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#ICYMI Happy summer solstice! 🌞 🌍 This year's solstice happened at exactly 04:42 CEST on 21 June, the moment the Sun reached its northernmost point in the sky. Viewed from space, these images capture a full year of shifting light and shadow, from one June solstice to the next 🧪🔭

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at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 18 days ago • 3063 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 20 days ago • 343 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 21 days ago • 531 comments

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

submitted 26 days ago • 46 comments

All they have to do now is automate gerrymandering, redlining, or any other discriminatory practice to avoid being held accountable.

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

It’s literally a “gift article.”

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Andor is just plain good

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

submitted 50 days ago • 599 comments

Every statement from Trump officials right now is just “Evacuate now? In our moment of triumph?”

submitted 80 days ago • 20 comments

Kids dying of measles is now going the route of kids dying in school shootings. Normalization of preventable deaths because…American Exceptionalism.

submitted 80 days ago • 30 comments

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

submitted 83 days ago • 71 comments

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

submitted 86 days ago • 925 comments

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway. Call me Mrs. Dalloway.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

In other news, I very recently learned that Flea plays bass on Young MC’s “Bust a Move.” Why don’t people tell me these things?

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

Philadelphia block cream cheese is far and away the best cream cheese.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

submitted 102 days ago • 2774 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 103 days ago • 733 comments

How it started / How it's going

submitted 120 days ago • 48 comments

Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...

submitted 123 days ago • 172 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 129 days ago • 2234 comments

If you back into a spot at the grocery, how do you load your stuff?

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

submitted 132 days ago • 506 comments

First ever halftime show by a Pulitzer Prize winner?

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

TFW you accidentally forget to refill your coffee before the next meeting

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

submitted 143 days ago • 228 comments

I feel like Beyonce has a ska record in her

submitted 143 days ago • 219 comments

The problem with 🎶 listening to Missy Elliot 🎶 is that the songs keep playing 🎶 even after you stop 🎶

submitted 146 days ago • 1 comment

Right now I’m wondering if it’s possible to live on Costco purchases alone.

submitted 153 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is reportedly going to sign a piece of paper later today declaring that the federal government of the United States defines me as a woman. If there's a better encapsulation of how stupid the whole "define woman" thing is and has always been I'd love to see it.

submitted 157 days ago • 47 comments

LOL, the ATO process for a government owned app that collects personal data is going to be quite something

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone unironically hang fizzy dice from their rear view mirror?

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

submitted 161 days ago • 1717 comments