The fund is directed to stop processing claims no later than December 1, 2028, which seems obviously designed so that the next president won't be able to have any fun with the secret slush fund. After Jan 1, 2029, Trump can unilaterally transfer the remaining funds to any other government account

The paragraph defining "Lawfare" as the "sustained use of the levers of government power by Democrat elected officials" in an agreement describing a settlement of Trump with himself so he can give his allies $1.8 billion is rich enough to make my eyes bleed

Last night I went through all the released photographs from Artemis II and pulled out those I thought would be useful for my research. This is a lovely one. (Image credit: NASA)

I am always having so much fun with scale drawings. These images are usually depicted quite small on a page in books, there just to show the size of the animal. I love adding some extra details and funny situations to these. :) Here is a series I have just made for an upcoming book. #SciArt

On Facebook, my childhood friends are saying that we know exactly what happens next: the entire country will lock down over the made-up hantavirus. I'm sure when that doesn't happen, they'll change their minds.

Magnet for researcher was just a one off bonus. Europe also has Horizon plus national science/research budgets. So if you add just Horizon+ bonus and annualise you get this. That's just EU level funding. You also need to add national science budgets and then you get this

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."

ok i chuckled www.epicfurious.com

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

just overheard a 4th grader telling her friend, "if you ever need to distract some boys, literally just draw an X in the dirt. they'll stop to dig it up, they can't help it" which is the only gender metric I'll be using, moving forward

We talk about double standards all the time, but it blows my mind how hard they went after Biden for his mental decline, but now the President is repeatedly bragging about being able to identify a f***ing bear on cognitive tests they keep making him take for some reason and its just *crickets.*

Uno is a game where having all the cards means you lost the game

the claude delusion

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.

Ha. Take a guess at how many assassination attempts there were for: - Donald Trump - Joe Biden - Barak Obama - George W. Bush - Bill Clinton Then check here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... I definitely heard a lot more about some of these than others

Terrific take on the intellectually bankrupt use of "both sides" by the lazier members of the corporate media.

By this same logic, Donald Trump bears direct personal responsibility for the murder of Melissa Hortman, the assault on Paul Pelosi, the guy who showed up armed at the Obamas, the attempted pipe bombing of several prominent Democrats, the January 6th rioters who assaulted cops, and many many more.

American conservatives: last week correcting the Pope on catholic theology, this week instructing the world on new improved arithmetic. Not a joke, not satire, top US officials actually doing this and insisting they are right

Good morning from Kīlauea Volcano ~ Third Time is a Charm As the sun rises, a faint rainbow stretches over the caldera.

God, Newsom's "Trump But Blue" shtick is so annoying...

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

an all-timer for "imagine how JD Vance would react if a democrat said any of this"

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

Artemis II progressing nicely so far, follow along if you want with my little timeline app: x37b.nl/artemis/ #ArtemisII

Right, pushed a ton of timeline event updates and some minor tweaks, time to hit that refresh button :) x37b.nl/artemis/ #ArtemisII

I understand the impulse not to let this guy's statements dictate the news cycle but the fact that he can say shit like this and it barely causes a ripple in the media is a key to his ability to maintain power. Constantly pushing the bar of normality downwards, no pressure to take responsibility.

My take on a Universe Size Comparison. On and off, this took several months to make! Check it out of you have 10 minutes and be sure to put your 🎧 on for the full experience youtu.be/2D9vHQOaauM (New and improved, reupload!)

Look, I'm all for criticizing their headlines usually, but this is a hilarious way to approach this story. The whole article is gold: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

I don’t think anyone else in this hotel bar has any idea there is a moon launch happening right now. Human spaceflight really has only one purpose and that’s inspiring people to accomplish formerly impossible things. We are not doing this right if no one knows about it.

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

Just 30 day muted "Attie". I'm not too fussed if I'm a month late to a great product, but I doubt that's the case and am already unimpressed to have it so heavily promoted, and that the response is even more posts discussing it

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social, I remember you doing a comic about how we thought the internet providing free knowledge would make the world better but actually turned into misinformation. I remember a stone inscribed or something I can't find it! I doubt I'm alone in failing a search. Ideas?

Ireland’s population chart remains a wild one to look at. The country has still not recovered from the Great Famine (1845-52).

This is the best map of the United States I've ever seen. xkcd.com/3221/

New data from V-Dem, which tracks democracy worldwide, points to a sharp decline in US democracy in 2025. Checks on the government and the freedom of expression have especially declined. But the data also points to what could halt and reverse the decline. Here’s what the data shows. 🧵

Just out: the new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social is clear: "The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history" V-dem uses a global dataset on democracy with over 32 million data points for 202 countries, from 1789 to 2025. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

I have an artificial intelligence joke and whether or not you're interested, I'm gonna tell you it

An absolutely stunning view of a large haboob sweeping across Texas.

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How many ways can you say “We used ChatGPT” without actually saying “We used ChatGPT”?

An entire administration of reactionary grifter posters all the way from the top down to the spokeswomen of NASA.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.