this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

timeline cleanse

I'm 98% sure he is talking about Star Trek 4 (the one with the whales) when the Klingon bird of prey became visible when they opened the hatch.

Good news.

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

one of my faves of this genre is B’Elanna & Harry finding a mysterious alien robot and plugging it directly into the warp core to charge itself

don't threaten me with a good time

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I hope the new Star Trek Academy show is mostly about long, dry engineering lectures.

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

why leave it to the states when you’ve rigged the courts

“There are twice as many car wash outlets as McDonald’s and Starbucks locations combined” ?? i have never understood car washes & now i’m even more bewildered

The Cory Mills story has so many layers. How does a sitting member of Congress also own an arms export business while sitting on committees overseeing that business? And that’s just a piece of the money part of this…

hilarious when they say shit like this as if it could possibly be reassuring. praising a 79 year old working 21 hours a day??

“I find it ridiculous and inimical to democracy that police have veto power over elected officials’ decisions, and that politicians therefore need to walk on eggshells so as not to offend them.” Read our interview with @stschrader1.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen. www.thedriftmag.com/our-diminish...

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

I'm a lot like the Voyager spacecraft, in that respect.

I'm not "wasting time scrolling social media." I'm gathering telemetry.

The idea of ProPublica of all outlets using GAI makes me want to vomit

All Constitutional Law courses are hereby renamed WTF LOL 101

For some reason this reminds me of the story of how the team who worked on the CGI-animated Muppet Babies reboot accidentally rendered Animal without his fur and the end result was so hilarious and disturbing they adopted it as an unofficial mascot they named “Blurph”

All I need is for everything to get better really fast for everyone

Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

"Almost half — 46 percent — say the cost of living in the U.S. is the worst they can ever remember it being, a view held by 37 percent of 2024 Trump voters" Critically, affordability isn't JUST about prices. It's about how much you make, too! www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

NERD ALERT

I want to make a movie where Santa has claws and he uses his claws to claw things and santa's claws allow him to save the world with his santa claws, I would call this movie "crab santa"

“Adding to the headwinds is U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said the virus should be allowed to burn through flocks so that farmers can identify birds with natural immunity”

this stupid shit is all they have, they are incapable of governing because they only care about exploiting culture war bull shit to accumulate power and wealth among their inner circle

They call it the american dream because the president is asleep in all the meetings

An almost comically corrupt hearing in the NJ legislature featured @andykimnj.bsky.social waiting 5+ hours to talk for 3 minutes against a Democratic-led bill that would defang an independent watchdog. I talked to Sen. Kim about challenging his own party and building an anti-corruption movement.

beautiful LCARS & very accurate imo. thinking about Enterprise now… you’ve got mpreg, slathering gel on each others bodies, Dr Phlox & his wives, multi-episode arc to get to a pleasure planet for stress relief… still there could be more of course TNG & TOS also would be off the charts here lol

It has been 15 minutes since our last “if this had happened in any other administration” event

🔥 AL GORE: “We already have way too many subservient cowards in Congress, the last thing we need is to send another one (Van Epps 🤖) — you can make tomorrow the turning point for our country by getting out and voting for Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social .” #TN7 Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...

mr president sir its time for your daily mri…no sir we will not tell you why…yes sir its probably because youre so healthy sir

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Coast Guard Backtracks On Plan To Reclassify Swastikas As Mascot https://theonion.com/coast-guard-backtracks-on-plan-to-reclassify-swastikas-as-mascot/

Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people. This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

DOT is on an unprecedented deregulatory blitz. The Trump admin calls this cutting red tape. Left unmentioned is just how many of the targeted rules sought to prevent deaths/injuries. "The regulations are written in blood," one former official told me. www.propublica.org/article/trum...