A list of 99 lab tips to help make scientists’ working lives better. My favorite is hot things can look cold. Anyone else got a favorite tip not already on the list?

REDDIT RELEASE: "Every.Single.Day." 🤣 @daverino.bsky.social @gekko.bsky.social

It’s worth pointing out: -This is international airspace -It is not “US controlled” except in a literal sense. It’s more accurate to say “US managed” and it’s ICAO airspace. You can see a possible future where Russia just doesn’t bother to inform people..

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

The satire site McSweeney basically just printed out Trump's comments on autism without changing a single word. It's completely nuts.

I grudgingly agree. "Our" side is increasingly "morally intolerant" and absolutist, leading to single-issue voting, or not voting at all because of purity politics. Plus we suck at messaging in a clear, concise manner. If we don't adapt, we will lose our democracy but die with our morals intact.

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

Conditions on Ebeye are harsh – diabetes is rampant and fish in the waters around this tiny Pacific island of 10,000 people are contaminated. Many of Ebeye’s residents work on a nearby US military base that's critical to America’s security reut.rs/4gziuDi

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

🇨🇴 President Of Colombia Gustavo Petro: "Drug traffickers live in Miami, New York, Paris, Madrid, and Dubai. Many have blue eyes and blond hair, and they don't live on the boats where the missiles fall. Drug traffickers live next to Trump's house in Miami."

So, the oligarchs are trying to GameStop Tylenol, so they can crater the stock, and buy it up cheap?

In this public lecture, @astrokatie.com shares what modern astrophysics tells us about the ultimate fate of the cosmos, and what the catastrophic destruction of all reality would look like to anyone still around to see it. Watch the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOo7...

The original quote was "Sag’ mal, wie lange wollt ihr bei dem Scheiß bleiben?". Which roughly translates to "Dude, how long do you want to stay on air for this shit?" Which is what everyone with some working brain cells left was thinking...

People look like they think they're translators aren't working. I have bad news for them, yes, he actually said that.

⚡️ Danish PM Frederiksen calls drones over Copenhagen airport the most serious attack yet on Denmark’s critical infrastructure, warning it fits a pattern of drone strikes, airspace violations, and cyberattacks on European airports.

Black #ToeBeans and rice

"Washington noticed 'Estonianization' of European foreign policy. Members of the Trump administration consider Baltic states dangerously aggressive in their stance toward Putin. At a recent high-level Pentagon meeting, Baltic officials were accused of 'ideologizing' their opposition to Russia"

It's a bit more nuanced than 'Evangelicals need the Jews to die', but Christian Zionism is quite a trip to read up on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi... Tl;dr: all Jews must return to the Holy Land to trigger the Second Coming of Christ and commence the rapture, whisking all good Christians away.

A strong step towards de-escalating russia’s appetite for war. What fuels russia’s aggression? The smell of weakness. The moment Europe meets russia’s criminal escalation with strength and resolve, the game changes. russia will stop, declare victory in 🇺🇦, and sue for peace.

Lors de l'hommage à Charlie #Kirk, Stephen #Miller, l'adjoint au chef de cabinet de la Maison-Blanche, a utilisé la même rhétorique que Joseph Goebbels, le nazi qui est à l'origine des techniques modernes de manipulation des masses, et qui a organisé la nuit de Cristal en 1938 #Trump #Nazi

Germany's new military procurement plan, obtained by POLITICO, shows that Berlin will steer its massive rearmament drive primarily to European industry, with only eight percent going for American weapons.

💻 Drapeau tricolore déchiré, Marianne décapitée : depuis plusieurs mois, des vidéos menaçantes se propagent en ligne. Derrière des contenus d'apparence jihadiste et un style rudimentaire, des experts voient la marque d'une opération d'acteurs prorusses. ➡️ u.afp.com/SWwZ

“A wide range of specialists in domestic and international law regulating the use of force have argued that Mr. Trump and Pete Hegseth … are giving the military illegal orders and causing Special Operations forces to deliberately target civilians … in violation of murder laws.”

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

This morning's spam from a scammer claiming to be Andy Weir, asking me to send a link to my own work and maybe he'll check it out (aka the opening salvo to sending the scammer money) and I'm all, look pal, I know Andy's read my stuff already, he said so WHEN WE WERE DOING A FUCKING EVENT TOGETHER

A Goebbels speech in 2025 would likely sound and look like this

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Mexico confirms case of New World screwworm in Nuevo Leon, USDA says reut.rs/4py8EG1

Vacation-bonking: @ bluetsunami3000 bsky social #NAFO

If there were people looking to photograph old, rich American men having a getaway with their 20-something mistress, Tuscany is definitely the place to be.

Lunch in Monteriggioni (or the Villa Auditore for my #AssassinsCreed nerds)

Trump says “He didn't quit, I fired him!” about Erik Siebert, who resigned today because he was being pressured by the president to charge Letitia James for no reason.

An advantage of living in rural Virginia: very dark skies. This is about a two minute shot from my phone and you can see Cygnus and Deneb, the Milky Way, and The Great Rift which is made of zillions of opaque dust clouds that split Cygnus down the middle.

This is the 19th death of a person in custody of ICE since Trump turned it into a poorly-trained personal army of terror.

Russia's response via Tass is, paraphrased, "lol what Estonian airspace? International airspace is where the fighters were very professionally"

Asshat PAX should be banned from flying for 20 years.

Vous aimez le jeu vidéo d'un amour sincère. Mais vous n'êtes pas du genre à donner votre confiance facilement aux premiers margoulins venus. Alors on vous propose 1 mois d'abo pour 1€. boutique.canardpc.co...

LOL 😂

Oooh yeah 🤩 #AssassinsCreed

Etruscan pottery enjoyer today ❤️

#Tuscany #Vacation 😎🍷🇮🇹

Ah, this is one of the reasons I always schedule my vacation (outside of France) around September/October so that I don’t have to be bothered by this bullshit.

a Red Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) surveys its domain while VX-9 Growlers recover. Pt. Mugu, September 2025 #birdphotography #hawk #redtailed #redtailedhawk #PtMugu #naturephotography #naturebeauty #Nikon #Z9 #bird #birds #birdwatching #birding #nature #cvvhrn 🪶

They’re doing a lot of damage in the background while the chaos fills the news. Pay attention. Call your senators and tell them to keep our public lands public.

While the US continues to distract itself from authoritarianism with manufactured chaos, in slightly more important news to global security Saudi Arabia decides to amplify Israel's arms race with a defense security pact with (checks notes) a nuclear-weapon state Pakistan.

Fact! 👇🤣🐎🤣🐎🤣 #horses

Added to maga list.

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