I’m learning a few things from this book for young readers by @deborahhopkinson.bsky.social, a book I found in my local Little Free Library. Things like, for example, the story of Abram and Elizabeth Place and how Elizabeth‘s Menominee relatives protected the Places’ farmhouse with 🧵 1/4

This is just a small portion of a graphic I made shortly after FTX's collapse, showing how contagion spread throughout crypto. Full graphic: mollywhite.net/etc/ftx-cont...

Weren't GOP senators demanding $500k because the DOJ researched their call records on January 6th?

Some personal news

He's on Chris Hayes' show right now and opened by saying about AG Bondi "it was completely off the reservation" Don't say that. You've lost all credibility.

NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science. It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

Extremely funny that the U.S. is going to become a zombie patent monopoly, all the mRNA tech in the world and none of the societal benefits, transnational corporations giving that shit to Canadians like Halloween candy as we try to cross Niagara Falls by barrel like it’s 1832

PEENT. weneedtogooutside.com/products/woo...

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I was talking to my wife the other day and she said, "the tech guys wanted a computer that would tell them what to do and as soon as they got something they could BELIEVE was that they went all in"

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Can't decide whether Ring's ad trying to use dogs to get us to opt into their surveillance program or Amazon's "lol what if our AI killed you?" ad was the most dystopian

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”

This song "Yo Perreo Sola" is an anthem about women's right to throw ass in the club without men creeping on them

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

5th yr of Super Bowl w/ a friend of mine. We make and eat food, have a few beers, chat while the game is on but not during commercials. We laughed noting the bushes were costumed people, raised our beer glasses, then ate some tortilla chips and black bean dip and waited for halftime show. Then done.

As others have said, Bad Bunny's halftime performance highlighted the horrible electricity situation in Puerto Rico. For many, blackouts are a weekly occurrence and the situation has only gotten worse in the last few years. Earlier this week, there were about 130,000 customers without power.

"Mental health during disaster recovery" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disa... #Health #MentalHealth #GlobalHealth #DRR #DisasterRecovery #Shealing

New report: Water Abundance for California, via UC Berkeley Possibility Lab’s Abundance Accelerator berkeley.app.box.com/s/94iw1ly37p...

"Politics messing with my rights There's nothing fun to do tonight... Yeah it's one more thing"

"I wish I was the brakeman On a hurtlin' fevered train Crashing headlong into the heartland Like a cannon in the rain..." #music #head #heart

My cousin told me something outlandish. She said look it up! I did. The source for this outlandish claim was a US Gov't science agency - and I doubted - because it's recent. For the first time, I doubted a peer-reviewed study by scientists that work for the US Gov't. That's how far we've fallen.

Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever. This is the country we live in now.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 429 ppm in January 2026 10 years ago January averaged about 403 ppm Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

Chance of El Niño forming in Pacific Ocean may push global temperatures to record highs in 2027 #Climate

Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“The numbers are like nothing any of us who have been in this business for 25 years have seen,” Bank of America managing head of global credit Matt McQueen told Bloomberg. “You have to turn over all avenues to make this work.” (aka it's gonna be painful for all of us, regardless)

"Too big to fail" Just wait. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I keep thinking how all the "3 Martini Lunch" norm of yesteryear still impacts our government policies today...

This is a cool photo of crescent Venus. And the Moon, too. Image credit: Iván Éder

After the Twitter takeover, remember all the new options? Post.news (gone), Mastodon (still going on many instances), Counter Social? (apparently still online). Ah, digital life. I'm sure there are more (well, outside the obvious)

This moment is bringing out the best in some of us (like this speaker) and bringing out the worst in others of us. This is a time for choosing to live a life that you're proud of, or not. ❤️

LOVE seeing the work on @nativebio.bsky.social and @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social highlighted in the NYT. More good news of Indigenous data champions! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...

The hits keep coming: NY grid confirms, “in the absence of new [blocked clean energy] resources coming online, older and more costly [fossil fuel] generators are being dispatched more frequently, resulting in higher wholesale prices.”

A Dry, Warm January Leaves the West With the Worst Snowpack in Decades www.drought.gov/drought-stat...

Did You Know? #Coyotes are stabby. They stab with their forepaws. Long, slender paws. Long, slender claws. They stab prey. They stab other coyotes. 🐾🔪🩸 Please share a mildly disturbing and/or gory wildlife fact. Any species. (For the purposes of this question, housecats don’t count.)

that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together

“Burning enhanced the survival of palms by killing some of the wood-boring insect larvae. More importantly, fire increased fruit production… Cahuilla and related groups may very well be responsible for planting palm seeds at many, even most, of the locations where palms occur today.”

As rattlesnakes’ movement patterns adapt to changes wrought by wildfire: “With the help of public education, guided walks and live presentations, staff have taught visitors how to identify local snake species, move safely through snake habitat and respond appropriately if bitten by a snake.”

Great. Just great.

Admin subpoenas are back in the spotlight. Worth remembering ICEs use of a similar tool: hundreds of thousands of warrantless “customs summonses,” often for non-customs cases sent for info about journalists, students, and abortion clinics, with no oversight. wired.com/story/ice-1509-custom-summons/