Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii

oh hey whether you are dealing with snow or laying on the beach, there's a new cartoon for you www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

This unofficial patch for the NEO Surveyor project that my husband brought home from work is sending me.

the news should do a deep dive into the genre of mundane AI fake videos that currently dominate Facebook, Instagram, and increasingly X. Who is making them, why, and what is it about the algorithm that propels them ahead of real videos

Why have the medals at the Olympics kept breaking? My colleague Eric Sullivan dug into the science for @sciam.bsky.social 🧪

Other countries need to start boycotting the World Cup and the LA 2028 Olympics because the US cannot guarantee the safety of visitors if the Trump admin's goons don't cut it out. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Anyway girls 💅🏻 like the mans are saying and singing

The emergence of Nadine clearing a clog from the gullywasher:

Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.

"He’s always been that little liar. I mean no one—no one—likes him.” “I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.” @nlanard.bsky.social reports on Florida Rep. Cory Mills, perhaps the most hated man in Congress, and his many, many scandals. bit.ly/46kf7fP

What makes ice slippery? Scientists may have finally figured it out www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

The next president should just immediately seize Trump's assets to the dollar value of all of these corrupt emoluments on the grounds that because emoluments are unconstitutional, the money was never Trump's in the first place. Let him try to get them back in the civil asset forfeiture process.

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

it's even worse than first reported the fucking guy caused an inflight disruption so bad the pilot had to leave the command deck then he was like I RELIEVE U OF DUTY absolute toddler baby shit brained government at the highest levels

One of America’s great traditions is dying. I’ll never let it. Not now that I have proof I was right all along. slate.trib.al/SOiy83P

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

So I carved off a lean chunk of the steak before cooking it, And made sure to set it on the edge of my plate, after I was done. And then to look the other way. To let her steal it. I got her her favorite thing, for her birthday - Crime.

DHS initially claimed that when the officers exited their vehicle, Martinez tried to run them over, “forcing the officers to fire defensively.” New bodycam footage shows otherwise. trib.al/4hyKz5H

There wasn't a lot of time to focus or sent the brightness up Wile E #Coyote crossing the harbour on the ice. Seems healthy enough, well-fed, I hope it's not after my otter? Looking for lunch out there.. what would that be? There's a kilometre of broken ice across the harbour, with the tide changing

all of these guys have taken liberal tolerance and relative fair play for granted their entire lives and i hope to live to see them realize what a mistake that was

You couldn’t even keep track of your own security blanket.

A Valentine’s Day cartoon for @newscientist.com

Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive citizen science project

everyone shut UP it's gromit's birthday HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROMIT

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

Satire is wonderful… But I do think that Noah Wyle would make a better CDC director than anyone Trump picked… @altcdc.altgov.info #MedSky 🧪 youtu.be/QOMezvaWPjg

The New Laser That Can Take Down Aircraft Russian strikes have forced Ukraine to build high-tech air defense on the cheap.

It took considerable courage for the jury in the Palestine Action trial to ignore the demands to convict from the judge, government, police and media and instead to weigh the actual evidence. My latest sets out why jurors were right to reject all the bullying: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-02...

Long before Emeryville, CA, became a mall, industrial town, or the Bay Area HQ of Pixar Studios, this land was home to the Ohlone people. For thousands of years they lived, gathered shellfish like oysters, clams & mussels and honored life and death here. #OceanHoptimism #SFBayOysters #Ohlone

And in case you missed it, the estimated death count from ending USAID is now over 750,000. Mostly children.

Thread. 🧵 (1/x) On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes. To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)

🧵 on the ignorance on display. 1) Starting w/diversity. The US military should broadly look like the US as that keeps the military tethered to American society. If it's all just a bunch of door kicking rural white Christian dudes that's bad. It's bad for the military & it's bad for American. 1/

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

Couldn’t be me I’m a panican’t got ice water in my veins

An F-16 fighter jet of Ukraine's Air Force spectacularly shoots down a Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drone in the skies over Ukraine. 📹 Telegram/AirTeam UA

I’m an expert, and the misconduct and corruption run far deeper than even the deadly surges have shown.

I'm still hating this, but I do appreciate all the help offered. This thing is still going if you can help us, and if not, share. We appreciate any support--emotional, material, gestured--you can offer. www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...

This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social

I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

Canadians seem to understand how dire our situation—and the reality that the country has not overwhelmingly united to stop this shit—is.

WaPo's editorial board pines for a world that no longer exists: one in which liberals can be cowed out of responding to GOP tactics by accusations of "hypocrisy." That time is over. No more unilateral disarmament.

I think in the future we should make it so politics is more than a choice between fascism and 100 slight variations of this person

ME: (trying to impress) allow me *holds the door for my date* DATE: you’re supposed to hold it open

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

settler colonialism is so deranged that we missed out on having tame fox dogs