"'He is of a rare impartiality and sympathizes equally with both sides of the fight. Owing to that, the results are always the same for both sides. Abaddon!' Woland called in a low voice..." --Mikhail Bulgakov

Because, who needs science?: Trump fires entire NSF advisory board www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Do not cite the Just War Doctrine to me, heretic. I was there when it was written.” - The Holy See

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

"What if it took Lego videos from Iran to get America to see its own history in a whole new way" -- this week Omnishambles by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social & @cybelecanterel.bsky.social takes a deep dive into the imagery & strategy behind viral Iranian AI videos podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

"Probably the most Holocaust jokes that I've heard in an Applebee's" -- Antonia Hitchens with @jdickerson.bsky.social & @davidplotz.bsky.social @slate.com discussing her @newyorker.com article on the disturbing and growing "Groypers" movement among young Republicans slate.com/podcasts/pol...

"I didn't hate watching it. It's not too long... It dissolved on my tongue and left no taste." -- @juliaturner.bsky.social gives the most damning nonplussed movie review ever @slate.com Slate Plus members don't miss spoilers afterwards! @thehighsign.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/cul...

Beetle larvae mimic flower scents to attract bee hosts www.scientificamerican.com/article/beet...

"I didn't hate watching it. It's not too long... It dissolved on my tongue and left no taste." -- @juliaturner.bsky.social gives the most damning nonplussed movie review ever @slate.com Slate Plus members don't miss spoilers afterwards! @thehighsign.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/cul...

Indeed.

When I get a new follower

Is mention by @jdickerson.bsky.social of anthropologist Kristin Hawkes's @utah.edu "grandmother theory" of human evolution on the latest Gabfest @slate.com a Cocktail Chatter first? First time I remember hearing anthropology mentioned for sure. Much appreciated! www.amnh.org/calendar/jam...

Ancient people and living nature: A global perspective on archaeological areas and biodiversity 🌍@peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Twin Peaks: Gordon Cole.

This 💯

Naturally, the comment section of this post has attracted those who believe otherwise.

Twin Peaks: The Man From Another Place. LETS ROCK!

"Twin Peaks and Japan" was one of the best panels at the last Real #TwinPeaks Days. There's some surprises here, including some never-before-released photos that help solve a decades-old mystery. The whole presentation is worth your while. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BTR...

The Everett Files: a dossier compiled by Denny Moore about the research activities of controversial linguist Daniel Everett--famous for his sensational claims about the Piraha indigenous language of Brazil--including allegations of significant professional malfeasance ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...

"The way that [AIs] see the world—the world that is created for them—is like a snow globe…It is the traces of things that have passed through the corporeal world." --Timely discussion of the inhumanity of AI by @cybelecanterel.bsky.social with @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social And Siva Vaidyanathan

Bossa lounge lizard Smells Like Teen Spirit is definitely an acquired taste

The Beast is dead! Long live the Omnibeast! @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social and @cybelecanterel.bsky.social have burned down "What Rough Beast" but from its ashes emerges "Omnishambles": smart, witty & optimistically despairing reflections on our wrecked world virginiaheffernan.substack.com/podcast

My heartfelt thanks to the linguist Denny Moore, who has done exactly what anyone investigating the Pirahã story and its aftermath should have done long ago. Namely: actually investigate. "Fact checking Geoffrety Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil" ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

"How zany are the bones in which he feels this?" -- @jdickerson.bsky.social on Trump's crazy war @slate.com slate.com/podcasts/pol...

New study reveals mortality, population growth & migration patterns of Matsigenka people of Manu National Park, Peru over past 60 years, including 73% decrease in infant mortality due to diarrhea in communities with water & sanitation projects by rainforestflow.org peru.fzs.org/noticias/est...

"it'll look good on your cv"

"Politeness is not really the problem." -- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Because of course the First Amendment guarantees the rights of government officials to be flattered by the press, and any infringement of that fundamental right should and must be punished.

"They are evil and they are stupid" -- @meidasjordy.bsky.social sums up the Trump regime using only five words (not counting repeats) meidasnews.com/tag/meidasto...

"Our world is controlled by a bunch of man-babies... and they're actually masking how deeply incurious and stupid they are." -- @giorgioangelini.bsky.social on the alt-right meme machine behind QAnon, Pizzagate & Team Epstein @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social virginiaheffernan.substack.com/podcast

#TwinPeaks favourite scenes 🤍 - Do you believe in the soul? - Several. - More then one? - Blackfoot legend. Waking souls that give life to the mind and the body. A dream soul that wanders. - Dream souls? Where do they wander? - Faraway places. The land of the dead. - Is that where Laura is?

We keep selling out of signed copies of Devious Dreams, the brilliant book on Mulholland Dr. by David Lynch scholar @thornewip.bsky.social. John just brought us 10 more copies, so grab one now – they'll be gone soon! In our dedicated David Lynch section: mzs.press/David-Lynch-...

There's always a [fill in blank with disgraced social media platform's trademark noun for "lie"]

This is not the best part of the firing, but it’s in the Top 10.

If some people are beautiful because they are so fascinatingly ugly, there must be people who are ugly because they are so fastidiously beautiful [that they] have achieved technical excellence at the expense of erotic charisma. —Becca Rothfeld on the phenomenon of Looksmaxxing, in The New Yorker

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles: rising exemptions are playing a big role in the measles outbreak that is sickening, hospitalizing, and killing children in the U.S.. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u... @nytimes.com

This weekend I’ll be at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social artist alley table L-08. I’ll be taking commissions at the show, will have original art from BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/THE QUESTION: ARCADIA and I’ll be selling this new TWIN PEAKS print.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

"Our world is controlled by a bunch of man-babies... and they're actually masking how deeply incurious and stupid they are." -- @giorgioangelini.bsky.social on the alt-right meme machine behind QAnon, Pizzagate & Team Epstein @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social virginiaheffernan.substack.com/podcast

Secretly my favorite line in the book, so thanks for zeroing in on it

"... and many posters for what she assumed was a rock band called Rush." -- as a fan since my teens I both appreciated and resented this throw-away line from the latest @michaelidov.bsky.social spy thriller

"Everyone has a fact check in their wallet." -- @jdickerson.bsky.social on Trump's mendacious #StateOfTheUnion, from the latest Political Gabfest @slate.com ***Bonus feature: AI-generated epic presidential poetry c/o @davidplotz.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/pol...

Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as: ⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year ⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year ⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

"Spycraft was a field of empty traps, rusting open." -- @michaelidov.bsky.social in the much awaited, twisty and thrilling 2nd installment of the "Cormorant Trilogy"

"... and many posters for what she assumed was a rock band called Rush." -- as a fan since my teens I both appreciated and resented this throw-away line from the latest @michaelidov.bsky.social spy thriller

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology