You don’t understand who we are or what we do or what we stand for. You are a bunch of buzzwords in a suit. You have lost all credibility and have no right to claim to lead us.

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful. Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least. It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people. And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

In GenEd Climate Change, I give 3 exams total. The first deals with geologic systems, the second covers modern climate systems, the third deals with anthro climate change + paleoclimate analogs. Exam 2 was wild this year: 26% of the class failed, big time. Some thoughts. #AcademicSky 1/6

Please, Andy, lemme help you pack!!!

This is such an important thing. When we talk about how men are “more direct” we really gloss over the social and sometimes material consequences women and especially women of color face for being direct about anything.

I am a federal contractor. I was told to stop work when the government shut down. On October 23, Pegasus Residential said they weren’t renewing my lease. We must move by mid-December. Today, they sent a 3 Day Notice to Vacate. Our ACA insurance is rising from $368/mo to $1496 in January. 1/2

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New Star Trek TNG lego just dropped. Each minifig has a character appropriate accessory. Riker's is a trombone 😂

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, the light emitted shone with the brightness of 10 trillion suns. https://cnn.it/3WFwNNN

From Brandon Pries: How is the growth of massive black holes regulated by starlight and stellar explosions? Learn more in today’s bite! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/11/05/s...

Trump said he’d be “honored” to release SNAP funds with guidance from the courts. Today, he got that guidance from Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, FOR THE SECOND TIME. And he immediately appealed.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

This program now accounts for 5% of the faculty hired in the system, and those hired after completing these postdocs have a 97% tenure rate - obviously exceeding baseline tenure statistics.

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Vote #Copper! It’s the pro-Democracy, pro-immigration ore! #OreCup

#OreCup R2M1: Are you supporting tendrils of native #Copper or dark grains of #Ilmenite? vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

New photos of Jupiter from the #Juno spacecraft, including some from citizen scientists who who use JunoCam’s publicly available raw images to process into image products. #astronomy - www.popsci.com/science/jupi...

Text from a friend:

“Although no budget has been approved by Congress, and the Senate and House versions don’t make such drastic cuts to the broadly popular agency, many former and current employees say NASA’s leadership has appeared to be operating as if the president’s proposal is in effect.“

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Also, what a great two-fer! Reject the presumptuous auto-corrupt and give billionaires a set of bad days!

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

NASA's budget has long been as large as the next largest space agencies (CNSA and ESA) put together. There is simply not any replacement for everything now being threatened. And the labs and a lot of the hardware are not portable.

In 1676 Ole Rømer saw eclipses of Jupiter’s moon Io run late when Earth moved away from Jupiter and early when approaching. Earth’s orbital diameter was known from Kepler’s laws; from this he was the first to estimate the speed of light (at 220,000 km/s) and was accurate to 75% #AstroHistory

New version of Girl Yelling In Guy's Ear at Concert Dropped:

YOU SEE THIS CLEARING WE’RE SITTING IN? SOMEONE CLEARED THIS LAND FOR AGRICULTURE A WHILE AGO. ITS ONGOING USE FOR FOOD PRODUCTION EACH YEAR HAS A CARBON COST, BECAUSE IF IT WASN’T PRODUCING FOOD, IT WOULD LOOK LIKE THOSE TREES OVER THERE, WHICH STORE MORE CARBON. THE FOREGONE SEQUESTRATION CAN BE

BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!

A million seconds is 11.6 days A billion seconds is nearly 32 years A trillion seconds is nearly 32,000 years

New rule: if you have enough money for a private island, you have to stay on it.

Although the CME has not yet arrived, solar wind Bz is currently pointing south with fast speed > 600 km/s, so mid-latitude aurora is possible again tonight, especially during substorms. The auroral oval is likely expanded currently. Here is the OVATION model:

I still think that if we’re going to use genetic engineering to try to de extinct any organism, our best bet is something like the American Chestnut. Reasons: 1. It does need to learn a behavior. 2. Its ecological niche still exists and is not being actively destroyed.

FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, lied about firing tear gas at protesters in Little Village and tackling a man outside the Broadview ICE facility, a federal judge said Thursday. @wttw.bsky.social

When this regime finally falls, we'll need to restore the White House to its former glory and then make it a public museum. It'll probably be cheaper than the cost of sanitizing and securing the premises.

McConnell orders the government to fully fund SNAP benefits for November immediately via TRO—written order to come. Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned. Wow.

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

Jury nullification. Learn it, love it, live it!

HOLY. FUCK.

None of the 31 Moms4Liberty candidates won either

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

the latest in the social media postings of Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas:

I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖 Hint. Fucking. Hint.

hey longtime internet nerds, do any of you remember the parody article about Canada and Mexico building an overpass over the USA? Was it from the onion?

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.