I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name. Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades? Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

Last summer I was lucky enough to witness the aurora dance above a perfectly dark northern horizon (bortle class 2) on Vancouver Island. So few people know what they're missing by existing in a perpetually-lit world. Not to mention, many aurora pics from dark sites still have satellite streaks. 🔭

Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars. #Space 🌌🔭🦛

This thread is interesting about the Mars Spirit and Opportunity rovers. I had no idea that the video created received an Emmy nomination! It's an amazing video today still. 🧪🐡🔭

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak with Nature about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge, and training opportunities that the country is losing. 🧪

The efforts of MAGA/GOP to completely destroy American science plows on. www.science.org/content/arti...

We are not living in an era of optional climate policy. We are living in an era of planetary limits where the choices we make in city halls will determine the world our children inherit, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social write. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/13/o...

🚨 HEADS UP Washington State has reported a suspected human H5N1 case with no cattle exposure likely bird-linked (or from contaminated milk). The patient is severely ill in hospital. Clade pending (D1 vs B3). CDC confirmation awaited. If confirmed, it will be Washington’s first H5N1 case of 2025.

(2/2) Jeane hugged me, calmed me down, and then, without hesitation, proceeded to scare the shit out of my siblings: She zombie-walked down the hall, eyes rolled up so only the whites were visible, arms outstretched, moaning horribly. They screeeamed. God, I loved her for that. R.I.P. to a real one.

(1/2) My aunt Jeane died a few days ago. My favorite memory of her was when I was maybe 4 and she was about 40. She was babysitting me and my siblings one night. I ran to her, sobbing about how my older brother and sister were scaring me, using a flashlight to make "spiders" on the ceiling...

I would find it difficult to be a vegetarian, given my hunger that we eat the rich.

Wolff: I was trying to encourage Epstein to use what information he had—let Trump publicly tell a lie then expose the lie. Epstein was afraid of Trump. In the end, I think he was starting to get to this point that he might publicly talk about this relationship but then he was arrested and died.

Remembering how Biden revived the practice of releasing visitors logs and was rewarded by the press for his transparency with a front page story at his weakest possible moment about how he had Parkinson's based on a Parkinson's expert visiting the WH. (Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)

This is the relationship Canada and the United States had, and in some ways still has. This is the relationship Trump has tried his absolute best to deliberately destroy.

It was the best of times............... The moment when 30 million Americans received healthcare (2010) #cdnpoli

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

JPE was an awful opportunist. Full enabler of the Marcos dictatorship as long as he made millions and pulled strings. Responsible for much of PI’s natural forests being clear-cut for export. Turned against Marcos only because Marcos started sidelining him. Master political manipulator.

I absolutely cannot take anymore the bullshit from the US. How crazy are these people who still support him? How crazy is the country? How demented into this fucked up cult can they go! My grammar is atrocious but I’m just so angry!

They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Two hours a night: Japan PM’s sleep schedule prompts concerns about work-life balance

Nov. 13, 1925: Yakima Canutt, a rodeo great and Hollywood stunt rider, holds his Roosevelt Trophy given to best all-around cowboy at Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming.

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

This policy is inconsistent, because, at the same time, they are defunding American scientists. How can such research be so essential that we cannot tolerate Chinese scientists coming into remote contact with it, and yet it should be defunded within America?

Hot take: Generation designators (X, Millennial, Y) are dumb, and about as reliable a predictor of character, as the Zodiac. It’s just more tribalism that keeps us divided

Exactly, indubitably, positively spot-on. Boomers are this and millennials are that is exceptionally shallow and hollow and pure nonsense, never mind trying to remember which is what and who is which. Worked okay decades ago in advertising but is useless when talking about basic reality.

Today is the 9th anniversary of the day Maggie stole an entire pecan pie and got drunk from all the sugar. Happy Purloined Pecan Pie Day from our family to yours!

This is straight out of Stalinism, Maoism, and Juche. Hannah Arendt wrote about this in the 1950s. All that Trump, Orbán, and others are doing is in her rather thick but thorough “On the Origins of Totalitarianism” (1951). There no surprises except the complete complicity of US institutions.

The US government is considering punishing American scientists who worked with Chinese researchers *years ago, retroactively*.

the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

Portishead’s Geoff Barrow: ‘I can’t think of any worse music to make love to than ours’

The thing about these Fox News mops is almost none have any journalism experience. They’re former comedians or outrage hosts or DC Beltway pundits. Watters has worked his entire life at Fox, starting as a PA with pundit Bill O’Reilly then man-on-the-street ambush interviews. Lies are normal.

Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it. Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators. Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.

Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Thursday. 👉 ebx.sh/KwI3Oc

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

In the UK, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's friendship with Epstein has led to total disgrace. He's been stripped of his titles, reduced to the status of a pariah. Nobody is defending him. He's a TOTAL disgrace. In America, Jeffrey Epstein's close mate, Donald Trump, remains the president. Insane.

One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!

"95 per cent of generative AI initiatives produced zero return." But huge volumes of hype. This is #BigData, not intelligence www.ft.com/content/fca4...

Cuba fights to contain spread of mosquito-borne chikungunya virus reut.rs/4nSHpUw

Would It Matter To The American People If It Turns Out Trump Is A Pedophile?: I’m serious. He’s a cheat, a serial adulterer, a rapist/sexual abuser, a felon, a traitor, a psychopath, an ignoramus, a bully, a fascist…I could go on and on. But on top of all the bad that Trump is, would it really…

NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."

Reminder: there are no trade deals. Nothing binding was actually signed. 90% of news coverage you saw about “trade deals” was wildly misleading. It’s pretty weird. And it will get weirder as “deals” turn out to be not deals, actually.

Remember Marie Kondo? You can live happily with less. In Japan, architects are crafting tiny, thoughtful homes that prove small can be sustainable, affordable, and cool. Less space, less waste, more peace. Who dares to live happily with less? #Sustainability #COP30 youtu.be/z1t2c5rNldg?...

For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.

Civil society has to hold together and pull forward until the Democratic Party changes. It makes no sense to wait for the Democrats as a party. What makes sense is shifting the ground underneath them.

100% right. There is so much about this whole BBC saga that is simply mad but Lewis is right that the Corporation now has the chance to take a stand for something important. It should take that opportunity.

The New York Times **HAD EMAILS IN ITS POSSESSION** tying Donald Trump directly to Jeffrey Epstein's global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy –– in the middle of a 2016 election where a global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy was a HUGE topic –– and they didn't publish one word it for a decade.

The British press doesn’t mince words. 🇬🇧