Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

When you speak to parents of young children about whether their weekend was relaxing and restorative.

I’ve heard people say John Fetterman looks like a Bond villain but that’s very wrong as he’s clearly an Austin powers villain

This is one of Peter's best books and you should really pick it up. And he didn't even pay me to say that.

I have wrapped up my postdoc and am officially an ex-academic - and now looking for a new role *full-time*! I’m seeking roles in policy and regulatory spaces, climate strategy, ESG, and similar, ideally based in CA, remote, or outside the US, but I’m open to roles in solid blue states!

Mychal is going to be amazing host for Reading Rainbow! But if you’re an adult who wants Levar Burton to read to you, that can happen too you know. pca.st/podcast/afd4...

Imagine getting owned this hard by Hakeem Jeffries

Reposting condor to give yall some feels that aren't anxiety

Sum: science works. Pasteurization destroys H5N1 bird flu in milk www.sciencenews.org/article/past...

man they are leaking to the *Intercept* that's how mad some of them are

Wow! This is a welcome surprise. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Who’s your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

I've interview Peter in my past life. He's not lying when he says he's fun. I'd interview him again in a heartbeat if I was still doing that thing. If you do this type of thing, you really should hit him up

Like this is *insane* youtu.be/VaeI9YgE1o8?...

Thank you to all of the Twitch creators who participated in #RaidsforResearch! 🙌

Nobody asked for it. We did it anyway. If you ever used Winamp during the later years, it had an awesome, awesome visualizer called Milkdrop. The Webamp people implemented a workalike called Butterchurn. Internet Archive now supports Webamp and Butterchurn. Just click on the llama!

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

Looking to mainly skip the "oh just watch these 80 hours of unrelated youtube videos/dozens of variously outdated blog posts", in favor of a paid course/book/workshop that could be done in a couple days/or a few weeks of dedicated time.

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

The hires rate fell to 3.2% in August from 3.3% in July. This is the lowest level since June 2024 and, compared to pre-pandemic, is similar to levels from 2013. The low hire environment we're in is a major reason workers feel today's job market isn't working for them. 2/

Please clap

I’m pretty sure I found the exit once, but I may still be lost somewhere in there.

Any @anthropic.com folks here?

First thought seeing the new version of the giant skeleton: "They are under grounding the skeleton transmission infrastructure!" I have reached officially way to much terminal online stage, and I blame @costasamaras.com

Looking for inspiration so asking the crowd: if you have a unique hobby/interest, like deep interest/knowledge/expertise, what’s something someone like you would do that a lay person likely wouldn’t? As an example, a book collector wouldn’t leave a book open page-side down bc it’d damage the spine.

at least i've never made the mistake of bringing an Ezra Klein to a Ta-Nehisi Coates fight

it happened again: took care of a dreaded task i’d miserably put off for months, & it took five minutes to complete. it was easy! no trouble at all! once again i will learn nothing from this experience

Hopefully we can evolve to the point where we no longer misinterpret a love of pancakes as a hatred of waffles

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Vacant units come up a lot in discussions around the housing crisis This is a good opportunity to go over what the data actually shows 🧵

RIP Aaron Swartz 🥺

Just finished some meetings here in the Capitol tonight. Where do things stand? Republicans are still pushing a shutdown, all because they think working together to keep your premiums from doubling is unreasonable. Republicans do not care if you can afford health care.

Reading FTW

Batteries should come with every large electric appliance—an energy transition army shifting demand subtly throughout the day to match renewable generation on the grid.

What’s your sign?

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group! Internships in Story, Ideation, Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks), Prototyping (3D printing etc), Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!) Physical (springs and spinny things) Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

Your beloved has brought you a plate of eels. This is good news! Right? RIGHT? Well...in premodern England eel was a common enough meal that it sometimes got used to disguise poison. What's that, you ask? Is it it time for a thread about murder-by-eels? Yes. Yes it is. 1/5 🗃️🧪

Computer Science is in many ways applied philosophy of language and thus—like Mathematics—not a Science at all, but more properly a practically useful branch of the Humanities.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Star Trek The Next Generation upon hitting 38 years old: *signs up for a Bluesky account*

this is a lesson that is omnipresent in pop culture and yet lost on a subset of centrist pundits

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.