I think most who have followed me for some time know Im not here to get famous or bullshit you or sell something. I try to be authentic with you and respect you. So I say this hoping you recall that. We are in a very, very dangerous place and I worry we're getting close to a point of no return.

All I’ll say about the idea that modern medicine causes autism is that there is a 5-vol single-authored history of plants from 1561 that lists, in this order, the stems & leaves, flower & time of flowering, fruit, number of loculi, lines of dehiscence, rows of seeds, root, and smell for 500 plants.

Looks promising! It is a hefty tome.

Just showing off, really.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Some of y'all are hearing "we should mourn the bad man" when what's being said is "hold on to your humanity." Do not mourn the bad man. Don't feel obligated to speak kindly or to remain silent. You do not owe them anything. I just hope you don't lose yourself in this.

Do I need to list all the urgent and major crises that Charlie Kirk’s shooting is merely a distraction from? No, I do not. The murderer did Trump a huge favour. This might create a “now or never” dynamic for a coup from above.

I am very worried about what may be on its way to us. Something has been set in motion (really, was set in motion a long time ago) and is picking up speed at a pace I fear enormously.

Not sure what is going on here, but MULTITUDE (which was good!) ended in January, and sadly the excellent MIMA museum is now permanently closed.

All caveats about many forms of AI being useful and separating the hype machine from the actual technology, I'm reminded of the Terry Pratchettism: "By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold."

Beer Bomber. My aircraft ID skills are famous!

1 año en 100 viñetas: 61- Jean-Christophe Thibert

But there is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man’s and every being’s face.

realistic Star Trek

This is, quite simply, bullshit. RFK Jr. is a conplete and utter crackpot, and one of the most dangerous this country has ever seen.

Hey friends, it would mean a lot to me if you took a minute to sign this petition to defend my friends and colleagues at my alma mater. Cuts to Oregon’s humanities are widespread and devastating, and I genuinely fear for the future of intellectual life at UO. actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

Six months ago I might have agreed with that point of view. Today it is clearly invalid. The sad question that remains is whether using harder language in the past could have avoided the slide towards genocidal intent. (Probably not.)

Lots of people noting the anniversary of Dreadnought's launch today, and with its ability to outpace anything that threatened it, the big gun armament, and its thick wooden walls- Wait, what?

Friends, I study the Nazis and have written extensively on how ordinary people do horrible things and, yet, what's happening the United States is still surreal me. I know intellectually that it's absolutely a descent into fascism and authoritarianism and I still find it hard to believe.

Instruments of torture according to this delightful miniaturist: Chains, fire, pitchforks, drills, hammers, and — bagpipes.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

This is devastating, and part of a larger move to entirely push science out of NASA's mission. It is horrific betrayal of so much work, not to mention the fact that it violates NASA's charter.

My god, these people are so fucking dumb. They’re going to lead our species right to extinction.

Bratwurst history could be rewritten after a chance find dates Germany's first sausage stand to 1269 in Erfurt, beating the current title-holder in Regensburg (below) by over 100 years. Historians are now on the hunt for the site where the Erfurt sausage stand once stood.

This level ignorance and arrogance should be enough to set off Geiger counters or something.

Ironclad battleship H.M.S. Edinburgh. 1882

HMS Victoria, passing through the Swing Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1889

Predreadnought battleship HMS Victoria firing her forward 16" guns circa 1888.

Lots of stellar pots about to meet their new families ✨

I’m so beyond excited to share that This Guy Sucked was selected by Apple Podcasts as one of their top ten best new shows of 2025! How wild is that?! Check out the rest of the list here: apple.co/bestsofar

Device for Dealing with People who take Opposite Window Seats in a Bus or Train and then Shout at Each Other Across the Aisle.

@thisguysucked.com I think I may have a candidate speaker for you 😏

About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?” No. Fuck you. I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.

When the FDA Commissioner goes on TV to elevate an unverified anecdote about a "friend's parent" dying from a COVID vaccine—while ignoring safety data from 1M+ people published 48 hours earlier—we have an institutional problem. This misleading rhetoric is deeply irresponsible. 🧵

14 - French aviation has always been better than is usually given credit. Their aviation history is amazing and you should really be following @aviationmarlene.bsky.social

Given the imminent release of a chat I had with Seth and Jon for the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War Podcast, where one of the tangents was me rambling semi-coherently about aircraft protection, I've decided to update a thread I did on it related to Japanese aircraft from many years ago.

Ground crew members ride on the wing to guide the pilot during taxiing, as the forward visibility of the big-nosed Thunderbolt was poor. "SLATE: 15 MARCH 1945. CAMERAMAN: MCCORD. […] P-47 taxiing past ruined building with crew chief on wing of aircraft" 🎞️📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/67051?obj...

I wish everyone involved a "having teams open makes the rest of the electronics in your car experience heavy slowdown leaving you stuck at the light"

🧵 There is an airplane exhibited in the open space area of the Pima Air & Space Museum that is surprisingly shiny despite having been manufactured during WWII. This is the Budd RB-1 Conestoga. 🔗📷 pimaair.org/museum-aircr...

Herewith, a short thread on what I learned from this book, Yóuzhèngzhì Luómǎ Pīnyīn 郵政制羅馬拼音 (Postal Romanization), published in 1961 by the Directorate General of Posts in Taiwan. (Check out the prices in NT$, US$, and HK$. Books were cheap then.)

On the feast day of Mary Magdalene, an extraordinarily expressive depiction in wood by the great Donatello, 1455.

Aircraft recognition quiz. This should be easy as they are all production types and thus not obscure at all! Four answers required. Multiple attempts allowed, but wait at least six hours.

Aircraft recognition quiz. This should be easy as they are all production types and thus not obscure at all! Four answers required. Multiple attempts allowed, but wait at least six hours.

New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.  news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2... 🏺

The Amiot 370 was a prototype "raid" aircraft produced in 1937 to take part in the New York-Paris air race scheduled for the same year. The race was eventually cancelled for safety reasons. It was then used for a series of payload speed records.

People throw out treasure. I’m not going to say which library was throwing out this scrapbook of newspaper clippings from 1910-1911 DOCUMENTING THE ENTIRE CRIPPEN CASE, but it’s in the right hands now (mine). Literal archival material, including things I’d never seen before. #StoryofaMurder

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.