The gamerculturification of the American right has made it so that a federal agent can kill a queer woman while calling her a fucking bitch and antisocial, angry streamers and politicians will unanimously agree she deserved to die because of pronouns and nose rings and being a woman.

There appears to be a large fire at ~8th & Upshur NW, can't tell what's burning, but there's a huge emergency response. Lost track of the number of fire trucks.

This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

the "stand in front of the fleeing person's car so you can use deadly force" trick should have been banned decades ago, but sneaking around to the front of the car where they can't see you while another officer distracts them by trying to tear their door open is next level depraved murder

The victim of today's ICE shooting in Minneapolis has been identified by her mother as Renee Nicole Good, 37. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.

The Leftovers has been totally memory holed, but it was a fantastic show that got better with each season, has the best finale I've ever seen, and was weirdly prescient about the way people would respond to a quasi-apocalyptic event like COVID (or 2% of the world's population suddenly disappearing)

if I hire an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he instead presents me with a list of reasons he is incapable of doing so while asking for more money so that he can maybe handle it later, I am not angrier at the roaches, I am in the market for a better exterminator

seriously, read Gangsters of Capitalism by @katz.theracket.news

"The next challenge is setting the country up for long term success" Should be a piece of cake, they'll welcome us as liberators.

ChemThug tried to make citric acid at home and immediately regretted it. 🧪

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

I’ve been really liking @acs.org’s youtube channel lately. It’s cool to see chemistry content on the platform that’s more serious than Nile Red, etc, but still entertaining to normal people. youtube.com/shorts/DW5Ur...

important PSA I doodled maybe 10 years ago

oddly satisfying slightly out of phase sine wave animation I made a few years ago

mixing two solids together can make a liquid without any heat or chemical reactions. It's the same basic thing happening when you salt a sidewalk to melt ice, or mix water and antifreeze in a car's radiator. Our latest Reactions short for @acs.org and PBS Digital Studios. 🧪

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

Now at every ad break in a WaPo story there's a "Dive deeper" button you can click to get more information about the story that an ai predicts is relevant. Or, hypothetically, you could continue reading the article to get more information that the author of the article thought was relevant.

Galapagos sea turtle (I think Chelonia mydas?) taking a breath off the coast of Isla Isabela. This is on Islote Las Tintoreras, right outside what must be the most spectacular "ferry terminal" in the world.

On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four. I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation. 🧵

I definitely lose hope on a regular basis. Sometimes I even regret knowing anything about climate change! But then I look at my son and his friends, their budding lives, and I go on limping along lol

Dear After Effects, Don't ever switch to the properties panel for any reason. Please burn it and bury its ashes deep underground where I will never see them again. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.

They're basically trying to bring Jim Crow back by arguing that racial equity is harmful. We didn't get to this point out of nowhere

DEADLINE EXTENDED! We're giving you an extra few days to apply for up to $5,000 to cover climate and environmental stories in rural communities. Apply by **Dec. 8** https://grist.org/updates/grist-opens-applications-for-new-rural-reporting-grants-on-climate-and-environmental-justice/

Plus ACS Reactions over in the "Science & Nature" tab, if you're into that sort of thing.

Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

liquid marbles are easy to make at home but also kinda wild cutting edge chemistry. The breakthroughs happening with these are staggering, including (maybe) one that we made a few months ago in our YT episode and are now working on getting published. 🧪 youtu.be/9V9sDISn7bk

Someone finally put to bed the most pernicious of Van Halen rumors, and we can all go back to understanding the obvious truth: the brown M&Ms rider thing does, in fact, confirm that they're all just a bunch of assholes.

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has just announced that she is not running for reelection.

I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.

Tomorrow is my birthday, and if you’re inclined, I would appreciate it if you could donate to @remorahousedc.bsky.social. Aside from being stellar people, they work hard year-round to give comfort and aid to our neighbors in need. givebutter.com/remorahouse I’ll match the 1st $100 in donations, too.

Australia has so much rooftop solar that they're giving away free electricity 3 hours a day. Pakistanis have imported so many DIY low cost panels that they're exceeding total demand. And in the US, rooftop solar is $3.50 per watt and we're repealing decades-old tax credits.

if olivia nuzzi and anthony weiner ever get together it's going to unleash gozer the gozerian in the form of a giant marshmallow

The House bill being voted on today to require cash bail in DC is insane. DC hasn’t had cash bail since 1992, and crime has plummeted since. Our current system is near identical to federal law. People should be held pretrial if they pose a safety risk — not because they are too poor to pay bail.

This 2003 story about how the telegraph radically changed journalism (maybe beginning with the news of Lincoln's assassination) is an interesting parallel to how streaming has radically changed how we create and consume video.

Still struggling to believe that Seattle voters actually picked the better candidate? Is that allowed?

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

The anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is as good a time as any to do a thread about another Lake Superior wreck and one of the most badass acts of heroism you'll ever hear of.

We're hiring two Ward 7 Community Connectors — one for in-person events and another for online outreach. These are part-time, contract roles: $35+/hour, ~5 hours/week. Applicants must live in Ward 7. More information and how to apply:

testing this out with a pythagorean animation I made a few years ago during covid lockdown boredom

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

are we doing crabRave.gif for James Watson?

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

happy sandwich day to all who celebrate

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

used to be that if you cranked the sharpening slider all the way up people would accuse you of bad hdr, now they'll accuse you of generative ai

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.