I learned a new word this weekend: Congratudolences! It’s what you say when someone wins a something that is arguably an honor… but will also lead to more work. Like the winner of the pie eating contest & the prize is more pie. Or being elected department chair. Hi! I’m the new CUNY Astro chair!

Omg, FAT BEAR WEEK AND MINCUP?!? At the same TIME?!? My heart may not be able to take all of this internet competition simultaneously!!! #MinCup25 #FatBearWeek

Reminder that there are giant bears eating salmon right now and you can watch them fur free explore.org/livecams/bro...

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

To: Lorne Michaels Re: #SNL Host Please have Jimmy Kimmel host the first episode of the 51st season.

The guy pushing Leucovorin for autism (Frye) works closely and repeatedly with the guy who pushed heavy metal chelation for autism (Rossignol), a practice that has actually killed children.

Disney is no longer associated with magic and innocence in the minds of millions now. There are mistakes - and there is catastrophic cowardice that changes your brand identity. Boycott Disney.

Rfk very, extremely obviously wants to mass murder autistic people. Ceding *any* ground to that motherfucker is defeat. Any attempt at differentiating "worthy" versus "unworthy" life will end in a mass grave.

Once more: the best evidence shows that Tylenol taken during pregnancy is not harmful. **This question is settled.** The benefit of reducing discomfort and fever is extremely important at a time when the fetus is developing. Pregnant women - Tylenol is safe. sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

whoops link didn't work www.sciencealert.com/fish-butthol...

Lol’d at the NYT piece’s framing of SpaceX’s lunar lander as “riskiest”—something which is certainly true for Artemis III. But meanwhile SLS and Orion are what make Artemis I-IV launches cost >$4 billion *apiece*. That’s unsustainable—*riskily* so—and is why NASA went to SpaceX in the 1st place.

What's your passion?

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

This is… on point!

Dioptase is also a vote for Team Poison, as it's toxic. 😏☠️🌪️💀 "Dioptase dust is toxic due to its copper content and accidental ingestion can lead to serious health problems." To the Waterfalls tune: Don't inhale the toxic stone... 🎶 #MinCup25 #Dioptase #TeamPoison

This is a hell of a thread. Go back to the start, the go forwards from here…

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anyone have leads on resources for trans folks (esp youth, esp mental health/crisis support) specifically in or near Syracuse, NY? asking for my stepmom who is helping a friend mobilize a brigade of support for a struggling grandkid

My fellow NYers: this is not the ONLY disqualifying thing Chuck Schumer has done but JFC almost ANY of us should be more electable than someone who says this stuff as an ELECTED NYer!!

There is none more craven than Chuck Schumer.

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

They still haven't consolidated full authoritarianism yet; they can still lose

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

excuse me? I believe we were all told, it was explained to us very clearly, that legacy media, that it would be dead in 5, 10, 20 years and that was 30 years ago, and I thought, because it was explained to us over and over that newspapers were going away, but that has not happened…

The depressing thing about this thread is that the historical parallel suggests the CK thing isn’t going away.

Point of view: It’s March 2, 1930, and you are a fairly liberal German. That being the case, you buy your go-to Sunday paper, „Vossische Zeitung“. On page 5, you find a note on the funeral of the young Nazi Horst Wessel, who had died a few weeks after being shot. [A #Vossische1933f prequel.] 1/

I told my 60+ year old mom about payment processors limiting what people can buy or suspending accounts over buying adult books and toys. She, a rather prudish person, was horrified that they should be the morality police. Maybe get your romance book moms to send some strongly worded letters.

IN THE USA… Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them? Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...

Technologically advance a band: U2 (I went to look up the replacement for the U2 spy plane… only to learn THEY ARE STILL IN USE AND HAVE BEEN SINCE THE 1950s!!! Just with upgraded sensors & avionics… 🤯)

Technologically advance a band: They Are Laser-Measurement Confirmed Giants

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Happy Autumn Equinox, all! Click the link to hear a seasonal song that pairs nicely with this picture. And keep on making that Cider for the Old Dance! #pagansky #witchsky #medievalsky #medievalists #tarotsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVqf...

In a win for science, @NASA told to use House budget as shutdown looms. Via @arstechnica #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ #Space 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

Emphasizing this excellent point: speaking only positively of any health condition isolates people who are really suffering. Even if it isn’t a policy, discouraging people from talking honestly about conditions, treatment, etc endangers people at the highest risk to protect people from discomfort.

Round 2 gives you another chance to support #Dioptase! It’s blue-green (so credit towards the blue vote this match), a copper mineral (yay) & it’s PYROelectric!! Vote Dioptase!!! #MinCup25

#MinCup25 Round 2 Match 6: It's more exciting versions of familiar favourites as emerald #dioptase is pitted against silvery #molybdenite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

So the took the DOGE payout to resign early, got paid, and now are being hired back cause they can’t really be replaced and they get to keep the money. But government wasteful spending tho news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

If you are ever near Wamego, Kansas, stop by their Wizard of Oz Museum.

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

Tonight's sunset walk

I walked around the yard and did a flower photo inventory. 🌱 #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

Yeah, I had to try three sites to cancel Disney+ but the runaround only made me more determined to do it.

If we get it together, they are VERY vulnerable to organized resistance. And, the direct action folks are really holding it down out there already. It's time for the politicians to either catch up or cede their claim to opposition leadership.

What movie do you consider perfect?

www.wqow.com/eye-on-eau-c... "The "Toto, We're Not in America Anymore," protest drew roughly 249 people to Eau Claire's downtown federal courthouse according to a count by one of the organizers at the beginning of the protest."

One thing that's absolutely f---ing unbearable on this site is that if you dare to point out that Trump is not actually successfully oppressing all of us on every conceivable front, that not *all* is irretrievably lost, a parade of doomers materializes to denounce you. It's counterproductive. Stop.

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...