I dunno world leaders like what are you telling folks about how to deal with disagreeing with you if your position is that a violent kidnapping constitutes democractic transition

Pretty excited to get spit on every time I go to another country for the rest of my life.

Just really fucking angry at how unnecessary this all is and the pathetic cowards who let it happen. Do your constitutionally mandated job and put him in jail before he does it to you first.

Well 2026 got to being 2026 in a big damn hurry didn't it

I remember learning in middle school or possibly even earlier that the reason we don't just *target the leaders of the countries opposed to us* is that it is so easy to flip that strategy back on us.

i mean, the thing about this formulation is that it literally begs the question. what if one of those “average americans” is an advocate? or an expert? should they then be ignored?

ah yes, news focused on the concerns of the average american

New episodes of The West Wing dropping every day now

Bloodlust.

Mamdani is showing the next Democratic president what to do in 2029

Spoiler-free comment on the Stranger Things finale: It reminded me how much my friends from H.S. meant to me, and still mean to me even though I don't get to see them very often anymore.

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

He can never be President, yet so much more presidential than the current resident of the WH. It's hard to wrap my mind around the contrast.

Which books are sacred enough for you to be sworn in on?

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

This article is hilarious

they’re going to want to kill him for this but he’s so right, individualism as an ideology needs to end

Happy New Year. THERE. I said it & I really mean it, even though the odds are it will be every bit as challenging & frustrating as the last one.

In the last two weeks, I've heard about: -mRNA vaccine to treat age-related vision loss -cure for Alzheimer's and a treatment to reverse cognitive damage -Japanese scientists working on a way to regrow teeth I'm in awe. What a time to be alive. 🤩

Being a GigaHater is within our reach.

Chief Justice John Roberts says Theia remains "absolutely safe" as it approaches an unnamed protoplanet.

it’s all i’ve got

"Yeah, you're not Danish."

It has been my best year as a scientist since the year I discovered the Moon. Hard to believe none of you had noticed it up there in the sky but that's why they pay me the big bucks.

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Only two boxes left! Will try to ship by tomorrow. phaneritic.etsy.com

It is fascinating to me that people think that folks who mask need to explain it to... Anyone. Like, do you want people to give you the murder board explanation of our chronic illness? Talk about our parent or kid with cancer? It couldn't be less of your business.

2025 recapped

So a couple things about this.

He’s not hiding his medical records because he’s healthy, and he’s not hiding the Epstein files because he’s innocent. This isn’t complicated.

Moving “meh”.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Devices Target the Gut to Maintain Weight Loss from GLP-1 Drugs. You can think of these systems as a middle ground between drugs and bariatric surgery. spectrum.ieee.org/weight-loss-...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

My family doesn't often tolerate my "fun planetary facts," but today's "did you know that the tallest mountain on Venus is covered in condensed heavy metal snow" did produce some interest

Dressing myself this morning and grabbing toward a t-shirt and my brain said "no, not that one, that's a SPECIAL OCCASION t-shirt" and then I sat my brain down and had a short little discussion about the fundamental everyday nature of t-shirts

BREAKING NEWS: Gestapo Sad

Because steps have been taken to make sure the next election won't be fair or free, this is likely a decade or more away. But when it happens, the purge needs to include a guillotine because the key is not to just erase the aesthetic damage, but also to make sure it doesn't happen again.

This message hits hard.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

"Buy traditional campaign advertising OR ELSE" lolololololololol Why would getting free advertising for feeding the hungry be worse than paying a big corporation that money for 30 seconds of TV time?

"I know those words, but that sign makes no sense!"

I think I've cracked the code for successfully* parenting your way through a kid's Science Fair Project. In short: You SHOULD NOT do the project FOR them. You SHOULD do SOME of it BEFORE them WITHOUT them. *where success = happy kid who learns something, NOT winning a prize 1/

Perhaps a late Xmas/Chanukah/Festivus/Kwanzaa present for some research hot shot currently not in Canada but who might like to move here - the new Impact+ Research Chairs. Note the strategic areas in Arctic, environment, climate resilience and water security. 🧪⚒️ careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1717054...