O, pity, God, this miserable age! What stratagems! How fell! How butcherly!

The Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy my tiny smart telescope. This galaxy is *very* close, only 2.5 million light years away. If someone in Andromeda is looking back at us right now (and can resolve Earth) they're watching early humans! 15 hours of 20s photos stacked #astronomy #science 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

"of course ChatGPT is full of errors when it comes to my specific area of professional or technical expertise, that's why I only use it for other stuff, where I can't tell if it's bullshit or not" 📰🗞💥

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

What fresh flavor of hell is this?

Ed Martin’s intimidation tactics against FBI agent who responded to Sandy Hook is too much even for Todd Blanche. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

YES SCIENCE (and these scientists in particular)

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

Hey, can you all do me a big favor? My childhood friend Chris recently found out he has terminal cancer. He has two daughters. One of them, Alivia, wants to go see Alex Warren with her dad in Columbus, Ohio. If you know someone in his orbit, send it to him. If you don’t, please share this post. ❤️

This is such an excellent article about what’s at risk if we let fanfic become absorbed by traditional publishing. Fanfic is fantastic and should be celebrated, but part of what makes it so powerful is that it’s art for art’s sake, not profit.

Today is National Bluebird of Happiness Day. Bluebirds have high rates of extra-pair paternity (when some of the babies in the nest are the offspring of a different dad instead of the female's monogamous mate), up to 45% EPP rates! yet they're often on romantic cards that makes me happy

"When Kennedy was young, vaccine-preventable illnesses killed hundreds annually." Nostalgia is longing for the past. What RFK Jr has is "anemoia," a term coined by Koenig to describe longing for a time never experienced (in this case, because it never existed). www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Been a while since I posted #astrophotography: here's the Heart Nebula, one of my favorite parts of the night sky (I say that about a lot of the sky though) 60x180s exposures (3 hours) with a Ha/Hb/OIII narrowband filter, from Bortle-5 upstate New York. On AstroBin: app.astrobin.com/i/lll3xa?r=B

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Hell is not hot enough.

I mean... if we're rehiring everyone, I got 300,000 friends looking.

We talk a lot about the Swedish study where the effects of acetaminophen on neurodevelopmental outcomes disappeared after sibling control. This paper from Japan with over 200,000 subjects showed the same thing. Small harmful effect that disappeared (actually sl. protective) with sibling controls.

one: alchemy was not a bunch of idiots fixated on iron pyrite! they were inventing materials science and new better alloys. one dude's work led us to the concept of chemotherapy! furthermore, alchemists INVENTED DISTILLING. you're WELCOME two: fuck off and [redacted] for this metaphor

It was perhaps an ominous sign when the first thing President Donald Trump said in his United Nations General Assembly speech Tuesday was that his teleprompter was broken. https://cnn.it/42uiten

I hope this catches on. 22 CDC websites are down. All are LGBTQ/DEI related. We are not free. When science is silenced, we all pay the price. Science has been censored in the past. Like before, it will not end well. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Seriously, read this feature only if you dare: archive.is/pBRNj

keep coming back to this magnificent art. Just incredible and if you read the best piece of military fiction I ever had the pleasure of (400k from Omaha Beach to Brest and into Germany mile by mile, archiveofourown.org/works/236219...) …. It hits even harder. Thanks so much for sharing

Curious why a standard picture book is 32 pages in traditional #KidLit trade publishing? And why NOT all 32 pages are for story content? In this #PictureBooks101 post, I explain picture book format & construction: debbieohi.com/2025/09/pict...

📣 Don't miss the results of local elections today in Arizona, Alabama, and Georgia. Our guide explains everything you need to know about these races and we will be updating it as the results come in.

The grift is stunning and EVERYWHERE

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

When the most powerful man in the world goes about the place spreading very dangerous nonsense about paracetamol and vaccines, millions of people will sit up and listen. It's consequence free for him but this is going to kill a lot of kids and make a lot more children very ill indeed.

Oh neat. I sure hope Trump lives long enough to see the inside of a cell. Blasting away people in the open ocean extrajudicially should have consequences.

So the recording show Tom Homan rejecting the money? Wow, I bet they're going to rush to show that to all of us and we're all going to look *pretty* stupid for believing the FBI statement that he took the money as soon as they show that to us, which -- again -- I am certain will happen *very* soon.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

This bill is just one MI state leg moron’s wet dream and not a true danger of becoming law. But its so SO extreme that citizen, libraries, romance readers, fanfic readers and people who think trans people should EXIST …still need to call their Michigan state reps and bury this bill 100 feet down.

🚨🚨Michigan peeps: call your local legislators today and say a firm no thank you

THEY’RE EATING THE CHECKS, THEY’RE EATING THE BALANCES

All 91W fans please wake up, my lovely friend went crazy this weekend 😍 Bssdd in my most beloved and amazing story by @komodotits.bsky.social www.tumblr.com/thence-we-ca... #91W #Destiel #Ninety-OneWhiskey #Komodobits

For anyone who needs to hear this, by virtue of being a “human being” with “empathy” and a concern for “the dignity of others,” well, I regret to inform you that you are and always have been a part of antifa.

These lowdown bastards

Hiya folks. I'm 53. I was not diagnosed with autism until age 47. I did not even suspect that I was autistic until I was 47--because I (and many others) didn't know that autism shows up differently in women.

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

Looooooool too true

just got a notification that my medicare part D premium is increasing by 125% in 2026. but I thought Donny lowered the price of prescription drugs by 1,500%, so what the fuck

The President sounds like this all the time these days and is clearly non compos mentis but it just gets a pass from Congress, from the courts, from the media, from Wall Street, from every institution, because it's Trump.

can more of y'all point out: they want to find out the "cause" of autism because they do not want us to exist finding out the "cause" is rooted in a deep hatred of autistic folks if they cared about us, they would offer us supports instead of impotently daydreaming about our eradication

"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you’re too busy. Then you should sit for an hour." This is a skeet about "AI" rush-to-adoption FOMO.

More nature! Because nature is good even when a lot of other shit is bad. Today's photo: a kingfisher with, well, a fish. Photo by me.

"Believe women when they say something I already agree with, but not when they tell you Trump raped them while they were 13 or 14." --RFK Jr, probably

aargh journalists you do not get to say "Many experts are sceptical" in the face of this bullshit, you say "This is not true". You are at a rare point, maybe a few years every century, where your willingness to doing your actual job would be crucial and heroic, and you're blowing it