I think I need to say that I — a Princeton Univ. Press author that also co-wrote a Covid-19 book on how politics failed us— didn’t review this manuscript. Anyway, if you want to know why over a million people died in a tragedy of choice, see Pandemic Politics: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

It's #ChristmasEve, so I depicted Parasaurolophus under UV light, lit up like a Christmas tree - you can check out the rationale of this #paleoart on my #Patreon if you're already bored of holiday TV. Oh, and Happy Christmas to those who celebrate! #sciart #fossils www.patreon.com/posts/146578...

Sharing my favorite piece that I painted this year for Day 24 of #ArtAdventCalendar Tisha Mark ©2025, Lighting the Dark, oil on linen, 20"x20" View the series here: tishamark.com/lighting-the... #art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt

…including with them spreading weird baseless rumors that he as an adult plays with porcelain dolls and b) that President Trump would EVER mock him behind his back as awkward and weird (he has)

I want to stress, also, how when we approached the Trump White House with a lengthy comment request on our findings, the only things they disputed - among the batch of lawless, titanically rancid shit - were a) Stephen miller was NOT regularly made fun of by his former GOP Hill colleagues…

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building

My non-expert observation- social media successfully created communities of men who told each other their shortcomings were the fault of anyone else.

From c. 3,600 years ago, an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a hedgehog curled-up in a ball! 🦔❤️ Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

The only solution is multiparty institutional reforms. These people exist in every rich democracy. They're 15-25% of the population. But other countries have electoral/legislative institutions that allow the pro-democracy supermajority, split among other parties, to govern bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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"This doesn't affect you because you animate, so you are fine." No. This sucks and this is really dangerous. In solidarity with all artists, Please be cautious. I know many will remain on Twitter because they have mostly everything here but be aware this time it's worse than the other times.

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

Modern day slave catchers, which has a disgusting parity with America's gross history around human trafficking/enslavement.

My goodness!!

This right here is a significant part of why it is a problem that you have so many universities - including prestigious, elite private universities - without a military historian, because their colleagues or the deans think military history is 'icky.'

Everyone should read The Two Victims of Plagiarism from @plagiarismtoday.com in the context of LLMs. LLMs provide plausible deniability unless we recognize what it means to choose to use the plagiarism machine: non-consensual ghost authorship in a blender. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2019/08/01/t...

Ahhh ummm hmmm ...no

Whoops, Kilauea is erupting again, can see it from here at the Haleakala summit!

This didn't make it in, but I tried telling the reporter that the reason students use LLMs with impunity is that 70% of faculty are temporary, contingent workers who require perfect student evals to continue having a job. Cheating is a problem we chose to have and pretend to be mad about.

US citizens are being deported

See, this is how I know I'm not built to have a proper "star" career, because if this had happened to me, I would've left. (Not a value statement.)

It is hilariously pathetic that they have to do this because gigantic scalper manbabies wont let kids have fun

WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people. Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Ashes at your hotel door?? In New Orleans??? You got 7 days to get right with the lord boo YOU’RE DONE

"Whether it is TransGiving, TransMAS, or an ordinary Wednesday, the intention remains constant: Show up. Feed people. Create a space where the Black trans community is cared for and celebrated."

I love Moore’s writing but like a lot of White leftists he underestimates the West’s need for scary others. Without Soviets white chauvinists turned first to Muslims & then to immigrants (read: Black people!) & trans folk to demonize. Some of this is a return to old scapegoats. 2/

Southern Fried Science social media traffic, 2025: Bluesky is the clear winner, with 12,000 visitors. Facebook: 9300 LinkedIn: 3100 Pinterest: 1600 Instagram: 900 Reddit: 700 Twitter: 600 Is 2020, with roughly the same traffic, Twitter drove 6,000 visitors.

Make him wear the rainbow sis

I'm going to do a deep dive into the last 15 years of traffic data and publish a full analysis, because it reveals some very interesting trends, but here is my initial takeaway: Bluesky in 2025 was more effective at driving traffic to our marine science website than Twitter. Ever. Was

See one thing every media outlet loves is a story about another outlet fucking up. It’s like catnip.

I think a case can be made that 9/11 gut-shot the long 20th century, and it took 15 years or so for the effects of that to fully make themselves known

Gary is giving us a good look at the Cooper’s Cap and dark red eyes 👀 🪶

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

Day 24 - Frances didn’t know what to wear for Christmas lunch. Knitwear seemed too predictable & tweeds were too dull. She decided that since her favourite film was The Wizard of Oz and her Venus ballgown had only seen the light of day once, she should appear in all her Glinda-ish gloriousness 1/2

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I had so much fun revisiting the movie Waiting to Exhale and its impact, which might be even bigger than you remember, for NPR. 30 years later, 'Waiting to Exhale' endures www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

I wondered this about China and then I realised the focus on Europe is because they think of it as a race traitor

Yes, the government can track your location. ICE and other agencies can track your movements using data gathered by apps and online ads on your phone, and sold by private companies. You probably don't realize how easily you can be found.

…yknow—the underlying problem is one that has been one forever, now: there’s a certain demographic of people that demand that “I can say whatever I want and my entertainment has to take it in stride”. These people use freedom of speech in tasteless ways, and uses law as a shield from reactions.

And there’s absolutely no way the street is going to find another use for this.

Letter's real, there's a whole host of reasons why the postdate would be late, or why it would get routed through Virginia The administration has tactically leaked a very damaging piece of evidence and hopes to cast doubt on future information by calling into question this one

They saved so little money causing the deaths of so many children.

Finally, I’ll say this. All the theories and ideas and calls for resistance that get posted here? They’ve gone through my mind and my boss’s mind too. But we know intimately what this administration is capable of - how lawless they are willing to be. How far they’re willing to take it.

I want to take a moment of reflection. I don’t post a lot of threads anymore (bc really who wants to read them) but this seems like a good time to make a few points about wins & losses & surviving & fighting during the Trump administration’s siege on democracy. Especially as 2025 comes to a close.