Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

Wear. A. Mask. I am so furious I am shaking. Alice deserved so much better. We all deserve so much better.

Yayyyyy feeling terribleeeee worst Friday ever

I will wager that the person who decided to graph this way was a man.

The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.

everyone needs a signal group chat or three with close friends

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Yes. State and local jurisdictions collect and submit the data. State and local health departments would be able to see if what CDC is reporting does not match what they submitted.

The first thing Larry Summers did as president of Harvard was to piss off half the leading scholars in the African American Studies department to the extent they left for Princeton. Took him a few years to get around to revealing his belief in the innate inferiority of women’s intelligence.

I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices

There's a weird etymology here. In the 11th century, a pre-arranged army command was 'CRIER HAVOT', which means in Old French: "order to pillage." This was corrupted to "cry havoc" in English. Wreak, meanwhile, is Old English for "punish/avenge". So "wreaking havoc" is revenge pillaging.

Just buried in a paragraph and not highlight with a visual or anything: total global energy emissions WOULD BE 7% HIGHER if we had chosen to sit around and do nothing about this shit OUR ACTIONS MAY BE INSUFFICIENT BUT THEY ARE NOT FRUITLESS THERE ARE 2600000000000000 GRAMS OF FRUIT EVERY YEAR

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

Will that fanfic ever stop haunting us

The thing is, 1.5 degrees was was an unrealistic target from the start. The only way earth system models could make it work was by overshooting the target, getting to 0 emissions, and then devoting 2-3x the land area of India to carbon removal later in the century. We’d already warmed 1.2 degrees C.

I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast

Dear God Maybe this occurred to everyone else already, but I just realized that the tech bigwigs sided with Trump because they had become so Roko's Basilisk-brained They treated Trump like their imagined future malevolent A.I., and now we're all fucked

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

u shall not pass

16% of graduates students in STEM fields in the US are Chinese nationals. If we cut funding from any professor who has been the graduate advisor of a Chinese student in the last 5 years RETROACTIVELY, research in the US will grind to a halt.

“The AMA did not provide a reason for the decision to shutter the journal. The organization acknowledged our request for comment but told us it had nothing to add beyond the statement.”

Seems like time for some emergency cute. Please remember to look away from the horrors sometimes (Chickadee) #birds 🌿

During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures My latest for @sentientmedia.org

Xenovember day 13! Today's a hectic one so I'm keeping it brief. Pretty sure I did this as a warm up leading into my time on Aliens: Defiance for Dark Horse... www.instagram.com/p/DRBXemZkiCV/

So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig

they want to stamp out the entire profession of public health for a generation. same day they announce they’re closing the CDC museum

every company in 2025

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When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived. All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.

just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car he was married at the time

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

“A lot of people worked for a long time to achieve that measles elimination status, and to lose it in one year because of a failure of government action … for a disease that’s totally preventable, it just makes me sad." -Dr. James Talbot, former CMOH for Alberta. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW: Trump says America needs more foreign workers. His company requested a record 184 of them for 2025. me, for @Forbes 1/

Wasn’t expecting the Epstein scandal to blow up the New York Times but sure, why not

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

I’m at the Epstein Files I’m at the Russiagate I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate

My takeaway from Epstein document dump was that Jeffrey Epstein in 2018/early 2019 was increasingly telling people he had dirt on Trump and Trump knew everything about child sex ring. To protect Trump's re-election campaign, Trump's DOJ charged Epstein in July 2019. Then Epstein committed "suicide."

Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Only shocking thing about the Epstein emails so far is that Cuomo isn’t in them

genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

You could go through my 20-year gmail history and every work email account I've ever had and you won't find even one that makes me sound like a pedophile in any context because I am not a pedophile.

I’d have been fired from every job I ever had if I wrote emails like those freaks.

When daylight savings and the off-season in baseball arrive at the same time...