I would reframe this. Instead of seeing arguments over, for example, attacks on trans people as a distraction from the real issue, I would say that attacking marginalised people is inherent to how this ruling class reproduces its power.
I want to try one, or three 😙
Korean street lava cream cube bread!
It's a square bread blowtorched to produce a super crispy caramelized shell, and it's stuffed with so much creamy filling it's literally overflowing.
Every bite explodes with milky and caramel flavors.
#trend #korean #foodie
TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear
🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman
📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon
It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.
I'm eager to lock in and keep writing this paper that I've worked on with a student during my sabbatical. But alas, I'm also eager to prepare for my one-month May term class that starts in just over a week, and also eager to do edits on my book as soon as I get the publisher's template. Whee!! (?)
Creationists have (at various times) gone to extraordinary lengths and expense to create a public perception of significant controversy among experts: "teach the controversy" was their big selling point for years. And scientists agreeing to publicly debate them sadly strengthened that perception.
This is a delightful thread. Also, I am rustier on dinosaur names than I ought to be!
It feels like these writers might be interested in the fascinating series of NYT articles ~20 years ago about social class in the USA. Wealth is one big determining factor, but education and profession are significant as well. Most professors don't have status that shows up vividly on a tax return.
My memory is hazy: are just-graduated seniors eligible for REU programs? I have one this year who rather belatedly started considering grad school, so he's looking at applying for next year's cycle and would benefit from more research experience before then. (I did my REU at MSU/NSCL in 1997, BTW!)
I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name
OAI: say no more
1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.
The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.
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Holy shit. According to the article sailors on TRIPOLI are rationing their food and if someone gets a little extra they're sharing it with their friends. There's no fresh produce, which points to a lack of resupply ships able to serve the ships maintaining the blockade.
Or, maybe simple bras are the most generic and go with all your usual clothes, so you don't need to buy as many? Or, fewer excuses to wear something fancy? (I should stop speculating from a place of cluelessness. It's just *interesting*!)
Fascinating! Do you think this could be as simple as "more people are looking for a (new) job or worried about keeping their current one", and want to look professional? Or is it something more deeply psychological about not feeling sexual (or not wanting to attract attention) in precarious times?
guys, this is how you lose the time war
Hear hear. And please do not cheat and say “source: Twitter”. That is not a source, that is a medium. It’s like saying “source: some magazine.” If you can’t find the source you can’t verify it’s not made up or stolen and you can’t credit the creator if it’s art or photography. Source your shit!
Not that there's any way of tracking it, but I suspect I'm not the only Patreon supporter of yours who could attend Bandcamp livestreams for free but pays the standard cover charge there anyway as an extra tip. If there's a way of doing that which would be better for your taxes now, let me know!
(Fortunately, it's leaking straight into the unfinished basement and into the drain there, so no major damage. But not great.)
(Going out in the intense storm to try to clear the drain with a shovel was both ineffective and possibly unwise.)
Exciting thunderstorms tonight, with a tornado close enough to briefly trigger our local sirens (maybe unnecessarily: it was well south of here). But oh man, the heavy rain swept enough leaves into our outside drain that we've got maybe six inches of water against our basement wall, leaking in.
This is a fascinating question, and I have no idea what the answer is. But I've seen multiple things lately suggesting a trend of *something* concrete going on: airlines, auto makers, etc. now mostly see profit in luxury-level offerings. Average incomes and below mostly aren't worth pursuing.
The Vimes Boots Theory has been running up hard against "are these boots $200 because they're built right, or is that purely a brand positioning thing and they're made of the same 1mm-thick fake leather as the $50 ones"
Gun Safety Tips with Burt!
Missing alt-text
Burt says: “Not all men” = “Not all guns are loaded.”
But how you handle every gun you come in contact with? You treat it like it’s loaded until you are absolutely sure it is safe.
I genuinely believe that people don't appreciate just how much of all the bad vibes right now are still largely a COVID hangover. It was a profoundly traumatizing event for American society, on the order of the civil war or the great depression and we've largely decided to just pretend
John of Patmos: In my book I invented the Antichrist as a cautionary tale.
Modern evangelicals: At long last we can worship the Antichrist from the classic book Don't Worship The Antichrist.
This thread describing election celebrations in Hungary brings so much joy!
[I will say right now: the day is not so far away when our turn will come. And almost regardless of how it happens, I will be celebrating, too. (Not for an assassination, heaven forbid. But just about anything else.)]
My hand to god
OMG, #academicsky
They were discussing the academic rigor of a liberal arts education!!
This is a JWST Space Telescope near infrared image of a star forming region and a nearby protostar. A vast expanding cloud like formation fills the scene set against the dark of space dotted with countless background stars and galaxies. Parts of the cloud rise in uneven shapes that resemble ridges. The cloud appears soft and mist like with its inner regions glowing in bluish tones while the outer edges fade into warmer orange hues.
Star forming region Sharpless 305 and protostar RAFGL5232 by JWST Space Telescope NIRCam
Full 170MP image: flic.kr/p/2s6Uqff 🧪🔭
Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY
Credit: Mark McCaughrean (@markmccaughrean.bsky.social),MPIA/NASA,ESA,CSA/STScI/j.Roger ( @landru79.bsky.social)
As a Gen X lite person who grew up in the 80s and 90s, it also might have something to do with all the school shootings, multiple foreverwars, mass surveillance on a global scale, rising fascism, and a soaring cost of living while wages remain stagnant.
