I'm writing a news story about the global trade in fish maw (dried fish swim bladder) and it's important to me that You People are aware that there's a peer-reviewed study on this conservation issue called "Maw Money Maw Problems" conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Checks and Balances in action. /s

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

Ken Paxton, GOP's MAGA Christian TX Senate pick, and his not wife

Paxton is a huge supporter of posting the Nine Commandments in Texas schools.

Rest assured that my absurd Pivots are artisanal

The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

I was at a regional harborfest on the north shore of upstate New York last week and there were twice as many people as this

Sotomayor's dissent warns about this. The majority doesn't admit it now. But Slaughter may be the beginning of the end for a merit-based civil service. Do we want qualified people inspecting our food and making complex decisions about medical care, science, etc...? Or ppl who passed a loyalty test?

You just gotta let scientists be weird little nerds in their weird little niche interest areas and accept that the benefits to the wider community, and thus to The Economy, will flow naturally from that

I mean I know I’m biased as a weird little nerd with her own weird little niche interests but this is factually correct There’s literally other weird little nerds who studied this stuff

Luxon is going to be furious when someone tells him NZ scientists invented R and refused to patent it, making it one of the most popular free open-source programming languages among scientists around the world! #NZPieceOfScience bsky.app/profile/prec...

Gabbard may have been taking orders from Hare Krishna leader Chris Butler throughout her political career. trib.al/cm6TMpl

“Oklahoma farmer arrested at a city council meeting for going a few seconds over the 3-minute public comment limit while speaking out against new data centers” www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

People are making videos of the “Great American State Fair” with music that makes it liminal horror www.tiktok.com/t/ZTS8DUuTe/

Why would it say "welcome" when passports are for US citizens??

Remembering Steve Soto, founding member of California punk rock band Agent Orange in 1979, founding member of Adolescents in 1980, died on this day in 2018 at the age of 54. Photo by Alison Braun #punk #punks #punkrock #stevesoto #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Good work NOAA researchers. Everybody else, take note: bsky.app/profile/jfoy...

Amazing anti Kat Abughazaleh post

When I first heard Dems were deploying social media bot networks to shape public messaging, this is exactly the kind of content I imagined.

"I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you." The clear point is that Republicans have turned Congress into an body that does not engage in oversight, that operates to protect the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends.

This is an amazing editorial.

(Bloomberg) - SpaceX’s blockbuster bond sale is weakening so quickly in the secondary market that traders say they can’t recall another recent deal that widened this sharply. @bloomberg.com #$SPCX www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

@jcsalterego.bsky.social ! Jerry! What have you done now??

lol never, ever reply to a main character on a website. Now I've got remnant main character juice all over me today. Woke up and people are debating each other in my replies. Don't do that. Buy a motorcycle or something. Do a backflip over a gorge. Life's too short people!

@factpostnews.bsky.social The Trump administration has removed federal protections for the habitat of the endangered whooping crane. Only 500 whooping cranes remain.

up until a few years before i graduated high school (94) this seemed like a likelihood. i still remember walking around the hollowed out ibm facility in boca raton, florida with a friend and realizing, "oh shit, these jobs are gone, they dont give af about us."

those of us at the tail end of gen x saw the promise of "get a job in your twenties and work there until retirement and get a big fat pension at the end" evaporate and it affected how we view economics. things have gotten way worse since and we dont think povs will change?

we had the dotcom collapse, the great recession and covid. somehow people are very surprised that the 80s/90s church of "trust the market" is losing followers, especially among the people who went through those things in their teens and twenties.

A lovely choice for an exterior wall.

One of my takeaways from this era is that the majority of sci-fi and speculative fiction authors of the past did not have nearly a dark or twisted enough vision of the future. No surprise, woman authors got more of it right. Butler and Le Guin, for example.

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" Any car made since 2007 has Bluetooth TPMS sensors. They can uniquely identify your car, and they're outside any shielding provided by the car's body."

As an historian of Jewish history, when I teach the medieval blood libel, I now have JD Vance's complete lie that Haitian migrants were eating pets to use as a modern comparison, to demonstrate why it was that large groups of people actually believed this.

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

"All rise! Comes before us today with a prayer for relief, a man who has no pear."

lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?

Once again, as I’ve noted multiple times before, Trump’s foreign policy isn’t really realist, or imperialist, or neoroyalist, or about spheres of influence, etc. Its sexual predation/abuse elevated the level of the state

"From the new year to May 31, 2026, 262 vessels have been identified as likely part of Russia's shadow fleet, exporting oil. Most ships are headed for India. Most commonly, the ships are sailing under the flags of Sierra Leone and Cameroon." www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Dude, actual leftist extremists would be calling for the forced seizure of wealth for redistribution, destruction of the capitalist system, radical measures to stem climate change, and more. Not “let’s tax rich people a little more and give kids free lunch.”

My brother, if we win the Democratic Party primaries then we ARE the Democratic Party

Yeah that's one of the hallmarks of malignant narcissism.

It’s like driving in a car with someone who insists on removing every single part if the car until they personally experience the consequences of what happens without that one part.

She literally recoiled when he touched her

I know beef is expensive now but costco, nooooooo

"How do you do, fellow spouse?"

#uspol #pol the concept of the federal miminum wage currently being $20-50 per hour lower than the bare minimum living wage (depending on state)... when it was originally meant to support a family of 4

Summer night in Kyiv be like: When you’re celebrating your friend’s birthday and air raid siren goes off because Russian Mig bomber seems to be about to bomb you