They took one upstairs.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

Wow

Fuck these fucking fuckfaces

"dozens more"

Metro, by Joan Mitchell, 1958, 📸 via @liam_mchugh

owning a small business in 2025…

More people have been on the moon, than on Big Ben/Mawson Peak, a massive stratovolcano. Our island is so anthropological remote, eruptions are typically only witnessed by us. In the words of our famous Sealvester Stallone: “Get your tiny hands off of Heard.” (photo: Mike Dillon)

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Heard Island Government announces 800% tariff increase on all goods from the United States. Announcement was sent to US Commerce, Trade Director Redmon. Our PR team is currently sitting on eggs, so if any of you could tag news outlets or journalist friends, please do. #FlippersUp

FrostPoint Dynamics has won a Gov Grant to continue R&D on anti-human encroachment capabilities. Overt and clandestine technology will allow Heard Island’s growing military to defend and even pre-empt any interference with our Sub-Antarctic island Sovereignty.

Let's all do our part to remedy the situation.

Trump to JANM: scrub your website. JANM to Trump: scrub this.

Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!

FLAPS UP!!

Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵

Sec of Health to non-aquatics : “If you feel like you’re submerged & drowning in this world; remember that a depth of 30’ and 2’ from the surface feels similar, and the best way to truly know the difference is to just keep swimming. They count on our despair, knowing 1” is all it takes. So swim.”

Our foreign secretary has confirmed that America did indeed forget to hit the OFF button after April Fool’s day. Unfortunately, it may be permanently stuck on now much like daylight savings time and QR code menus. We must keep our Flippers Up and fight on.

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

Imagine

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Aaaaaaaaa

This

“No one tells Boston how to take care of our own. Not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies.” I've said it before, but when @wutrain.bsky.social speaks like this, it feels like she's standing up for our entire state, and not just Boston.

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🎬 Calling all filmmakers! The Virginia Tech Rural Film Festival is now accepting short films that highlight rural hope & vibrancy. 🎥 For more information: rural.vt.edu 📩 Submit by March 15 #RuralFilmFest #Filmmaking #VT

I was talking to a Tibetan friend here in India about my fears about returning to the US, and he said it will get better. I said, do you feel that way about the Tibetan situation in China? He said no, but the US has a great democracy. Everyone is going to go through a huge reckoning.

It's fun to see Cottom & Gessen - two brilliant writers who actually know something about higher ed since they are professors! - run circles around Stephens, whose only understanding of contemporary academia comes from Op Ed pages. Clear case of affirmative action for conservative white men.

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

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people are going to try to get you to take AI writing seriously on the grounds that some of these lines start to imitate bad writing but that’s exactly why you shouldn’t. by definition an LLM can only hack bad writing, imitative writing, derivative writing involving various cheap juxtapositions

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Full video

So useful, especially since I'm overseas...on a Fulbright, lol...sigh

This shit makes me incandescently angry. Clearly our universities are not "woke" enough if someone can obtain a post graduate degree and still not understand why diversity is beneficial to learning outcomes and/or be taken in by authoritarian rhetoric.

Walz: Just like Elon Musk talks about entitlement programs. Those aren't entitlement programs. Those are the things keeping my mom alive. She paid into social security for 80 years. She should get that money back. And that's not what they believe

A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security. More of this please.

This is one of the most disturbing paragraphs I’ve read in months, and I’m currently researching the history of enslavement in 18th century New England.

Muskrat creating jobs

Here's an idea

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"When we are a thousand miles away from poetry, we still participate in it by that sudden need to scream—the last stage of lyricism." --Emil Cioran

Cartoonists out of country: its not hyperbole to say its prob not safe to travel here anymore & you should prob rethink coming to any conventions stateside if we’re gonna be honest about whats happening. Especially if you’re vocally active about whats happening here. This is no longer a safe place.

Art is communication, it can communicate very blatant ideas, but it's a communicative space where you can work shit out, not specifically a tool for communication. Treating it specifically like a communicative tool is how we get "the author depicted (x) so they must endorse (x)" and NO GOD FUCK WHY