It's hard not to conclude the only reason they want people to have more children is to put them to work in the mines or at some current iteration of an Epstein island. Children as servants, tools, objects. Grotesque.

I only met Jim Watson once; that was enough. An incredibly unpleasant individual

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

A note: when CSI was über popular, universities in the UK ran to create an infinite number of criminal science degrees (from 2 to 285...). When taste moved to the next fad, unis were stuck with thousands of hires. This, in a place with strong tenure and high compensation (US), is a huge liability.

When the AI bubble bursts the fallout is going to be interesting....

Time to pull out the hammer

"Mamdani is not a warning shot; he is a sign of things to come. Dem voters everywhere want transformative change. They’re furious at party’s leaders and suspicious of candidates backed by an establishment that gets everything wrong," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Cuomo gave a fairly graceless concession speech, and Mamdani rips his skin off: "My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

prop 50 called for yes the second the polls close, you love to see it

Now, the question I have for the Republicans is, where do you go from here. Because, the voters are already incandescently mad at you, 10mo in. How do you think the voters are going to feel after another 12 months of this, or 3 years of this, when you have midterms or the presidential election?

Lolololol

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore

I got to know Pittsburgh by canvassing every weekend for Kamala Harris, and I will knock on every damn door in Pittsburgh for @conorlambpa.bsky.social if he primaries John Fetterman.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

New work published today from the RasgonLab! The first thesis chapter from @zureishon.bsky.social! Project highlights some of the difficulties we had with sample collection during the early days of COVID journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Um. Yes. This what I thought Biden should have done when he was elected. And I knew he didn't have the stones for it

NIH and USDA grants both submitted today. Seems kind of futile but what else is there to do?

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

It's alive...

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Coffee prices are up 21%. Ground beef prices up 13%. Big reason why? Trump’s chaotic tariffs on Brazil. I voted to repeal these tariffs along with every Democrat and a few Republicans, and it PASSED the Senate. All eyes now on House Republicans who are still on vacation.

I wonder if these idiots have completely thought through the potential implications of negating a Presidential pardon. I have a feeling that a lot of them are going to be asking for one within the next couple years... www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

While there may be "pay to publish" and "predatory" journals, the fact that an editor does not agree with the position of any given peer reviewer is not evidence of this. Peer review is merely advisory, it is not decision making. Confusion over this leads to some very bad reviewer practices.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Why is Cuomo campaigning for Mamdami?

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Very nice. I've never believed the London Underground evolution story

It's about 11am but fuck it. Time does not exist in an airport

That was the easiest and quickest security transit I've ever had at Heathrow. By an order of magnitude. Now a few hours in the Cathay Pacific lounge until my fl8ght gets a gate. They have a pretty decent noodle bar here

Wolbachia-mediated antiviral protection is driven by its multimodal effects on Drosophila melanogaster metabolism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.681277v1

The choice cannot be between "win every election from here until forever" or maga fascism. Liberalism will need to fight for structural permanence just as aggressively as fascism does.

Too damn early to be at the airport. At least the lounge food is halfway decent

People would be surprised how much of science is driven by stubbornness and pettiness 😆

I have to leave at 3am to catch my flight home. Debating whether to catch a few hours sleep or just stay up

This paper originated from an argument I had in a bar with a colleague

A legal question. If ICE (and presumably other law enforcement officers) have to pass a test on constitutional rights before they get hired, how on earth can they claim Qualified Immunity when they inevitably violate those rights?

/5 Ezra Kleinism would have me seek mutual values and agreement with the people who brought us to that, and who still support it. I would rather see them burn in Hell.

This is getting zero coverage. This is the first I've heard of this. Burn down the mainstream media