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I googled. He's real. In certain special cases, I feel a new pope should forgo taking a new papal name and stick with his own, most excellent, one.

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

Scientists have reconstructed the insane weather of Tylos, a world so hot, and so close to its sun that the clouds are made of vaporised metal, and where it rains liquid sapphires and rubies. https://buff.ly/41a3GnB #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 19 hours ago • 15 comments

Larry Diamond is arguably the world’s foremost expert on democracy and one of the most well-respected members of the Stanford faculty. Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy. www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Now would be a good time to consider freezing your credit with the three credit bureaus because of gestures wildly reasons.

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The news remains shit so why not enjoy this video of someone trying to clean a water bowl for tortoises while the tortoises repeatedly try to get in it? (Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DF0jAMl... )

submitted 13 days ago • 113 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 13 days ago • 3218 comments

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

submitted 15 days ago • 352 comments

Is it just me or has WIRED been dogwalking the rest of the media on this story

submitted 15 days ago • 186 comments

From what I hear from multiple people in the space, the latest NIH indirect costs for medical research grants will basically mean the end most academic medical centers.

submitted 15 days ago • 92 comments

you, an immigrant, voted for trump and now you're surprised that he's anti-immigrant? so look. i recognize you are in a bad situation. but you are also an adult human being, and you need a little honesty in your life. you stupid fucking child

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

This is good news. My Mom died of CJD, so it's personal.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing sunset here in SW Ohio.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s DOGE project. By @telliotter.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 966 comments

If a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself Big Balls marches into your federal agency and demands access to your system, telling him to fuck right off should be the mildest reaction you have.

submitted 20 days ago • 626 comments

Good graphic by WaPo showing Canada (purple), China (brown), Mexico (blue) and other top suppliers by share of value of goods imported by the US in 2023. “One of the first places US shoppers may feel the impact of increased tariffs is in the grocery aisle…” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 228 comments

What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv

submitted 21 days ago • 166 comments

I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!

submitted 22 days ago • 78 comments

I am genuinely, viscerally terrified of what might happen to PubMed.

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

submitted 22 days ago • 2580 comments

I don’t want to alarm you, but this is really bad. Yes, screwing around with DEI programs is bad, but screwing around with the US payment systems is entirely another level of bad.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

There is not a single fucking thing about Duran Duran that has ever made sense (especially not the lyrics) with the exception that John Taylor was the prettiest rock bassist of the 20th century (cis male division) I mean Jesus just look at him

submitted 24 days ago • 105 comments

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 25 days ago • 937 comments

Oh my god. Its real (Id seen chatter). OMB imposes a TOTAL halt on federal grants and loans, including disbursements on already awarded grants, and cancels all announcements of opportunity and such. In the future, "ALL" grants and awards at agencies must be approved by "a political appointee"

submitted 26 days ago • 68 comments

BREAKING: Donald Trump Jr. issues angry, agitated statement decrying his father’s tariffs on products from Colombia.

submitted 27 days ago • 90 comments

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

submitted 30 days ago • 186 comments

NEW: There's been a 51-percent drop in injuries an a 55-percent drop in crashes year-over-year within the congestion relief zone in just the first 12 days of the program. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...

submitted 30 days ago • 30 comments

Well, this is just great /s Adults with ADHD on average experience poorer educational and employment outcomes, worse physical and mental health and are more likely to die prematurely. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments