My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

My brain is short circuiting tonight over how pathetic this email is. Really got em with that "I implied women are only 50/51ths as intelligent as men" zinger. If I were the 63 yo former secretary of the treasury, I'd definitely think it was a cool & clever thing to email to my convicted pedo buddy.

Gonna tell my kids this was Cats (2019).

Listening to an Elizabethan era album today and feeling this meme deeply. (As I do often because this meme captures my very essence.)

via @xaqwg.bsky.social a good NYT article on the great Moon Duchins www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/s... #gerrymandering

Tfw the book you’re reading cites you. 😆 Hi, @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social, glad you liked my blog post about a silly way to draw a lute. www.scientificamerican.com/blog/roots-o...

Sharing this here now because I promised I would and I shared it earlier this week in my newsletter and we're half full already.

These yogurt flatbreads are way too good smittenkitchen.com/2020/04/laye... I make my own yogurt and sometimes a batch isn't quite right. My most recent batch must not have fermented all the way or something and was really runny and developing off flavors. Still worked great in this recipe!

I drew the meme! Day 6 - Ratio! #rattober2025 #rattober #rats

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

I'm sure someone ( #MTBoS #ITeachMath #MathSky ) has a go-to CSS color palette for accessible text on a website... Any pointers?

All can be measured by the standard of the capybara. Everyone is lesser than or greater than the capybara. Everything is taller or shorter than the capybara. Everything is mistaken for a Brazilian dance craze more or less frequently than the capybara. ... www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dress #smbc

Inexplicable thrift store find OTD: a framed ceramic tile illustration of the E8 lattice. (Yes, I’m moving in less than a month. No, I should not be acquiring new knick-knacks. Yes, I bought it anyway.)

You would call the "time and temperature" number to reset your clocks after the power had gone out (or if you didn't know if they were right for some other reason).

*sits down backward in my ancient Mesopotamian chair* you know who ELSE blew up the copper market www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

POLITICS IS NOT A SPORT. YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO COVER POLITICS LIKE IT'S ALL A BIG GAME.

"saved" is an interesting variant spelling of "stole." People paid for benefits they were not receiving! It recently took me multiple months of phone calls to my insurance company to make them cover a screening that I called in advance to make sure would be covered!

Every women’s restroom at this airport has a line with like 8-12 people out the door and none of the men’s rooms do, which makes me wonder why women’s rooms aren’t larger than men’s by default. Someone must have figured out what a reasonable ratio would be between men’s and women’s stalls

"had this happened to my family, I would have done everything in my power to mock them and use their deaths to advance my political agenda."

I'm old enough to remember when Mike Lee couldn't vote for Trump because he cared about religious minorities and the constitution. www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/u... He was no peach then, don't get me wrong, but he's really leaning into all the worst impulses of the right these days. So embarrassing!

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

This sounds like an amazing opportunity for math teachers and communicators or anyone who just wants to know a little bit about what modern math research is!

Not @nytpitchbot.bsky.social: Whether they're trying to live safely as their authentic selves or looking for permission to bully, beat, or kill people for living as their authentic selves, all Utahns' viewpoints are equally worthy of respect. by Spencer Cox www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Something I did in the other place was the Math Photo Challenge-a weekly invitation (June-July) to notice the world through a mathematical lens and share a photo. I’m giving it a go on Bluesky. First prompt drops June 5th. Everyone’s welcome to join! 📷 Tag your posts with #MathPhoto25. #ITeachMath

Bad news, you can't rely on an inevitable collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies in 5 billion years time to solve your problems any more.

by carefully mixing 10% cream with 1% skim milk, you can unlock forbidden milk percentages the government doesn't want you to know about, like 7.725%

Excited that the Outside In Deep Space 9 edition is almost out. 171 essays about 171 DS9 episodes, including mine, where I wax eloquent about root beer. Preorder here: www.atbpublishing.com/product/outs...

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Today is a red letter day in media history where a major newspaper managed to passive voice the actual publishing of itself

the thing that is tragic about this is that 1 million people would love to write you such a reading list that is actually real

Not only AI-generated the book list, but also sources and quotes in other articles! At least when Jonah Lehrer fabricated quotes for his book, he fabricated them with his own human mind!

Need a nice late afternoon read about the mathematics of firefly synchrony? Here you go! From @evelynjlamb.bsky.social nautil.us/the-mathemat...

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This person has been detained in shitty conditions for 6 and a half weeks, a month and a half, grabbed off the street with no warning. Imagine what that would do to your life, job, people who depend on you, your responsibilities and ongoing payments. Do not forget the damage done to her.

<diligently updating the list of career paths on the university’s “Major in Mathematics!” poster>

something to think about

"Salt Lake City’s move to bypass state law is a clear waste of time and taxpayer resources." Unlike the Utah legislator's move to ban pride flags, which was a good use of time and resources. Give me a break! Pass a malicious law, get malicious compliance with that law.

“Paint me like one of your French girls”

Evelyn Sander just shared a link to an arXiv article she and her collaborators posted: "3D Printing of Invariant Manifolds in Dynamical Systems" arxiv.org/abs/2504.15884 Here are some screenshots of the article. Lovely!

I'm always curious to see what mathematicians did during World War II, but somehow I had missed the story of Josephine Mehlberg, who rescued thousands of people by posing as a countess: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephi...

So there is an intersection I walk through at few times a week. I'm crossing N-S. Northbound cars T into the E-W st, so they all turn either right or left on the green & there are no southbound cars for left turners to worry about. I came close to getting hit by a left turner ~1/4 of the time