Donald Trump every single day: "Here's a definitive statement that contradicts my definitive statement from yesterday and which won't be true tomorrow. Also, it's a lie."

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

We just published a paper in Geoscience Communication where we measure the impact of reading climate myth rebuttals available on our Skeptical Science homepage - a technically challenging research with some nuanced, complex results. sks.to/sksexperiment (1/n)

First, Outlook fails. Now: Houston, Bluetooth won't pair. Artemis II is NASA's most relatable mission yet.

this 8 year old tweet of mine emerged recently and just, man, what I would give to return to a time when these were the main issues with The Internet

Happy April Fool's Gold Day! #minerals #GeologistProblems

hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY

Turns out, if you give the Republicans an inch, they'll take all your civil rights. Stop hoping one last concession or compromise will finally stop them.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

Agreed. It is not safe to visit America when criminals control our government. This is America’s darkest and most dangerous hour.

I guess there are still some people who are OK with this and whose "legitimate concerns" we (the "out-of-touch elite") should use as a trigger for self-flagellation. Actually, no. They are monsters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.” Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?

The cautious became more alarmed. But the dismissive (not to say ignorant) didn't change, and they became more powerful.

Als de VVD D66 kan dwingen tot een coalitie met JA21 zie ik geen reden waarom D66 de VVD niet nog beter kan dwingen tot een coalitie met GroenLinks-PvdA.

A better phrase would be “no longer evitable”. Nothing stopped us other than our own stubbornness. But staying below 1.5 is now infeasible.

I'm pretty cool, but I cancel plans a lot

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

All it takes for evil to prosper is 𝖿̶𝗈̶𝗋̶ ̶𝗀̶𝗈̶𝗈̶𝖽̶ ̶𝗉̶𝖾̶𝗈̶𝗉̶𝗅̶𝖾̶ ̶𝗍̶𝗈̶ ̶𝖽̶𝗈̶ ̶𝗇̶𝗈̶𝗍̶𝗁̶𝗂̶𝗇̶𝗀̶ consistently experiencing zero fucking consequences

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Nothing highlights the hypocrisy of the MAGAs as clearly as the fact they're upset that people are simply posting direct quotes from Charlie Kirk to show the kind of person he was.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

You said "Let's help people!" in a shrill tone whereas I said "Let's hurt people" calmly and with measured grace.

“I think it's worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal." - Charlie Kirk

FRIEND: Are you okay? ME: *feeling a serious health crash coming on* ME: Oh, yeah, I'm just a bit tired

I've run out of spoons, and I'm switching to flame throwers

As someone who has been in near complete isolation since the pandemic began, this hits real close to home I saw almost everyone I knew, everyone I thought cared to do the right thing, give up on simple precautions to keep people safe Now I don't feel safe around anyone We got left behind 😞

Some days you get out of bed and do a thing. Some days you stay in bed and suffer for that thing you did. It's called balance.

To add some more context, Orville Wright piloted both of these aircraft.

🧑‍🚀 #NationalMoonDay #Apollo11 July 20, 1969 The Apollo 11 Anniversary 🏺🧪 First we flew in the air for a few yards. And then soon we flew in space... all the way to the moon.

grok 2 vs grok 3

I think most people (myself included) don’t have an intuition for orders of magnitude (e.g., the difference between millionaire and billionaire). One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Is the new advertising model in digital spaces to annoy you with obnoxious ads until you pay for them to go away?

The famous people who you declare getting cancer to be “karma” will never see your words. But your friends with cancer will see. Your friends who have lost loved ones to cancer will see. Your friends with chronic illness who have symptoms you mock like incontinence will see— Oh yeah. That’s me.

This, by the way, is how you do journalism. No he-said-she-said. Just one biting, factual sentence immediately after the asenine quote.

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️ Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

Trump promised to do this on the campaign trail. He said he'd do it on Day 1 but I guess he was a little busy then. Always trust a dictator when they explain how they will introduce tyranny.

Not surprising that an administration that rose to power on the spread of bullshit and propaganda is terminating the funding of researchers studying these phenomena. We are just receiving word about funding cancellations re: existing grants to members of our team and our colleagues.

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

It took 12 years for the medical journal Lancet to retract Wakefield’s paper falsely tying vaccines to autism. It took 6 years for Salon and Rolling Stone to retract a fraudulent article by RFK Jr. We need media and scientific journal editors to be vigilant about misinformation disguised as science.