A tale in three acts. Also, release the Epstein files.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Today I’m celebrating John Coltrane on what would’ve been his 99th birthday. He was not only one of the great musical geniuses of the 20th century. He had the combination of technical mastery, fearless innovation and deep spirituality that we humans will need to survive and flourish on this earth.

Isn't it beef eaters who want to kill the cows?

Kyanite is cool, but it's not "literally from the core of a small planet" cool, or "makes beautiful geometric patterns when polished and etched" cool, or "travelled through space as part of a meteoroid for a billion years or so" cool - so this one is an easy one for me: vote #taenite! #MinCup25

Of all the things I have no interest in reading, books by past, present, and/or future presidential candidates are the things I have the most no interest in reading.

I'd bet 100,000,000,000 dollars that both Trump and brainworm-guy think that autism is a "disease" that turns a person into the Hoffman character in Rain Man.

reminds of me of how the GOP continued to explicitly include "defund ACORN" in its platform for years after ACORN ceased to exist

Technologically advance a band FreeSpaceOpticalCommunicationHead

Live your life so that if you get murdered your widow(er) doesn't say "It's ok, god wanted them dead"

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

Wait, I thought Sean Duffy told NASA not to worry about safety anymore ("Sometimes we let safety become the enemy of progress”). Woulda thought DOGE would have fired all the safety advisers.

Got another shot of 5G juice. In yo face RFK, Jr (PS, you can get it w/o prescription in AZ now, at least at CVS)

Breaking news 2026 (probably): SCOTUS affirms in 6-3 vote that Trump has right to fire 3 Supreme Court Justices

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Read this thread

According to this, we still have to wait 796 billion years for genes to emerge

google docs thinks the word 'colloquia' is singular

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

Saw one of my favorite musicians perform last night (Steven Wilson) and the new Spinal Tap flick tonight. So even though everything is shit, this weekend is ok

What poster did you have hanging in your room as a kid?

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Songs I like with a Wurlitzer electric piano: Ray Charles - What'd I Say Supertramp - Bloody Well Right Pink Floyd - Money (bonus for wah-wah pedal) Me - Sputnik Planum

Yay!!

thoughts and prayers

Age verification? I remember Rerun bootlegging the Doobie Brothers at the high school

Yes, I love that two non-US sports psychologists conclude that US science funding is rigged so that the guy quoted unfailingly by every outlet—not because of scientific merit but because of the Harvard label—can’t get a hearing. That and more is why I wrote this: medium.com/@steve.desch...

Slightly diminish a book The Designated Hitter in the Rye

So cashed checks at bank today & teller was ASU undergrad. When she saw in account that I’m a professor she immediately looked me up on rate my professor and started reading out loud. Glad my ratings arent bad 🤣

Frankly, I have seen enough. Secretary Kennedy should be fired immediately. He's destroying the agency responsible for keeping diseases (like measles and Ebola) under control. This is deadly serious.

So CVS and Walgreens will not provide Covid-19 shots in AZ without a prescription. I tried to get a prescription from my primary care dr. and she said "what are you talking about? I don't even know how to prescribe that." So things are awesome.

Seems to me that if you can just blow up boats because they may have drugs on them, a lot of billionaires' yachts might be in danger.

So I joined a labor union today

post-Trump they are going to have to invent a new version of this medal (and award it to all non-Trump recipients of MoF) since Trump has thoroughly debased this one.

listened to this album every day after school 2nd semester of my freshman year of high school and got to see them perform that summer. Still have every note memorized. Happy Yes Day!

Whatever is wrong with the president, I hope his Secretary of HHS is personally selecting his treatment plan

Mmm homemade Denver style chili rellenos with home roasted hatch chiles

hey. When I heard people refer to infrared (pronounced correctly) light, I thought they were talking about something different from the infrared (rhymes with scared) light I saw referred to in books.

My wife (gf at time) took a women in science class from her at Cornell. Very influential on both of us. RIP

I can

Eagles records

So better take the keys and drive forever Staying won't put these futures back together All the perfect drugs and superheros Wouldn't be enough to bring me up to zero

Coltrane's My Favorite Things

This of course is awful, but making it even worse is that the one guy at Harvard we *wish* would stop doing research is good at convincing rich idiots to fund his insane ideas.

Wow, interstellar comet 3I/Atlas sure keeps drastically changing color! #ShowAColorBarIfYouUseAFalseColorScale!

Name 5 albums that had the biggest impact on your life John Coltrane - my favorite things The Who - Quadrophenia King Crimson - in the Court of the Crimson King U2 - War Joe Jackson - Big World

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