Some exciting news today: I'm writing another book!

My take on AI use 1) It's making it harder for people to learn *how* to learn 2) If you can't do everything you think ou should be doing without resorting to it — then you're doing (or being asked to do) too much www.patreon.com/posts/149942...

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks. My Super Bowl MVP.

JD Vance in 2021:

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

​An ICU nurse rushes to help a woman who has been violently shoved to the ground by ICE. And they execute him in cold blood for it. I can't even wrap my head around the depravity.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: “Immigration detainees are violent criminals.”

ICE is a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanish in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer means anything. The knock on the door is the sentence.

The educator in me is dying at chalkboards apparently being a “thing of the past” 😭 Like they’re as quaint as a quill or gramophone Source: my kid’s kindergarten homework #EduSky

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Pastor: I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.'

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

A hilarious read. Especially: "The shark had looked sunken and strange after dissection, so the team “just shoved a load of lab coats in it”, says Maclaine, laughing at the idea that the stitches might burst in 100 years’ time, spewing foetid lab coats and puzzling future researchers."

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

John Lawson, 1709: "The Raccoon . . . is the drunkenest Creature living, if he can get any Liquor that is sweet and strong." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Oo this one’s a hoot

A 13-year search for one of the world's rarest flowers in Indonesia ends in a 'magical experience' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Cast your mind back a few presidents and remind yourself how INSANE this question is.

Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE. Here’s how to use them:

One thing among many I love about the South is getting so many unexpected chances to collect pecans! Oh, and to glimpse lizards, even on this chilly day. #lizards #pecans #southerncharm

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

A day late on this, but I'm so proud of my little town for going all blue. Municipal elections matter!

“This is not just an opportunity for museums to be on the right side of history,” says George Fatheree, the lawyer representing Drake’s descendants. “It’s an opportunity for museums to rewrite history and think not just about ownership and stewardship, but think about stewardship and justice.”

Mrs A often complains the poetry I read/write/share is serious, gloomy, & downright depressing... She may have a point, but to prove I'm not a one trick pony... Just back from a forest walk, kicking through drifts of leaves - reminded of this by Brian Bilston #poetry #poemoftheday #autumn #fall

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

8 km of retreat in just 2 months...! 😱 The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Via Etienne Berthier

Finally an email I'm excited to open I feel like there should be a law mandating all school photos have laser cats

Animals and the history of natural history, or, what would natural history look like had Charles Darwin been a cat person? With @professorbopeep.bsky.social and Anya Zilberstein @animalhistory.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...

Just saw a pangolin described as a land carp in a late 18th–century tract and I can't unsee this

Importance of fallen leaves in garden ecosystems - autumn leaves are part of the natural cycle that increases soil nutrition, wildlife habitat and drought resistance www.wildway.info/p/importance...

What a cruel indulgence (not to mention flippant destruction of history) when so many are suffering

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life. If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution. Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

"Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer." That's who ICE arrested and disappeared as part of Donald Trump's immigration policy. It's outrageous. I've been pressing for answers and I'll keep pushing for accountability.

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...

"You are a little soul, carrying around a corpse," my cat, Epictetus, whispers in my ear

as a physician, I'll note that if you have a fetus in your placenta then something has gone quite wrong indeed

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

The most important political thread of our time.

Vultures as museum curators—of slingshots, crossbow bolts, and shoes? What can't they do? They're already one of my favorite birds for keeping disease at bay and being fabulous queens of thrift. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

Oo there’s about to be a big piece of ambergris somewhere in the world!