obsessed with the quirky in-person events tech companies used to have (netscape navigator jazz festival, yahoo nationwide yodel challenge, etc)

I’ve heard it and also considered it common

Hungary and Hungarians have me feeling very inspired right now, much as Korea and Koreans did last year. Maybe one day soon it will be America and Americans.

This is why you can't kill a civilisation by bombing it.

Maybe the thought/hope is that if he gets 25A'd, that would be such a signal from his own appointees that he would be so politically exposed that such a vote would work. Now, *I* don't think this would happen, but other junctures in the past (Jan 6) presented similar opportunities.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

He needs to be gone. Impeached. Convicted and jailed. Removed before he drops a nuke. This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen a president say

(not a real headline, inspired by bsky.app/profile/mcne... )

A fake NYT article screenshot saying there is "another side" to a Möbius strip.

Graphic with the text "Action Alert: AAS urges advocacy against proposed cuts to science in President's Budget Request"

The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

turns out you’re actually using Claudio

Normal Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech", showing a plainly dressed man standing to speak his mind unbowed at a local town-hall like gathering.

April Fool's papers posted on arXiv are passé and, while fun, are better off posted in less professional channels

we really need a subjunctive tense for equations

the red laughing cow logo

aye, that red-hornyd devil did look upon me, and in my mind i did hear his laughter, and i heard him say, wouldst thou wish to live deliciously

my opponents? cowards, gormless. me? gormful, full of gorm.

A photograph of the altar at the Madonna della Strada chapel in Chicago. It shows white arched proscenia framing a golden fresco behind the altar.

Madonna della Strada in Chicago is an Art Deco beauty

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

*through tears* acab includes mulder and scully

Season 2 Episode 38 - Frame 1751 out of 2828

Season 2 Episode 38 - Frame 1751 out of 2828

After a decade as a Yale hospital janitor, she is now a doctor there “I still can’t believe it,” said Shay Taylor-Allen, who landed a residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, where she was born and spent most of her adult life on the cleaning staff.

After a decade as a Yale hospital janitor, she is now a doctor there

By Sydney Page

“I still can’t believe it,” said Shay Taylor-Allen, who landed a residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, where she was born and spent most of her adult life on the cleaning staff.

Gift link!

These types of things are always so striking to me: whatever belief, or hope, they had that led them to human burials, they seemingly extended that same hope to their dogs. Oh how they must have loved them!

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks. Nor one Greenland shark.

Let's make 2026 the YEAR of non-fiction. Add 2 to your reading lists and read them within 365 days. See what you learn!

Sad news, Soul of a New Machine is one of those rare books that captures, for me, the computer feeling

Now *that's* the way you release data publicly. Congrats to the @sptelescope.bsky.social people! #cosmology 🔭
pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/...

didn’t have trump inadvertently writing his own eulogy in the cards but it works

Van Hollen!

From drones to video cameras, Berkeley police ask for more Flock surveillance tools The City Council will vote Tuesday on the technology package amid opposition from privacy and immigration advocates.

“The Berkeley Police Department has asked for what could amount to a $2 million surveillance suite with the controversial tech vendor Flock Safety.”

Berkeley wants to give their data to ICE