[singing Radiohead's "Creep" as the gators emerge] "What the hell am I doin' here? I don't belong here"

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Per request: Utah Co. Voters by Party, Vote History DEMS are not over-represented among non-voters, but unaffiliated (UNA) are, big time, more so because they're young (though it's a combination with being unaffiliated). (Not adjusted for age, e.g., you have to be age 26+ in 2026 to vote in 2018)

Sauer just had to say that slaves had an "intent to remain" in the US. Motherfucker WHAT??

Satellite Pollution xkcd.com/3225/

Banging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...

HELL YEAH

Real-time video of intense "watermelon" aurora tonight with very vivid pink colors.

Real-time video of an aurora corona last night outside my apartment in North Pole, Alaska.

I think this is my favorite shot from tonight...

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

Sure Jake Paul is a better science communicator than me, but I’d like to see him try to beat me in the boxing ring…

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Yes. This is how it’s done.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Come on

The latest review from JAMA Pediatrics has uncovered that 26% of trans youth have attempted suicide. That's actual attempts, ideation was even higher. The trend was most pronounced in North America, where anti-trans laws have been common. The latest from our writer S. Baum.

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From: Cannon Fodder (1995), dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Studio 4°C This film was designed to flow without hard cuts -- the camera just goes and goes and goes

WE WANT ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORS BACK.

I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

They got the big game on at the bar

Yes we are. We’re going to stop them

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

This made me weepy

Researchers find that nearly all women who have sexual relationships with someone who had a position of authority over them (e.g., boss, professor) report it had a negative impact on them. Most also come to see those relationships as abuses of power—no matter how they felt at the time.

This is so, so bad, Pubmed is fundamental for research. #science 🧪

My heart is with all of the Epstein survivors who are bravely and vulnerably offering the American people a second chance (or more accurately, a much, much larger number) to do the right thing. You’re in a long legacy of women who have taken exactly the same risk. I’m pulling for you.

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

when Pam Bondi tried to extort the voting rolls yesterday from Minnesota, that should give us a clue what this is really about.

I know multiple people who have already had pretty bad PTSD exacerbations from ICE footage and it is NOT movement building to cause those people (or yourself) harm and take them (or yourself) out of commission

Habituating yourself to graphic depictions of horror may FEEL like moral practice. It is not. Moral speech and action is the moral practice.

Makes me think of the piles of shoes and suitcases.

Notching a rare win: House passed spending bills with all anti-trans riders removed—no care bans, no school funding threats, nothing. Sarah McBride and Dem appropriators fought for this for months. open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...

Great news🚨Our article "Mismatching expressions: spatiotemporal and kinematic differences in autistic and non-autistic facial expressions" is published in Autism Research⭐ Thanks to Jennifer Cook, Sophie Sowden & Holly O'Donoghue. Check out the thread below for a summary doi.org/10.1002/aur.... 🧵1

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Your final straw can’t be when it’s too late to do something to stop it. Speak up. Stand up. #iceout

The aurora last night in Fairbanks, Alaska

Greetings from amateur radio station KL2R in Two Rivers, Alaska. HF conditions are atrocious, but the sky is breathtaking.

12 hours ago the aurora was out and I was lucky to see it out again just now. This planet is excellent. Love you. #auroraborealis #yukonterritory

The early evening aurora substorm was one for the books. I stopped here hoping for some decent leftover aurora before the storm started winding down, but instead, the sky exploded in huge pink pillars and shimmering greens. -- January 20, 2026 • 6:35 PM ET Wagon Hill Farm Durham, New Hampshire

Wow. Here’s the real-time motion of the aurora tonight filmed with my iPhone. Amazing show just now, and the night is only getting started!