Greta Thunberg was not the only Flotilla prisoner abused, which should come as a surprise to no one

When I've talked to deepfake victims, both public figures and everyday people, I've heard horror stories about police laughing them out the door, girls getting expelled for reporting their classmates, and lawyers advising them that suing would just make it worse. This is abuse culture in action.

"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"

I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature

They aren't amazing, but I did hit the ground running with around 3k words today

Also, I can read clear cursive just fine. Most people in the field notebooks I was trying to decipher had bad handwriting!

The funny thing about people/entities that openly twist with the wind is that they end up, in due course, alienating everybody

You can literally use this anywhere too, their brain will stutter. The great part? You can say it in a retail setting in the most polite sweetest way too. "Well, (insert pronoun) what outcome were you wanting to come out of this today by chance?" With a smile plastered on your face professionally.

Every six months or so there's another expose about another AG diktat that made its way through the paper, after the Israeli agitprop one I thought the lesson had well and truly stuck, but no, no no

What’s most disappointing in reading this is the active role of the NYT science desk in spreading transphobic disinformation. Really shameful what Azeen Ghoryashi (used to respect her for covering sexual harassment in science) and Virginia Hughes did to twist science for their anti-trans campaign.

Really disappointed in the number of skeptics and scicomm folks I used to respect 10-15 years back have revealed themselves to be transphobes

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

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Based on my study of grocery store aisles, there are four major cold weather holidays: Spooky, Family (bird), Family (Gifts) and Horny

The hater becomes a waiter at the table of success

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

No matter where we go from here I cannot believe we, as DSA, in under 10 years of reconstitution, elected a guy to govern the most important city in the world that says in his inaugural speech: “I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.”

Happy New Year. 🥲 Troodontid in the Snow Ink, 111 × 149 mm.

Based on my study of grocery store aisles, there are four major cold weather holidays: Spooky, Family (bird), Family (Gifts) and Horny

Was chatting with my mom and she mentioned watching the new "Onion" movie. After some mutual confusion, we figured out that she meant the new Knives Out. Did she like it? "No. It was too Catholic."

In a development whose symbolic signifigance I absolutely will not interrogate, my dating apps are draining my phone's battery

do it. prove you can do more than poast. join DSA

goodnight sweet prince

I do think the current X-office under Brevoort is now 3 for 3 on unconvincing and dissatisfying crossovers, which is not, from a business standpoint, ideal

You know, I thought the core narrative of Age of Revelation was pretty decent. (It wasn't helped at all by the X-office decision to make it the centerpiece of a comically bloated linewide crossover, but few stories are.)

Oh, good

Sold two books, got 30k words into an existing one over December, broke into National Geographic, landed a cover story in Scientific American (an assignment that sent me to France for the first time!) and most importantly, got married. Aside from the horrors, a pretty good year!

This is quite a good piece and, crucially, is a more interesting piece than it appears to be on the tin

Absolutely Monumental, Administration-Defining L

So, the frog stopped the National Guard from coming to Portland, along with astute lawsuits by Oregon. Only part of what's happening, but hard to understate how fundamentally the Portland Frog changed perceptions and helped morale. Humor, imagination, courage, savvy.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s final print edition is today. The 157-year-old newspaper, once the most important news outlet in the South with a massive circulation of 720,000 subscribers, is going all digital. Their article about it is paywalled, which seems like a missed opportunity.

New, on Patreon! Paid members get an exclusive early look at the WIPs for my history of Texas paleontology. (In part 3 of the Carboniferous chapter, we introduce a largely forgotten paleontologist to the stage...)

New, on Patreon! Paid members get an exclusive early look at the WIPs for my history of Texas paleontology. (In part 3 of the Carboniferous chapter, we introduce a largely forgotten paleontologist to the stage...)

I think the biggest change the Donald Trump years have wrought on my political outlook is moving me from generally descriptivist ("I don't agree, but it takes all kinds") to a very radical perscriptivist ("See this gun? Le Wokisme is now mandatory")

An ambear, if you will

The Giraffe Titan, a poem by Brandon Kilbourne. A wonderful exploration of the multiple narratives embodied by objects on public display in general, and by dinosaurs in particular. From brooklynrail.org/2025/12/poet...

Great, great piece

It’s New-Year’s Eve and looking back on the 815 species of #bird we saw this calendar year in Cuba, Costa Rica, England and the US, these Pygmy Nuthatches we saw in Deschutes County Oregon make my #favoritePic of 2025 Happy New Year bluesky friends!

good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein

I don't think it's a wholly a coincidence, by the way, that many conservative social media accounts championing this kind of claim post a lot of AI-generated women

One dynamic (usually a gendered one) I've noticed is that some conservative men don't necessarily want to date conservative women, so much as they want to catch and break liberal women into agreeing with them. I don't think you see that as much on the liberal/left side of the divide?

Rest in peace to Mike F, one of the all-time greats

At lunch near campus yesterday, we ended up seated next to a table of three Gen Z dirtbag lesbians talking about dating and how to use the apps. It was, amusingly, the most fuckboy shit I've heard in a while

I can be expected to say this, I know, but this really is entirely conservatives fault

From the perspective of the average person in universe, Star Wars is the story of Count Dooku warning everyone Palpatine was a tyrant and being tragically ignored the misguided old Jedi companions he was forced to take up arms against, only to be vindicated upon death.

A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

I’ll never look at an alligator, real or imagined, the same way again. Fantastic writing; both informative and delightful

Worth remembering: some of the most horrific policies in history were enacted through “proper” legal processes. The Nuremberg Laws were passed by a legislature. Jim Crow was law. Apartheid was law.

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.