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It's the #CrabAZ that @franzanth.bsky.social has been waiting for: V is for Velolambrus... or DORITO CRAB!!! It's not "the" species he called a dorito, but I think these are even more dorito shaped. They are cryptic under rocks, mud, or seagrasses. 🦀🧪🦑

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Great thread by @maryrobinettekowal.com. This is very much How You Do It. Bravo!

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

Time to get to know how we know about sodium channels, a very helpful tool to control pain. Hint: It was a massive, diverse, collective endeavor supported by federal investment in research institutions. And scorpions and spiders whose venoms do all sorts of weird shit to those channels. 🧪

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

This is long but adorable 😍

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"America has no king" seems like a good theme to rally around

submitted 3 days ago • 103 comments

Hey @kenwhite.bsky.social - you should republish your "How to Read the News Like a Search Warrant" article. That's been my favorite "media literacy' primer for years, and I recently found I couldn't share it with a friend due to it being offline.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is me, standing on the hill, ringing the emergency bell extremely loudly. When we say this is a coup? THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHAT WE MEAN.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“Democrats seem to be waiting for Trump, Musk, and MAGA to naturally become unpopular, instead of working overtime to make them unpopular. We can’t wait. We need a unified, aggressive, and creative opposition in this country.” Read more from @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social. 👇

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

We should have known it was going to be bad when they put Fukuyama on the cover of Madden

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Great thread about "thinking like a lawyer," here with DnD

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

submitted 5 days ago • 167 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 5 days ago • 452 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

democracy in michigan and wisconsin was crushed to the point of near-irreversibility until 2020 -- vastly worse than what trump seems likely to be able to do before 2028 -- and we fought back, inch by inch, until we took it back, despite Republicans having both structural advantages and real support

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

#⏰🐘🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon is leaving the falconer on read; The falcon didn't sign up for this shit; She has been doomscrolling, Hearing a lot about a blood-dimmed tide, And mere anarchy loosed upon the world "Not my problem," says the falcon.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Gul Dukat to receive party line approval by the Senate as Secretary of Bajoran Worker Safety.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Weird Al: (running from rampaging bulls, somehow still playing accordion) My my my my my Pamplona.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim. Me, 20 years later: fuck

submitted 9 days ago • 157 comments

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

submitted 9 days ago • 467 comments

Nice timeline cleanse

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submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Ugh, confirmation bias strikes again. World is so damn complicated. Keeping track of it all is a full-time job

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The powerful, unexpected explanation of what "the revolution will not be televised" means, by the author. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZvW...

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submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

"Stay sane, stay humane, and don't isolate... Staying connected, not isolating, and not allowing yourself to drown in fear or rage is not submitting in advance." This is a really good piece. 👇

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

This is the best take on the measurement stuff. The breaking of public sentiment from statistical analysis doesn't mean one is wrong, it means something caused those to diverge and we should probably look at that.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

I've used Resistbot since 2017 to contact all my elected representatives at once. It is easy, streamlined, and offers a platform to join a campaign already in progress, or create your own. #Resist in the digital age, and when we can't make it to a "boots-on-the-ground" protest. Support Resistbot.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I know it’s played out but like, actually how are we supposed to do our little jobs right now

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

The "Gulf of America" thing is ridiculous, but if the press gives in on this, the administration will just keep pushing - maybe conditioning access on deadnaming people, saying Trump won the 2020 election, you name it. Draw a line in the sand now, while the stakes seem small.

submitted 11 days ago • 57 comments

Read the whole thing. It doesn't sugarcoat the situation but it also doesn't declare surrender either.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

My “This is not a quid pro quo” footnote is bringing up a lot of questions already answered by my footnote.

submitted 12 days ago • 45 comments