once and a while i like to share my favorite photo of all time

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

My pet theory of "why do people think the economy is doing poorly despite unprecedented levels of wealth?" is because everyone knows they're getting shorted.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Has anyone done scorecards/evaluations of politicians that only considers votes where they were on the winning side?

I've been thinking about the impeachment thing for a while. So many judges and Cabinet members lied in their confirmation hearings!

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This is an irritating website to be on when democrats do something that’s not perfect but basically fine because the two relations people have to the party are OUR PERFECT FIGHTERS TRY SO HARD, ONLY TO BE STABBED IN THE BACK and THE FECKLESS COWARDS HAVE LEFT US TO DIE ONCE AGAIN

A yr ago today, at the prompting of @drbrapp.bsky.social, a group of us gathered in support of NPS employees, the name Denali, & anti-fascism. It was messy & cringe & impromptu. The normies came. (* 🧵 ) & since, bc of convos we’ve had, I’ve felt safer & stronger local connections than I had in yrs

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

Integrity exists, and Norman Finkelstein appears to have it.

Another thing for the “when this is over” to-do list: a serious crackdown on anabolic steroid sales. These guys are all flying on trenbolone.

Accusing Trump (correctly) of being in the files was a pretty giant self-own from Elon

My life involves coding security architecture for financial institutions 13 hours per day, lifting weights for 3 hours, imbibing high protein juice shakes for 45m, 15m of Tibetan zen rituals and 7 hours of sleep. I call this lifestyle "big-band swing"

the Minneapolis activists really have learned from 2020 too. they didn't try and fight the last battle again. extraordinary discipline.

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

I wish I believed Stephen Miller et al. would suffer in hell, but I don't, so we've got to make sure they face justice here on Earth.

Some of my favorites were the ones growing vertically from the ice on a muskeg pond. Found a few that were about 2” tall!

Welp. They got the bear spray guy

This veteran here in Fairbanks has an important message and mission.

I don't think Trump got tricked here. I think he gave up when it was clear they were not going to budge.

Multi-layered “look what you made me do” lie. Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).

NOEM IS LYING. I have seen people get taken! It was the same each time: armed men racing out of a blacked-out SUV, seizing a screaming or fleeing pedestrian, and pulling them into the car without any attempt to even learn their identity. Always a person alone on the street. Always a person of color.

I shit you not, I had a Greenland flag at No Kings 1 and some dude came up and tried to own me in Civil Debate by pointing out that Denmark had a king

This leads me to believe that up until this meeting, Trump absolutely thought it was "hole milk."

Whence my favourite retronym: acoustic bicycle.

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

Pretty incredible sundogs today in Fairbanks, Alaska!

As long as I can breathe, I’ll keep educating you about Ukraine Today, 117 years since the birth of Maria Prymachenko (1909–1997), a renowned 🇺🇦 folk artist. Few know her son and grandson were artists too: the first two works – by Maria, the third – by her son Fedir, the last – by her grandson Ivan

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NEW: These are ICE agents removing evidence from the shooter's home. They are not DOJ, they are Jonathan Ross's friends and coworkers, not DOJ. This agent removing Ross's personal computer was reported yesterday Jan 9 for boxing in a volunteer and telling them "I'll dedicate my next arrest to you"

As someone who has multiple dangerous interactions with a car every time I ride my bike I have zero patience for this bullshit from JD Vance and Kristi Noem about the agent feeling threatened by a car turning around. The average bike commuter has more courage than trigger-happy Jonathan Ross.

State governments have to charge ICE officers, because if they get used to killing with impunity, what happens next is going to be actual violent retaliation by random members of the public. DO NOT DO THIS, dear reader, but someone else most certainly will, absent decisive state govt action.

Minneapolis is a city well accustomed to this sensation The number of veteran protestors and community organizers in Minneapolis is much higher than an average city. That's why they sent 2000 agents to fuck with the Twin Cities. Minneapolis is so fucking powerful.

One of the many reasons "Abolish ICE" has been a popular refrain on the left — besides the fact that borders and border security means violence — is that ICE and CBP were always going to be the agencies that would become the SS.

Me, lol, but anybody else?

Not Like US really sums it up. That was my takeaway from being at @nickbegich.bsky.social 's ill-fated town hall: even in a place as politically young as Alaska it's an entrenched dynasty of entitled failsons

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

Fervently believe Ds should embrace a "Medicaid for All" approach that allows anyone to buy into their state Medicaid. Everyone gets universal basic coverage. Use ACA exchanges for supplemental coverage. Employers can offer coverage of the exchanges.

Around 45 people stood up in the small town of Healy, Alaska. 💙✌️

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

Let's hear it for the protester who remembered Shut The Fuck Up Friday: "Once in custody, Korol declined to waive her Miranda rights and speak with any federal officers before she had a lawyer." www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

If this is how they treat a famous blonde white woman, how are they treating unknown Palestinians?

who could have imagined that liberals would get beyond visual range air combat in the national divorce

I think if you're GWAR, having Libs of TikTok introduce you to her entire dingbat audience is probably the best thing that could possibly happen

I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable