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Good morning! The internet archive is currently down due to a power incident in San francisco. It'll be back when the power is back.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

happy pride month to bluesky, a platform that is successful today because of the trans and queer users who made it a cool place to be. love y’all 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

cc: @collinswatch.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 8 days ago • 461 comments

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

submitted 9 days ago • 72 comments

Congratulations to Katie Miller for being literally the only woman in the world for whom joining Elon Musk’s harem would be a step up.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

I wish for absolutely anything terrible befall Stephen Miller. Monkey’s Paw: …

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Look, by conservative logic Elon Musk is wealthier (by many orders of magnitude), better-looking (by a slight preponderance of the evidence), and more personable (hard to be less) than Stephen Miller. It’s a natural consequence that his wife left him for Elon. I expect he will understand.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I am speechless. I hope everyone mentioned in this tweet (beside Dave Karpf himself, obviously), gets a severe case of long Covid.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments