Absolutely terrifying

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

Public service provides a good outlet (even in a non-governmental capacity)

Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

A Red Fox in a tree looking absolutely DEVIOUS 🦊 😈 #mammals #foxes

Another plant regularly found in royal gardens: the artichoke. A mere thistle, yet this one is special, an edible globe artichoke (Cynara scolymus). #PalacesAndGardens #BotanicalWonders #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. Please do repeat this insight.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

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.

With this one post you have shown infinitely more understanding of LoTR than all the tech-bros combined

Other folks have said it, but let me just note that: (1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year (2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?

the aurora looks incredible tonight down here in north georgia!

My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time. No more hiding behind election terms.

Hello. If your play calls what's happening in Gaza a “conflict” & a “war”, centers the story of two white people’s marriage "torn apart after Oct 7" to do it & involves no Palestinians in “the team” in the process please stay the fuck out of my inbox with your complimentary tickets. Thank you.

It's 2000, & wreck diver Rod Macdonald has discovered something terrifying: "Dave and I couldn’t resist the temptation to fin over to the edge of the pinnacle & look over the side, down into the 200-metre deep abyss. [Then] I became aware that my exhaled bubbles had stopped rising upwards..." 1/

Sheesh zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

On this day 40 years ago, a stream of charged particles was fired at Gordon Lightfoot, splitting him into Chris Pratt and Bryan Cranston

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

you've upset will

Tired: quietly dealing with Management's shit Wired: organizing my workmates into a union Fired: storming the boardroom and pelting everyone with eggs, milk and flour

Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.

I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real

Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him And they should, given this is his fault.

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Launch them into the sun.

If these 8 democrats do this, I hope they experience the most miserable primary campaigns in history www.politico.com/live-updates...

probably not my best idea

This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty. It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭 www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...

we're snailposting, post your snails

Just Etch-a-Sketch brains

GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown. REPORTERS: 😳 KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?

Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

Happening now in Broadview—outside Chicago: A procession of Illinois Handmaid’s, with the Illinois Democratic Women of Cook County, walks in procession to the ICE detention facility. “Even though we are silent, we are powerful,” an organizer told the group before starting.

No matter how bad you think this article is based on the title, the reality is so much worse. Setting aside all the blood on his hands and the destabilizing effects of radical wealth inequality, claiming he’s worth it as long as he “pays his taxes” and “behaves responsibly” is absurdly credulous.

Collecting TikTok avatars of ppl telling me New York will be under sharia law in six months

[Fox & Friends] me: *finishes off gallon of milk* Fox: Are you going to keep drin— me: *throws up milk in their open mouths*

[Meet the Press] me: *finishes off gallon of milk* kristen welker: did you bring that from home me: *reaches down for another gallon of milk*

Don't let them eat cake

#OreCup semifinals are close with lots of flips & a tight margin so far! It's slippery, silvery #Molybdenite vs peacock rock #Bornite! vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results:

I can't believe this is still relevant 1month on. Republicans have decided to eliminate the vast majority of the government effectively with no end in sight :(