Sure, but I’m curious *why* doesn’t it work.

I get that if it’s too wide it’s going to bunch up and be weird on the inside, but what if it’s just an inch or so?

I can’t find anything anywhere about making a post-knitting fix for too big underarms on a sweater by using a mattress stitch. What am I missing about why this wouldn’t work? Isn’t it basically the same as seaming sweater pieces? #knitting

Note: stole this pic from someone on FB. I’m not on FB so I can’t ask where they got them.

Has anyone seen these figurines in store or online this year? We got the mummy and pumpkin-head a couple years ago at Menards and just need the cat to complete the set. Can’t find it anywhere!

That they didn’t actually say!

A Sig Sauer 226 to be specific. 🙄

It’s probably silly that it bugs me so much, but when books mention a gun the author always seems to have to describe exactly what kind of gun it is instead of just “handgun” or “shotgun”. Why assume everyone knows what kind of gun a Sig Sauer is? I’d prefer we as a population didn’t.

and the current US govt continues to carelessly bust up the foundational infrastructure of basic science research for no fucking reason

This is high art

Digging into the reinstated NIH grants. This story is an evolving doozy.

The reinstated grant is an R21 from Seattle Children's Hospital

I was very confused when I read the title:

"An intervention to promote healthy relationships among transgender and gender expansive youth"

1/n

When we learned about trade wars in high school I mostly thought it was boring. Living through it is something else.

SCHUMER: Would the senator yield for a question?

BOOKER: Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no

SCHUMER: I just want to tell you, do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud America is of you?

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond’s record. “I’m here despite his speech,” Booker said.

I’m so so sorry for your loss.

This is a wonderful act of leadership by wired !

NYT, it’s not that hard. Just say “attempting to shutter”.

Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

Chilling report from Brown University.

Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.

Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

In other words, I’m not disagreeing with you. Some people end up better, many worse because it becomes a new stress when they thought they were sleeping fine (and maybe were).

Thinking about fundamental, big questions in science.

What is consciousness?

Why does time feel like it moves faster as we get older?

What is the smallest assembly of cells that defines a behavior?

What’s up with Lacrymaria?

What happened to Republicans that is making them awful human beings?

I’m with you that I see waaay too many people stressed out about their sleep score on the Garmin subreddit. But it does lead to them leaning more about sleep hygiene, so there’s a tiny benefit maybe for some.

It is incredible that you have the most plutocratic Cabinet in American history dismantling public services and creating an economic train wreck and then telling the public that this is the American dream.

Sure, but my Garmin’s overnight pulse ox data was one of the things that convinced me to get tested for sleep apnea, which I do have. I don’t pay much attention to the overall sleep score though.

Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers

Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers

Defense.gov 404 - Page Not Found

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Health groups on social media have become a cess pool of disinformation campaigns run by adversaries disguised as either medical experts or people who claim having conditions, then spread by useful idiots. Adversaries purposely breed anti-science and little to nothing is done to stop it. I hate it.

Most NIH-funded faculty I talk with don't even understand the basic issue that all grants are on indefinite hold, much less the scope of the anti-science movement being pushed on the right! The cloistered class needs to wake up and start pushing their institutions to take a public stand, and fast.

Have some posts coming up later today about what narratives are being pushed on the right to harm real science. Many scientists are in a bit of a bubble about this and may not realize what the right has been saying about us.

If you have any comments for us on this please DM/msg on signal.

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...