At some point, and this is inevitable for any politician, Mamdani will stumble and get involved with some legitimately objectionable scandal around his administration. It will be an opportunity when this happens to observe if this gets more coverage than every Trump admin scandal combined (it will)

Half of the Declaration of Independence is a list of 27 specific grievances lodged against King George III and his regime. 250 years later, many of these grievances apply to the reign of Trump.

"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...

Aurora Australis from the International Space Station

Supergirl is good, and you should go see it. If you want to know why... I wrote the post below, and you can read the whole thing on Mastodon if you click through. (Mastodon gives me more than 300 characters!)

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Common loon coming in for a landing: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

No matter how many people are talking about this, it is not enough people talking about this.

Relatedly, the (hypothetical) particle should absolutely be named the grabiton.

Every time I make the typo "grabity" part of me wants to argue that it should have been called that all along.

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

I think the US and the UK (and let's add Russia, why not) are going through the same thing right now - former imperial powers coming to grips with the fact that the world doesn't want to run on imperialism anymore. The different cultures' responses to this are informative to say the least.

Post Juneteenth post to say it's weird to me that we only see photos of the Civil Rights Movement in black and white, when they share history with the 60's - a time when colour photography was so prevalent it was booming. Here are some photos of Civil Rights movement in colour

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

What if we have overly strict standards for what gets boosted into the feeds of people who haven't clicked follow on the poster's account? This has a cost, surely, since it might limit the reach of marginalized people. But it also has a benefit, in that it would limit the reach of terrible people.

It is how society sells us so much of everything: Degrade and create a feeling of inferiority, and then say ______ will help you (/ is what you need) to be ok and acceptable.

Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing

the softness of golden hour

A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊

The episode of BUFFY where Willow accidentally unleashes a demon on the internet and it has access to all digital information but is a liar and seduces her by engaging in romantic chats where it agrees with her about everything hits a little differently now.

Obama Appreciation Day June 14, 2026

Elon Musk is a trillionaire on paper because he owns a company that gets almost all its profits from government contracts. The government will have to tax you into bankruptcy to make him a trillionaire in reality.

Oh. Oh no. I was already planning on going to the aquarium a few times this summer, and now they've brought back a snorkeling experience? I'm... somewhere between terrified and filled with longing.

They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

Dear writer friends, might I encourage you to take up wall puppy pose breaks through your day, to counter our lovely pc hunch? (seriously, the difference in upper back/shoulder pain has been night and day for me) antranik.org/puppy-dog-po...

The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...

whenever people get into arguments about bluesky versus twitter I just come back to the fact that I don’t want to spend time on a platform where the biggest voices are the worst people on the planet

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

I need some scientists to do a proper study of this hypothesis because a) mosquitos literally and figuratively suck, b) who doesn't like bubbles

More about the program! (that the current administration cut) youtu.be/Olj8arvfYj4

They cut something like like 15% of total USDA personnel in 2025. Whoops! bsky.app/profile/dalt...

Trump take beef

All: what's the best nonfiction book you've read this year?

Please take a few minutes and file a comment against this terrible new plan - not just for science, but for every funding agency in the US. fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

While regulations.gov incorrectly lists this action as "closed for comments", you can submit your comments directly here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... My response is below, but don't feel that you need to draft anything nearly so long-winded. A short statement will also be very helpful.

While regulations.gov incorrectly lists this action as "closed for comments", you can submit your comments directly here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... My response is below, but don't feel that you need to draft anything nearly so long-winded. A short statement will also be very helpful.

There used to be a clear distinction in my head between "science fiction" and "fantasy." I liked them both, but "science fiction" seemed more exciting because it was about a possible future, not an imagined past. My own bookish kids read plenty of fantasy but almost no SF (though I have been […]

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

Give me thrilling speeches about ethical conundrums in a thinly-veiled metaphor for colonialism or other social justice concerns but with weird rubber face attachments

I just met you And this ship has set sail But heres my number Call me Ishmael

My high school BBS was a beautiful moment in time. USENET and alt.society.generation-x was a beautiful moment in time. The beginning of the blogosphere was a beautiful moment in time. The early days of Twitter were a beautiful moment in time. They were great, and now they're gone. It's fine.

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

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The slogan for the Starbucks campaign is "Slam it on your desk!" Random, eh? On 5/18 a young man was tortured to death in police custody. The cop said "I just slammed my hand on the desk and he died." Imagine being so rich you'll sacrifice your 2100 Starbucks just to stick it to the libs.

Green onions are currently banned from all Korean polling locations, and the story why is wild. Going into election season, everyone's mad at President Yoon over the shocking inflation. So last month, when a single grocery store had a sale on leeks, he showed up and held a massive press conference.

RE: new #Bluey episodes, a reminder that the reason Bandit (the dad) is an archaeologist is because dogs love digging up bones! However, Bluey’s creator Joe Brumm is also brother of renowned Stone Age expert, Professor Adam Brumm, who specialises in the earliest known cave art found in Indonesia…

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...