I love this paragraph on the ever-present uncertainty in science. From the book Unrooted by @doctorzedd.bsky.social

Collective responsibility. I’m down with that.

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ICE repeatedly questioning and detaining Native Americans is proof the raids aren’t targeting people based on their citizenship status, but on the color of their skin.

omg, this is beyond the pale.

I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

Thank you! I was very puzzled by this myself.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Hey Siri, what’s an example of cherry picking?

WTAF

Republicans in the Michigan House voted to cancel $8.3 million of funding for programs aimed at supporting Flint water crisis victims The cuts affect support services for Flint students, including psychologists, nurses, social workers, and counselors

Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado’s escape from Venezuela was particularly risky because her team had to inform the US military that she was escaping so they wouldn’t mistake her boat for an alleged narco boat and bomb it. Full Story: bit.ly/3XJXIsh

*kicks down the door like Big Bird in that one gif* VISIT YOUR LIBRARY WE'VE GOT DVDS WE'VE GOT CDS WE'VE GOT BOOKS ON CD WE'VE GOT THAT TONIES THING FOR YOUR KID YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK

Good thread on an important distinction.

Why do I make my own pie crust? Spend hours crocheting lap blankets? Practice my skills with water and pigment to paint landscapes? open.substack.com/pub/scratchc...

These photos are truly incredible.

A really interesting conversation about AI and journalism: thelocal.to/fallout-from...

David Sacks' response to the NYT story pointing out all his conflict of interests is a masterpiece of half-truths, outright lies, and deliberate evasion. x.com/davidsacks/status/19952...

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE. That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.

Scientific journals: we don’t want you using generative AI because it makes shit up. Same journal: here is an AI summary or evaluation of this paper. This might be more useful than the actual abstract or paper that the authors freaking wrote Same journal: AI cover art which makes no sense? Oooh!

Big ugh.

This. So much! I am so tired of the overused, cliched phrase, “students worked hard this year.” They may or may not have (when you’re talking to a group), and it’s not the most important thing.

I think it's also useful paired with this Tech Review article about how being rich is mostly luck

Aren’t we so happy the dreaded Woke Times ended!

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.

There is a war on Christmas! Right here, folks.

This is unacceptable. A move that makes it harder to folo the legal path to become a US citizen. www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

It's the culmination of a series of cool calculations: 1 × 1 = 1 11 × 11 = 121 111 × 111 = 12321 1111 × 1111 = 1234321 11111 × 11111 = 123454321 111111 × 111111 = 12345654321 1111111 × 1111111 = 1234567654321 11111111 × 11111111 = 123456787654321 2/2

NEW: I wrote about British churches installing heat pumps, in some cases in 1,000-year-old buildings! Decarbonisation may not be easy, but many view it as an act of faith. This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳 www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

this feels profound, even as it makes a lot of sense. The Penny Dies at 232 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Absolute queen shit

Are you at #SciWri25?? Join us for this in 1.5 hours!

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

I love this phrasing: “distinctive work”

There it is.

"But don’t tell me that excusing that tattoo is good politics. It is the exact same politics that the right is selling, in a different outfit." The whole column is 🔥 from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social >NYT gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Woof.

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Agree. Gah.

This is disastrous.

Humble beginning: Nobel laureate's education started at a community college. www.timesunion.com/education/ar...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family? It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.