The M1.09 flare which is occuring now from AR 4248 also is launching a nice CME with a large blob of material propagating away from the Sun, highly visible in the 304 Å filter. It is a nice eruption headed away from us, unfortunately...

A key reason we have social security today is the Catholic Church. I know. Yes, that Catholic church. Back in the 1930's Catholics held that government institutions and programs must be designed “always with a view to the common good.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s... An unknown sea otter was spotted stealing surfboards at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz this week. Is 841 back to her old ways or have other otters learned to hang 10? Check out my latest for @nytimes.com

i could forgive a random normie who was too young to live in the pre-ACA world for not understanding what it accomplished, but a NYT economic reporter really does have a professional obligation to know better than this

We are hundreds of miles on the interstate past Nixon's crimes that look like harmless school pranks by comparison. Presidency-ending for anyone else since WWII. At a minimum, an immediate SecState resignation. But we've decided nothing matters for this One Special Boy & his authoritarian playmates.

I love when everyone is mad at someone but all I see is Blocked.

my balls have been STOLEN

www.bbc.com/news/article... Stolen treasures, a crown dropped as thieves fled - and serious questions for Louvre security. that macron tried to steal a crown for the lyin' crooked rapist.

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

Congratulations to @cathywilcox.bsky.social for her Bronze Stanley award in Editorial/Political Cartoonist category. #australiancartoonistsassociation #stanleyawards

The countdown to the end of DRC's most recent #Ebola outbreak has begun with the release from hospital of the last known patient. Of 64 cases (53 confirmed, 11 probables), there have been 45 deaths & 19 survivors. +35,000 people were vaccinated in this response. www.afro.who.int/news/last-eb...

Tigers are ambush predators. In dense green jungles, they stalk silently and invisibly on padded feet, leaping only when it's too late for the prey animal to escape. So why the heck are they bright orange? Let's talk about the tiger's camouflaged pajamas. (📷: Dave Pearson)

So, the colorblind prey can't see orange (see image left/right below for trichromatic/dichromatic views), but humans can... which is also why we make high-vis hunting gear orange: the deer see it as dark green. But why not just make dark-green fur? It's much harder than it sounds!

There are no versions of melanin that produce a distinct dark green, which is why green and blue is so rare in mammals, who derive many pigment pathways from abundant melanin. If orange works just as well, eumelanin and pheomelanin are more than capable of fine-tuning the right shade.

The stripes & lighter parts do still play a role in 'classic camouflage', breaking up the outline of a tiger among the grass or trees with darker patches that mimic shadows. So now you know the story of the tiger's pajamas.

Lowkey good thing about this video is knowing that his buddies are gonna give him shit about it at their bigot poker games until the day he dies. bsky.app/profile/moll...

Here's my most recent from newsletter Kal Draws The Line. Kaltoons.substack.com# #trump #Chicago #Midwest #middleeast #cartoon #satire

We allow students to use handwritten „cheat sheets“ in the written exam of the introductory astro block course. This time, for the first time, we asked for those “cheat sheets” to be handed in, along with the examen. And I’m awed by the handwritten microfiche some of the sheets represent :-) 🔭⚛️🧪

Incredible honor to received the Susanne V. Hering award this year at @americanaerosol.bsky.social meeting!!

Irving Berlin 1941. youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs?...

David Byrne doing traffic patrol for a protest and getting the cars to honk out This Must Be the Place

How many Scaramuccis did Trump's Middle East peace plan last?

Congratulations to droweafr.bsky.social for his Bronze Stanley award in Caricaturist category. #australiancartoonistsassociation #stanleyawards

Just learned about the genre of "dad jokes." Here's one for you: I hear that the CEO of IKEA just became Prime Minister of Sweden. --What's his first official act? Well, I hear he's going to spend the weekend assembling his cabinet.

"Democratic backsliding" is the process through which modern authoritarianism happens.

I'd say good riddance to Betfred and similar predators.

I drew a syndicated comic/panel with Tribune 30 years ago, called TRUE! Interesting that so many of them still look fresh. I've been animating them and thinking of bringing back the evergreens as an animated e-book. Here's one I just posted as a YouTube short at youtube.com/@caglecast

Something from ‘space’ may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

Pretty in pink #photography #bloomscrolling

Caught this cutie hiding a nut in the bushes below my balcony. Saw me and decided to find a new hidey spot!

"President Donald Trump announced Sunday he would end all US payments and subsidies to Colombia, marking a dramatic escalation in his back-and-forth with the country’s president, Gustavo Petro." wild that the admin keeps managing to find new lows www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...

Trump will not leave office voluntarily. The GOP and Trump will go to any length to maintain control of Congress next year. I won't say that either of these is 100% certain, but it's close.

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed. THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

this would have been a great sign to have out yesterday! 'finish him' (impose death on him) in middle egyptian

www.popsci.com/science/miss... hymn to babylon Babylonian text missing for 1,000 years deciphered with AI.

Butternut squash soup w/ginger & Thai red curry paste. Roast butternut squash pieces (I had 1/4 of a red onion also) @ 375, 25 min. Put in pot & boil 20 minutes covered w/ 32 fl oz chicken broth. Add 2 t Thai red curry paste + 2 t grated fresh ginger, S&P. Run a stick blender through to emulsify.

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With alt text. Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

Every ai video sucks because they’re never more than their prompts, you’re like ‘yeah that’s a video of a dinosaur eating chips whilst skateboarding,” but like that’s it - you could just post your prompt and it’d be the same. But every real piece of film contains MORE than just its script

From @hmns.bsky.social: This fossil of a giant crinoid colony (Seirocrinus subangularis) attached to a piece of driftwood was found in Germany. Crinoid means "lily-like", but they're not flowers, they're animals, the ancestral line leading to modern sea stars & sea urchins.

By anchoring to driftwood, they were able spread more rapidly, avoid depleting any particular region of food items. Here's a NatGeo video of a feather star looking like a biblically accurate marine angel, because I find them mesmerizing to watch.

10/ The Moral Anyone can make nonsense look scientific. True literacy means spotting the flaws — not just reading the font. 🧠 Stay skeptical. 🔬 Stay curious. @IntegralAnswers

1/ 🚨 BREAKING: A “new study” claims that over 90% of autistic children consumed breast milk and/or formula. Sounds alarming — until you realize nearly 100% of all babies do. Let’s explore how fake science dresses up common sense in academic fonts. 👇