Aurora holy moly!! In the city. #Photography #Minnesota #AuroraBorealis

Glad my sister alerted me to the Northern Lights in Iowa … they faded noticeably even as we were watching. #aurora

Damn that is one ugly chart. (via MS) $XLU

"I've gone ahead and notified Nyarlathotep's hierophants that we'll give them everything they asked for, and will also throw in a few sacrificial firstborn children for the inconvenience." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...

An observatory detected the first radio signal from the interstellar object 3I/Atlas. Here's what it means. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Weather, cruise ship, pad issues delay Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch attempt - Blue Origin was set to launch its New Glenn rocket with a pair of Mars-bound satellites from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon, but a series of issues stymied the attempt. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/09/b...

Rubin Observatory Discovers Surprise ‘Tail’ on Iconic Galaxy www.nature.com/articles/d41...

From November 20 - 22, everyday citizens, movement leaders, veterans, musicians, comedians, pastors, and farmers will peacefully descend on the seat of power in Washington, DC to demand unmistakably that this lawless administration come to an end. www.mobilize.us/flar... #RemoveTheRegime

Reporting from @ddayen.bsky.social says Schumer almost orchestrated a team of Democrats to concede to Republicans without any hard commitments. Then his caucus, including some members of a supposed working group, balked. prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This obituary-slash-“what happened to Watson?”, by the late great Sharon Begley, makes me grateful that prewritten obits are a thing. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Just accepted at Nature Mental Health: Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3 1/9

Don’t threaten us with a good time.

VICTORY: Federal court dismisses class action lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, filed by the “Center for American Rights” www.thefire.org/news/victory...

FWIW - With consumer confidence already low, I am not sure that when the time comes bailouts to those atop the K will even be on offer. The societal toxicity will be far too great.

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...

Last year. This year. @cnbc.com

He and the Republicans could really truly solve this conundrum if they were just willing spend a bit of our tax dollars to let people eat food and go to the doctor but they’d rather do this

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

Do we really need something 'imaginary' to describe reality? Generations of physicists have wondered about the role of imaginary numbers in the heart of quantum mechanics. A few years ago, researchers claimed it was indispensable. Now, two teams have found a way to vanquish 𝓲—sort of. My reporting:

Standing with Pramila Jayapal on Capitol Hill, calling on Dems to hold the line on Healthcare! ✊ 🔊 @jayapal.house.gov

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A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

According to this ranking, Canada’s reputation has improved since 2024. We are now the 2nd most reputable country in the world. The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe, telehealth requests for medication abortion skyrocketed. For people in rural areas, telehealth is a lifeline that is safe, private, and effective. Thanks to Dem leadership and UW researchers, WA remains a place where your rights and your health come first.

Really? You're gonna make me do this one? Thou Shalt Not Starve Your Own People. There you go.

Digital Artist: In my work I invented the Gowl Detector as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

This is how you incinerate a field of science. 🔭🧪

As feds seal off labs from staff at NASA Goddard in prep for hasty evac+demolition, union reports: “Closure activities are proceeding during the government shutdown, which may be illegal under the Antideficiency Act and further endangers property.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

It seems this can't be emphasized enough. Chatbots and LLMs do not make mistakes (excepting any bugs in the code). They do not lie. They do not blackmail or cheat. They follow statistics. When the people who build these systems don't tell you this, they are either deluded or trying to mislead.

"Imagine being a single father who supports a series of younger and younger ex-wives on just a CEO’s salary, and having to tell your semi-estranged children that the caviar on their plate tomorrow night might be Osetra instead of Beluga."

THIS IS SO GOOD

Blue Origin's New Glenn is preparing to launch the ESCAPADE mission to Mars, with the heavy-lift, partially reusable rocket set to liftoff on Sunday, Nov. 9, at 2:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC). nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/new-... By Justin Davenport.

it's insanely funny for people to be talking like this about New York of all places, the city with a big metal lady in the harbor holding a sign that says "we love immigrants"

"and he ate TWO black holes, but he was STILL hungry" www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

NASA Administrator Nominee Would Shift Future of Space Exploration www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa... “Most importantly,” Cowing adds, “he was not a sore loser and thanked everyone for the opportunity and then went back to what he had been doing.” #NASA

Portal Space Systems says its orbit-shifting Starburst spacecraft will take advantage of technologies that are being developed for its more powerful Supernova satellite platform. www.geekwire.com/2025/portal-...

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

🔴 Brand new comic now up on @boingboing.net - Letters Home from The Second Civil War - boingboing.net/2025/11/05/t...

... And not just any Tiktok DJ ... attributed to @schmoyoho.bsky.social, one of the meme-meisters from @gregorybrothers.bsky.social !!!

China delays Shenzhou-20 crew return after suspected space debris impact China’s human spaceflight agency has delayed the scheduled return to Earth of a crewed Shenzhou spacecraft due to a suspected space debris impact.

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Democrats were winning across the country and state, while progressives in Seattle took some power back. The pendulum swings were fueled, polls showed, by animus to you know who.

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