💯 So much this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Can I recommend/plug “Between Two Rivers” by @moudhy.bsky.social to really highlight this point — we humans, connecting to humans in our deep past, who in turn were also connecting to humans in their deep past — through storytelling. The machines can *never* do this.

when you finish the new Dan Olsen let me convince why commercial flight will never happen:

I’d say there is a good chance Netanyahu and his government are sabotaging whatever framework deal Iran and US manage to agree upon. He burned through decades of political capital in a year for what, mowing the grass?

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

Is this what good news feels like?

Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.

The US president literally just threatened war crimes and genocide. In an illegal war he is waging.

The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out. We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal. This is another extinction-level event for NASA science. Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

we cannot live this way.

What a time to be alive.

This deal was never acceptable to Netanyahu and the Israeli government. They want to do ethnic cleansing in Lebanon and this gets in the way of that. They'll violate the terms to draw the US back in again.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

This is hilarious because it implies that her husband DID call her while she was in space on the ISS to ask her help in looking for something. 💀🌌

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

okay hear me out again

sarlacc pit voice:

today. i wasn’t a very good dog april fools. I was so good

Historians of the future (if there will be any left) will write about how the president of the United States announced the end of NATO via Truth Social post.

To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over.

Me whenever someone asks how I am right now

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel. I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this. This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

Just needed to let you guys know that if you annoy electric eels enough, they'll jump out of the water to slap you. WHILE electrically discharging. So naturally they did a study The diagrams do seem to raise as many questions as they answer

Americans should understand that Trump has forward deployed a substantial fraction of US land-based aircraft out in the open within missile range of Iran. This is a war of choice that could wipe out combat power the US might wish it had husbanded for other scenarios. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

To clarify: the helicopters are not the implausible part of this proposal. And the rest of the technology is not necessarily impossible, but 2028 is absurd and it's completely unclear why this should take priority over sample return or the dozens of other fully planned activities now on hold.

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

I remember when everything started moving to apps and I was morally offended at the idea of having to download all these little programs to access services when the Internet was right there and you know what, I was right

How? Patrolling a corridor 100x20 miles with overwatch while being within crew-operated anti-air and anti-ship weapons plus the occasional sea mine isn’t exactly what the US navy can do. So again, how?

I wrote about Kat.

rare footage shows sobriety entering Fiona Apple’s soul in real time as she listens to a coked-out Quentin Tarantino:

Sometimes a guy wants to look tech savvy On Here and writes “They aren’t just stochastic parrots, we use reinforcement learning through human feedback now” and just to be clear that is *literally* how you train a parrot

uhhhh @danielbiss.bsky.social what’s going on here?

I cannot stress enough how basic Iranian launchers are. We are talking glorified Chinese flatbed trucks here. Those can be assembled and upgraded in literal car workshops. As if, please ponder this, Iran was actually going for an asymmetric war of attrition and not a bling bling conventional one

Got a text from an unknown number last night

Brilliant sweepthestrait.com

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Republicans, however, were neither willing to widen their focus nor accepted the prospect of relinquishing power. It was the hour of those on the radical rightwing flank of the party who favored a third option and identified democracy itself as the real problem.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

One thing ppl often get mad at me for saying is: the wealth disparity AND the giving disparity between the average (and the poor) and the wealthiest is like 300 times larger than it ever was in feudal England

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Girl next to me at this cafe: "Just say the thing you want to say and get it over with, and I'll say 'Wow Jeffrey that's interesting'." Jeffrey: "Okay fine. So I figured out a way to calculate the area of a solid using an unconventional method." Girl: "Wow Jeffrey that's interesting."

The fact that large parts of the German media landscape “reported” on this White nationalist fever dream of a speech by Rubio as merely reaffirming the transatlantic alliance is so far removed from reality that it truly makes me speechless.