Jeff Piotrowski (TwisterChasers on YT) is my favorite storm chaser and his coverage of Hurricane Milton tonight has been great, but the visuals here fall short of his excitement and descriptions. I know, we don't see or feel all of what's happening, but this got me 😂

A lot of discussion about how to handle "troll politics" would be helped by popularizing the term "reactionary" Y'know like, "don't be a reactionary asshole" Or "trumpist politics is exploiting the unique American deference to reactionary sentiment" Something like that

New in PN: Comey and the lessons of pre-capitulation "Other institutionalists are going to face the kinds of choices and incentives that Comey did. Hopefully they will look at the sad, gutted remnants of his beloved Justice Department and choose a different path."

RFK Jr in this hearing:

Rand Paul: "It might be ironic if in the end the protectionist flavor of the day - the tariffs we're putting on - brought together our enemies & ultimately led to the collapse of the reserve currency of the world... if you put a 50% tariff on Indian goods, India will become closer to China & Russia"

Why, are we like...paying Copilot or something?

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

A hopeful outlook on AI

Hard not to read this and wonder why the New York Times observed these weird cash payments at Adams events for weeks without reporting on it at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...

The Times saw the mayor's people handing out bribes in public last month and refused to write about it till after somebody else broke a related story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

They just spotted a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. ATTENTION TWELVE YEAR OLDS - THE ADULTS ARE WRONG ABOUT SEVERAL THINGS YOU ARE HOPING ARE TRUE. LIKE THINGS YOU GIVE UP ON BY AGE THIRTY OR SO, BUT OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS SOME JERK WILL BE LIKE "OH HEY WAIT." SOMETHING TO WATCH FOR.

today at the park we saw wild turkeys and some dude behind us was like “bro look at those owls” so what I’m saying is don’t ever let anyone make you feel stupid. you can visually identify a turkey

Kenny has been working on this with a white hot passion forever.

It's incredible that all of the people who would shit on Wikipedia as a source because "lol anyone can edit that" are now 100% reliant on asking questions to the lying robot machine that no human has any oversight over

Trump on undocumented farm workers: "People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They've tried, we've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally ... they don't get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die."

“.. While you can quibble with this or that estimate or figure, the order of magnitudes make it pretty clear that AI itself is not enough to buoy the economy, sales, or earnings ahead ..” @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

These guys are burying the lede THEY FOUND RED PANDA FOSSILS

The demographic of people who have played ARK are all like "daeodon?!"

A fun linguistic anthropology insight into the Tower of Babel story: the area directly surrounding the origin of a language will have the largest variety of dialects. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Maurice Jara plays (and actually was) a WW2 veteran and so this line against a white mob kinda puts it all on the table.

You'd think "pterosaurs" & "kink-shaming" are two things that couldn't go hand-in-hand, and yet, a homoerotic scandal between two intellectual equals led to the discovery of the first pterosaur. Buckle in for some Crazy Rich Prussians & their unlikely connection to the discovery of pterosaurs 🧵

Just came across this guy on tiktok who plays connect4 with random people on the street and I know it’s a joke, yet this person is doing more to ground himself in his environment, connect (ha) with the people around him, while getting the people he plays with to take a micro break in their day 🥲

Don’t forget

Agami Heron yoga practice the other day at Agami Island. (I wonder why they named it that?) #herons #birds #costarica #nature

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

It's a manikin

I'm confused, I thought there was nobody on the list lol what...right? If you threaten to cut down a tree in the middle of a forest that officially doesn't exist

The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.

uh…hunter biden for president?

The Mike Douglas Show – Season 13, Episode #218 (July 17, 1974), featuring Muhammad Ali. Nearly 50 years later, politicians still refuse to center the real concerns impacting the Black community. This episode is worth watching; a fiery exchange unfolds between Ali and fellow guest Sly Stone. 👇🏾

Remember when Progressive/DemSoc candidates won in Nevada and the DNC quite literally decided to start a second Democrat party in the state and let the whole thing burn down?

Week one of being a dad I was like omg I got it - I'll invent doctor octopus arms

When someone asks what parenting be like… 😂🤣 🐵 🥰

The newly described (just a few days ago) Shri rapax (bottom) and its close relative the famous Velociraptor mongoliensis (top) 🪶 #paleoart #dinosaurs #art

For one whole second I was like "wait who is Mike Pence?"

If I pay attention to detailed fossil skulls it seems there's a neat trend where an early lineage will have distinctly separate skull bones, and in later species when the function has been set for a while the skull bones will fuse into a more solid mass.

I think we gotta hang some people for this? This is treason. There really isn't another word for this.

I don't understand the difference between penuinz0 and asmongold. Like if I look at one I forget what the other looks and sounds like.

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle

Last night 🌵🙌🏽 Cereus peruvianus #BloominginJuly (no music) 🌱 #gardenshour #plantsky #gardenfeed #bloomscrolling #flowers

The reason Batman doesn’t cover his whole face is so the police know he’s white. Think about it.

They did everything but break out a gigantic hook to get Trump out of the shot

“What do you mean normal men?”

Watch till the end

At first I thought AI, but found her YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo6t...