just a heads up: you dont get access like this without giving something up. the administration wants images of big powerful american jets doing stuff and @cnn.com is serving up precisely what they want. signed, guy who remembers both iraq wars

Every Republican who says they’ve “spoken” to Mitch McConnell claims to have had a suspiciously identical 20-minute call covering Iran, Ukraine, Maine, and Senate history.

CNN: Where fact-checking iis more of a guideline.

We always have a can of Spam in the pantry. Not for every day or even every month. But when the hankering for Spam Musabi becomes intolerable it all comes together in 30 minutes. And the Spam can is perfect for flattening out the rice!

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

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I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

@maddow.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @nytimes.com

The billionaire co-founder of AirBnB wants you to blame the babies of undocumented immigrants for starter homes being unaffordable.

Brown mid-term (take-home, honour system): average of 96, forty perfect 100s Brown final (in-person): average of 45, and 22 of the perfect 40s didn't even show up. Oof. english.elpais.com/education/20...

Shame.

I don't think any American--regardless of party, despite fondness for aviation (which I share)--would enjoy being under the nonstop low-altitude, high-speed, incredible-volume of the Caligula overflights of our nation's capital right now. It feels and sounds like being under aerial attack.

"I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency. Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." Harry Truman

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👇🏽👀Tucker gets visibly uncomfortable as Chris Cuomo asks him about his generally very generous attitude towards Putin/Russia

Just made potato salad. Quite a lot actually. Recipe says “keeps in the fridge for up to four days”. Have my work cut out for me this Fourth of July weekend.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 03,1950

In 1987 we surveyed UofAz grad students as to why they were scientists. Cell biologists recalled loving puzzles, and taking things apart as kids. Ecologists recalled intense experiences in nature. The decline of field biology is not due to “too much data”. Fewer kids grow up outside. #screens

You have found the Holy Grill

Those damn pool vandals! They struck again!

Do you see those dark clouds gathering up ahead? They’re gonna wash this planet clean like the Bible said. You can hold on steady, try to get ready, but everybody’s gonna get wet. Don’t think it won’t happen just because it hasn’t happened yet. - J. Browne, 1974

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has reached a $1.9 million settlement with a former professor who was fired after she criticized Charlie Kirk.

"When the power of love will beat the love for power, people will know peace" Two people at the top of the empire state building the 1st of July 2026. Via Francois Leger Boyer

We don’t have a government. We have a crime family posing as one.

Cool result! Bonus question: Does trophic diversity create ecosystems with more stable plant productivity, less nutrient leaching, and fewer noxious weeds? And/or do such ecosystem functions promote more diverse, stable food webs? And/or is there some third factor that causes both? Onward!

Hate that we had to do it, but we added a greater than 80 tier to our dewpoint maps.

The data on insect declines is grim enough without folks bringing out the tired “back in the day, windshields were a lot messier” meme. Not surprising that we see some of the best “data” for that was fabricated. retractionwatch.com/2026/06/23/a...

JD Vance puts the Christ in "Christ, what an asshole."

This wins the internet of 2026/06/20.

Lethal wet bulb temperatures—making it impossible to cool your core temperature by sweating—kick in at 100°F and 80% RH. But the damage begins at 60 RH%. Parts of the US, including much of its breadbasket, may be hard places to live. For humans and other living things. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Found myself just now happily puttering around the kitchen singing Python’s “Brave Sir Robin”. 🎶”His head smashed in and his heart cut out And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged And his nostrils…”🎶

Talarico: One night, my birth father became abusive again. But that night, my mom declared her own independence. She packed all our stuff into her little Ford Escort. That's what it means to be a Texan. It's in our blood. Texans don't like tyrants, and we don't surrender easily.

“When did Fox become a tabloid? Are you even a real news organization?” Amazing

What's funny is how the AI bros keep insisting that everyone who is skeptical of AI are just some kind of purist, Luddite, or simply backwards when for the most part it's that we've tried it, critically examined it, and concluded that it's mostly lies and garbage that will damage our work.

Advice on dealing with criticism. Now, in science, criticism (i.e., peer review) is essential. Yet… The best editors know how to communicate “you can ignore reviewer comment x, y, and z”. I mean, it’s one of the job’s few perks. Made more difficult when reviewers see the decision letter.

Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks! Here’s some great advice he gave me back he was a wee lad of 95. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Fossil fuel propaganda said “more CO2 benefits plants”. Indeed plant biomass is increasingly globally. But plants are made up of more than just carbon. Other plant nutrients, all essential, are being diluted by all that extra atmospheric carbon. #GreenDeserts www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 27,1947

The entire fuckin point of the national mall is loitering

My ant collections from 1989 thru the 2020’s—some 67,000 pinned specimens and scads of alcohol vials from all over the Americas—are heading to the Smithsonian. Wish I could say this makes me feel nothing but wonderful. It does come with a measure of satisfaction. But talk about turning a page…

Perfection.

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

Not 2050. Today in France. Peak Temps. Every pink number is 40C+ (104F+) with many stations at 44C+ (111F+). A previously impossible heatwave, soon to be an annual tradition, only hotter. #heatwave #Europe

This wins the interwebs for today. Everyone else can just log off.

D: I think as you grow older you become more of who you are. Me: But we have to be able to escape our own self-mythology. D: Wherever you go, there you are.

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

Yeah the thing is, the global economy has changed so much in the last 273 years that the "inflation calculator" approach just straight up doesn't work. A quick guide is "Today, THINGS are cheap & LABOR is expensive. Back then, THINGS were expensive & LABOR was cheap."

Sam Scheiner accepts his @sse-evolution.bsky.social Lifetime Achievement Award by pulling up a slide packed with names of colleagues from his 26 years at NSF, and reminding us to thank federal agency staff and scientists who are still working to support research while going "through hell" #Evol2026