Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
My left hand, with a colored cat spring toy encircling the end of each finger. Not very helpful for touch screen actions TBH.
TFW you’re trying to do a word puzzle on your phone and your partner notices the group of cat toys sitting on the table next to you…
She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy
AFAICT half the drivers on the road today are looking at their phones instead of out the windshield.
Take care of yourself there.
Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star
It's hard to avoid a bit of Schadenfreude when populists fall victim of the populistic rhetoric they cultivated for their own political advantage.
Here’s the director of the NIH explicitly espousing populism over expertise as the means of determining priorities for federally science funding by leaning into the stupidest possible examples: ivermectin as cancer therapy .
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Hey, I’m Jeff Dillon, a Canadian painter based in Kitchener, Ontario. This is one of my original paintings, and I’d love to hear what stands out to you. Jeff #canada
Hey, I’m Jeff Dillon, a Canadian painter based in Kitchener, Ontario. This is one of my original paintings, and I’d love to hear what stands out to you.
Jeff
#canada
We occasionally see them in the “International” section of the grocery store, but they’re a lot harder to come by than they were back when Peggy lived in Toronto. ☹️
She snagged a “Violet Crumble” from that aisle the other day. 🤤
You should read this in full, but in short, John Roberts and the other Koch plants on the Supreme Court blew up the Supreme Court to protect the fossil fuel industry from climate regulation.
“In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan.”
The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.
Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.
Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.
Do any of them make your Scalzi Signature™️ Burritos?
Someone should ask JD Vance: “You warned the Pope to be more careful when speaking about theology. Do you have any criticism for Hegseth who recited a made up Bible quote from the movie Pulp Fiction at a Pentagon prayer service? And why is Hegseth leading prayer services at DOD anyway?”
I wanna report a murder
“Vance’s response to Leo’s statements came during an interview at a Turning Point USA event in Georgia. It was a sour cocktail of equal parts hubris and ignorance with a spritz of Vance’s trademark smarm” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
N=Me
The nightmarish theme song for the current administration?
Redirecting funding from basic science to applied science isn't just wrong because you need to start with basics - because products are assembled out of *many* ideas. It's like asking farmers to pivot from making tomatoes, cheese, grains, mushrooms, herbs, and focus on making pizzas.
So you’re saying they were… rock stars?
I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur.
HUMMINGSAUR
Teapot featuring a wide angle shot of the Moon's horizon and a small Earth above and to the left. Mug featuring Orion spacecraft with a shining spot on the panels reflecting the sun.
Teapot featuring a wide angle shot of the Moon's horizon and a small Earth above and to the left. Mug featuring Orion spacecraft with a shining spot on the panels reflecting the sun. (Left detail of teapot)
Teapot featuring a wide angle shot of the Moon's horizon and a small Earth above and to the left. Mug featuring Orion spacecraft with a shining spot on the panels reflecting the sun. (Detail of mug)
Teapot featuring a wide angle shot of the Moon's horizon and a small Earth above and to the left. Mug featuring Orion spacecraft with a shining spot on the panels reflecting the sun. (Detail of the Moon)
Artemis II tea set 🌓
#SciArt
what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'
IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated
W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?
I see it's #portfolioday
"...catching a ride on a lunar construction delivery will not discover biosignatures in exoplanetary atmospheres, reveal the inner workings of the Sun or map the moons of Uranus..."
"...ride-along science is a supplement, not a replacement, for dedicated science missions"- @caseydreier.bsky.social
It’s hard to walk very fast when you’re looking at every rock and tree and stopping to take pictures of bugs. 😂
