sucks for everywhere else that New Mexico got the best flag and all we had to do was have an anthropologist steal a sacred symbol, force it into the public domain as a flag, and decades later work on finding affirmative ways to pay back the Zia pueblo for their cultural heritage turned state symbol

Chinese scientists built a robot antelope to better study the evasive creatures from up close. To their surprise, the herd took the robot in as one of their own! For @dtnsshow.bsky.social 🧪 Read or listen here: nicoleackermans.com/2025/09/22/w...

Yesterday’s assignment at the Kirk started at four am and went until ten pm; it was physically and mentally taxing. If it’s cool with y’all I’m gonna look at photos of pygmy hippos all day today.

International protection for animals is a scattershot process that leaves myriad creatures open for exploitation. Could CITES, the world's largest agreement covering the international wildlife trade, be made more efficient and systematic? These scientists think so www.biographic.com/triaging-the...

Limited. 19 bucks for a cola and a bottle of water. The soft pretzels were very popular; they had churros too. Think they may have had a small dippin dots set up, also? Outta my price range.

jfc

This is EXCELLENT. But now I feel compelled to air my one complaint about this book. Snyder uses Hamlet (!!!!) as an example of a good and principled man who doesn’t stand up to tyranny until too late. BUT: Hamlet is a spoiled bitch and a bully, not a principled man.

NPR's @ayesharascoe.bsky.social heads to the club — the Earlybirds Club — and dances until the break of 8 p.m.

i think this is actually more propaganda on openai’s part bc they do not list “this is just how LLMs work, on a structural level” as one of the reasons but that’s the truth LLMs can never not “hallucinate” bc they’re not intelligences, they don’t even know what words are much less know meaning

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Been at the TPUSA event for the NYT for about 6 hours so far. Main event is supposed to kick off an hour from now. Place is reasonably full; I’ve heard they’ve been turning folks away at the doors for ~an hour now. Follow their live blog to see my photos and vertical videos from inside the crowd.

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison. TikTok(2k): 139 Instagram (22k): 719 Tumblr (13k): 12k Bsky (52k): 22k

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Nations ratify the world’s first treaty to protect international waters apnews.com/article/high... If you want more detail understanding what the BBNJ is and how it fits in, we covered that a few years ago in: Marine Protected Areas, Explained hakaimagazine.com/features/mar...

My story from Thursday about the post, the subpoena, and challenges filed to block DHS's effort to unmask IG accounts that share info about agents. Last night a judge ordered Meta not to hand over the data for one of the accounts, for now. theintercept.com/2025/09/18/d...

I've read a ton of Graham Greene and enjoyed a few of his films. One thing that I've kinda picked up over the years, Greene loved British people and despised the United Kingdom. Our Man isn't as good as his best films but it's still pretty fun.

"Pakistanis installed the equivalent of half the national grid in solar capacity in 2024, often figuring out how to do it themselves from videos on TikTok and YouTube." www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-S...

Why does Todd Pipes have that accent in Deep Blue Something's Breakfast at Tiffany's? He's from Denton, Texas.

it's not a blog if it hasn't got an rss feed, and conversely, it is a blog if it does.

Yo, but how’d the sheep get it? 👀

2023 The origins of chlamydia in koalas aren't confirmed, but scientists believe it's likely the marsupials initially caught the disease from exposure to the feces of infected sheep and cattle. Then it's spread sexually, or passed from mother to offspring www.npr.org/2025/09/14/n...

Chlamydia in koalas can cause blindness, infertility and even death.

this is a story of great importance and I hope everybody will read it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not a lot of people ghost riding the whip these days.

NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it. At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country. make time for this new feature, you won't regret it

If you’re a true sicko, check out the related article “How Bloomberg News Vetted the Epstein Emails” with all the sicko details: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

This is a no-brainer

your brush with fame is hunting you like a monster in a horror movie. hope you can outrun it! www.theverge.com/internet-cul...

NEW: Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield had refused to pay for a North Carolina man to get four weeks of treatment at a psychiatric hospital. Despite his two suicide attempts, doctors working for Highmark determined the care was not “medically necessary.” By @deldeib.bsky.social

justice for humbaba

Just finished reading Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. It's a perfect non-fic sequel to The American Southwest. But if you're in the mood for a fiction sequel, I'd recommend @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social's tense thriller The Water Knife.

JOB HUNT HELP: Does anyone On Here work for Nintendo of America or know anyone who works there / has a connection there?

Maricopa County is cracking down on the proliferation of proper al pastor tacos. They’ve seized and fined at least 55 vendors. The proper method for making al pastor on a trompo is not possible under the current food safety regulations. Tacos al Pastor, marinated and slow cooked, are delicious.

when not fighting bluto or wooing olive oyl, popeye just wants you to consider a…

September is suicide prevention month and I wrote about it last September. Although a year old, the article is still worth the read.

A slide from my med school syphilis talk

I love a ceiling fan and it's honestly been a game-changer for my sleep but I wish I'd been more involved in selecting a model that didn't have the speed settings Low, Low+ and Airplane

Went to see The American Southwest again: when the Hoover Dam was introduced, somebody booed.

This week, on HEAT DEATH! @wnwagner.bsky.social traces the ghosts that lurk all around us -- plastic lawns, vanished cherry trees, and transformed creeks. It's a lovely, moody piece and I'm super proud to run it.

"Many countries now routinely offer wildfire crews half-face respirator masks. But in the United States, the Forest Service tells its workers not to wear masks on the fire line." A heartbreaking and infuriating @nytimes.com report on the hazards of fighting fires in this country. (gift article)

Why do cops suck so bad at catching murderers, it’s almost always whoever is the highest tier on the SAG theatrical wage table.

Is there somewhere I can buy bulk unpackaged fortune cookies?

No spoilers but if yr a @bengoldfarb.bsky.social stan, you’ll probably flip out.

Go see The American Southwest. See it huge. You’ll enjoy it.

Why I love the web, part 99999: Search every visible word on New York City’s streets.

This is why God invented Bandcamp Friday.

I didn't have space for it in the original, so for my paid subscribers I wrote about the absolutely wild tale of Munther Bilbeisi, who smuggled millions of dollars worth of coffee into Miami in the 80s with the help of a shady international bank and right wing despots. #CoffeeSky

Like, in your life: how many grandmas have you met?