My favorite halftime show ever. Beautiful, joyful, political. It was perfect.

Today I was standing on a busy street crossing waiting for the light to change while busses flew by a few feet away. I had an intrusive thought: if someone shoved me from behind as one passed I’d die. The guy standing next to me turns to me and says “I saw a guy get hit here last week.”

Still coming down from that #seahawks win. My watch recorded my heart rate in the 4th and OT as 12 minutes of exercise and gave me a decibel warning from my own screaming. One that I will never forget!

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

once again the best trump rejoinder is “fuck you, make me”

I’ve been struggling with the implications of widespread AI use in education- my gut says that the bad outweighs the good. This excellent piece validated a lot and was an absolute gut punch to read. I want more resistance.

Happy Halloween from Arlo the chicken!

My travels to Poland have taught me that painstakingly restoring destroyed historic buildings is possible. It won’t be the same but it will be better than a gaudy golden ballroom standing as a reminder of our abject failure as a country to stop this POS.

Proud of the Mariners and thankful we got to experience October baseball even though it nearly killed me with stress. Looking forward to seeing the Jays destroyed by the Dodgers. Their dumb HR jacket is the douchiest thing I’ve ever seen.

I may have cried a little

LFGooo mariners!

I hate baseball, I’ve been having a heart attack for like 5 hours now.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

RIP Jane Goodall. Her work captivated me as a girl and inspired me to be a scientist. She showed us the depth of animal lives and emotions while going against the scientific consensus at the time. Her voice is needed so badly at this time and it will be missed. Thank you, Jane.

🎶🎵 its here…. 🎵🎶 If you are unfamiliar with Fat Bear Week it’s time to get with the program

u know who are skeptics scientists are skeptics being anti-science is not being a skeptic

me: magic isn’t real also me, after the Mariners win eight in a row: the Etsy witch is real, and she is my president

Got my Covid booster today at a CVS in WA. The pharmacist said they could only give doses those over 65 and those who were high risk. She all but winked and said “we don’t have to ask condition you have, you just have to say yes.” It’s stupid you have to do that but at least it’s available.

Good morning! MAGA/MAHA dude Jay Bhattacharya will forever be remembered as RFK Jr’s biggest champion (he campaigned for him/spoke at his rallies) & the NIH director who presided over the destruction of US health research—including childhood brain cancer research 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows. Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing. “I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Heads up if you live in Seattle, Chicago, Philly, DMV, and NYC. Be careful and know your rights. Protect each other and keep yourself safe

I guess one way to “re-establish public confidence” in vaccines is to make them unavailable so that people have to deal with the devastating consequences of infectious diseases that they have never experienced BECAUSE THEY FUCKING WORK.

This man is dangerous AF and is about to usher us into a new era of people needlessly dying from preventable diseases.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

This is a big day for couples that are one super online person and one normal

Did the Tr*mp administration cancel your NIH or NCI grant proposal? Know someone who was affected? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the House wants to hear from you. Please fill out this link and share. forms.office.com/pages/respon... #CancerResearch #OncoSky #CanSky

More of this please! We scientists need to be communicating to the general public that science cuts are going to make us less informed, less safe and people will needlessly DIE.

Come with me and Ravi on a hack:

It was a good day! #fungifriends

I know everyone is struggling but I need help. Due to my loss of income, dad & I are at risk of losing the house from debt. Any help/reskeet you can give me to hold onto this house until we're better situated to sell it vs losing it would be greatly appreciated. gofund.me/fa508967

Look at this absolute masterpiece of an adoptable dog 😍

Pretzel in his surgery recovery onesie. He pretended his legs didn’t work at first but he’s got used to it pretty quickly. His recovery is going great.

Pretzel is making great progress! It took him about 24 hours to snap out of his drugged haze and start eating, which had us worried. Apparently he was “spicy” so he may have gotten some extra strong drugs at the vet. Anyway, he’s eating, drinking and pooping and we are thrilled.

He’s recovering at home! The kids have tucked him in with his favorite blanket and are trying not to fuss over him too much. Thank you everyone for helping us save Pretzel. I’ll keep posting as he recovers.

I love all you wonderful people of BlueSky, you are awesome and I will be donating to the cat rescue that helped me with his family (and getting mom spayed) when we can and I will forever share and chip in when you need a hand.

He’s home! Thank you so much to everyone for any help you provided. Pretzel lives!! It was a nerf bullet and two mystery rubber discs that are about nickel sized. I have no idea what they are but he’s still a big idiot and I am getting pet insurance so we aren’t in this situation again.

My beautiful, beloved idiot cat ate a nerf dart and needs emergency surgery we can’t afford. If you would like to help or can share:

when people like Bill Gates say shit like "there won't be doctors or teachers in ten years" we should consider that as a threat. His ass is going to see a real human doctor! His grandkids will have real human teachers! He's talking about YOU!!

You don't have to give up because people tell you to. ❤️

They fucking did it. They mushed to Nome.

Before I start, let me thank the brave folks within NIH who have shared information, hints, and other materials that have helped me sort this out. I don’t know most of your names and, even if I did, no one would ever hear them from me. So here is what appears to be going on… 1/n

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

I’m so thankful for this sweet goober of a horse and our mutual love of flying around an arena over not-too-high jumps under a pink sunset sky. My brain chemistry needed that.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who killed so many children in Samoa they ran out of child-sized coffins, has been confirmed to lead Health and Human Services. The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...