Did you know American Kestrels, like Fe, are the smallest falcon species in North America? These tiny powerhouses weigh about as much as a stick of butter, a cup of flour, or a ball of yarn! #AmericanKestrel #DidYouKnow #SmallButMighty

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

Right-wing influencers: SHIT SHIT SHIT, QUICK, FIND THE NEAREST TRANS PERSON WE CAN SCAPEGOAT!!!1!

THEY RALLY 'ROUND THE FAMILY WITH A

I believe deeply in the radical and transformative power of music.

I'll happily laugh in their faces in the meantime 🤣

This scratches a very particular itch from my Real Analysis days...

Payback's a bitch

The partial sentence "[a]fter Rebecca got expelled following her Title IX complaint" tells you everything you need to know about how women are treated across academia (and not just STEM academia).

Why the *fuck* does Ben think Angel Dust is so popular?! I can assure you, it's *not* because he traded being a femboy for being trans 💖

I know the answer before I even ask the question, but... ... are men, like, okay?

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext* www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

“Toad,” said Frog, “your pants and jacket are lying on the floor.” “Tomorrow,” said Toad from under the covers.

your regular reminder than you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to the regime"

If Todd did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Of course he fucking did.

I'm old enough to remember when Maria Bartiromo was an utterly banal reporter/anchor on CNBC 💀

yes, i can be “weird” and “off-putting” but on the bright side i’ve also been described as “not fun to be around”

Not the point, obvs, but as someone who has done a fair bit of programming I can tell you that under no circumstances should you ever be nice to code. Code should be relentlessly bullied as frequently as possible. Insult the fuck outta that shit, with language that would make a sailor blush.

One step closer to the Tomacco™!

I still hate AI, but also: lol. lmao, even.

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

I've been hearing the term for years now, and I gotta admit that at this point I still don't know what a "metroidvania" is.

Man who doesn't want to listen to trans women because we use what he thinks are the wrong words thinks we're "hysterical" 🙃

If only we'd used the appropriate words to describe our oppression, then people like this would be taking us seriously over our oppressors 🙄

Look, the only person with an excuse for having to watch the State of the Union is @atrupar.com because he made bad life choices. If any of the rest of you watch and then post about it…

When our cat is mad he sighs and smacks his tail on the ground, and when he does my wife and I say "oh, SO MAD!" and I'm quite sure he hates it 🤣😾

And parents are *always* going to feel like things are "rapid onset" because IT'S LIKELY THE FIRST TIME THEY'RE HEARING ABOUT IT! Might as well talk about "rapid onset" needing glasses; it's probably been an issue for a while and NOW this is the first time it's formally come up.

Excellent thread 🧵⬇️

Room (2015). Fantastic film about survival and trauma, Brie Larson is incredible as Joy, 10/10, no notes, but I don't know that I'll ever be watch it again, it's rough.

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

This will make a fine addition to my "Loss" collection 😈

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The God Kanati had wolves to hunt for him, because they are good hunters and never fail.

My alma mater: "President James Buchanan earned his degree right here at Dickinson College!" Me:

As a solar astrophysicist, let me tell you: the Sun has it coming.

AUSA: "I can't keep up with the number of habeas cases caused by my employer's lawless conduct!" Me:

The entire last 10,000 years of human existence (at least) has been one giant middle finger to biology and evolution, but mRNA vaccines and trans people are where y'all decided to draw the "man was not meant to meddle" line?

my rack has cost a fair bit more than $90 or $150 so far

Can we talk about giving AI a credit card? #WorstEpisodeEver

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

Finally opened up the package with my copy of 'Begin Transmission: The trans allegories of The Matrix' by @tillybridges.bsky.social and I'm really looking forward to reading it!

I cannot fully explain how bizarre this video is

Here it is, your moment of zen.

So... I've been seeing a lot of Newsom hate going around. Frankly, good. Newsom sucks ass. But what I'm NOT seeing much (at all?) is counter-proposals. So... do we on the left have anybody that we'd LIKE to see run for president in 2028? Because we need to start thinking about that NOW.