I have mixed feelings on term limits but I simply do not understand these politicians in their 70s and 80s who clearly can’t do the job anymore but won’t resign and insist on running for reelection.

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I’m very excited to announce my new podcast! I'll be telling true stories of survival, starting with the story of Ada Blackjack, who was stranded for two years in the high Arctic. If you subscribe now to What to Carry, What to Burn on your fav podcast app, you’ll get the first episodes on May 12!

Into the Broken Lands deserves more hype. This book is both a great story and one of those novels that makes you consider the foundations on which fantasy stories are written. Highly recommended!

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

I do think that “what is college actually for, as it currently exists” and “how and why has that changed over time” and “what SHOULD college be for, ideally” are all fascinating questions and it’s too bad that they are totally impossible to contemplate without being stricken with The Madness

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Whenever I see stuff about online controls I think about my middle/high school, where they kept installing internet filters. We always figured out how to bypass them within days.

all these articles have this framing of the anti-public health backlash stemming from the pro-public health side being too cruel and abusive in their victory, instead reality where anti-health won the war and almost every battle since the beginning of COVID and are feeling their oats

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Most people don’t know that public health is largely handled by state agencies. I didn’t until a couple of years ago! The CDC provides support and guidance (and a lot of money) but the work is largely governed by the states.

having given it due consideration, i have decided that "government by the stupidest most hateful morons to ever walk, or really more of sort of ooze gelatinously, on the planet" is a bad form of government and we should try something different

It's important to remember that Iran has a population of 92 million people. Actual human beings who have lives, who have dreams, who want to live.

I have nothing to say that matches the gravity of the situation. I just want peace and safety for everyone targeted by the insane whims of a madman.

I know this and you know this and we all know this but sometimes you gotta say the obvious thing out loud (so to speak) just so you don’t feel alone or crazy: our president is a deeply unwell and utterly vile man who shouldn’t be in charge of driving a golf cart much less the free world.

"daddy only hits you because you cry" is the reactionary centrist theory of american politics

May has both my birthday AND a bunch of incredible books coming out, so I get to pre-order them as gifts for me 😈

No Kings is not perfect (what is?) but today I saw little kids and folks in their 90s out protesting. It’s a balm to the soul, really.

Some YA fantasy authors who to my knowledge have never funded an attempted trans genocide: Terry Pratchett Diana Wynne-Jones Garth Nix Suzanne Collins Susan Cooper Phillip Pullman Rick Riordan Pierce Brown Sheri S. Tepper V. E. Schwab Rachel Hartman Alex Pheby Alan Garner Ursula Le Guin And more!

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Public health is a wild field to be in because when things go right, people assume we're not doing anything useful, and when things go wrong, people assume it's our fault. This pattern dates back to the beginning of public health.

The African crested rat (Lophiomys imhausi) is a rabbit-sized rodent with patterned coat. They have no natural predators which puzzled scientists because they don't display obvious deterrents to large African predators. That's when studies found they were packing enough poison to kill an elephant.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

One of the main reasons I don't use AI is that you have to fact-check every single thing it gives you and by the time I do that, I could have just done the research myself.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

You’ve heard of “Man states same point you’ve been making, met with cheers” now we have “ChatGPT gives the answer you’ve explained six times, man finally accepts it” what a time to be alive!

if dog so worried about being vacuumed up why dog always in front of vacuum

Fixing American science is no longer just about science. It’s about media and information and public consensus truth. It’s about other public goods beyond basic science. And also it’s about law, the Supreme Court and its separation of powers views (ie presidents of their party get all the power.)

There has seldom been a better time to read my book. (Because you can have it for free, apparently.)

I keep thinking about Hank Green saying that no one knows when they don’t die. And now we won’t know all the ways we could have survived. Article for a trusted source: www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...

I wish we could renormalize being able to simply dislike a thing without having to prove your dislike is due to a massive flaw in the thing. You can just not like it. It doesn't have to be due to a pile of discourse.

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If I don’t buy the rotisserie chicken what will I eat with my $5 artisanal avocado?

It's kind of amazing how the worst consequence many of our most powerful people can conceive of is someone being mad at them online, to the degree that they are driven to distraction about it even in the abstract.

@hironennes.bsky.social 's "The Works of Vermin" is a remarkable book and you should read it if you like anything weird or weird adjacent. Or just remarkable books in general. I have many thoughts and I might try to put them in order at some point, but boy, I am stunned.

tell your friends, enemies, and anyone else in the vicinity who might have two dollars and ninety-nine cents. url-shortener.me/ABSD

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most govies: if you accept a gift more than 20 dollars, HR has to destroy it in front of you and we beat you to death with hammers ICE: IMA CRASH MAH RENTAL

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

Antigone went to bury her brother and dared the state to show its true face because she was held to a higher law. I know that there’s safety in believing that if you follow the rules that it will be alright, but why would you want to live in a safety that comes at the destruction of the world?

Even if they release body cam footage, take off their masks, get more training, they are still responsible for detaining and deporting thousands of our family, friends & neighbors every day. ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

My fellowship ends this summer and I doubt I have a path forward in science. I never thought it would go this way.

We have reached the point where telling the truth and filing an affidavit is an incredible act of bravery against an oppressive regime.

Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.

Fun fact 🙃: the inactivated polio virus vaccine (now by far the most common) does not elicit sterilizing immunity. That means vaccinated people won’t get symptoms, but they can spread it to the unvaccinated- including kids pre-vax and immunocompromised people.

Your last meme saved is your moral philosophy

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

do not take the bait from europeans

Seeing people post about how that $50,000 ICE bonus takes years to get, and share what I noticed: many of these jobs are paying $30-60,000 a year. That’s not nothing but it’s a pretty shit salary to be evil and get spit on every day.