"These men made the choices to change their relationship status from being these women’s life partners — to being their life-takers. & our coverage should reflect that."
READ THIS ESSAY!
One of my favorite things about this article is that they quote @astrokatie.com a few times but there's an enormous distance between the first one and the second one, so for a long time it feels like they called up an astrophysicist just so she could say "the fuck are you nerds talking about"
A #robin is starting a family in a topological hanging sculpture at #mit!
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I haven’t said anything because I’m superstitious but now I can: hi other challenger trauma kids who also ended up working their whole lives to be like Ronald McNair. Unclench your jaw.
Yup. That is what happens. A bunch of people have been sitting on this and once the lid is off, it’s all bets off.
Secret Election Funders (via NYT) U.S. politics has seen a stunning increase in dark money donations, undermining promises from the Supreme Court.
i’m so old i remember when obama called out SCOTUS for citizens united during a SOTU, predicting this would happen, and alito shook his head and said “that’s not true”
Sharing this again in honor of the #Artemis II lunar flyby today
Josie and the Pussycats is totally jerkin'!
And once again, here's my essay about how fun (and, unexpectedly, to me, anyway, smart) this movie turned out to be:
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You know how we know changing sex sure IS possible? Because you don’t need totalitarian control to prohibit impossible things
This is what social media is meant to be about.
"Corwin has... kind of an EGO"
lol
"There really IS a lot of smoking and drinking"
the world has changed significantly
Words:
Retainers (meaning goons)
"excusions"
Which was a typo in "alarms and excursions", originally from Shakespeare
I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here.
Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
Coconuts
FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this
There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.
ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.
The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty.
Budgets are moral documents.
I saw #ProjectHailMary and it was lovely. It's just THE BOOK on the screen! If you liked the book you will like the flick. Movie also has some lovely music choices. I think you'd like the flick if you haven't read the book also. Heartwarming
One shot. You get one shot to fix this. It can’t wait until after all the political capital has been wasted on some big policy initiative. The institutions must be fixed. The rest is noise & the policy will follow:
Build it
We have to start paying these bills this month, and we can't make that happen without help. I know everyone has their own issues and priorities, but any donation and every share makes a difference 💜
A Turkey Vulture portrait up close. It shows their head without the iridescent feathers the body has.
I think Turkey Vultures make for great portraits!
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
Yall found out about venezuelan harp i see
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Has the therapist helped him take responsibility for the massive body count caused by his promotion of AIDS denialism, or is it just the stuff about making his wife sad?
And so this is my reminder that we should expand the court. Not just because we need to get people who care about the actual constitution on the court after Trump appointed some of the most heinous losers to ever get JDs to the bench.
Because we actually need more people.
I represented a client who was charged with obstruction for, this is true, not letting a cop sexually assault her. Client said "no" when propositioned, cop grabbed her genitals, she said "no" again, and the state's attorney charged her with obstruction.
Child continues to read:
"You know, I like some of these sentences, but some are just ...unreasonable."
Burnished
Drek
Portend
"Some of these words suck! There's no need to be that specific!" 😝
#zelazny #NinePrincesInAmber
Ashley Harrell’s coverage of the Trump admin’s desecration of the National Parks has been some of the best reporting in the country. They’re blacklisting her for being too good at her job
ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes
ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...