I know that neighborhood facebook "buy nothing" groups in general are not for "doing bits" but I will do a bit wherever I choose whether my neighbors like it or not. Those things are real I am really giving them away, I put them outside. It's a bit but it's also real.

It's Murderbot Eve if you watch Friday, Murderbot Day if you watch tonight! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxQt...

6 beers deep, vehemently nodding along to my friend’s story, yelling “exaaaactly” at every point they make.

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

Casual reminder that the country fucking hates this shit.

Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process. He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I need a reaction gif of that one guy from Fiddler on the Roof belting "TRADITION!" but instead of "tradition" it says "DEPRESSION!"

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

As usual, Amz can go to hell. Human narrators are not just dryly stating the words of a text. They are adapting the story, characters, and themes to the medium of sound, which requires making intuitive decisions, and addressing context, and drawing from a life filled with genuine emotion.

TOMORROW- Make your voices heard at Indivisible's event, “NO KINGS! 50 State Nationwide Protest (250th Anniversary of the American Revolution)” - sign up NOW! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Someone on my Facebook page is using my complaints about direwolf pseudoscience as "proof" that the National Science Foundation's budget needs to be cut Sick burn bro, except that this nonsense is private tech-bro equity funded not NSF funded. I am so tired

let’s look back at what has happened so far Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that just a general note to Dems

My new favorite pass time: writing replies to each issue of my Representative, Tom Emmer's, newsletters pointing out the biggest logical fallacies and requesting new information.

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

So today I spent 6 hours reading my audio book did anything else happen? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738849...

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

“What difference does it make if a biotech company promotes misunderstanding about the practical and implications of their technology,” you ask, having apparently not noticed how the Trump administration is using that misunderstanding to weaken actual endangered species conservation policy.

Efforts to track what NIH grants are being terminated: hsph.me/nih-grant-te...

THEY ARE DOING SANCTUARY MOON THIS IS NOT A DRILL

This article has some great stills of the show but it is really spoilery!

If you need a distraction, I'm going to be posting a few non-spoilery set photos over the weeks as a lead-up to the Murderbot premiere on May 16. (It's fun for me! I hope it's fun for you.) @troyce.bsky.social took these photos. #murderbot

The Trump admin is dismantling Freedom of Information Act offices. Then the offices send out emails like, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” The lengths this admin will go to ensure zero transparency with the American people is astounding.

The whole "Cringe" discourse on the left is like the mirror image of the right wing "masculinity" discourse. "Fellas, is it gay to show genuine love to a woman?" "Folks, is it cringe to enjoy something while being alive?"

One of the great benefits of protest is to give people hope: to remind us that there are more of us than them, that a small disobedience for some today will allow them a greater disobedience tomorrow.

Hahahaha! Love this! @maddow.msnbc.com

April 5, 2025 Boise, #Idaho #HandsOff #idpol

DO NOT MISTAKE EARNESTNESS FOR A THING TO BE AFRAID OF. “Cringe” or s too often simply just the word used to mask the discomfort that comes with being vulnerable! It’s okay to feel vulnerable about being earnest about important issues in the world!

Hands off March today, Shgagwei, Lkoot Kw'aan, Lingít Aaní, Alaska. We had about 100 people show up; 9% of our population.

This one made me chuckle today.

I’d guess about 1,300 people at Juneau’s protest today in front of the Alaska Capitol. Largest I’ve seen there since the women’s march and march for science during the first Trump term. Extra credit to the person who had a Greenland flag — not many of those in town, I’d guess. #akleg #Alaska

YES

I proudly protested in St Paul, Minnesota today.

I kind of want to go

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Our work applying the local O-information to BOLD data was just accepted to a focus issue on Higher Order Brain Networks in JPhys Complexity! doi.org/10.1088/2632... Here’s a quick thread, which boils down to… timescale really matters when you’re talking about synergy and redundancy in the brain!

Lol, things are so bad Vanguard just sent me a "please stay calm and don't divest" email.

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

At the intersection of a good laugh (which we all need) and helping some of our favorite good people (and dogs) is the wedding, I mean dogsled race registry @quincemountain.bsky.social and @blairbraverman.bsky.social have for their next race www.zola.com/registry/bra... #uglydogs

Has anyone seen just one news article explaining that these are not actually "reciprocal" tariffs? Just one? Please link me.

During the presidential campaign, I wrote an op-ed about how Trump’s proposed policies would be bad for ocean science and conservation, and senior members of my field told me I was being unprofessional. Thinking about them as I read a news story called “the darkest day in scientific history.”

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

Some more race piccies. Enjoy 😊 #Uglydogs

Nothing in life is certain but dishes and laundry.

This is horrifyingly correct.

Q made a wedding registry for his Kobuk, if you care to sponsor dog jackets, etc! Or just read through for a glimpse into equipment. (I'm with his family and showed them this and his cousin pulled me aside, concerned, and said "Does Q know what watersports means?") www.zola.com/registry/bra...