Ohhhhh I just remembered!
A week ago was the five-year anniversary of the infamous PSR J1713+0747 (a millisecond pulsar) profile change event - aka the pulsar that threw a tantrum!
Wrote a paper about it: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Check out the plane language explainer article/thread 👇
BREAKING: Republican appointed Virginia Judge Jack Hurley has struck down Virginia's successful redistricting amendment, ruling it void ab initio, i.e. void from the start, and therefore unconstitutional.
Virginia AG Jay Jones is filing an immediate appeal, which will be heard shortly.
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No law enforcement officer operating in Connecticut—federal, state, or local—can wear a mask on duty. ICE and CBP agents have to show their faces and badges. And when an officer assaults someone recording them, commits false imprisonment, false arrest, or malicious prosecution, they lose immunity.
The Trump White House intervened directly in a criminal probe directing the destruction of evidence so as to prevent the Tates from being charged with serious felonies. The action was unprecedented.
"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...
HAHAHA! That response killed me. And it's so damn true.
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
Relatively clear day in this hemisphere!
Want to see something neat?
Watch as the Sun's reflection (that bright light) crosses the right and left limbs of the planet and how it glints!
I get the funny feeling the Supreme Court is not eager to take up President Trump's appeal in the E. Jean Carroll case. www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx...
Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028. I love serving the state of Georgia. Let's keep our eyes on the ball, folks. We need to win decisively in Georgia and every battleground state and every competitive US House district this fall."
What do Levi’s, Hanes, and Chewy have in common?
California AG Rob Bonta just revealed evidence alleging that Amazon used its power to pressure them, and countless other brands, to inflate prices of listings on rival online marketplaces as part of wide-ranging price-fixing scheme.
In the Israeli understanding of "ceasefire," you get to murder or wound all the journalists you like and it doesn't count.
Great.
a map showing a Mississippi where all 82 counties are shades of red
A map showing Mississippi's 82 counties, many shaded red and pink, many shaded blue and purple.
Left: How people think Mississippi votes
Right: How Mississippi actually votes
That’s pretty much the cult line. All he’s got left are people who will drink the kool-aid if the order was posted on Truth Social.
OMG -- the RFK Jr breathing noises during this hearing are absolutely horrifying
It's all just overtly blatant.
With their grifting there are NO COINCIDENCES.
DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices.
The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026.
Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice.
This is digital sovereignty being taken back
The coolest thing about solar energy is that you don't need to invade another country to go get it. GREENPEACE
Earth Day reminder that Trump’s EPA rolled back regulations governing clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals.
He’s pushed to open public lands to drilling and mining.
And he’s gutted clean energy programs while promoting dirty fossil fuels.
He’s a danger to our planet and our health.
BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated?
RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number
BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy
RFK Jr: *death growls*
BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?
A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.
And also to celebrate Earth Day, here's this gorgeous video of McKenzie River in Oregon. I need to visit there. That state is so beautiful.
"Georgia Democratic U.S. Rep. David Scott, the first Black man to chair the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, has died after nearly 50 years of elected office. He was 80 years old." www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.
Rich guy grievance is so pathetic. Retaliating against my unprovoked abuse is the real abuse. Lashing out and then crying as official national policy
Quote of tweet by WUFT News reporter Corbin Boiles saying "SCOOP: I got internal photos/videos of McClatchy's Claude-powered" content scaling ageny" tool roiling it's newsrooms" with the quoter, Max Spero, summarising "a major US newspaper publisher is rolling out an AI-generated content farm that is using the bylines of real reporters without their consent."
I remain convinced that the real threat of AI isn't the machines themselves taking over - it's the specific super-assholes putting them to work in the worst possible ways.
PENTAGON ERASES WOUNDED U.S. TROOPS FROM IRAN WAR CASUALTY LIST: "DEFINITION OF A COVER-UP" The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties - inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count. Nick Turse April 222026, 10:50 a.m. Share
The Pentagon has launched a cover-up of the casualty count in the Iran War, The Intercept reports.
15 casualties are now not included and at least one reported death Major Sorffly Davius is missing from the official tally.
The system tracking casualties may be omitting hundreds of injuries.
Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math
