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Interesting how papers in other countries aren't afraid to call this what it is. elpais.com/mexico/2025-...

submitted 9 hours ago • 26 comments

Just a reminder that there's good in the world, and good people: this year's Project for Awesome raised more than 3.7 million bucks. My sincere thanks to everyone who donated, and to Hank and John and everyone at #P4A for doing this. projectforawesome.com

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

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submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Can someone in my home state of Virginia pick up the baton?

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

The Dumbass Chainsaw Massacre

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

If you're a Stargate fan then you should know this is a really funny reply on my part

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Those are Nazi salutes. They're Nazis.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Years ago I wrote an article for Slate detailing why RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer, and he was so pissed he called my editor and gave her a spittle-flecked rant for an hour. Yet here we are.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

What secrets lie on the far side of the Milky Way? An invisible supernova, a killer magnetar, huge spiral arms, and what might very well be the galaxy's largest star-forming nebula which absolutely stomps on the Orion Nebula. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... 🧪 🔭

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

This is the sort of confidently wrong person who is extremely useful to fascists

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This is fantastic, by one of my editors at SciAm. Required reading. Seriously.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

There is zero ambiguity here. It’s nauseating.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

I was looking up the distance to Voyager 1 for reasons, and saw that it passed 25 billion kilometers from Earth just a little over a month ago. science.nasa.gov/mission/voya...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Remember when Mitch McConnell said this? Oh wait, no, he was too busy twisting every rule he could to delay and deny the Democratic process. The old rules of decorum in politics are no longer in effect. Haven't been for a while. Dems need to switch strategies, like yesterday.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

This is bad beyond anything so far. Trump will start going after his enemies, which is basically everyone on the right side of reality.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Have you seen this zombie climate denier lie? I do all the time, but it's always been nonsense. Quick rebuttal: We need water to survive, but stick your head in a bucket for five minutes and what happens?

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments