24 seconds of “hold still, haz schmutz” baff time

it’s dangerous to go alone, take this

ok that's enough internet for today

Trumpian imperialism in action: kidnap the head of the regime, leaving the rest of it in place so as to access the oil reserves for the US companies. Then realize the oil is actually quite expensive to extract, so go ahead and SUBSIDIZE the oil companies. Perfect. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Dreamy bean. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

You don't need ChatGPT artologica.etsy.com/listing/4425...

I was compelled to draw trans Dilbert again and then I blacked out what’s that other thing on my tablet

Quote tweeted with alt text and also want to note that everything he's written is a lie. Colonization stole wealth from those countries and in the years since those countries ended formal ties neo colonization found new ways of continuing to mine those countries for their wealth

1). The US is in the middle of the worst flu season in a decade. 2). Pertussis cases are the highest they have been in 20 years. 3). Measles has rebounded and elimination status has been lost. RFK.Jr. has not recommended vaccination, instead he is aggressively rolling back vaccine policy.

Callisto has several heated cat beds and other places to sleep, but her favorite place is still on top of me

Monday morning update:
The computer is on.
The kittens are off.
Productivity for day at risk. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme

I just think Bluesky desperately needs private accounts

you there, boy. do you know whether they've sold the prize turkey from the window?

it's important to remember that, as evil as ICE/DHS is, cops are also evil and fascist, every last one

I again wish to point out that it is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. has unilaterally ended CDC recommendations for many childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

What lies in wait for the New Year? Why, Manul Monday, of course!

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

I've been ignoring the giant blank space in my calendar during the holidays, but now I need to pitch everyone in the world this week so I don't go completely broke (especially since quarterly taxes are due soon)

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

This elaborate alarm clock from the 19th century prompted people to think about the shortness of life. When the alarm bell chimed, a small card running up the skeleton’s spinal column retracted to make the jaw open and the eyes roll. It's now at the Science Museum, London. #skystorians

This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me. Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.

We Don't Know What Paleodictyon Is. We are studying our impacts on organisms that we haven't even identified. Blows my mind, every time.

New year, new union! We’re forming @cenguild.bsky.social with @wbng.org so that everyone at C&EN—reporters, copy editors, production and operations staff, web and creative designers, multimedia producers, audience development—will have a voice in the direction of this magazine. ✊

without a doubt, "Spirited Away" (also my favorite movie, period)

Thread of birbs 2 Cassowary (or should that be cassUH-OHwary). #art #birds #cassowary

Today in 1958, Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” cartoon strip addressed a subject on the minds of many Americans. Ten months later, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union entered into a mutual moratorium on nuclear testing as they endeavored to negotiate an end to all such tests.

this is what happens when you spend too much time on bsky, friends

This looks like 1,000 videos I've seen from authoritarian states

the Peanuts page-a-day calendar my mom got me for Christmas is doing the story where Sally's school building gets depressed and commits suicide

Charlie Brown elevating himself to ask “Whats good?” After finally having had enough of the kite-eating tree’s horse shit.

The first two hours this morning

So Trump successfully bullied a good man and his family. Because winning over Harris Walz wasn’t enough. Trump wanted to destroy him. Walz is making the right decision for his family. But the success of Trump’s grotesque bullying campaign is yet another frightening step in our national descent.

goddamnit, your email found me.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

my first 2026 read is "The King Must Die" by @kashinggiwa.bsky.social , which I picked up for the title alone but I'm digging so far. (And she's a fellow scientist!)

listening to an album that uses a sample from a playground in Japan, but you can't hear individual words, just kids shouting and playing. It could be anywhere in the world because kids love to shout.

It's so easy to do!

it's my personal guarantee to you, my follower, that i will post harder and more stupider than you thought possible this year

Please and for the love of God. Most of us left that blistering hellhole for a reason so maybe stop bringing that shit here and going “Y’ALL SEE THIS?!??” every other day because its usually never anything of value or worth to anyone and only serves to spread it’s influence and agitation even more

@flyingtrilobite.com one for the SciArt feed, I think?

Thread of birbs! Common Snipe. #art #birds #snipe

by *my* metric of success, Musk is not at all successful. He has no friends. He's unhappy as hell. His life is a house of cards, where the deck is missing several cards and the rest are dirty and creased.

Some dorkwad told me I was jealous of Elon Musk because he is the “most successful person on the planet”. I responded that I have one very important thing that Elon Musk will never have: Enough.

Racism murders us

Please share this. Looking for stories. Feel like this is STILL not getting covered and if there's big MN political news this morning, will get even less attention.

I definitely didn't expect us to be allying with Putinist Russia against most of Europe either

my first @effinbirds.com madlibs of the year feels too apropos

PSA: Today is twelfth night. You are still allowed Baileys in your coffee. And too much cheese.