel AI-generated threats. The real challenge is to outpace them.”

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again? CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty? CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived CHOTINER: So you’ve said

Today I was on the Berkeley campus for two and a half hours and in that time I saw not one, not two, but *three* boomer white men in glasses stumble and drop their bags so that books and papers flew everywhere.

My man Eric Adams looking like he got appointed the newest Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at CUNY

This brilliant video by singer Chris Cron deserves its own applause (he’s on Instagram), but it also reminds us how astonishingly good Queen were as songwriters and musicians. The melody, harmony, and lyrical flair are all elite — and this isn’t even one of their Top 5 most downloaded songs!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot. Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.

Our parents and teachers never told us what we were supposed to do if we pointed out that the emperor has no clothes on and we’re labeled “extremists” for stating the obvious.

We made a comic about street smarts (this is one of my favorites we've made).

BIG NEW YORKERS AGAINST ICE rally at 6 pm, Thursday, 9/25 at Foley Square in NYC, friends! Please do come through! If you've never been to a rally, why not start here? It's 2025 and it's time. We all gotta stand up for all of us.

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

*engaging with my hobby* I feel like I’m gonna hurl

Nothing to make you feel valued at work like a “Happy Birthday Month” email from corporate a full 19 days after your actual birthday 🫠

"$30 million in federal funding, which was approved by Congress but halted by the administration, is targeted at students who are low-income or have disabilities or are the first in their family to go to college." 🚨 Trump unlawfully steals $30m from our kids. 🚨 www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Nobelist Marie Curie performed pioneering research on radiation that resulted in her developing aplastic anemia. Upon her death at age 66 in 1934, she was buried next to her husband in the Curie family plot in Sceaux commune (Paris). In 1995, her remains were to be moved to the Panthéon...

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During Trump's first term, farm bankruptcies jumped 20% in 1 year despite a $28 Billion bailout from taxpayers The majority of farm subsidies went to large corporate farms, not family farms This time, the trade war is worse for farmers. Much worse.

bear: rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr me: this bear's repeating

Oh wow.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

No idea huh? I wonder what the dragon's like. Is it a Grand Dragon, Stephen?

The Red Sox have struck out 14 times. Their season-high in a nine-inning game is 16.

Another bases-loaded K…

This thread is a true delight.

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

if i had to see this today, so do you

If you've ever wondered "Why don't farmers speak up about what Trump's doing to them?" I'm a farmer, and I wonder the same. youtu.be/1bu9Pu83YrY

Thor: fried chicken is a thing that exists. Just saying.

Quick signature: Tell Trump and U.S. Senators RFK Jr. should be fired! #FireRFK action.momsrising.org/sign/fireRFK...

This is a great sign!

If you see this duck it’s a fuckin miracle, your luck will change, fortune will smile, this is a duck Bluesky doesn’t want you to see.

the essence of conservatism is to object to knowledge because it leads to policy

again, at every level, the trump administration is destroying our ability to collect information

Lmaoooo

Translated for our moment: what would convince MAGA that liberals aren't a threat to them? Cease to call racism wrong, and join them in calling it right. In words and deeds, banish LGBTQ people from public life, expel immigrants and foreigners from the nation, and force women back into the home.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

🗞️ The center I'm lucky to lead at Duke, the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, has re-launched its newsletter, "Policy Insider"! Here's the new issue: mailchi.mp/bc8bf9fbf8a9... You can sign up to receive the newsletter at centerforpolicyimpact.org/about/policy...

“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”

The lord is reallllllly testing the comedians this week

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

This is the thing that’s most offensive about this. It’s not just that they hired her after learning she was a gross person; they hired her after she demonstrated a flagrant breach of one of the cardinal rules of the profession.

FOR THE FOLKS WONDERING WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: There is a direct ideological throughline between the "anti-CRT" movement/attacks on Black studies and the firing of Stephen Colbert and suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. Not posting this to say "I told you so" but bc you must understand the storyline.

When y’all cancel your Disney+ subs, please consider giving some of that money to your local NPR or PBS station, or other independent media like @boltsmag.org or @propublica.org

feeling very lucky to split our family life between NY, MA, and CT. but everyone, not just blue states, deserves access to vaccines and healthcare.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

I am eager to do events at Liberty Collegr. Or Ozark. Any of them. I will ask for the same rate Bari Weiss got paid from St. Olaf. If billionaires want to give me an endowment to do nothing but travel to right wing universities for an annual salary in the high six figures then I am ready.

Especially this. Part of the reason I chose not to run for a 4th term was that it was hurting my soul to be so angry all the time. I don’t want to wish anyone ill. But it’s my natural reaction toward people I only ever see trying to make the world worse for others, or better only for themselves.

Oh, this whole thread. My heart. 💔