…cutting science funding was out in the project 2025 text that anyone can access and the only way you can find this surprising is if you genuinely believed Trump when he said he has nothing to do with/wont be implementing project 2025, which is on you for believing him because that was stupid of you

babie (he’s not helping. this was taken minutes before he started biting my fingers and wrist.) (they’re also not “real” bites, if that makes sense)

If I were a producer for the new Harry Potter TV series, with a duty of care towards the three child actors playing the leads, I’d find the way Rowling treats the leads of the last screen adaptation to be hair-raising, to put it lightly.

for my birthday, I am hoping to at least raise $200 for Youth Leadership Institute, a cbo in California that helps youth develop skills to help create positive change in their communities. this is where I work when I'm not being a journo and I truly believe in the work here. yli.org/donate/

i am firmly on the prefer to read the article side of this divide tbh

Since PinkNews is run by a transphobic bad actor and has a habit of sloppy, sensationalist bullshit, I feel like I should clarify: he wants a complete withdrawal of federal funding for facilities that provide gender-affirming care. That's devastating, but different from a ban of that care in law

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my biggest problem with the whole "tylenol autism" thing is that people are focusing on it "being an attack on pregnant women". It's actually an attack on AUTISTIC PEOPLE. These people hate us and would love for us to be eradicated!

Several scientists have received letters from the NIH director disinviting them from their positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding, I'm told. In July, I reported that NIH staff were told to select members aligned with Trump administration priorities.

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

waiting for someone to explain to me as a trans person why my ability to access healthcare as an adult is something i should accept "compromise" on and what they think that "compromise" will look like given what repubs say about trans people

“Anti-trans activists frequently point out the statistically higher percentage of trans people who are also autistic compared to the general population as another reason to override our autonomy as free and equal people by denying us health care” Transphobia and ableism are bedmates.

Everyone was so cool and nice when my wife posted my photo that I’ve decided to get on bluesky to share my photographs here instead of In*tagr*m 🤢 Kodak Tri-X 400 (expired 1995) shot on Exakta VXii (1953). 1/250, f/5.6 (I think). Pushed 1.5 stops.

oh this is a beautiful picture

literally the more I hear about Cornell, the more sure I become as a PhD student that I never want anything to do w that school and I know there are other PhD students and candidates who feel similarly. Cornell has tanked their reputation

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

A therapist who doesn't respect your pronouns has someone else as a client; they are serving an interest that is not yours and you shouldn't participate.

A high-scoring tie is really funny. All that work to resolve nothing

have some drips from yesterday

today,

"out of the three mass shootings today,"

'An NSF spokesperson told Science the changes are meant to “restore the program's original emphasis on supporting students at the start of their research careers.”' The same people are proposing to limit student visas to 4 yrs. They don't understand scientific careers *at all*.

derealization

Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it. Here are some of his beautiful shots.

the three genders

In the State Department’s original tweet, they tagged the wrong Gustavo Petro. Imagine being a random guy from Brazil and waking up to learn you’ve been visa banned from the US

The fact that Kaleb Horton died begging for work instead having a column at some hip legacy mag is such an indictment of this industry. People should have been begging to put him on payroll. But nope, we've reserved that space for Ezra Klein

meant to go to lab for a couple hours to do a few things. ended up being 6 hours 🫠

if anyone has advice for dealing w an FIV+ cat having ringworm, I’m all ears 🫠

There is no world in which crossing an imaginary geographical line on stolen land justifies this. This system cannot be reformed. This complaint began in 2023 when there was still a nominally functioning OCR. Under the current DOJ and DHS, these occurrences have only multiplied.

A new complaint from ACLU and other human rights groups details how the warden at a Lousiana ICE facility created an unofficial “work program” of manual labor and sexual humiliation for trans men at the facility. This is very hard to read. rfkhumanrights.org/wp-content/u...

if people remember my cat’s mystery skin issue, we have an answer! the vet wasn’t sure what it was because it def didn’t look like ringworm, I didn’t have ringworm, and my roommate didn’t have ringworm either. there were 3 of these patches and neither appeared to bother drips at all. their in house

If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.

stairs, gorilla country golf, atlantic beach, north carolina, 1985

the Christopher S Bond Bridge in KCMO. crosses the Missouri River and is the tallest bridge in Missouri

One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.

I don't respect any right wing views. If they had any decent views, they'd ... not be right wing. 🤷‍♀️

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

the lifelong american indoctrination that we are a country specifically formed on democracy and that authoritarianism cannot happen here

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

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TGI Flyday

I do actually think about the antichrist whenever Peter Thiel's name comes up so he's doing a pretty good job with this project

the harris campaign actively told anyone who was concerned about the ethnic cleansing campaign to go Eat A Dick and Suck On They Asshole and she has now after the fact realized this was not smart

Well don't I feel stupid

for those who saw this story and saw my reporting was included in it, I do want to add that I reached out to the Red Sox about this and they declined to comment on the record.

sure why not I guess

oh shit