NEW FROM ME: "As Bloomberg says, DHS *wants* to create its own deportation airline. But we’ve known that since last year. What the new documents actually show is that they’ve failed. No one wants be an ICE pilot or an ICE flight attendant." gillianbrockell.com/whats-missin...

What’s missing from Bloomberg’s story about the DHS ‘deportation’ fleet

In the ongoing saga of DHS’s “deportation fleet,” Bloomberg gets the facts vaguely right and story all wrong.

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Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Continuing to empty my office at the house. Forgot about this, which I created during the pandemic for use during a virtual school visit, showing one way to brainstorm different characters & faces. Got the idea from a teacher friend! #Edusky

@harlanhaskins.com Hello, found you here also. Unlike Mastodon, I was not already following you here. Nice to meet you tonight.

Holy crap, guys. His approval rating is down 300%.

William Adler@williamadler78.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Is this low? It seems low

I am so down for this.

Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com · 5mo ago

we all know I have no life, so:

Start calling it what it is: A #Countermander. Reframe it. Change the image to give it contrast. "It is countering Republican attacks on fair districting"

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

This one has everything: FOIA, spores, leftover rice, leg amputation, Happy Birthday and armpit rice balls. www.foodsafetytalk.com/food-safety-talk/2026/4/8/food-safety-talk-332-my-hairdresser-was-asking-live-from-intermountain-ift-meeting

Food Safety Talk 332: My Hairdresser Was Asking (Live from Intermountain IFT meeting) — Food Safety Talk

In this Risky or Not Live cross-over episode, Don and Ben get together in person and do a live show from Boise, Idaho. After doing a bit of shucking and jiving to introduce new audience members to Foo...

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Pope Leo XIV welcomed the Harlem Globetrotters to St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, where Leo was seen attempting one of the team’s classic tricks — spinning their iconic red, white and blue basketball on his finger.

New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped

You may notice that the Moon is getting larger on the screen. This is perfectly natural as it becomes more and more excited about the astronauts' approach.

This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Night Into Day

The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.

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The Canary Islands enveloped in dust as waves and vortices swirl off of them. A fascinating, complex view.

This could be amazing!

Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 6mo ago

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf

Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

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Some days are really tough, and this definitely is one of them. My dear friend John Martellaro passed away today. John is one of the smartest people I've ever met and had the kind of resumé most of us can only dream of. He was an astrophysicist. He worked for NASA. 1/4

Wait - this is not the Onion?

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

OMG, look in the replies -- this really is a very tall mural!

Tom Gauld@tomgauld.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I designed a very tall mural for www.bdcolomiers.com/

Hey, who’s up for some green beer and the history of the oppression of the Irish and their resistance and fortitude across centuries?

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6mo ago

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Remarkable chart. Takeaway: in northern Europe they work fewer hours and earn more money. Not to mention the universal health care and free higher education.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2y ago

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Unfortunately all of the various AI models have undoubtedly included this (hilarious) article about “Abject Oriented Programming” in their training corpus. It’s 19 years old, but I just discovered it today and it’s still a classic. typicalprogrammer.com/introduction...