it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

From Dolores Huerta's statement this past March medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Abusers sabotage their own agenda and betray those who share it while placing the burden on victims to come forward and be punished, blamed, shamed, disbelieved, or not come forward and suffer in silence and let an abuser hold power. Abusers demonstrate radical selfishness.

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

The epitome of the Gall of Whiteness is that were calling him Maine’s Mamdani while Actual Mamdani was & still is being presented as a danger to people & couldn’t even get endorsed by his own senators.

Platner is a classic example of a white person coming out of nowhere having zero history of meaningful community work or activism and somehow being given a platform to convince people he's the next great white hope. Who the fuck was this guy before the election cycle? Who are his people?

"don't endorse a guy with a Nazi tattoo" is really not galaxy brain political strategy so much as it is common sense and/or decency

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

The embodiment of a picture being worth a thousand words. Caption: Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

There you gave it.

You can't fix this by changing the laws (because they will continue to lie and distort whatever you say), and it's unclear you can permanently fix it by changing the institutions (which are primarily corrupted by the presence of the people within them), you HAVE TO PUNISH THE PEOPLE

The breakdown isn't the law, it's not even really the institutions, it's that we have filled the institutions with people who feel no qualm about operating in extreme bad faith, because they are ensconced inside an ideological bubble that affirms any idea that advances the reactionary project

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

I just did a gig at the Royal Festival Hall for refugee week and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan opened the festival. I have been thinking so much about this because we have been living in such difficult times. It’s so lovely that two of the biggest cities in the world, are led by two such kind men.

The way I've gotten this across in talks to US audiences is to explain that by the time the Battle of Gettysburg was fought... ...the London Underground had already been open for six months.

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

I know we've all been beaten into believing nothing will get better, but there is a longstanding tradition of dreary, smug cynicism in this country which makes it even harder for anything to get better

Lunacy. Here's Emmer 10 years ago.

The reasoning here is absurd enough that it should be part of the story: "Supreme Court rules that Trump statements that Haitians 'probably have AIDS,' are 'poisoning the blood of our country,' are 'eating cats and dogs," do not constitute racial animus."

even more impressive — the huge improvement in treating kids with cancer we can cure many now, precisely because of painstaking research and clinical trials over decades ourworldindata.org/db734210-96b...

“What is the Democratic Party if not its voters?” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, who also said, “the only majority in this country is the working class.” Feeling like I can breathe. Simple truth has a few people who are used to controlling the narrative just a bit disoriented today. Forward!

I don't really mind people criticizing USAID so long as they are clear about what the practical upshot of that criticism is supposed to be bsky.app/profile/oluf...

Some of the worst xenophobia came from people I had known for years. Friendships were lost if not damaged forever. Spiteful and completely unprompted mutterings about “too much globalism“ and about “warming to Boris”. England has never felt the same since.

Irony is dead.

I've seen a few people in tech-ier spaces celebrating the X-Labs thing on LinkedIn, and I just want to be abundantly clear about something: it's been very obvious from the start that this is part of the malicious capture of NSF, and if you're still excited about it after this news, you can fuck off

The best thing about the reflecting pool is how that man would not shut up about it for weeks. He used his pool guy! He had infographics made! He drove down the middle of it! Never in the history of anything has a punchline been set up so perfectly.

More 10-year-olds say they want puppies than parents do. What's behind the divide?

They can't solve anything because they refuse to understand what the problems actually are and when their attempts inevitably fail it's someone else's fault because the answer cannot be that Trump is fucking stupid

Extremely funny “called it” thread posted about a month ago lmao

I will take the win. Why can’t Congress protect other aspects of American science?

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Please repost. This message doesn't use insults or crude language. It's simply the truth. We haven't just left the EU, we have allowed our society to sink to the depths of hatred & bigotry. We are being manipulated by the arrogant, mad privileged minority, preying on the uneducated, morally bankrupt

"They actually wonder why we are serious about Ebola and not the rest of their suffering." The million dollar question. www.statnews.com/2026/06/13/w...

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Cannot stress enough how irrelvant these numbers are to what we are seeing. And that dimwit Starmer and his useless government do not understand that will damn us all to hell.

Needs to be said really directly - these aren't anti-immigration protests. No-one is attacking white Australians on UK gap years, Irish tradies in Bondi, or white South African farmers. It's racially targetted violence commited by groups espousing overtly white supremacist views.

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

There has literally been no point in my life when governments and society as a whole has stopped compromising with racists and it makes furious that people keep acting like this is a tactic we need to finally try or something

It's just remarkable that if you're white, male, and conservative you are allowed to call for political violence that would get anyone who doesn't tick all those boxes absolutely pilloried. The group with the fewest legitimate grievances in society provided the widest grace to rage. Wild.

Always worth remembering that she is "controversial" for extreme sentiments like "I don't think kids should be killed" and "Palestinian children are human and deserving of love". I don't think she has ever even offered any kind of policy opinion other than "don't kill children"

It's been 100 days since the US reportedly bombed a girls school in Iran, killing 100+ kids. I pressed members of Congress on what they're doing in response to one of the most horrific war crimes in modern US history. Some didn't even know about it. And some just didn't care:

I don’t give a FUCK if the general populace is “economically anxious” and therefore voting for the likes of Hanson and Meloni and whatever neo Nazis the Germans voted in last week; this is NOT OK, this is NOT ACCEPTABLE and I should not have to listen to this racist shit spewed out every moment of

stage. European leaders are fuxking pathetic; gutless, racist cowards. The most anyone of these faux humanists have managed to say in response is Macron, who basically announced his country’s policy of neocolonialism in Africa to little criticism, if any

There is not a single political party that is coming remotely close to telling the public the truth on tax. Instead, right across the political spectrum, in different ways, every party is repeating the a variant of the opposite: YOUR taxes are too high, but someone else can afford to pay more.

It's a lot, I know. But fighting is not as hard as losing is. Pace yourselves, but be resilient. We need all hands on deck. We can't ignore the "blue" of the pale blue dot. It's not an option. The OOI was designed with future generations in mind; we owe them better than this.

You can: 1) Contact your senators and reps, especially in coastal states. 2) Urge scientific societies and advocacy groups to speak out and mobilize their members. 3) Write op eds, posts, threads, etc. explaining what the OOI actually does and why it matters. 4) Share articles like this:

3500 comments have been recorded so far and there are hundreds of thousands of scientists in the US--its time for everyone to step up NOW OR NEVER 🧪

Is there anyway to watch director commentary of movies aside from using the special edition DVDs? I feel so lucky to have been a teenager when that was a thing. I loved the cast/director commentaries of beloved movies! Baz Luhrmann's red curtain trilogy ones are *excellent* for reference.

Also, something that comes to mind is just the fact that being a helper in many cases is *a skill.* There's a reason social workers have masters degrees. Meanwhile ICE hires 18 year olds. It takes a lot of work and expertise to grow and preserve a forest. It takes very little to burn it all down.

The Ukrainian decision to double down on drone warfare, from the battlefield, to mid range and long range strike, and not to draft all of its young men to make infantry, will be seen by historians as one of the most important decisions in 19th-21st century warfare.