I hope they are absolutely miserable now and stricken with deep shame even if they won’t admit it to anyone My better angels then hope that something good might come out of that misery and shame but most of me just hopes they’re really fucking miserable

As Donald Trump threatens to send ICE agents into airports across our country, I just voted NO on Markwayne Mullin's nomination to be DHS Secretary. All while we debate their ridiculous SAVE Act. No Markwayne Mullin. No ICE. No SAVE Act.

Progressives like @warren.senate.gov and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social need to clock this moment for what it is and fix their hearts. We do not support people with Nazi tattoos (Platner). We do not praise people who offer a friendly platform to Nazis (Carlson). STOP IT. BE BETTER.

Hashtag not all heroes wear capes etc etc

Hard times create hard men Hard men create good times Good times create soft men Soft men compare invading a sea port to one of the most devastating battles Americans have ever fought

This is great. Instead of mocking people for having hobbies let’s remember when we told people to get a hobby.

You know what, I actually really like this. All aboard the "all ornithodires are dinosaurs" train

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

Meanwhile, in Cuba:

The Mueller report should have been not only the end of Trump but the end of the Republican Party from rump to snout, and it's only one of maybe 1000 things that should have been that. What's needed now is a confrontation with uncomfortable truth and a meaningful lasting reckoning and reformation.

Goodnight from Brighthaven’s Winter Palace, where the wrestling bout between Lightning Lane and Iron Cyclops has attracted the attention of wagering gods. Goodnight from Fiona Low, marking Spring Equinox with Faery rushlights and a blade made from shadows. Goodnight from Hookland.

muttering over here in mixed snow and rain. Some buds on some trees are looking like they might be swelling. Sometime. Also, unless all the goldfinches in my yard #BLESSED are females, it seems like the males are being slow to turn their alarming (American Eastern) goldfinch yellow.

Fun fact (real fun this time): If we set science based sustainable building standards CO2 / resource limits, we’ll be building and reftrofitting affordable, healthy, super-efficient and safe straw-wood-clay houses.

I don't know about the former, but the latter is absolutely true. Also the US dropping sanctions on Russian oil (a) recapitalizes a hugely depleted Russia, (b) increases the viability of the War in Iran by blunting the impact of the oil shock it created, and (c) lets Trump do Poutine a solid.

Godfather of the indie rock zine revolution.

For all the horrors of the social media era, I gotta say. The fact that I can be in this stay-at-home era, here with my kids, and at the same time debating Hochschild's theories around feminized labor with cool sociologists really underlines for me the value of these networks

*more than 84 countries combined* www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I feel like this panic has arrived late this year?

I'm on the goat herders' side, with or without PhDs...

I am not reading anything about Palantir and AI in war. It's probably a good (factual, cleanly written) article, I just can't any more. Pretty much can't read anything about the Middle East at all. Getting that way about anything with Washington involved. This, sadly, is what they want: us too sick

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“[O]utside the package, the school appeared in Iranian business listings. It was visible on Google Maps. A search engine could have found it. Nobody searched. At a thousand decisions an hour, nobody was going to.”

I was an adult when I first saw a picture of a British robin and what do you mean Mary Lennox saw the bird on the left and not the one on the right when she was looking for the key to The Secret Garden. What the fuck is that fucking thing.

GOOD: Makes it easier to abolish ICE. BAD: Makes it harder to dismantle DHS. thehill.com/homenews/579...

Just realized that the Buffalo Sabres have only allowed ONE single goal in their net in the last three games

I believe that every time we don't destroy the world, but we could have, the timeline where we did ends. We're running out of timelines and that's why it feels like this one's a crunched up triscuit from the bottom of the box that'll probably snap in half at the first sign of cheese.

I would like to thank everyone who has publicly cooked sausages in the last wee or so, as well as @loreandordure.com of the beautiful breakfast. Because of their reminding me food can be good, I made sheet-pan sausage, potato, and Brussels sprouts and I am very happy.

I have lost the OP but this is good stuff: Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/o...

Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

It is comforting to know y'all out there also think this timeline is twisted, irrational, really awful.

@loreandordure.com No picture of breakfast today? (I am a creature of habit. Who has finally bought some sausages of her own.)

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

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I’m at the age where I’m pleased to realize that lying down and reading fanfic counts as healthcare because besides the mental health aspects, the kicky feet I do when delighted by something I’m reading helps circulation in my legs and feet.

It’s a very good piece (by Henry Mance), too, and I think has the answer on who came up with one of my favourite quotes

Interesting example in the FT this morning of a question headline that doesn’t fully follow Betteridge’s law - because the answer is “No, those people can fuck off”, rather than simply ‘no’

une des plus belles scènes de la série. Michelle Trachtenberg est morte en 2025. Nicholas Brendon est mort hier. mood : pas ouf du tout.

Here are my visual notes from Sharna's talk. WHAT a brilliant day at the @literacy-trust.bsky.social conference @martingalway.bsky.social thanks for making it possible! An excellent day all round with teachers, librarians, authors, publishers and more, reminding us that reading is VARIED.

Great thread

so I think in the end what I've talked myself round to in my morning sermon is: we have the bigotry of low expectations about men. Willing to just accept "oh yeah men commit a lot of crime and do a lot of cheating and other kinds of harm". Without getting curious about why that is.

Pure love for this.

Oh look, an ink for... really, most days: www.penchalet.com/ink_refills/...

It feels cheesy when people say this but it really was a privilege to be part of this work. Our recent paper (led by the fantastic Ben Royer @swallacelab.bsky.social) shows how engineered Ecoli can turn the main product of PET plastic breakdown it into an anti-Parkinsons drug (L-DOPA) rdcu.be/e84ZO

OMG YOU TELL ‘EM MR. ZIP

Yes, there is much to regret. The world has got into a terrible mess while we’ve been frittering our lives away on social media, but you know what? We’ll always have schadenfreude

In frankly horrific news today, at 12.50pm, Pacific Standard Time, it will be the 20th anniversary exactly of the first ever tweet. Yup. Twenty fucking years. Still, it did later give us one of the world’s great headlines...