Cornyn completing the Cheney/Watson trifecta would be the funniest possible outcome

Is this going into extra innings?

When I was a small child (pre-The Lion King), I had only ever seen photos of meerkats standing upright in open plains that provided no context for size comparisons. I thought they were human-sized. So disappointed when the Memphis zoo got some, and they were tiny (but adorable!)

this is the funniest possible way for the bill to go down

Neighbors randomly started yelling. I assume a football just happened?

This is wild. Flight attendants aren't even allowed to call the pilots while below 10,000 feet. I can't imagine a whole flight that low

Here's hoping

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.

Evolutionary psychology makes a big to-do about their finding that sexual selection favors a "feminine body type" that "signals fertility/reproductive potential", including some rather... silly research. Turns out, those traits don't seem to signal reproductive success. Oops! doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

Time to buy a whistle

For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open: www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc

I didn't know I needed this, but I really, really did

Sic transit gloria Martis.

As American politics continue to devolve I am less concerned with how I identify my particular ideological subscription at any given time and more concerned with being in favor of human civilization as a general concept

Not to be old man yelling at clouds, but what the fuck is this

πόνοῦν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος (Sing, goddess, of the grindset of Achilles)

We never ask what if the child has bad vibes? Or if they’re just unpleasant to be around?

Miette for mayor

Excuse me, some of us are 41

MODS I SPILLED MY JICE

me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted should have known better

So it's not just me! I guess that's a relief, but at the same time, what the fuck, Apple

Is anyone else having an issue where iOS is randomly deleting contacts' info so that you get text messages from people whose number you've had in your phone for years suddenly look like they're coming from a rando?

Fucking incredible

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

I still hope to someday see this pinball machine

"We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die." —W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety

This is a question that I am really not looking forward to having answered

RETVRN

A big difference between now and like 20 years ago is that conservative elites used to not stew in conservative propaganda for the rubes like Limbaugh and would mostly read relatively legit news sources like WSJ. Today it's all getting high on your own supply, all the time

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

I would very much like to know more about Watson's relationship with someone like Ed Dutton

Folks, are we forgetting that Francis cited Haraway?

Jesus. It's like looking in a mirror.

This is true, but it gets so much dumber than that. Like the late JP Rushton, who argued that it wasn't just skin color and IQ that were correlated, but dick size too. Gotta take all three into account in your racial typologies.

Stay tuned for the definitive and possibly magisterial Watson biography!

If you have a James Watson story you'd like to share with me, DM me here or msg me on signal, dsamorod.25

Fortunately I don't need to say anything about this because a friend is getting ready to publish the definitive biography

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...