There is something you can do about all of this — make your plans for May 1. This country needs a united show of power, energy, and hope. indivisible.org/events/may-d...

We are all crying, and I'm sooo happy they get to eat regular food out there! (Remember OG "space food?")

There have been over 10 moms in space already. www.space.com/40571-moms-i...

I can't remember what time I'm supposed to turn off the light.

Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for! If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.

Why do cats get bad hips?

Awesome good news in a bad time.

I gave a little talk onstage.

Head On by The Jesus and Mary Chain music.youtube.com/watch?v=GAky...

1/ Goldman Sachs analysts report that the biggest oil crisis in history is about to hit globally, with profound and highly destructive consequences. A new report asks ""Are We Running Out of Oil?", and concludes that the answer is yes. ⬇️

This is a revisit for me, one I'm delighted for. Maybe it's new to you or maybe you want to read it again.

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Trail cam check. Big Cat Beauty. I know they're always around but haven't seen one on the trail came in some time. #AxelCanyonCritters

”The richest 0.1 percent holds approximately 80 percent of all untaxed offshore wealth, or around $2.84 trillion. Within this tiny group, the ultra-wealthiest 0.01 percent holds roughly half ($1.77 trillion).” #Inequality www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

He just doesn't learn. They didn't respond to your bluster before. They aren't going to respond now. Being POTUS means your threats work on a lot of people. It doesn't mean they work on all people.

Queer studies, social determinants of health, minority health/health disparities research all have some unfortunate answers

Sitting next to a friend of the ceo of Anthropic (Claude) for Easter dunch (dinner/lunxh) today. Anyone have questions? I obviously do but it’s a fascinating 2 hour opportunity on holidays, so any good questions welcome I’m not going to say who it is but… husband of uncles sister. 100% serious

The people who think you can feasibly use AI for anything are the same people who think there’s “one weird trick” that can make the doctors give you what you want. To them, AI is like tricking the fae by being too clever for them, except they’re not, there is no one weird trick, and the fae own you.

Spare a thought for all the other forgotten saints who also got resurrected at Easter. ["And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose. And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." Matt 27: 52, 53]

Note between the two rainbows it is darker? This is called Alexander's Band. I explain about that in my book "Up - A Scientist's Guide to the magic above us" out 16th April. I use Constable to help me explain colours in the sky.

Oh hey guys I woke up at 3am despite doing everything right yesterday.

my tumor has grown a significant amount and i'm spiralling 😔 my rent is overdue, and so is the minimum i owe the hospital if you can spare $1, it really does make a difference 🙏🏽 i need $622 asap for rent and $934 for the minimum payment to the hospital ❤️

"What do you mean, they just swim with everything but their necks below water? That's now how water birds do it."

This is really, really great. wantmymtv.vercel.app

Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9

Tell me something that brought you joy this week. Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.

#RepostYourArt 2. Bloom Watercolor, painted in 2011. I did this as part of a wedding invitation set that I designed for someone. The couple had a theme of pink prairie wildflowers.

I told Gmail to hide all of the messages from nextdoor but I'm still getting them 😡

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation. We have to live into the world we want to create.

In the context of the FY27 PBR it helps to go back to Robert Wilson’s famous testimony to Congress about funding for the NAL(Fermilab) in FY1970 and ask the natural question, why are there some people so hell-bent on tearing down so much of what makes this country worth defending?⚛️🧪

As wildfire season kicks off in Canada (March through the end of October (but we had such a cold, wet March)), this is a good reminder of just how fast fires move. This video is 11 minutes long and the fire climbs a (low) mountain by the half-way point. When you're told to evacuate GO. Prepare now

Are we doing repost discourse? Let's not do repost discourse. You can curate your feeds so you see Only Posts (rather than reposts) of everyone you follow, or block people who frequently repost things (like me). Bluesky gives you tools!

The solution to populism is don’t feed it, apparently

Where other fast-food chains chase fads and trends, Taco Bell understands that its demographic wants them cranking out perversions of God and nature

Walter Reed is in Bethesda, Maryland That video is not of Bethesda Maryland.

I love consuming movies the way directors intended: over the shoulder of the person sitting in front of me on the plane

the regime is committing economic sabotage to scare the populace and to dealign the postwar order; the oligarchs find AI a convenient alibi for their co-signing

My takeaway from Downton Abbey is that I'm doing the work of at least four people.

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

I'm pretty cynical about relaxation techniques, but I've been 4-7-8 breathing to help me sleep for a few weeks now and it works. nursing.rutgers.edu/wp-content/u...

being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited

more seriously: both an adult life spent teaching and an adult life spent on message boards and sites like this one have underscored to me that reading and communicating about reading is very much not a trivial skill. the recent tech developments further underscore this for me

there was a time the old heads remember when the internet existed and capitalism didn't realize what it could do to the place yet the problem is capitalism the internet used to be beautiful and can be again

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

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Some other folks have posted resources they made in the comments and quotes, which I am hoovering up. It seems an appropriate time to share this list again, and I super welcome any contributions or help maintaining. It's getting big

We have a winner

Perspective sky

New emoji 🫪

This ancient Roman description of the people living on what's now Great Britain sounds an awful lot like the English description of indigenous Americans: empty lands, and uncivilized people who don't even know how to farm. ht audioboom.com/posts/886939... www.loebclassics.com/view/dio_cas...