he thinks he sounds so cool we need to deliver him with a bag over his head to the middle of Tehran in 2029

You know how there are often tents and tables at these protests? If you are tempted to say, "these large peaceful protests don't accomplish anything!" you should visit those tables to see exactly what they accomplish

“Government can do good and NASA is proof” is a message I don’t really see that often from Dems, and that’s disappointing.

Yeah it’s “soros is paying protesters” but from the center left

Boohoo Zelenskyy won't be a slave to the stupidity of the Americans, cry me a river

The actual reality of what’s going on with NASA is a real trip when juxtaposed with what a hit the NASA-saturated “Project Hail Mary” film seems to be. I wonder how many people who enjoyed the film are aware of just how much this admin has shanked all the cool real-world research it featured.

“Yeah well the jerk store called and they’re running out of you” but with homophobia

They're ordering a laptop for me at work. I mentioned that I'd be running Linux Mint on it, so I didn't really care what OS it shipped with. I was told that's a non-standard configuration that would require additional approval, ideally with a business justification for my request 😫

Shortly after Kat lost I saw people blaming her leaving Twitter. I saw that on Twitter. Even pre-Elon Twitter was never that important

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset

While I very much applaud apply ecology to astrobiology, I do question the wisdom of deciding that the growth of phototrophic bacteria is limited only by sunlight and temperature, when *every bacterial community on Earth* is limited by nutrients, and not sunlight or temperature

In three months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by fast food and delivery companies -Cracked down on bad landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

Can definitely recommend this, I've played it and it's a ton of fun, especially if you're like me and dreamed of being a starfighter pilot as a kid.

DAMN RIGHT! Please PLEASE go watch this delightful and romantic and hilarious show (Netflix in the US)!

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

I understand that people are trying to express that they saw the rot from the beginning. And like fine, yes, there were red flags always. But honestly, I'm more impressed with someone who says, "hey I love this thing but it's doing harm so I'm never going to fucking touch it again"

I know people talk about Mamdani's media training but a lot of this is just what happens when you actually hold deeply compassionate principles. Mamdani genuinely cares about every person in New York, all he has to do is be honest. Compassion must come first. Leftists can learn from this

Good news from the union world: DC's first cat cafe that was previously shut down in an apparent attempt to quash their attempts to unionize is back. And yes -- their staff is now unionized. www.instagram.com/p/DWIHsbRkSh...

There are like five different “wait wait wait WHAT” word groupings in this one headline alone

A Democrat just won the Florida house seat that contains Mar a Lago. If a Democratic president was suffering these kind of losses the papers would be screaming at them to resign. Instead we get this...

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

I keep forgetting 2025 happened. (2026, on the other hand, feels like *everything* happened and is happening)

The last time I was in the West Bank (Jan. 2020, pre-transition), a Palestinian guy told me "You look just like Eid Sirhan!" I said "Huh?" — thinking maybe it was a Palestinian celeb. He goes, "You know, he sings about the shape of that girl!" And then I realized he meant Ed Sheeran. I was sad

Free newsletter: The AI industry is lying to you about progress. Only 5GW of data centers are under construction, it takes 6 months to bring online a single quarter's worth of NVIDIA GPU sales, and LLM code is actively breaking big tech. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

Just f'ing die already.

Most people don't use AI. We really need to hammer this point home, because the pro-AI people keep insisting that everybody is using it and it's normal. It's not. It's not normal. It's for depraved idiots and grifters.

This is apparently a big day for having to explain to people that nuclear electric propulsion and nuclear thermal propulsion are not the same thing. And also that nuclear thermal propulsion has not been made to work and that nuclear electric propulsion systems would take a long time to work.

Update: no, apparently he really does think they'll have a nuclear electric rocket ready to go in two years www.nasa.gov/news-release...

I can't tell if "fission-powered" means using a radioisotope thermal generator for electricity (which the last two US Mars rovers have also used, so not really that big of a deal), or if he's talking about a nuclear rocket, in which case, good luck.

the tragedy of the long 2010s is that so many people (centrist libs included!) basically think edgy-posting online is essentially the same thing as "doing politics"

as i've said before, i do not think it is a surprise that the most normal/effective DSA factions/chapters are the ones that avoid posting and instead do IRL stuff

Case in point: I cannot POSSIBLY have been the only person to see the "If Hillary Was President We'd Be At Brunch!" protest sign back in 2016 and IMMEDIATELY understood that person was making a - perhaps inappropriately flippant/cute, I'll grant - DARK JOKE, not registering a sincere grievance 🤦‍♂️

you don't use violence to build things because you can't control violence. it's depressing that so many people need this explained to them over and over again

Unfriendly reminder to anyone considering this compromise that Alex Pretti was killed by CBP. A continued blank check for their reign of terror is just as unacceptable as ICE $$$.

This is who you're asking to determine if your 3-sigma detection of oxygen and methane in the atmosphere of a terrestrial exoplanet is a legitmate biosignature or a false positiven (Fun fact: I was, at one point, a blonde)

There are two particularly remarkable things in this episode. 1) RFK Jr says that the stomach is microbiome is made up of plants. He specifically says "Your stomach microbiome is plants". It is not. I think he has been confused by the term "gut flora". He is the head of Health and Human Services.

The remarkable thing about 2024 is that it was a largely normal election, that was conducted as if Trump was a normal candidate, & now he is subject to fairly normal disapproval. For all Trump's evil, what is perhaps most remarkable is that even he is relatively powerless to defeat normalcy bias

we should just take the next logical step and make sure the fake regime doesn't exist outside his immediate range of experience. i am once again calling on our nation's leaders to GOODBYE, LENIN! the president

removing the real, faltering trump from the news and replacing him with an imaginary trump of their own invention. more he falters, the more the imaginary reasonable trump shows up in the stories and especially the headlines

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Pass it and make him veto it, you worms! Make him cover his own tab!

I recognize that it's probably a bad idea to perceive my political enemies as ontological recipients of head trauma, but the problem is that heuristic keeps working better than any of the other ones. The admin sees word then associates, then does another thing. That's it, that's the whole plan!

I'm sorry, but ascribing those kinds of high-minded objectives to those dipshits is a massive misreading of the situation. There is no plan, no grander purpose. Those people are all morons. The main danger they pose is all the things they're breaking due to their stupidity and incompetence.

I believe this is true, and I also believe that all the resistance—from country-wide to neighborhood organizing, to filming, to pressuring corps and institutions, to shaming anybody who even tries to ignore ethnic cleansing—has made a huge difference. Nice work people. Let’s keep it up.

I do not understand why some people are so adamant in their refusal to understand that one very important difference between ICE and the Sturmabteilung is that the latter included one out of every six German men in 1934, and we outnumber the former 10,000 to 1.

there are quite literally not enough of them to do this!

one maddening thing about all of this is the conservative idea that "election day" has always meant a single day until recently, which is nonsense. 19th century elections often took place over the course of an entire month, with results trickling out over time.