More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ. For all this he received death-threats throughout his life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....

A gallery of Cephalotes turtle ants, denizens of the treetops in tropical American forests.

Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯 USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

Deputy Secy of State Christopher Landau says the US “cannot pretend that we are partners” w/ NATO nations because the European Union—of which many are members—pursues “policies of civilizational suicide.” Landau is a former clerk of SCOTUS Justice Thomas. Stephen Miller lobbied for his appointment.

Russian army destroyed the railway station in Fastiv near Kyiv tonight. Just bombed it into obliteration. Fire that broke out ate up the construction. It’s gone. This is more than just about a railway. This is exactly what Russia is trying to do to my people : to make us gone. Either by

Irish Minister for Health calls the UK's descent into transphobia out for what it is.

This action largely considered the worst racist atrocity of the Civil War was led by CSA Gen Nathan Bedford Forest, founder of the KKK. But the South was so successful at justifying the Civil War thru the Lost Cause, that you probably know the name from a character named after him-Forest Gump. 🗃️

Whilst it is a very tough read, I encourage everyone to have a close read of the US National Security Strategy (November 2025) to get a reality check of our current global geopolitical climate and the US entirely shifting its alliances under the #Trump presidency: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Palantir's Alex Karp offers a full-throated embrace of war crimes, which he considers to be the way all modern military forces should operate. No one who follows Palantir and its dealings around the world would be surprised. gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...

🧵 Under a dark sky, the Milky Way looks like a bright band interrupted by black rivers. Those rivers are not empty space; they are curtains of tiny dust grains that swallow nearly all the starlight trying to reach us. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25111... 🔭 🧪 #galactic #science #MilkyWay 1/6

Thinking about the Laconia Incident today for obvious reasons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia...

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine. We executed multiple members of that crew.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Pure skill 🤯 Abby Roque with a between-the-legs goal!

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Did you know that some MLB owners take out loans against future season ticket sales and then use that money to buy themselves mansions/yachts etc? With the added bonus of being able to whine to fans that the team is actually carrying a lot of debt? Last dodger owners did this!

This season (on current track) I have Marie-Philip Poulin for the most penalized PWHL player, as well as league MVP. www.thepwhl.com/en/stats/pla...

Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America. Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Dakota Mermis vs Florian Xhekaj Nov 22, 2025

Shots on goal in the second period are 16-1 Canadiens

UK immigration consultation. Designed terribly and probably intentionally to make it difficult to disagree, but worth doing if you do.

Growing up my friend lived on the same street as Wozniak and on Halloween he gave out full bars and we stanned for him then and we stan for him now. Silicon Valley picked the wrong Steve to lionize.

My favorite piece of content today.

In case you aren't already aware of one of the nerdiest, nich-est online games: TeXnique, where the goal is to type LaTeX formulae as quickly as possible. texnique.xyz It is "fun."

everything that is wrong with Elon Musk can be summed up in the fact that there’s nobody in his life who can sit him down and tell him how embarrassing this is

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says: “The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Today was a very important day: the 36th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Also a day when over 50,000 people went into the streets in Bratislava, despite a terrible rain storm, in protest of Fico’s government in Slovakia. Here’s why it really mattered. /1

At 3AM, November 17, 1973, "The Colonels" sent a tank crashing through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic. It had been occupied by students protesting the fascist junta. Dozens died, mostly teens, 20s and one boy of 5. Over 2,000 were injured. The protests it sparked brought down the dictatorship.

Nothing makes me a prouder Canadian than a 1-0 score in the Grey Cup.

Jesus Christ.

The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇

oh god, of course every academic in this country has to use a VPN for their work because every university department in this country somehow runs itself off a shared drive folder called admin/ADMIN/humanities/CURRENT_humanities/history/HISTORY_ALL/admin

For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae: “this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good” www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...

There’s a heart-shaped feature in the Sun’s corona - seen in a recent SDO’s A193 filtered image, which captures the hot solar atmosphere. ❤️☀️ The Sun’s sending its love to Earth … cause nothing says love like an X-class flares and series of proton showers! 😅

From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/11/10/f...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The Muppets Dr. Manhattan (1986)

Lovely coverage of our research!

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

What a banger

In this splendid photo from Valerio Minato three wonders were captured in a single shot: - the Basilica of Superga, located near Turin (Italy) - the Monviso, the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps - the setting Moon, captured in a crescent phase ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23122... 🔭 🧪 #sciart 1/2

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.