#ShowMeYourKnits this week is a fun alphabet game! Quote this post with the next letter of the alphabet. C: Cool S Hat Pattern is available here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is a fun quote post thread assembly! Quote this post with a knit that starts with the next letter of the alphabet. C: Cotton blanket for a baby. When finished I’ll embroider the name in a row of the stocking stitch squares. This is my first time knitting with cotton.

This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is a fun quote post thread assembly! Quote this post with a knit that starts with the next letter of the alphabet. B: Baby Sophisticate in Purple Mystery with Cosmos trim (Malabrigo Rios) 🧶

Luxury Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass. 1st century AD. This opulent glass was made by encasing strips of gold leaf between layers of colourless glass. Beautiful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago! The Met. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Entire world: welcome to the “decathlon,” ten classic athletic skills in one event! Finland: no. biathlon. Two things. Ski and gun

I am not there yet, but having witnessed three cancers (two of them fatal) I am urging everyone to do whatever screening you can to catch them as early as possible. You DO NOT want cancer. I guarantee that even the "nice kind" will fuck you up.

i took 10 years off art because working while disabled didn’t afford me the extra energy or desire to make art. not sure what exactly i would’ve personally gotten out of prompting a plagiarism machine during that time… it’s getting an order fulfilled, not making something myself.

Judge Dana Douglas's dissent sets up the unusual circumstances of this appeal, the stakes of this case, and the error of the majority very well from the start. "Straining at a gnat, the majority swallows a camel."

This is just part of patrol. ICE threatens you, points guns at you, brutalizes or kills someone in front of you. Every day it's somebody new in our circle. We gather around them while they work through the stress and fear and then, to the person, they go back out. My friends are so insanely brave.

RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE

We've only been aware of Trump's racism since a 1973 article about his real estate company refusing the rent apartments to black people, the first ever mention of his name in the NYT. That's why his Obama meme comes as a total shock. Who knew?

After a moment a voice replied, "It isn't easy being a cop!" "What did he say?" whispered Ford in astonishment. "He said it isn't easy being a cop." "Well surely that's his problem isn't it?" "I'd have thought so."

it's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!

Not only can a colonoscopy catch cancer early and save your life, it can also *prevent* cancer if they find and remove any polys. If you're old enough to qualify, you owe it to yourself and to your loved ones to get it done.

The guidance for your first colonoscopy is now age 45 in the US! And earlier if you have any risk factors. Given the way the numbers are going these days I would not delay. I’m on a countdown to scheduling mine this summer….

Attention reporters, including laid-off ones! Anyone want to go live in Burlington VT and report for one of the last truly fantastic alt-weeklies in the country? Seven Days publishes real investigative stories and a ton of culture. Great paper jobs.sevendaysvt.com/job/writing-...

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

These orchid flowers just started to open. Cymbidium Splendid Doris #orchid #flower #gardening #bloomscrolling #photography #naturephotography 🌱🌴🪴sky

Right? I'm glad you have a thread going and people responding (oh my god astronomers make amazing colonoscopy jokes), because let's spread this hack. Put some leak protection in your underwear, you'll be able to sleep better between prep sessions!

They also recently changed the recommended age for first colonoscopy to 45, fyi!

seeing as how i never seem to pass up the chance to erm actually: the recs have changed and *even the cdc* 😱 is now advising them starting at age 45

My colonoscopy found surprise rectal cancer (not particularly invasive - never had a symptom) but I totalled 5 preps in a year. It became routine. There is a strong statistical survival advantage in cases detected by screening, even within the same stage. Get screened.

And for those keeping score at home—I’m out, mostly fine, see me again probably next year. Don’t trust me to do math for 24hrs.

Having a child-sized lectern for a press conference about childcare and related issues. Speaks volumes for that community 😎

Hi friendzos! Anyone out there an expert in the formation of star systems, particularly hot/warm Jupiter systems and/or planetary migration models? Looking for someone to talk to for an article. 🧪🔭

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica built the Rx Inspector tool to show you. Now a proposed bill would also require manufacturing location information on packaging for both generic and brand-name drugs.

