A great explainer. But what about whale cancer? /s

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

I'm shocked, SHOCKED to learn that the economy is beginning to crater like it's being steered by a senile shitgibbon.

E11 Bio is excited to unveil PRISM technology for mapping brain wiring with simple light microscopes. Today, brain mapping in humans and other mammals is bottlenecked by accurate neuron tracing. PRISM uses molecular ID codes and AI to help neurons trace themselves. Read more: e11.bio/blog/prism

Trump regime to tens of thousands of Medicare patients: "just die in the dark, ya worthless grunts." www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/h... via @statnews.com

“…27 Democrats have stepped up and run in the reddest districts in Virginia. Why? To pump up the vote totals for Governor…., force the GOP to reallocate resources…, and establish the seeds of Democratic presence in…rural areas of the state…” www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Every time I'm in a public washroom and I watch some guy leave without washing his hands, I'm reminded of why homo sapiens are doomed to extinction.

Thank you Va. (D) candidates running in the 27 most (R) leaning Va. HDs. 🙏 When @charlesgaba.com created this ActBlue page to offer you some support, our great hope was that each of you might receive $1k or $2k dollars. But, Democratic donors have shocked us. secure.actblue.com/donate/vaval...

What's the over/under on the number of US ebola cases we'll see by winter? Because the sociopathic *rump/kennedy regime never met a deadly virus it didn't welcome to our shores with open arms. www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/w...

Shit-for-brains RFK Jr's antivaxxer-stacked CDC ACIP committee threatens to raise eligiblity age for covid vax to 75+, per sources. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

A good walk this morning.

Just had an *sshole telehealth doc decline to provide me (a 73-year-old ex-smoker w/ reduced lung capacity) a prescription for a COVID vaccination because "the risks of the vaccine outweigh the risk posed by COVID for someone in good health such as yourself." Fucking MAHA doc.

I am a bio scientist/business person deeply involved in (among other things) the provision of ground-truth pharmacology data to train and test experimental biomedical AIs, and I'm here to tell you that no, no we can't. This will kill innocents.

We are so deeply fucked.

So it turns out North Carolina Costcos are not administering COVID vaccines without a doctor's prescription, even to over-65s. But their web site will happily give you an appointment for a COVID vax without telling you that. Surprisingly funky, #Costco.

Starlink trouble ticket I just created regarding the company reactivating my account, without my permission, two years after I cancelled my service.

Q: How desperate is Leon Mush's #Starlink to show growth in its subscriber base? A: So desperate that they just signed me up, without my permission, for a free month of service on an account I cancelled two years ago. FTS.

Bankruptcies, layoffs, store closures and hiring freezes, all due to *rump's erratic mismanagement of the economy, his on-again-off-again tariffs, and his kidnapping of hard-working immigrants, are soaring. A major recession is near certain at this point. #MagaDidThat wapo.st/4ghBxSC

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

" 'Advances derive from constructive disagreements, and stagnation arrives from unconstructive polarization, and it doesn’t really matter what it’s applied to,' Alec Litowitz said." The opposite is often the case. You can't constructively disagree with evil. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/03/n...

Kennedy continues to claim that vaccines aren’t adequately tested. He is a liar. They are the most thoroughly tested intervention of all.

STEM associations need to get serious as a heart attack about canceling existing conference plans in Florida and making no new ones there... and letting people know why: to protect their members from the unreasonable health risk that travel to Florida presents.

The one where a national reporter finds out what I’ve said all along about Dems focusing on Epstein— voters are not focused on the files. Every group I’ve spoken to is concerned about Medicaid cuts and grocery prices and high rent. I hope Democrats will listen. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Took a look at the scientists' rebuttal to the DOE. Here's one DOE CWG (Climate Working Group) assertion and the scientist's response.

You can have a 25-year-old girlfriend OR you can coach football. You can’t do both. The medications required for each job contradict one another.

You don’t say.

im so old i remember when the alex jones right spent the last three decades telling us that clinton, obama, and biden were going to violate posse comitatus

Best explanation of what happened to Rudy Giuliani Ah fuck my lawyer got drunk & kidnapped a woman & then her husband went to save her but he hit my lawyer’s car from behind when my lawyer slammed on the brakes to pull in to a gas station to buy boner pills

Don't scab for the bosses Don't listen to their lies. Poor folk don't stand a chance unless they organize. youtu.be/HcaPvCLue7g

I am with the Guv, but respectfully we should all work together to abolish North Carolina's "Right To Work" status and give our workers some real labor rights.

Stop me before I buy another dog toy!

What's the opposite of clickbait?

Just learned about rumors they might shut down #Pubmed 🤯🧪

Scratch an NC goper pol, find a pervert.

Assuming he's sick, l just pray he follows the medical advice of "one of the world's foremost voices, advocates and experts on public health," RFK Jr.

Spoiler alert: Builder[.]ai was people

Stroked out?

“VA Democrats, who now hold a 51-49 margin in the House of Delegates, have a chance of winning a supermajority in the elections this fall…” @kenmartin.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Day-um. If Katie wins her race for Seattle mayor, Durham's gonna have to up its game significantly if it's to remain one of America's most progressive towns. I mean, being able to legally loiter on sidewalks with alcoholic drinks is great (I suppose), but free summer daycare for all? Priceless.

Popular claims that taurine can slow aging and build muscle haven't survived more careful study. Plus new data indicates it may even feed cancer cells. So maybe consider going easy on those heavily taurine-spiked "energy drinks," eh? www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Cool, so EEGs are about to become parlor tricks. What could possibly go wrong?

Yep. This. Just click the box. If that troubles you, think of it as Resistance.

One foot in the grave. Five to go.

Went to a barber for the first time in 45 years yesterday (my wife used to cut my hair), Apazapo barberia on S Miami Blvd in Durham, because it's near my lab. Between my limited Spanish and Jason's limited English we made it work. First shave w/ a straight razor ever. I'll def be back.

57 years ago today, The Byrds took flight into country-rock with ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’—a record that bridged Nashville and Laurel Canyon, and forever changed how rock bands could twang their way into history.

Jaz and I found an exuberance of shrooms along the Sowell trail this morning. Made me feel like I should be on the lookout for leprechauns.

Reviewer Becca Rothfeld could be brought up on aggravated assault charges for this brutal review of a simpering techbro's AI wet dreams. Fortunately no jury would convict her. wapo.st/45GYtXR