Posting to enjoy as dessert after a late night dinner (and break from adding citations to the behemoth).

Inspired!

I would love to see this fine specimen rolling down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena next New Year's Day!

My but these helicopters are loud as they slowly approach the top of the hospital.

The cankles! Oh yeah, and the mind-boggling, jaw-slacking corruption.

Evergreen skeet

Another 🎯

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Once again 🎯

Deeply charming!

@radiofreetom.bsky.social For a mere $10 million gift, you can help us remake the intellectual landscape by endowing a prestigious chair in an underrepresented subfield, such as geocentric astronomy, high-energy phlogiston physics, or patriotic history.

Mitigate your exposure and of course traffic for lies.

Best thing on TV. #Caturday

Trump is “coming home.”😵 youtube.com/shorts/w8pzU...

The bottom of the figure is populated by many flavors of nerd.

I'm working from home, and I can hear a catbird outside in the general direction of the suet cage. Just lovely!

From a Boston mind! There are scholars everywhere, but we do seem to have a fair whack of them in Boston.

And we all say ANEN.

Only bangers from Mike Luckovich, but I particularly like this one.

It's one word, little T: Caltech. (agree with the larger point that you cannot conclude blanket rationality and stability based on a Caltech degree)

How did I miss this? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

You need - and deserve - an epic giggle fit.

No mention of the Epstein files today.

For real.

Monday morning rage baiting, and AI slop to boot.

I understand why men like to tell themselves this but honestly - how set that village on fire? Statistically, who?!?

Every spoonful of this pasta has a happy jumble of lemony orzo, grassy asparagus, garlicky bread crumbs, fresh herbs and salty Parmesan. nyti.ms/416YpNV

Sharing to read later - should be delightful.

Too painful to like. Nailed it, though.

How was I not already following @elienyc.bsky.social ?

Leavitt compares favorably to the actual turkey. I don't see the issue.

Intriguing

Survey of the human proteostasis network: the ubiquitin-proteasome system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.13.711689v1

I would expect this of Boston turkeys as well.

Is RFK Jr gonna go after heroin as hard as he's going after sugar? Weirdly, he's worried specifically about teenage girls and sugar.

New-to-me periodic table:

The mechanical world writ small! I imagine that every machine we observe in the visible world has a molecular analog. Physics is physics.

Nothing could beat Pelosi ripping up Trump's speech.

To protect their democratic colleagues of course. /s

With all the hand-wringing about the message that the left needs, I pretty much think THIS IS IT. @thebulwark.com Rest in power.

Sounds like an illegal order to me.

Posting to read on the bus.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

This

Just watch it.

The cartoonists have it.