To all the brave women, men, and non-binaries in our Armed Services: 1) Thank you for keeping us free. 2) Now would be a good time to review your regs on what Constitutes an illegal order. “Trump tells a roomful of silent generals to join a ‘war from within’”

#ICE agents in Portland are in severe danger of having flowers inserted into their gun barrels.

Moralize all you want. Legislate how you will. Believe what makes you happy. But biology doesn’t care. And the biology of gender has never been binary. #LGBTQ+ #science www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Yuri Gagarin by Neznaikin Ivan Petrovich.

This tracks:

They are clearly “drunk with power,” exemplifying the Trumpian culture. This sets the threshold for catastrophe much lower.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Got the RSV and the COVID Spike vax today. Feeling fine. But noticed I can now open railroad crossings with my mind. Tell #RFKjr

failed witch doctor

Lavender Luna for me. You?

Yes! All AIs should be trained on the DSM. It will help them to understand us… though maybe hasten their conclusion that too many of us are untrustworthy.

No Kings, y’all [art by @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social free to use ]

The straightest thing you can do as a man is to think a lot about two other guys' balls.

A stunning (unexpected?) finding. @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social you might enjoy our #Cassini documentary: youtu.be/UQp_aVA8gXs?...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

“Pound for pound, E. coli is the most dangerous organism on Earth.”

Yeah, but do you have your spectrogoniometer yet?

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com Yes, Mathew, #zombies do exist. And my friend @laminda.bsky.social just wrote a cool science book about them: bookshop.org/p/books/rise...

Spectacular: The partially eclipsed Sun rising over the St Lawrence River in Quebec, captured on March 29. Video by Jason Kurth. (I sped up the footage 4x for the impatient...like myself.) 🧪🔭 apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropi...

"Without further ado" (typically mispronounced using the French word “adieu”) is itself nothing but “further ado” and thus should never be spoken. Fight me.

At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. @indivisible.org

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

If we build permanent communities in space, how will we protect and nurture those born there? "Children of the Sky" Can We Raise Kids in Space?" explores the serious ethical, medical and genomic issues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba1g... #astrobiology #exploration. H/T @davidskybrody.bsky.social

Came to bury, not to praise…

There was plenty of compute/storage to capture copyright owners’ IP in metadata and track derivative AI generations to pay a micro-royalty. An honest entity would have.

Albert Einstein is 146 years old today. Happy Birthday, Doc! #Einstein youtu.be/1lapP6sdXMQ?...

It kinda freaks me out that the Solar System’s barycenter can be outside the Sun…

My favorite thing that life on Earth does? Symbiosis! Or as Lynn Margulis said”You have never been an individual” 🧪 youtube.com/shorts/3JprI...

Irina Solovieva was Valentina Tereshkova's understudy.

Have a bloomin’ holiday, y’all!

I want to follow scientists who sing/play and musicians who write/sing about science. #science #music #songwriter

Two scoops of cosmic ice cream:

If only: youtu.be/DBL_UJyN88Y?...

The Soviet lunar mission based on the original N1 design, used as a tanker. The whole shebang went down to the Moon. All by me. #ArtAdventCalendar Day 14

What, does this individual think he’s the g’dam Angel of Death? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

Obviously:

That illustration is telling us the “yummy microbial repast” was washed down with Balok’s tranya:

Though some of us see a different asterism… (The Grinch is a registered trademark and copyrighted character owned by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P)

We did remember to attach the instrument package, right? RIGHT?!

Wonder if they’re both owned by one entity ….

… because our nation is in good enough shape to run on autopilot, while 2 semi-rich White dudes from Florida curry favor with the actually wealthy donor class that really needs more tax relief.

“The Cruelty Is the Point” h/t @adamserwer.bsky.social

“Witness”

For Passover in Wakanda, T’Challa changes his name to T’Matzo. Thank you.