Why is it so much easier to run up stairs on all fours but not socially acceptable to do so in public?

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

Just saw a Redditor say we're now at the Schrödinger's McConnell stage and I am dead (and maybe he is too)

Me driving in a foreign country and seeing a new road sign

What That Means

Alt: "What That Means" gif from the show Nathan for You

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BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

Uh oh do not tempt me with a side quest

My latest in Orion—on the wisdom of coral, the specter of extinction, and why I wish I had six arms #coral #oceanlife #sciencesky #motherhood #extinction #climatecrisis

Group Work - Orion Magazine

On the labor, love, and strange multiplicity of coral

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I've somehow found myself at the center of an underground reptile ring: Other 5-year-olds bring my daughter sloughed skins they find outside => I photograph them and send them to herpetologists for an ID => She brings the skins and names back to school => Now we're all wiser about reptiles

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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"Brushing off these practices as unscientific implies that 'true' science is, and always has been, unimpeachable. It denies us a chance to examine what flaws may fuel our own ways of thinking." A new mailbag from @wbarlowrobles.bsky.social

They Thought What?

Unpacking the history (and present) of science

contingentmagazine.org

It's that time of year when the trees are blooming, the birds are singing, and belligerent carpenter bees crash into my face.

Love this: "Weirdness is not a flaw in a picture book. It is often the doorway in. It tells children this space is not governed by ordinary rules." And this: "A picture book read aloud is not just text being delivered. It is performance. It is call and response. It is music with page turns."

Rachel@rachelbachman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

An essay on why adults need to decenter themselves when it comes to picking books for children. substack.com/@bachmanrach... #tlsky #substack #skybrarian #edusky #kidlit

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector

There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

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If the world knows that the President of the United States is about to commit war crimes by bombing the infrastructure of another country, isn’t it imperative that he be prevented from doing so rather than simply watch it happen

Everyone's job today

Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

I just called my Congress person and basically went on a "Do something" rant.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

404 Media@404media.co · 5mo ago

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

One of my favorite pollinator photos, and the bee isn't even in focus. Which is why I love it. (Bombus sp, Illinois)

Some exciting news today: I'm writing another book!

My take on AI use 1) It's making it harder for people to learn *how* to learn 2) If you can't do everything you think ou should be doing without resorting to it — then you're doing (or being asked to do) too much www.patreon.com/posts/149942...

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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks. My Super Bowl MVP.

JD Vance in 2021:

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin

MPR News@mprnews.org · 6mo ago

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

​An ICU nurse rushes to help a woman who has been violently shoved to the ground by ICE. And they execute him in cold blood for it. I can't even wrap my head around the depravity.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: “Immigration detainees are violent criminals.”

Disco@discosaurus.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.