🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”

This is a good point. (No snark.) I'm sure this SCOTUS sneers at Trump in private, but the conservative majority is trying to bank power for a better version of a right-winger.

Bravo!

As another UN climate conference begins, I'm seeing even fewer Americans than ever talking about climate change, which is what the fossil fuel companies want. News groups are firing climate reporters and that doesn't help. Don't stop bringing this up. It hasn't gone away www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...

Great article, my favorite paragraph: "The doomers were wrong. Not about the threats being real—those are real. But about resistance being futile. About accommodation being wisdom. About the fight being over."

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Newly discovered Zappa album just dropped.

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Great article, I learned so much about this elephant. Including the fact that it is an actual elephant.

One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions. I am in Spain this week launching the book - come along! www.tomgauld.com

PSA if you’re getting chilly and starting to side-eye ads for plug-in mini wall heaters: DO NOT BUY. Even if they were designed safely the whole premise is asinine and dangerous. www.which.co.uk/news/article...

Phrase of the moment: "a stifling grip on the fundamentals of commerce" washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/a...

Word of the moment: "regret" www.computerworld.com/article/4084...

Ravens are very smart birds pbfcomics.com/comics/the-m...

“.. Markets think China won big. .. China has shown it can dump exports on the rest of the world, and use its leverage (from soybeans to rare earths) to deter the US. So it’s still safe to deal with China, and companies that do so look their most attractive in 14 years.” @johnauthers.bsky.social

The remarkable thing about enshittification isn’t that it happens, but that people keep using the products. Ahem…Twitter.

Here’s a scary picture for this Halloween

In 1989, a scientist visiting the north of #Madagascar observed a gigantic, wholly black fossa investigating the interior of a tent. This inspired a later study of local knowledge about this animal. What do we know? A new article at Tetrapod Zoology ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/10...

A lot of folks who follow my work on here don't necessarily know that I've also created animated shorts for nearly two decades. Here's a link to a selection of special HALLOWEEN cartoons I've made: youtu.be/F2VzydQoAls?... #grickledoodle #horror #animation #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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Happy Halloween 🎃 I made a jack-o'-lantern pattern for the keyboard LEDs on my new Raspberry Pi 500+. The colors came out all wrong in the picture from my phone, it's actually vibrant orange and purple with green that matches the power button at the other three corners.

Caucasian Broadcasting Service

Tucker Carlson is hosting discussions of the perils of organized Jewry in America the right way. —-Ezra Klein, tomorrow.

American Right: WE HATE TRANS, GAYS, MUSLIMS, BLACKS, PROGRESSIVES, POORS, MEXICANS, DEMOCRATS, WHALES, THE ENVIRONMENT, LAWYERS, UNIVERSITIES, AND EVERYTHING ON TV American Right-Wing Jews: Whooo! Yeah! You tell them! American Right: BUT ESPECIALLY JEWS! American Right-Wing Jews:

I'd never have guessed that so little Tylenol will kill a snake.

Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate. Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

Very good review 🧵 of how science in medicine is done right.

Trump kind of gets that the id of anti-immigrant sentiment is dislike of immigrants themselves, Vance always tries to weirdly intellectualize it like people are secretly actually upset about immigrants because of housing affordability/wages/etc

Think about this for a minute

Well spotted Dan, as long a s he's gone in 29 we'll be fine :-)

RIP Prunella Scales, dying on John Cleese birthday feels very Sybil of her

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My TikTok is exploding today for some reason. So I posted a quick little video for everyone.

I'm a little older and feel the same way @realgdt.bsky.social

My infrequently used blog reached 20 years old today 🎈🎂 paulhutch.blog/2025/10/27/2... paulhutch.blog/2005/10/27/g...

This is a fundamental truth about the USA employer/employee relationship that most of the people in the USA have never learned to understand, usually because some aspect of their privilege makes it seem untrue to them.

It's poo, isn't it? ‘If you use chocolate, you’re in crisis’: the surprise ingredients being used to beat costs | Food & drink industry | The Guardian — www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I’m very happy, and proud of my fellow Americans, at how many (though not enough) are reacting to ICE abuses. I’m also scared for them, because I think this escalates to more government (and government-supporter) violence, to a tipping point.

Any Reagan Foundation staff, and any lawyers who help them, should be named and humiliated into the Stone Age, made socially and legally radioactive, if they try any bullshit.

Democrats should just start rolling out ad after ad of Reagan voiceovers.

:-( RIP CBS

Early-stage autocracy. 🇺🇸

Like oral phenylephrine, supplements aren't safe. So you should not take supplements unless a doctor has measured, and continues to monitor, your level of deficiency that the supplements is meant to correct.

Most encouraging line in the piece: "Even CNN, which pretty typically just repeats whatever Trump says"

This should be seen as what it is: a huge step towards ending free and fair elections.

Just sent out my latest science • history • nature newsletter. It features: Ice age art • Robert Macfarlane • Kathleen Jamie • medieval poems • lichen • Barbarian Conspiracy • the Shipping Forecast • escaping the entropy • and more… open.substack.com/pub/richardc... #HistSci

"Trick or tr--" #grickledoodle #halloween #horror #medusa #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Firefly 🪰 inktober day 23

My general guideline for lab cold storage: Trying to stop fungus from funging? 4 °C Trying to stop enzymes from enzyming? -20 °C Trying to stop chemistry from chemis-trying? -80 °C Trying to stop molecules from moleculeing? -200 °C (liquid N2) Trying to stop *all of it*? -273 °C

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