This image shows a person sitting on a bench seat inside a train or subway car, holding a large, fluffy dog on their lap. The dog has a thick, light gray to tan coat with a darker face, and its tongue is hanging out as it appears happily panting. The person is wearing a red jacket and blue jeans. The dog's leash is visible, and the person's hand is gently holding it. The window by their side lets in natural light, and blurred passengers can be seen seated further along the train.

Has science gone too far?

#GoneTooFar

On Names I have two middle names.

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Cartoon by @markdolk.bsky.social

"This is an important thing to think about."

So jealous of you Illinois folks today. Outlawing book bans is a hell of a step forward.

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.

In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.

This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.

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If you TRULY care about the world and people in it, you realize that WE'RE A RICH COUNTRY and have no excuse to be miserly cheap motherfuckers with our own citizens (and help abroad) and that's true asshole shit. Cheap racist sacks of shit. Fiscally conservative, you're a selfish prick

I feel like these jabronis hide behind polling to be Fascist Lite and it's like no more of that dogshit. You had your time and you wrecked this shit. Country is fucked because we don't have an opposition party and a captured press. Get your glossy DNC flyer out my mailbox I'll NEVER vote for you

All you Dem MFs running in the midterms, you can't point to polling anymore as your reason for being wishy-washy on this right here. So we'll know damn well where your bread is buttered if you do

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

"Dear America" letters from people who work at the besieged US Department of Housing and Urban Development:

dearamericaletters.org

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

All right, this piece has triggered me so I have to yell a bit (though this is bluesky, so I realize I'm just preaching at the choir):

TIL Harvey Fierstein, playwright, actor, gay icon for the ages, has now reinvented himself as a quilter. He's posting videos on Facebook of his quilting. He's really quite spectacular at it.

It's never too late to find your next thing.

DOG: bork bork
ME: hi
DOG: okay we're friends now

It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...

Id talk shit about other cities' culinary horrors if mine didn't put chili on top of spaghetti.

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "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 to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

The American prople deserve better than what it's current government provides.

Theres no reasons other than hate and greed why we're not.

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

I wish that the Dems were a competent party.

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The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

It still scares the hell out of me that there is a generation of kids who have grown up watching felon and thinking that’s how a President is and how people should act. Sane parents have tough jobs. It’s the not sane ones I worry about. Nothing about the last ten years has been normal.

‘Morale is going to be at an all-time low’: Iran war troops living on meager rations ‘The food is tasteless and there’s not nearly enough and they’re hungry all the time’

Petey Hegseth, spending $2 BILLION A DAY of taxpayer money, can't even keep the supply lines going, so military personnel is going HUNGRY. Yet Petey expects military members to fight his holy war without FOOD (and God knows what else!).

Hegseth is INCOMPETENT.

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Mail has been suspended to the region so families and friends aren't able to send care packages. It begins to look like there's been a complete collapse of Naval logistics on a fucking criminal level.

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.