Going through the motions of AltStream even more by playing the comfy ding ring. Yeah I'll goof around with Elden Ring for a bit. Come Through! altstream.online/joepreal

Ooh, ooh, maths nerds! Today is 24th October 2026, and… 24² + 10² = 26² It’s a Pythagorean day! They only happen rarely. I don’t think there’ll be another one this century.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)

The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

nytimes.com

Please stop giving the singer of smashing pumpkins attention He is so stupid as to nearly be disabled and will repeat any conspiracy because the person that told him about it flattered him in some way

Nothing to see here, folks.

Steve Rattner@steverattner.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

Peak application of dendrochronology. 10/10, no notes.

Markus Eichhorn@markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 8h ago

Scandal in Nottingham as Ye Olde Trip doesn't even make it into the top ten oldest pubs in England. Even worse is that it's beaten by a pub in Southwell. The shame.

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

In U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges (Gift Article)

Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

nytimes.com

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · yesterday

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

"Taylor Lorenz is apparently doing collaboration with male fertility food Sperm Worms" You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

I have a guess.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 8h ago

The U.S. Department of Justice is sending federal monitors to Lake County for Election Day, but local officials don’t know why.

Today is $5 Shuffler Day, fundraising for @paradoxopera.bsky.social! BUT that's not until 2 PM ET! We have a job to do first! Devil May Cry 2 featuring Dante gets camera shy needs to have its shins kicked* in first *Or shot in. There's a lot of gunplay. Starting shortly! twitch.tv/ryyudo

Once again, a total journalism failure: The news here, which needs to be in the hed, dek, & lede, is that these obviously non-emergency & non-national security tariff changes are illegal under domestic law & violate our WTO/PTA commitments. The rest is noise & detail & needs to come <after> that.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 20h ago

The White House is exempting some Canadian products from tariffs and adding duties to others, an effort to boost Susan Collins’ campaign to keep her US Senate seat

This is taxpayer-funded research data and info that belongs to the public and is not this administration’s to erase.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 16h ago

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

I wish this made him less dead.

Natasha Devon@natashadevon.bsky.social · yesterday

Looks like Jason Arday has been cleared of plagiarism. Again. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

This is genuinely the most helpful site on the internet I swear

Jay Edidin@edidin.bsky.social · yesterday

While I'm bopping around the Internet, here's the most useful site ever: thistothat.com

It was just as beautiful and happy as I expected it to be. He is such a good soul. 🥹🥹🥹 (listen to his little nails tap-tap-tapping) #BalmainMax

Deer in backyard. The same one from a few weeks ago judging from the antlers.

WCW nonbinary broadcast graphics

i would abandon you in tartarus

Dear registered voters, When was the last time you checked your registration status and verified your current name and address? You can find the links you need to do that at npr.org/vote

How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

npr.org

I already shared some news on this, but it bears repeating: more evidence that RFK jr's canceling of $500 million in mRNA vaccine research funding was a horrible idea. Moderna mRNA vaccine almost halves the risk of skin cancer returning #MedSky

Moderna mRNA vaccine almost halves the risk of skin cancer returning

Long-awaited results from phase III trial show a huge benefit in treating treatment-resistant melanoma.

nature.com

All these dudes think that genetics is basically programming, a molehill-to-Tower-of-Babel scale difference.

Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d ago

One thing about all these techies fired up to gene-engineer dogs or their own offspring or other living commodities is that none of them know how a genome works

Genetics by way of character skill tree engineering.

„Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline“ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261019-birdwatching-rewires-the-brain-and-slows-cognitive-decline The benefits led to „German health insurance companies setting up bird feeders and viewing areas in more than 400 nursing homes“

Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

Birdwatching can help slow brain ageing and is increasingly being used as therapy for dementia patients.

bbc.com

they're gonna torture dogs

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 2d ago

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

And now the media heavyweights weigh in. @danagoldstein.bsky.social does a thorough job reporting on the ed-tech ambitions of Alpha School, and whether existing claims about its effectiveness withstand scrutiny (answer: no). Appreciate the nod to my reporting on the boot camp too. But...

Alpha School Claims to Teach Kids Twice as Fast. Many Don’t Make It. (Gift Article)

Alpha School, a private network, is spreading into public education. While its students’ test scores are high, some parents and educators say it doesn’t live up to the hype.

nytimes.com

Have I ever shown you one of my favorite car photos I’ve ever taken of my incredible $600 Idaho Camry

I have long been confident that I can't outrun a badger in particular, having long ago learned that they are much faster and I am much slower than either of us looks. But also this only supports your point.