Dreamed I was on public transit sitting across from someone whose phone I could see playing the music in their headphones, a playlist called “Sad Songs About Holidays.”

TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.

Even 2,500 years ago, people loved a novelty cup! 🦞 🍷 😄 It’s suggested this Ancient Greek terracotta vessel in the shape of a lobster claw was used as a drinking horn at parties! The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

You know it’s late when you Google: “would Harley Quinn be a Juggalo?”

“A team led by UC San Diego was able to mass-produce a key pigment, xanthommatin, that occurs in the psychedelic skin of many cephalopods. Until now, xanthommatin has proven impractical to collect from animals or make in a lab.” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r... 🧪 🐙 🦑

This is an excellent, excellent essay. Highly recommended.

Honestly, plasma is just a fundamentally unserious state of matter. Calm down & control your electrons first, then we’ll circle back to this.

#TransnationalRepression is reshaping how authoritarian regimes project power & target critics abroad. @marcuskolga.bsky.social @imleeszefung.bsky.social @kentonthibaut.bsky.social @nosumacero.bsky.social & @lisandranovo.bsky.social introduce a framework to counter these operations: bit.ly/3Xgfz9I

Harding literally died from stress at the prospect of facing accountability for an infinitesimal slice of the corruption that happens every day in this administration.

This is such a great paper. We make endless small steps ahead in archaeology every week. I remember when I was starting out and the number of colleagues who told me not to waste my time with satellite imagery analysis. Now, it's used by everyone. Tremendous use case here. 🏺

Hugely relieved to hear that Californians with SNAP benefits have full EBT cards today! I've been so worried, especially for the folks in my neighborhood who I know have been so scared.

Someone on a post about Mamdani just used poor grammar and ableist slurs to insult me and included a meme pic of the Mayor-elect saying “IM GOING TO FUCK NEW YORK CITY LIKE I DO MY GOAT” - and I’m thinking - so, not at all, then? Ugh. Racists are so gross & so useless.

Never thought I’d get to sing “if we’re banned, we’ll be banned together” and “trans rights are human rights!” as part of a church hymn 😭🥹 The composer/author is Pax Ressler:

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

I'm an avid user of some moderation settings for my own sanity, but I had no idea this stuff was on. Highly recommend you check out the Bluesky moderation service settings!

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Suddenly, whether a hot dog or a taco or a pop tart is a sandwich has significant legal and political ramifications. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

fox news attempts to terrify its viewers with the prospect of a sane & just society

“They analyzed eye scans and genetic data from 74,434 volunteers, finding that people with simpler, less branched blood vessels in their eyes also had a higher genetic risk of cardiovascular disease.” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/a-simple-eye... 🧪

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Wholesome masculinity

MAGA world is awash in bad AI memes about Mamdani ruling NYC as a fundamentalist Muslim and it’s so weird. Do any of them really believe that or is it just a line? Other critiques at least make sense but he is just so …not that… that I am really confused. Is this just virulent Islamophobia? Gross.

If there's one thing we can all agree on it's that Donald J Trump is going to behave really normally tomorrow. He's going to show up to work in full on regular guy mode and not say anything weird

Cry harder Trump brought Prop 50 upon himself

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

just wanted to re-post this messaging that helped win an election

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

Logged into Xitter for the first time in ages. The trending list says NOTHING about Mamdani. The closest relevant listing is second from the bottom as “RIP NYC.” Lololol

Ah yes, tonight I have found it: a reason to log back into Xitter! Gimme those MAGA sadposts!

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

The worst people are having a bad night. You truly love to see it.

Wow. JD Vance’s younger brother is losing in an absolute landslide in the Cincinnati mayor election after JD endorsed him.

Republicans took the wrong lesson from 2024. Trans issues simply don't affect people much to actually affect elections all that much. So they blew tens of millions on an issue most voters don't care about. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

The next Governor of Virginia! 🏳️‍⚧️

White House   Maid Shrieks After Spotting    Melania  On Ceiling

when i was homeless for almost the entirety of '02 with seg, i gained a ton of weight thru a combo of food we had to buy that qualified for snap (because we had nowhere to cook), stress, and a side effect of welbutrin made me gain like 100lbs. everyone treated me like a filthy demon for it, fuck

Looking forward to this evening's book launch event for Bill Rankin (chair of my dept & office neighbor)'s gorgeous Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World. Get your hands on a copy! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/577193...

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

Relatedly if you’re younger than ~35 I don’t think you can understand why Obama was such an incredible talent; similarity if you’re younger than ~50 you can’t really understand Bill Clinton’s skills. (differentiating essentially campaigning skill from governing or policy)

If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.

Today was the 30th annual Dia de los Muertos festival in Oakland’s Fruitvale district, and I’ve attended almost all of them. It is the most scent-rich environment - copal & beer & pineapple & carne asada & sage & frying onions & bacon hot dogs & tequila & marijuana & Palo santo. ❤️💀💐💀❤️

A very serious dracula and muppet renfield

“I like the horns!” “Oh, thanks, but I’m not in costume.”

First time using the iOS hold assist feature and OMG this is so good. I cannot tell you the number of times I have had to wait on hold for something only to be tormented with an earworm of the damned hold music for days after. This was so nice!

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...