At the end of the day, wasn’t it really … himself?

air conditioning is good and right and a just climate future has zero emissions and also air conditioning and we should build a better world where people don’t die in heat waves

I have a vacation coming up and the energy right now is that guy in the 80s cop movie who says he has one day until retirement.

Me: “silk dress shirts are so nice. why don’t I wear more silk dress shirts?” Also me: *spills an entire fucking matcha on herself at work*

The river smells like rotten eggs today, so that’s fun.

You know you’re tired when you catch yourself thinking that falling asleep on the metro surely can’t be *that* bad.

Some day, I’m going to figure out how J falls asleep the instant his head hits the pillow, and I’m going to bottle and sell it and be ridiculously rich. Right after I get a good night’s sleep.

DC pub trivia team names this week: why did they let my landlord renovate the reflecting pool, I went to the reflecting pool and all I got is this yeast infection, DC ducks (👏👏), all-gea lives matter, what like it’s hard?, four seasons 2.0

Bluesky is definitely not beating the allegations tonight, for sure.

Really nice interactive here. Also, tax these killing machines into obscurity. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

No thank you, please put it back.

everyone I know who worked in foreign aid had issues with the structure of U.S. foreign aid, but since those people aren’t brain-dead sociopaths, they didn’t think destroying the entire program was the solution either

Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.” Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.

You can't fool me... these are actually spheres of VX gas

We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh

There’s a whole fuck of a lot of people today posting that stupid clip of everyone’s least-favorite trillionaire without any sort of alt text, and I am *displeased*. I muted his stupid name so I didn’t have to see his stupid FACE.

Dying. DYING.

We have SO much shit going on right now that despite all my best efforts, my coworkers are discovering that my coping mechanisms past caffeine are sarcasm and dark humor. It is… educational for some of them.

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This is cool. Lampreys are the oldest vertebrates and key to understanding brain evolution.

Very little. The Holy See is (adjusted for inflation) the single biggest funder of astronomical research in history. As for Galileo, he was found guilty of suspicion of heresy, spent one day in gaol, and the rest of his life living in a palace, and continued to publish heliocentrism around Europe.

I honestly kinda hate that I know exactly what he’s talking about.

Any of my nail polish people see Color Club polish in a brick and mortar lately? I’ve got a kid who wants to learn water marbling; CC works well and won’t break the bank for a ton of colors.

Excited to see @jonj-udd.bsky.social's fantastic work out @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. Selection in _heterozygotes_ is the primary force shaping allele frequencies of loss-of-function mutations in humans, even in genes only associated with purely recessive diseases. 🧪🧬 doi.org/10.1093/gene...

There are two types of people: those who think in terms of larger processes and systems, and those who don’t. I’m increasingly convinced this is not a learnable behavior change.

On this day in 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation creating US Department of Justice. Two primary reasons for DOJ’s creation: protection of formerly enslaved people’s civil rights & to oppose domestic terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Image: Thomas Nast, “Halt.” Public domain.

Study finds narcissism the only trait that predicted objections to remote work. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status — the more they favored return-to-office mandates. @adammgrant.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

subsequent post: > He made me look up happy birthday on Google translate in all three languages and incorporate it… “we don’t want just yapping about the gods” absolutely incredible

“Fuck you, pay me.”

Turns out Tinydog is one of those dogs that’s a HUGE FAN of ice cubes as toys. She doesn’t eat them, just pounces on them and sends them shooting off across the floor for her to joyfully sproing in pursuit. 11/10 free entertainment for everyone.

I just heard a radio ad for an “at home, real-time test to determine your microbiome”, and it’s really aggravating how lucrative having no ethics consistently appears to be.

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

1) developed Strong Opinions about thermostat and light usage; have repeatedly asked people if they intend to heat the outdoors 2) repeatedly expressed that “what we really need is the Right Tool and then this will be easy”.

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

"Having this technology available puts us in a better position to be prepared for emerging strains in the future," www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

I think I’ve broken my toe? Not the big toe I fucked up chasing the puppy, the other one.

Ahahahaha. This seems fine.

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

French bakery: okay Korean bakery: better Filipino bakery: GOD TIER

Apparently this train is in bumpymode today - wh at the e fu ck

Extraterrestrial invasion? As otherworldly as this looks, these are real organisms called desmids: microscopic, single-celled green algae found in swamps. Imaged with confocal microscopy — cell walls in blue, chloroplasts in red — by Igor Siwanowicz at our Janelia Research Campus

folks when we find a guy who's saying a bunch of dumbass shit can we get back to blocking them instead of screenshotting them and talking about their dumbass shit? these losers are not worth our time & when we let them waste it we insult the revolution

This story has so many sets of words that I really never wanted to hear combined in this order. 2026 continues apace.

The hard-working Red-tailed Hawk single mom who recently fledged two chicks on her own, flying high over Central Park South with sunny wings as she watches over her nearby youngsters.

The writers for this season have gotten SO lazy, ‘s all I’m saying.

can't argue with this.

These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

New paper from my group led by PhD student Aleksandra Stamper on the environmental drivers of influenza across tropical and temperate locations. @pandemiccenter.bsky.social @brownpublichealth.bsky.social @brown-ibes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

“The decline in institutional autonomy in the United States stands out as a case of fast and steep deterioration" www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...