Whatever Platner did or didn’t do, pay attention to how quickly conversations about sexual and physical violence against women turn into “aw shucks” meditations on second chances in a way almost no other harms do. What you frame as deserving of grace tells me who you believe should absorb the cost.

Unfortunately the interior West wildfire outbreak has continued to intensify under "extremely critical" fire weather conditions today and record-dry vegetation in some areas. Existing fires have re-intensified, and there are 2 new fires of particular concern in Colorado. [Thread]

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

Everyone from SciAm should be hired again, but the # of jobs in journalism – especially sci/enviro journalism – has been plummeting, and freelance wages haven't risen (not even with inflation) since at least the 90s. Science media is getting quieter, even if you don't notice it all at once.

It's tough seeing others live out your dream 🐶🌭

This is the most honest AI explainer I’ve ever read. Via @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

Lynn was so kind to me when I was a 20-something Colorado politics reporter and I wanted to be just like her. Denver and Colorado political media will never be the same without her.

This story is WILD

In spite of everything, it is still Flag Day and I hope you all had a good one. "Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."

In the days before their moon mission, Artemis II astronauts gathered for their last full meal before blastoff. As they finished, the cook brought out something else for astronaut Victor Glover: Communion elements. The cook, Glover and Canada's Jeremy Hansen then prayed and took it together.

Attending a funeral really puts into perspective how much of a person's life is their career, and how much more important family, friends, hobbies and other activities are.

I need to know what the locker room pep talk was and play it every morning for the rest of my life

it must be fundamentally absurd and on some level unreconcilable to be both, 1. A devout Catholic 2. The brother of the current Pope

Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.

National Park Service has open comment page, for Albert Speer Memorial Arch that is next on MAGA wish list You can make comments here: parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsOpe... That page has lots of "before and after" illustrations. Below, before/after view from near JFK/RFK grave site in Arlington

The 100-year-old D-Day veteran Joe Picard is one of few people left with a memory of the greatest military operation of the 20th century—and his stories are a marker against which to measure how much he, and the country, has changed, Kevin Maurer writes:

Incredibly disturbing story broken by @medpagetoday.com team. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

it is with a heavy heart that I inform you all that the people targeting writers with AI spamslop have discovered guilt-tripping

“I pray… for a day when sanity, competence, and courage return”

Thanks to @taffyakner.bsky.social for making me cry for the first time in a little while. The last 6 or 7 grafs of this, geez Louise. I wasn’t there of course but still, I can picture Tom Hiddleston’s face, and the fog. I’ll miss us, too. Read this. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/m...

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🛑 Fireball Alert - USA 🇺🇸 🛑 A very bright daylight fireball ☄️ accompanied by a huge sonic boom was observed, heard and video recorded over Boston region, Massachussets, on May 30th, at 18h 06min UT (02:06pm, EDT). If you observed and/or recorded it, please share your observation: fireballs.imo.net

“The heat is terrifying,” said Darcey, 21, of experiencing the heatwave inside her tiny, top-floor apartment in Paris. “It can feel so hot you’re almost scared to go outside and it’s sweltering being under the roof.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is there a counter festival to this with actually popular modern artists? Libertychella 250?

I think it's time we bring back wearing black armbands to signify grief.

I didn’t know this was the lyrics to this song, I knew it was “oh yeah” but I had no idea it was about the moon. Anyway, 80s people were really weird to make this a hit

Here’s a movie you should rewatch: An American Tail. Man oh man is Feivel’s story a bracing one these days 😭

Fascinating reporting by @jackjenkins.me : “Among the solutions proposed by faith leaders: offering Claude something like the Catholic sacrament of confession, where the AI can be forgiven.” On the unforgiving internet AI trains on, this isn’t really a thing. religionnews.com/2026/05/22/w...

I keep thinking about all the sites and petroglyphs emerging from Lake Powell as it drains and dries out. This essay from Hopi writer Clark Tenakhongva is an important reminder that the Colorado River disaster is not just one disaster, and not a simple situation at all. www.hcn.org/articles/tre...

This is good NBA news lolol people.com/steve-kerr-r...

“I know what my friends eat. Which cafés they visit. Which things they complain about. I know when they get promoted because LinkedIn informs me before they do. And yet sometimes I hesitate before calling because I no longer know the emotional weather of their lives.” This is worth your time

Also FYI, the majority of Colorado River water used for “farms” in the below graphic is actually for cattle feed (alfalfa and hay). The minority of the agricultural water use is for food people eat directly, like wheat. science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...

This by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is excellent. Shame on the rich women hawking hellish AI-fueled work lives. Btw, I read it working from home, where I am quite successful at my job, and see my children/help at school often. Jeans company CEO is a fool and a coward. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

“Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke.” This in @currentaffairs.bsky.social really is worth your time www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

From NASA This is not an eclipse, but an even more rare sight: a crescent Mars as seen by NASA’s #MissionToPsyche spacecraft. The unprocessed image — taken by Psyche today — shows the night side of Mars as the spacecraft approaches the Red Planet for a flyby on May 15. 1/2

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

It’s remarkable in this day and age to hear a politician anywhere say the following: “Support for a diverse, rigorous and accessible body of historical scholarship should be a much greater priority for democratic governments even at a time of stretched budgets.“

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

*Julie Andrews singing* I have confidence in sunshine! I have confidence in rainnnn I have confidence that spring will come again! Besides which, you see, I have CON FI DENCE INNN MEEEEEEEE

Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is what you love. -Sappho, trans. Anne Carson #everynightapoem as ever

identity has substantially realigned around consumption rather than production

Wow. Artemis II image ART002-E-12613; credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

I teach this in my IP law class b/c when asked in an interview who owned the patent, Salk replied: "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" He looked for vaccine solutions his entire life…including a quest for a vaccine to prevent HIV from becoming AIDS.

“Was chung-chung the guilty thud of a telltale heart, as in Poe? The Gooch knows Poe; it’s digested the PDFs of seemingly every book in creation, in every genre… The complete Ayn Rand, that’s for sure.” @colsonwhitehead.com is one of the greatest writers ever www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

Editor's choice: can stars be used to do #cosmology? Tomasetti et al. have dated the 160 oldest individual stars in the Milky Way. This allows them to set maximum and minimum ages of the Universe. ☄️🔭⚛️ #stellarastro www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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