This tyranny of dunces is utterly, completely, and absolutely heartbreaking.

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

Zephyr's default facial expression until you ply her with an ice cube. Lovely pic by @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.

FYI: I will not be "circling back" to anything from 2025. That entire flaming bag of poo can just stay in the past where it belongs.

We are carbon-based. Diamonds are squished carbon atoms. Therefore, we are all diamonds. Now polish yourself up and shine. (No, this is not actual geology, but it has to be at least as credible as healing crystals.)

Kīlauea volcano erupting during the holidays is all the festivity I need. O come, lava fountains, effusive and triumphant, O come see the volcano eeeee-ruuuuu-uuuup-ting! 🌋

To the woman driving the Chevy Suburban in Escondido with the sticker saying "Pro God, Pro Life, Pro Guns": No, you are not.

I own an F-150 Lightning, and I love it. I'm sad Ford is moving away from EVs. Ours is fantastic for towing & regular driving. Even gas/diesel truck owners in our rural area love it when we show them how it works. If we didn't have horses I wouldn't have a truck, but we need EV trucks going forward!

Gender affirming care saves lives.

Tadpoles! They are growing legs and it's thrilling.

I set up an aquarium & added 2 Western Toad tadpoles from our pond to watch them metamorphose. I added some plant material & tossed in a few bloodworms from the last time I had fish (2013). 9 days later & several bloodworms have reanimated & are flipping around the tank! Best by date was 2015. 😳

NCAR is more important than ICE. Fight me.

In Sydney, a good guy without a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. Guns are not the answer to problems caused by guns. My heart goes out to everyone harmed by firearms this weekend. It's just too, too much.

Essential reporting from @marisakabas.bsky.social FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery will soon be led by Gregg Phillips, an election-denying conspiracy theorist with no relevant experience. "Americans will lose their lives because this administration refuses to put in competent leadership." 🧵

Thanks, I hate it.

Someone asked me if the footage of 1,000ft lava fountains on Kīlauea was AI. PLANET EARTH IS INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO ANYTHING THAT SOULLESS ENVIRONMENT-KILLER COULD EVER CONJURE FROM PILLAGING REAL ART. Ahem. No, it's not AI. Volcanoes are just that incredible.

I cannot overstate how prepared I am for commenting on this moment in history by virtue of growing up in the 90s and thus possessing a deep understanding of the true, nuanced meaning behind calling someone a tool or a chode.

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

From the people who called younger generations "snowflakes" who need "participation trophies," we now have the President Snowflake Participation Trophy, courtesy of FIFA.

Repeat after me: Popularity does not equal value. Popularity does not equal expertise. Popularity does not equal merit.

Utilities should be not for profit. Education should be not for profit. Healthcare should be not for profit. Prisons should be not for profit. Essentials for people to be self-sufficient should not stab them in the wallet every time they reach for it. Our current system is a vampire.

The reality that this many college-educated, accomplished, high-performing people in their 30s and 40s are unemployed is moving from surprising into horrifying.

It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition! The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5 🗃️🧪

Apparently I made the front page of my friend's Reddit for an unfortunately evergreen tweet. Same as it ever was, unless WE change it, folks.

Hello, this is why natural resources have to be accounted for, incorporated into planning, and stewarded carefully. The planet does not, will not, and cannot suffer hubris.

I actually thought I had shared this on here and I hadn't. But if you want to look at why Tehran has to move it's climate change, yes, but it's genuinely fascinating as a failure of long term planning/ not understanding water supplies.

I broke my phone last night and have been trying to log back in to this place on my old phone. With the MTG & Mamdani/Trump news, I was ready to do some Mission Impossible-level hacking to get back in here. All this to say: What in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is happening?!

Happy to share our new paper is now published! 🎉 We developed a non-invasive method to model animal hearing using 3D photogrammetry and showed it on bats 🦇 and a pig. It even allowed us to capture the 3D mesh of an alive and awake bat and model its hearing! 🔉 Article: doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪

Please don't freak out over any fearmongering clickbait headlines about Rainier or other Cascades volcanoes. Per @USGS, ALL volcanoes in the Cascades Range are currently at normal background activity levels. Now is NOT the time, @dailymail.co.uk. 🙄🌋

At what point did certain segments of society decide it was ok to conflate the President with the Avengers? Not sure who needs to hear this, but the adoration of fictional heroes DOES NOT translate to adoration of the convicted felon President (or ANY President, fwiw). Steve Rogers would NEVER.

How do the people claiming the 30-year old NY Young Republicans who spewed vile racism via group chat are "just kids," square that circle to ALSO claim 15-year olds are adults when pedophiles want to get in their (definitely not adult) pants? Olympic-level mental gymnastics out here.

Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same. And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world. @ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues. ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

secretary breakfast gin is having a phallic one

The Catholic League is arguing that it's only pedophilia if the child is under 10. This is utterly revolting, & I call on all Catholics & EVERYONE with a shred of decency to vocally reject this perversion. The Catholic League also claims that pedophile priests were not pedophiles, just gay.

Please be like Scott & read my book. It was a labor of love & I never even got to do a single live event for it b/c it came out during the height of COVID restrictions. As a kid, I dreamt of writing a book worth reading. I think I wrote one but very few people heard about it. Thank you, Scott. 💙🌋

Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train. One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.

Have had a horse literally step on my head. Can verify.

TL;DR = Get yer galoshes, CA.

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

Truth. 👇

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...

In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄

The shattering of faith in America’s goodness is the hardest part to watch.

In the 1930s, Red-tailed Hawks were absent from most of Ohio due to habitat loss and human persecution ("kill all predators" colonial mentality). Whenever I get a chance to take a few minutes to watch our campus hawks I'm just so so grateful that they were protected and managed to recover. 🪶