Never enough characters to explain why Spark workspace is so vital to their community. Simply, remote jobs mean that families can feed themselves while aid entry remains cruelly low—with dignity. So internet & electricity? A lifeline. Keep it open. 71/340 by Monday: chuffed.org/project/spar...

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This is a project of resilience, dignity, and future. The volunteers at Spark mean it. It isn't just internet or a workspace, but a way for students to continue to dream, and families to support themselves autonomously. Hit "weekly" to keep it open. 57/340 by Monday: chuffed.org/project/spar...

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong calls out Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and more during a politically charged performance at the FanDuel Party powered by Spotify Super Bowl week concert.

No, Firefox, I am NOT overwhelmed by my tabs! I like living like this!! Thank you for asking

Spark Space is an incredible mutual aid organization that provides a safe space for students to work and access free internet and electricity, but they need our help to keep paying electricity costs. Your donations, even $5, help immensely:

I can point to the exact moment when my faith in academia died, and it was when my MS advisor had a friend/collaborator get busted for sexually harassing women during Antarctic fieldwork. He defended it to us (his students, majority-women) by saying that in Antarctica, "men turn into animals."

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

I almost forgot it's Fold Friday (a holiday I just made up)!! Check out this cool fold I saw while hiking:

BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY www.wsj.com/science/spac...

If the world is such that people cannot practice art, I would rather change the world than change art

Looking for evening plans next Thursday/Friday? I'll be setting the pre-Valentine's Day mood at CU Boulder's Fiske Planetarium, talking about my favorite cosmic romance between Pluto and Charon 💗 Tickets here: fiske.vantixticketing.com/default.aspx...

Building up illuminated manuscript pages in my office

Fascinating that local watering holes can manage what elected officials, academics , and everyone claims is hard

Today we highlight a family facing a few crises: Sarah’s lupus, a house crumbling around them, and more. Older brother Akram exhausted and doesn’t have time to ask for help. Let’s step up. Hit “weekly” or “monthly” if you can! Give/find the Abdelwahed family's link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

they deserve to be exponentially more widely hated than they are, and I believe we can make this happen together

We cannot ask survivors to speak out about sexual violence while simultaneously punishing them for it. We cannot hold survivors responsible for their own justice while refusing to give it to them. We cannot expect survivors to come forward while making it impossible for them to do so.

I am once again fighting my demons (desire to dye my hair purple)

All true, but the mainstream media is also failing to directly say “data centers in space are impossible and Elon musk lies all the time about stuff” which allows him to pump his stocks!

Mentioned that something was "my Roman empire" on the phone with my brother and he reminded me that, unfortunately, the Roman empire IS my Roman empire 😞

Feel like I'm not getting enough credit for carrying a truly unfathomable amount of anger in my body at all times and managing to still act mostly normal on zoom calls

The reason it's important for normies to recognize that what they want & are doing to fight the regime is leftism is they don't have to reinvent the wheel, they can tap into what humanity has been building to take care of this, & listen to the humans who have been aware all along things need fixing.

Oops, I'm back, because we have some generous matchers in line ready to double your contributions. Baseline needs for these six families and a camp of fifteen more: food, medicine, winter supplies. Click "weekly" or "monthly" on a coffee, and be doubled: chuffed.org/project/hope...

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

the number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.

Hi again. Each week we highlight dear Mohamed, his siblings, & their parents. They remain displaced and need support with basic essentials. The rain & cold continue. Winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here (their link is working again!). chuffed.org/project/hope...

I really wish there was room in this country for the understanding that recovery from major medical issues can take way more than two weeks. I am so tired

Many many Fall Out Boy songs fit this criteria and their hard work should be acknowledged! Tie between Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet and Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows

This is civic action. Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside. 130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.

Do we think if Hannibal had dragons he would still take elephants with him through the Alps? Personally I think he would take both

Today was a deeply unproductive workday, but someone did call the station during my radio show to tell me I was playing all bangers, so this will go down as an excellent day 😊

Online events have been a fun reminder of the many times in science where I’ve been invited to an event only to realize I’m there as a body for a man to use as a prop in discussions with other men. Whether I had a mind was incidental to the proceedings at best

Caltech really should've hired me so I could continue doing my Search for Planet 9 show, where I basically never actually talk about Planet 9 and just play music to inspire us all to find Planet 9 in ourselves

We are live!!

It's a Tuesday morning, which means The Search for Planet 9 is coming up at 9 am PT/12 pm ET! I've got a full hour of the finest synthwave for you to liven up a dreary February morning: 1190.radio

Even the Files themselves are still harming victims so the release ain’t changed that So my question is WHAT WILL CHANGE ?!?

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Now help future scientists in Gaza

I sent your latest donations to the Spark team on Friday, and they wrote: “you are building a generation and uplifting families.” Revolutionary, yall.

Spark Space is an incredible mutual aid organization that provides a safe space for students to work and access free internet and electricity, but they need our help to keep paying electricity costs. Your donations, even $5, help immensely:

And we continue. I’m here every three hours to remind you that six families & a camp of fifteen more depend on this one project. For survival needs. Your spare change is their medical care, winter supplies, shelter. Click "weekly" or "monthly" if you can. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Spark Space is an incredible mutual aid project that helps students across north Gaza with a safe place to study, but they need our help to pay electricity costs:

Happy columnar basalt Sunday everyone

This Jack Horner. Who’s been known to the whisper network for some time now. There’s a reason I have repeatedly turned down writing about his work or him.

In America in 2026, journalists are the government's enemy. Let's just get comfortable with that and stop being weird. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-press-...

Spark Space is an incredible mutual aid project that helps students across north Gaza with a safe place to study, but they need our help to pay electricity costs:

Every time I am inadvertently reminded of Avi Loeb's fuckass books, my resolve to write a book of my own (that's actually good) grows stronger

Texas A&M claims it has “seamlessly completed” its Spring 2026 course review. That statement is false. Multiple courses addressing race, gender, and sexuality are still under review with faculty facing pressured to censor well into the semester. Texans deserve the truth, not spin.

As a lifelong believer in trying to turn Texas blue, all I have to say is: yippee 😃