“You would hope that German officials would support scientists’ advice, but they have ignored it,” says one marine biologist who asked not to be identified because they feared repercussions. Must-read story by @martinenserink.bsky.social in @science.org. Feels like an encapsulation of our times 🧪

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I am sure that after those devastating decapitation strikes the remainders of the Iranian regime really regret to never have built a ballroom.

Imagine you just ran the first official sub 2 marathon except that there was the other guy who did it 30 seconds before you. (don't know who made this. Happy to give credit if someone has a source)

1:59:30 😵

Colombian mercenaries were tracked by device data from Colombia to El Fasher, via a UAE base, a Somali compound, and Libya. One device was in El Fasher during the genocidal RSF takeover. It connected to a network named "ATACADOR." Spanish for "attacker." static1.squarespace.com/static/69673...

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

Let's do USAID next! (not that I have much hope with SCOTUS).

Peace, but only during trading hours

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

the next time you hear "not all men" jfc

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

I wonder how they will get the negotiators there. Flying might not be an option for some team members.

Same. The only thing I know for certain now is that I will definitely not replace it with another kindle. It really comes across like a scam.

What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement. That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance. Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did.

Race communism is when those non-competitive runners joining hands crossing the finish line at marathons.

Unofficially renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War turned out to be quite appropriate. It is no longer being used to defend our interests. It is now being used to wage war for its own sake. That this renaming was done without Congressional action is also very on brand.

This falls under "Ask AI only things where you already know what the answer looks like."

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

Not because it is easy but because it is hard

It is definitely not aliens for once.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Wait until this guy hears of the JCPOA.

The Saxony-Anhalt State Museum of Prehistory welcomes you, real fuckin' sexy like you want www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/en/

And here I was, thinking the first rule of War Criming Club is that you do not talk about war criming. Seriously: When you announce that you will bomb powerplants and desalination installations for "retribution" it would take a very special kind of lawyer to argue that this is not a war crime.

Eve, after being tempted by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge:

Dress code: Flamenco skirt

„holding back the money that was long ago agreed to with signed and sealed contracts, and all“ USAID on line two for you, Mr. President. (and as usual, this is actually respecting procedures, unlike what DOGE did)

From the "Jobs-that-sound-incredibly-cool-and-you-did-probably-not-know-they-exist"-department: Shark Assessment Specialist for the UN. I cannot wait for the TV show.

The humanitarian principles. It takes a particular kind of evil to violate several at once. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

Can this be a solution?

"I don't know what weapons the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be with sticks." "Because of nukes, right?" "No, because we decided logistics was woke."

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

Another devastating week for humanitarians: three colleagues killed saving lives in Sudan, DRC, Lebanon. We grieve, we demand accountability and the protection that international law demands, and we continue the work in their memory.

Burning through 40% of the money taken from USAIDs annual budget in 11 days. For no apparent purpose except of killing more people.

And as always with this administration the question is: Incompetence, habitual lying or insider trading?

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Today, Switzerland is heading to the polls to vote on 4 national ballot measures. Yet national and int‘l media are already focusing on the next vote in June: a far-right proposal to cap the population at 10 million. It’s a telling sign how strongly the far-right SVP has come to dominate the agenda

Lol. This is academic publishing taken to its logical end.

The unifying feature of Trump administration foreign and security "policy" is a failure to understand anything at all about strategy, like even at a conceptual level

May I humbly suggest we dial back the hyper-fixation on how long the administration says war will last. No one ever knows because war is unpredictable & adversary gets a vote. Where the administration should be hammered is on the incoherent explanation of why they started the war in the first place.

Welcome to the FAFOcene. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Hence it doesn't really have the scope for these weirdo fringe parties that other countries have; see also the Hungarian Two Tailed Dog Party who are responsible for one of the best shitpost political bits I have seen in my life