Listen, I'm not saying I endorse brutal mockery of Avi Loeb's claims that every interstellar comet we see is an alien spaceship, but I will link to it because the aliens made me in order to sow doubt about their cometships. oddnews.com/article/this...

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

The best thing we could do for Veterans Day is to have a government that didn't drive our military to early retirement by devaluing their service and ordering them to violate human rights, then when they do retire we could provide them with appropriate care and stop treating them like photo ops.

I love it when they floof their feathers out! 🪶

Anyhow, the big aurora that we’re rooting for (but not so big it wrecks infrastructure) could be visible across most of the US. It could be the biggest since October 2024. Unfortunately, the atmospheric river in the forecast for California might make it more challenging to see through the clouds.

G4! #AuroraWatch #Spacewx

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Thread and many good replies, including numerous mentions of the podcast Sold A Story (it has transcripts!).

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret. Editor says court cases against city continue #ksleg

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Kelly looking up. Twenty minute pose from Friday. #art

Happy Book Birthday to SNAKE-EATER by @tkingfisher.com! A young woman seeking a fresh start is confronted by ancient gods, malevolent supernatural forces, and eccentric neighbours in an isolated desert town in this fantasy horror! 🐍 https://tinyurl.com/sdamfpkf

It's ptarmigeddon! These guys are a lot harder to see now that the snow is on the ground. #birds 🌿

Little Hugo and his Mama 🩵

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards. Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them. forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...

Bringer of the Beyond 11x17 pen and paper #surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Artist link: emibozstudios.bigcartel.com

i’m not sure the US can still produce national vital statistics (live births, deaths, etc). this is a shocking thing to say for a high income nation. very short thread.

The unswept pavement mosaic would like a word.

"Scared of Charlotte" is a whole new level of "scared of cities" that I'd never even considered possible

Another foggy morning in the mountains

The Orange Fruit Dove decorates the treetops with its flame-like plumage. This species lives in forests on the islands of Fiji, where it munches on fruits and berries. Only males display bold orange plumage; females are green. Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

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A much better version of something I’ve been noodling around in my head for quite a while. Beautiful!

“The most dramatic rollback of human rights for trans people in a generation will be covered by a mainstream corporate press that has purged queer journalists from its ranks in a stunningly transparent series of politicized moves over the past month.”

From a St Paul Dept of Safety and Inspections email: construction permit for a new $11m CBP building construction permit at 670 Bayfield Street next to the downtown StP airport. Note location right near the runways. "Great" place to deport from! @mollycoleman.bsky.social @melvincarter.bsky.social

Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware

The right's bad faith attack on our media infrastructure and our democracy is bleeding across borders and oceans:

ready for beddy #art

A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.

Everything that actually made America great is being destroyed

A biologist at the American Museum of Natural History, Jonathan Coddington, cataloged a new genus of South American spiders in 1986. Two things about the spider were unique: they lived in caves & laid cubic eggs. So he called them genus 'Plato', and that's the nerdiest thing I have read all year.

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Flower time! #art #illustration

🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

Is that good

Oh interesting - this bill would close a giant surveillance loophole for exactly 100 people and not for any of the other 340+ million people in this country. Good thing Congress is getting back to the important business of governing!

Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court. The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used. The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.

What he needs to reform is the minimum wage, so that people making minimum wage aren’t eligible for SNAP.

SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.

A sneak-peak of our Holiday collection as we get it updated this week. All of the items shown are for sale and ready to make their way to your home for the holidays! More to come as the week progresses! #holidays #art #pottery

Nudies!

#dailyart 67 : study

Boy you can just realllllllly fucking tell who's never had to get on the horn with an insurance company huh

Let a single person feed their family with food stamps when they don't "deserve" the benefit and Republicans will be filled with such rage that they'll take away those benefits from millions of others. Meanwhile the administration is doing this: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...