I agree that this is an improvement but why is “is racist“ so hard.

One of the key problems with the coexistence of billionaires and a subservient media is that the ravings of mentally ill men are presented as headline news.

1965 founding legalistion of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Title 20 U.S. Code. Chapter 26. Section 951. "The Congress finds and declares the following: The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States." (cont'd.)

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

In 1981, when I was ten, I visited Christchurch, New Zealand with my parents. I loved birds, especially albatrosses, and learned that tantalizingly close—360 km to the south—was the royal albatross colony in Dunedin. It was not meant to be that trip. But 44 years later, I finally made it happen.

“The President’s budget for FY2027, already overdue, is expected in March. Should the president again propose ridiculous budget cuts, we should recognize this as a negotiating tactic.” I agree with basically all of this piece from @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social

THIS. Also, Oklahoma public unis pay WELL BELOW the pay rate for comparable universities elsewhere. If this goes through full force? They'll never be able to hire GOOD people again, because everyone who can will take jobs elsewhere 20 years from now: "Why aren't there public unis in Oklahoma?"

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump's FBI raid in Georgia is potential model for getting search warrant to seize 2026 ballot boxes, says @rickhasen.bsky.social. "Once those ballots are out of control of election officials we’ve lost chain of custody." On the pod Rick illuminatingly explains all: newrepublic.com/article/2062...

Trump could say the n-word on live TV and the Times’ first reaction would be “it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware of the word’s complicated history”

🔊 Calling UK early career researches in astro, particle & nuclear physics. Please sign this open response to the proposed cuts at STFC ⚛️🧪🔭 "Protecting the UK's reputation as a science superpower requires not only investment, but continuity, confidence, and people" ✍️ ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io

They want to to fire anyone, anywhere, at any time, for any reason. They want a docile workforce of teachers who will sheepishly teach their lies & slop. And they want a populace dumb enough to either not know the difference or not to care. All while they run their grifts in their little fiefdoms.

The president and all his rancid enablers really demand the creation of a new word that means “shocked but not shocked, but still shocked, but also totally NOT shocked, yet somehow still shocked, also always appalled, forever and eternally appalled by the endless abhorrence, and now I scream.”

she got one knee made out of titanium and the other knee is full of four loko and pure unstepped on miami cocaine

"No shit!" say autistic girls. (Direct quotation from my daughter) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

An excellent open-letter enumerating the dangers to early career researchers and then wider society of proposed changes to UK science funding ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io Early-career researchers may like to add their signatures 🧪⚛️🔭 #AcademicSky #UKpol

They were never going to get to their stated deportations goal with due process. So they're phasing it out. (Part 2)

The solution to homeless people is giving them homes.

At the end of the Renaissance, possibly unaware Algoritmi was a name, or that it was Latinized, someone who liked to go "thhh" a lot** regularized it with Greek to "algorithm." Algebra: Arabic Arithmetic: Greek Algorithm: Gibberish in Persian and Latin and Greek --- Key: * reductive ** joke

World FactBook has been taken offline. No doubt the DOGE boys think we can all just ask AI or Grokipedia whatever we or our students might need to know, because who needs reliable info anyway... 😒 simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t... #SSChat #AcademicSky 🗺️🗃️🍎📚

The President of the United States is up past midnight posting videos of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Of course all Republicans will deny having seen it…but we can make sure everyone else is reminded about what a racist POS Trump is.

Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe - choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!! Two reasons: morality & pragmatism. 🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

This is not a drill, we need to be ready to counter and we're not.

For months Governor Abbott secretly deployed the Texas National Guard into ICE detention facilities, even forcing them to work in the detention center that imprisoned Liam Ramos and a two month old baby.