Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

One of the reasons Julius Caesar was assassinated was because he started putting his own likeness on Roman coins, where previously that was reserved only for people who were already dead.

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"Only one openly transgender woman, Laurel Hubbard, a weightlifter from New Zealand, has ever competed at the Summer Games."

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

In light of today's IOC ban of transgender women athletes in the Olympics, reupping this piece I wrote with @nicolanese.bsky.social last month. www.livescience.com/health/there...

Ahh yes, nothing says “let kids be kids” like “using fancy calligraphy to sign checks.” Why, I remember when I signed my first check at the age of 8, using a fountain pen made of whale femur and ink from a Humboldt squid

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

This sounds like Encyclopedia Brown for archaeology, and my grade school self is HERE for it! 🏺

“Women working full-time, year-round, now earn 81 cents for every dollar men earn. That's down from 83 cents a year ago, and 84 cents the year prior.” ✍️📻 Andrea Hsu www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...

1,000-year-old altar and human sacrifices from Toltec Empire discovered in Mexico www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Roman mosaic shows topless woman battling leopard in arena, study finds www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

There's a lot going on but a constitutional amendment to reinstate Missouri's abortion ban this fall is polling at 47-40 because Republicans cynically slapped on a gender-affirming care ban. me in @autonomynews.co

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

📢🔬New #PaperAlert! on the cover of @ScienceAdvances : Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Southwest Asia A butterfly clay bead from #Natufian Eynan-Mallaha, colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 y/o) who modeled it 12,000 years ago doi.org/10.1126/scia...

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

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Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

"As of February 24, the most recent data available, four people in the SF school community had confirmed active tuberculosis, and an additional three active cases were suspected by the public health department." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

"A new study out of Cornell Universit found workers most excited and impressed by corporate speak may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions, and it can leave companies with dysfunctional leaders."

It won't happen, but every headline tomorrow should emphasize that Trump is the one blocking a solution to the airport crisis. He owns the shutdown now.

Two new studies of Neanderthal DNA from @massilanilab.bsky.social, @hrougier.bsky.social, @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and others show our ancient cousins survived for millennia in small, geographically isolated groups. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧬🏺

DHS shutdown causing travel delays? Worry not: Some of America's least-trainable gym felons are stationed over by the Gordon Biersch looking at Kalshi on their phones

I wrote up a chemistry story for once! 🧪 💅🏼

Looks like Democrats and Republicans on the Hill had agreed on a deal to fund DHS and end the airport security madness and Trump rejected it. Pretty clear now that Trump is the sole cause of all the chaos that is ensuing.

Science does not work in the way that an easy phrase like “gold standard” suggests—and treating scientific outputs as if they were competing on a single quality scale misunderstands their purpose.

This week’s astonishing artifact is Urfa Man. He, uh… wants to show you something. 🏺🧪

Closing classic Greek at Syracuse University is something else man

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Dear journalists - I wrote a book about the fate of controversial monuments in the US, so ask me for comment! (If you want to hear me repeating “fuck” over and over again until you hang up the phone)

I want to be clear about what happened today: While Republicans keep the Senate in session to try and pass their dangerous SAVE act, they also tried to push through a ridiculous ban on transgender athletes. We blocked it.

Entering the SIXTH hour in the TSA line

This is bad: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the world, has *turned off* its official wait time tracker www.atl.com/times/

Spring PSA: It's officially Adorable Moppet season! And you know what that means... 1) Stash some cash so you can buy the water/lemonade/Capri-Suns the AMs are selling on the corner. 2) For the sake of the Moppets' safety, slow the fuck down and stop at the goddamned stop signs; yes, ALL OF THEM.

People lost jobs for merely quoting Charlie Kirk's own racist words. But the president of the United States can post this and 🤷‍♂️:

Archaeologists found a cannonball from the Battle of the Alamo. 🏺🧪

Archaeologists found a cannonball from the Battle of the Alamo. 🏺🧪

Putting together an analysis of all the anti trans laws over the last few years and there's never been anything like this in US history. The total number of state laws passed in 5 years (300+) approaches the total number of Jim Crow laws (400+) passed over a 100 years.

So a giant tech company is seizing the ability of outlets to define the takeaway points of their own journalism—a power that could easily be abused by, say, softening criticism. But it also could provide another way for GOOG to give away enough info to discourage readers from clicking through.

What. The actual. Fuck.

Seated burials are extremely rare in Europe, but archaeologists in France just found 18 dated to the Late Iron Age. 🏺🧪

Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it 'egregiously poor geological work.' www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Breaking: A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care. www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/j...

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

This year's archaeology conferences are gonna be interesting. 🔥🧪🏺

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole