This is deeply relatable

Sheeeeeesh, new JWST image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A ⭐️🔭 📷: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; D. Milisavljevic, T. Temim, & I. De Looze

This visualization from Texty shows the routes of Iranian-made Shakhed kamikaze drones (in yellow), ballistic missiles (purple) & cruise missiles (red) that Russia used to attack Ukraine just last night. Russia continues to target Ukrainians all over the country almost nightly. #UkrainianView

Eric Levitz makes a similar argument: leaders on the left have failed to condemn mass murder in ways that are morally and politically unwise. There is zero contradiction between condemning mass murder and condemning the occupation. Zero. nymag.com/intelligence...

Categorically false cnsmaryland.org/2022/10/28/s...

No, no. The slogan itself is garbage. It makes it impossible to connect with most politically inactive people who have never had a direct problem with cops (most normie Whites fyi). I like the policies behind it, but the slogan closes doors for casual outreach and conversation.

This is the worst US journalistic habit, keeping former titles. I once interviewed Bill Clinton more than a decade after his presidency and his staff told me about 4 times that I must address him as “Mr. President.” That contradicts a core principle of democracy, that representatives are citizens

Fair point

Mr T Cell: "I pity the flu"

Glenn Greenwald being a dishonest shit to stir up controversy and nonsense? Why... it must be... a day.

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Every day is a good day to chase away genocide-denying, dictator loving, free speech hating fans of totalitarianism from bsky.

I worked in state govt in MA for nearly 3 years, and my boss (a Democrat from WMass) used to yell from the rooftops that young people or anyone new to politics could have an outsized influence by being *elected* in local and state govt, but that everyone wants to go right to DC.

The shorter, punchier headline, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes antisemitic covid remarks" has the added benefit of being more accurate. The fact that the Times wouldn't use it makes me think for the first time that he's got a shot at the nomination

Defending a besieged city, surviving in captivity, to then return and go straight to your unit, is, what one would call, a “Chad move”

Seventy-eight years ago today—at 5:29:45 AM (Mountain War Time)—about 35 miles SE of Socorro, New Mexico, the nuclear age began with a big bang. Contrary to popular belief, the area surrounding the remote Trinity test site was not uninhabited, and the fallout did not drift away harmlessly.

Me: plays pickleball for the first time yesterday. Also yesterday, pickleball is milkshake ducked.

Seems to me like they raised the answers too but I guess that's why I don't work at the New York Times

Please do not do this.

Communists do not believe in "ownership" CHECKMATE, LEFT SR

Tiny Awards is a new effort to celebrate the best of the "small, playful, and heartfelt web.” As part of the selection committee, I helped narrow the ~300 nominees down to 16 finalists, and now you decide who wins! Voting’s open until July 20. https://waxy.org/2023/07/vote-on-the-tiny-awards/

I’ve decided that starting over on Bluesky is an opportunity to reshare some of my favorite wildlife 🧪 photos. Here is a hummingbird in my backyard, taken when we were in full pandemic lockdown mode. (The little feet!)

psssst - hey kid wanna see a glass squid 🧪 up close?

i really think that the strangest accounts on the internet are the RVTURN accounts on twitter that tweet 1950s advertisements all day as if they were 1:1 representations of real life

this is critique digs because there is some truth to it. the more charitable phrasing is that Bluesky/atproto is designed to address Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: "Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well"

Reddit users are literally fighting the company for access to THEIR user-generated content. This is when the idea of decoupling user data from applications really looks appealing.

ok how does this thing work

Open question for the community: Idealistically, how SHOULD this have worked? What is the right way for this app to respond when racism shows up? How can we do better? What tools and actions are missing? This keeps me up at night. Maybe my open source bones are getting old. I don’t have an answer.

I have leveled up as a bird nerd, binocular harness procured.

Like this?

some of y’all really need to be reading this wiki article today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

I made it to bluesky!! This will be my new home. Hopefully I'll actually get followers too lol

I don't know I think we're aware you hate us more than conservatives.

Real-time SARS-CoV-2 detection of in the indoor air https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39419-z could be adapted for flu, RSV, and other respiratory pathogens

Watching discussions elsewhere when someone suggests joining Bluesky, it's remarkable how much damage Jack's presence on the board does to Bluesky's brand, and how many people it turns off from trying the platform. Even those who know he doesn't outright own it often have no interest because of it.

Another example of why I am awesome

I have matched ALL Bluesky accounts against Twitter accounts based on username and found over 80% matches. Of those matches a big majority is a correct match. You can check your Twitter following and see who has a Bluesky account, and you will find most to follow here. https://twexit.nl/tmatch

One of the most impressive and impactful uses of an accelerometer in neurological medicine. Amazing that small changes this early in the illness process are detectable with good engineering and statistical science.

Election deepfakes used successfully in 1950 (from Beverly Gage’s Hoover biography)

Wagner Chief Says Ukraine Invasion Unjustified https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/23/mercenary-leader-says-ukraine-invasion-unjustified/ via @politicalwire

It’s a weird own goal for various Mastodon admins who are running a decentralized social network based on interoperable protocols to pledge that they won’t interoperate with services from existing social networks if built on the same open protocols. It’s not even the hypocrisy, it’s just dumb.

Is this thing on?