After all, there’s nothing quite so satisfying as getting a papier mâché peace prize from a soccer mom, right? x.com/whitehouse/s...

Working on a memoir of my legendary romantic prowess entitled… The Walking Dud

Well, don’t just do something — stand there! #worldnews

My eyes are The boarded-up windows To my soul #micropoetry #poetry

“What happens when this system suffers cascade failure?” “It’s been meticulously designed and rigorously tested to not fail in that manner.” “Right. But what happens when it does?”

“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” —Donald Trump, 31 July, 2025 The Bonwit Teller building would like a word.

Donarrhea

October 18, 2025

The seeds of the American Revolution were sown right here in Fairfax, where our founders said no to a king. Today, thousands of Fairfax families stood with millions of Americans nationwide to keep that spirit alive: No Kings. No crowns. No authoritarianism.

What could possibly go wrong? www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/17/1...

This is an excellent piece calling out Kirk’s faux Christianity. The Guardian piece is also rather good.

That’s a strange-looking electrical malfunction… x.com/dropsitenews...

"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line. Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.

To analogize the state of US politics to a Monty Python sketch… Republican Party = Very Silly Party Democratic Party = Silly Party What we need is a Sensible Party. Heck, I’d settle for a Slightly Silly Party.

Next stop -- Willoughby.

The world's largest sand battery just launched in Finland! Developed by Polar Night Energy, this is a massive step for clean energy. It stores 100 MWh of thermal energy in sand, providing cost-effective alternative to LI batteries for long-term heat storage. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/28/w...

Separated at birth?

Phil Plait is always worth a read.

My heart. Members of the US Public Health Service (the uniformed service branch no one has ever heard of, who serve at the CDC and elsewhere in the US), massed within the CDC property, saluting their departing uniformed leaders who were escorted out by security today after resigning on principle.

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

A 🧵 on "limb cooling" and how it relates to tracking tropical waves across Africa: 1) We use geosynchronous weather satellites for constant monitoring of clouds over the globe. The satellites are placed into orbit such that they rotate at the same speed as the Earth. There are several of these. 🌀🧐🛰️🧪

Wow. Two solid ideas.

The core problem is this, he doesn’t practice principled anti-imperialism. He practices inversionism: if the U.S. supports something, he reflexively takes the opposite side, no matter how brutal that side is, no matter the evidence.

When the only people who get nominated are incompetent, unqualified, dishonest, unethical hacks, you have to expect *some* blowback from sane people. Also, I’d advise her to look up her fellow lunatic Tom Tuberville’s record of personally blocking any military appointment made by Biden.

“This is Tranquility Base. The Eagle has landed. Jesus H. Christ, Houston. We’re on the fucking moon. Over.” Editorial: “We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t bomb a tiny Asian nation into the stone age?”

Benjamin Netanyahu nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize is like Benito Mussolini nominating Adolph Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize.

[1 of 2] Each day, each hour Every minute, every Second that goes by Is a little colder A bit emptier A little more lonely A mite more bleak My mind is a barren Desolate void Where no seed can take root No sound ever brings harmony And no prick of light ever, ever Penetrates the blackness

Don’t be sad as we dance the Apocalypso. #micropoetry

For us New Yorkers, the very best news of the day. Quid Pro Cuomo has conceded. Huzzah. #worldnews

Swim / trudge / whisper / elaborate / sleep / chant / moan / cry / delirious / eternity / beauty / death #poetry

Who’s going to tell today’s Republicans what Ronald Reagan thought of immigrants and immigration? The last speech Reagan gave as President.

May of 2022. 60 Minutes interviews Mark Esper, Taco's 1st Secretary of Defense, who tells the story of when he was ordered to deploy the military to shoot American protesters. This is one of a million instances that should have been the end of any political career.

Long ago I learned Haiku must contain only Seventeen sylla #haiku #poetry

Everyone knows what it’s like to lose cell service. A burgeoning open source project called Meshtastic is filling the gap for when you’re in the middle of nowhere—or when disaster strikes. Read more: www.wired.com/story/youre-...

Hawley is such a tool. The shortest bar on his own chart is for George W. Bush.

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

Wow. What a video. It appears that a not insignificant number of people in Russia are every bit as batshit crazy as Republicans/evangelicals here in the US are.

This is extraordinary. The most amazing part is that she actually had to look up and confirm what the Fourth Commandment is. @jamestalarico.bsky.social with a masterful takedown of Republican hypocrisy.

As of 20 May, anyone want to guess how much FEMA has done to assist tornado-ravaged Missouri and Kentucky? Let me answer that for you: Nothing. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Because, as we know, the Felon-in-Chief and Republicans are the party of “FUCK YOU!”

“The Government have got it wrong. They have been turned by […] Silicon Valley [who] have persuaded the Government that it is easier for them to redefine theft than make them pay for what they stole.” Great news out of the UK this day for songwriters, poets, authors, and artists of every ilk.

“Don’t wait to get started. Dangerous pathogens are looming, and they certainly will not wait.”

Given that… Stephen Miller = Boris Badenov Karoline Leavitt = Natasha Fatale Felon-In-Chief = Fearless Leader …then what Democrats and resistance members everywhere need to do is channel their/our inner Rocky & Bullwinkle.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The government's request crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church due to its "steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa," the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe said. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

We shouldn’t have to talk about protecting oneself from a tyrannical government so urgently, but *everyone* needs to read this.

I reiterate — thank the fucking maker for some much-needed sanity. Huzzah!

Thank the fucking maker for some sanity…

“The goal is to return colleges to a carefully constructed environment not to educate all, but to reproduce hierarchy (especially if it can be done for profit).” Great (and terrifying) piece by @llassabe.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hear, hear. Nothing to add. A must-watch.

Truer words have seldom been spoken.