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The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it

submitted 20 hours ago • 105 comments

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

submitted 18 hours ago • 402 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

submitted 7 hours ago • 384 comments

Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done Six people describe what they were doing to benefit public health, safety and the environment www.sciencenews.org/article/fire...

submitted 20 hours ago • 123 comments

Can you see the Crested Lark amongst the flowers here? Often the only time you find them is because they call. #birds

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

Yet another reminder that businesspeople are manifestly unfit for elected office "Give us your minerals or we'll let Russia kill you all" isn't negotiating. It's extortion.

submitted 22 hours ago • 25 comments

Paul Varry dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then a man intentionally drove his SUV into the separated bike lane in Paris and murdered Paul.

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 11 hours ago • 441 comments

The cars keep lurching to the far right.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Current status: we're smuggling eggs in from Mexico now. So let's talk about WHY Mexico's egg industry has been stable- while US egg prices are through the roof! 1. Mexico puts people in jail for price-fixing. 2. Mexico lets farmers vaccinate their chickens against bird flu.

submitted 20 hours ago • 27 comments

Meanwhile, Jackie Daytona.

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Texas sees worst measles outbreak in 30+ years. 90 cases, 16 hospitalizations—85 unvaccinated. Gaines County, the epicenter, saw vaccine exemptions jump from 7.5% (2013) to 17.5% (2023). Health officials urge vaccinations as measles spreads fast, with a 90% infection rate among the unvaccinated.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

Oh, #Florida! Six or seven cows break loose from pasture, wind up blocking I-95 on-ramp. Isn't that a mooooo-ving violation? www.floridatoday.com/story/news/l...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Hello, Blue Sky! For my first post, I wanted to wish everyone as much peace as a sleeping polar bear in summer time 💜

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐱 #embroidery #handembroidery

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

submitted 1 day ago • 1189 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

Remarkable thread offering guidance to current and prospective NSF grantees about how to navigate the times ahead — from an NSF program officer who was fired in yesterday's DOGE purge (!)

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

@sarajbenincasa.bsky.social FYI, the Lincoln Book Tower you lamented not seeing in 2012 in your recent Saratonin is a permanent installation at the museum. Spoiler alert, only ~200 of the almost 7,000 books are paper, the rest being aluminum copies. Impressive, nevertheless! youtu.be/WoYSouErQrk

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

NEW: DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government Workers are communicating less over official channels, not attending Teams meeting, fearing hostile monitoring. via @peard33.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/survei...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

106 years ago this week, the US Army realized that it was hiring unqualified, uneducated, illiterate job candidates because of racial preferences… White men

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Dark skies reflect my sadness at the firings of all the humans that help keep the #GreatLakes as healthy as possible. Tonight I mourn the loss of the 14 @usfws.bsky.social employees that kept the invasive sea lamprey at bay. My fishery will be hurt. 😢😢🌊🌊

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

my real fear (articulated last november) is that Musk following the Twitter playbook doesn't just mean chaos and organizational dysfunction and firings...it means not caring at all about the financial health of the organization bc the ultimate goal is creating a political weapon

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

Nazi website “the Daily Stormer” had a style guide revealed by HuffPo in 2017. Its advice parallels with MAGA tactics now: Most people are not comfortable with material that comes across as vitriolic, raging, non-ironic hatred. The unindoctrinated should not be able to tell if we are joking or not.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

History warns us when the state begins to joke about repression, it is rarely just joking. The transition from mocking the powerless to removing them is far shorter than we imagine. #StatePropaganda #Dehumanization #HumanRights #EndDeportations #ImmigrantRights #RefugeesWelcome #SilenceIsCompliance

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

This piece by @dieworkwear.bsky.social is just super thoughtful and full of revelations. Love.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

obsessed with this review of a horror anthology from somebody who gave it one star because they appear to be unfamiliar with the concept of anthologies

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Everybody like "Trust your readers! 😻" and the readers out here like

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

I learned some horrible history via other families’ stories. My great grandpa became a US citizen via military service after training at the Carlisle Indian school. Other Puerto Ricans weren’t as fortunate, & some are buried on the grounds of the US Army War College. tiboko.com/wp-content/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump moves to abolish the Presidio Trust through executive order

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

STORY + DATA: The scale of Canadian efforts to boycott US goods is becoming clear. New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year. fvcurrent.com/p/border-tra...

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

a thing about jingoistic escalation like Trump has been doing towards Canada and Mexico is that the international responses it provokes are completely out of your control

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Gary the Canadian Adventure Cat would like to remind America that if it invades Canada, its children will die, scared, alone and frozen.

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments