My 3-year-old makes an inference consistent with all available data (i.e., Bluey books): "they don't wear clothes in Australia."

@boston.gov when?

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benjaminsiegel.github.io/enough-is-en... I've just signed this open letter to @mayorwu.boston.gov to resume the many stalled Safe Streets Projects across the City. I'm shaken and devastated by the death of Louisa Gag, cyclist and safe streets advocate.

Given the age range on bsky there must be a *lot* of us who keep having to stop and puzzle out that our feed isn't talking about the United States Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

5-4 on reading plain English. This court must be destroyed.

Boston needs to recoup the damage massive passenger cars/trucks cause, both in deaths and road wear, by adding a weight component to our city car tax @wutrain.bsky.social @ruthzee.bsky.social @clrhenrysantana.bsky.social @edflynnforboston.bsky.social @enriquepepen.bsky.social

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

What's wrong with the physics arxiv today? @arxiv.bsky.social The arXiv website shows no new papers in any physics category, but the InspireHEP database does (search, e.g., "find primarch hep-th"). For a resource as widely used as arXiv, there really should be some kind of status announcement....

“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

fixed your headline

I feel especially great about Brad Lander's whole trajectory through the mayoral campaign to where things stand now. A real win for menschism.

Relatedly: let me advertise my newest paper, which may have been buried in today's extra-long arxiv listing. We provide more evidence for a claim I've been making for a few years, that the discovery of an axion could be a clue about the fundamental energy scale of quantum gravity.

A student brought me the perfect gift: an authentic box of "AXION."

How Boston's reflecting pool stacks up - we run the numbers www.universalhub.com/2026/how-bos...

lebensprawn

They've discovered the cop slide. www.threads.com/@stuart.g.p/...

Good work, South Enders! (I'm out of town at the moment, so a bit disappointed to miss this, which was filmed in the closest thing I have to a back yard.)

Taxing the rich: it's good. #mapoli www.raiseupma.org/news/dor-fai...

My colleagues overwhelmingly voted to restrict our own academic freedom by capping the number of A's for undergrads in a class. I sometimes teach advanced grad classes where maybe 6 of the 20 students are undergrads, and all do spectacularly well. I don't know what will happen to such classes now.

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

Translations of the Odyssey should just use the word "polytropic"; that way, we know that Odysseus satisfies the Lane-Emden equation, and I would never have gotten there from "complicated."

For those keeping score at home, in the last few years we’ve learned that a university president can lose their job for arguably questionable citation practices in their early work, but not for intentionally hitting students with their car. I wonder if there were any other salient differences 🤔

Going through an issue of the TLS from last December, I find a philosophy pun courtesy of Nigel Warburton that surely deserves wider currantsy.

Yes, please, and make the zone cover all of Back Bay and the South End as well. Too many drivers speed through the residential streets where I walk with my young kid.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

With my government grant in limbo for > 1 year, I looked at the Templeton site to see if I could try my luck there (after many past failures). Nope! This year it's only experimental searches for new physics (great! but not me) and aliens (🤨). Also they specify that applicants must use AI *and* ML.

In my experience, a lot of Harvard faculty may vote for Democrats or identify as liberal but if you talk to them they are basically conservative: many think their taxes are too high and commute from far-flung suburbs because they view cities as unliveable and crime-ridden, for instance.

Guess who’s bringing all the love and joy to DTX this fine evening! 🔥❤️💯

"Cypherpunks is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly anarchist) cryptographers who broke from mailing lists in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, forming little democratic message boards of twenty to forty people with their typewriters in each other's garages"

If you're wondering why I've been so quiet for the past 5 weeks, it's because I was writing this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.05095 An epoch of cosmology apparently unrelated to the Hubble tension puts pressure on *all* early-time solutions to the Hubble tension--background provided below 👇 1/6 ⚛️🧪

Buddy, voting against the war isn't going to stop Trump. If the nominal opposition leader can't call for his removal from office today right now immediately, he should also be relieved of his job.

Where's Congress? Do your job and rein in our out-of-control, imperialist president. (2/2)

A bit disturbed that the latest update from my son's daycare is about them building a leprechaun trap. Keep that Eric Adams stuff in New York, please.

Why call it "rendered impossible due to sleep deprivation" when "cancelled by woke" is right there.

Donald Trump does not care about civilians in the region or the safety of US Troops. He’s illegally bypassing Congress and starting a war with Iran that has already killed dozens of children. This is unacceptable. Congress must take action to rein in Trump and save lives.

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

No one told me working at Harvard would mean getting to read all the private emails between my colleagues and the world’s most famous pedophile.

There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity. They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability. My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.

We must stop funding DHS.

You look at what Spanberger gets done in one day and it becomes even more depressing that Massachusetts gets stuck with a dud governor like Maura Healey

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .