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submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

The late great Shawna Trpcic designed this bather-eaten-by-shark costume for me at my request. I no longer need it (and can barely zip it). A waist under 29 inches should fit comfortably. It's a little brittle, but still holding together! Let me know if you're in LA and would like it.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Today is (usually) St. George’s Day AND Shakespeare’s birthday, so here’s a thread of English phrases (mostly individual inventions rather than common idioms), starting with this… The best English term I’ve heard for those who sit at home and act tough behind a computer screen is “101st Chairborne”

submitted 8 days ago • 44 comments

Boy I don't know

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

There is no reason to say “AI hallucination” in 2025. We know what they are: The model has predicted incorrectly. But to say it that way reinforces that all text generation is prediction — pair that with attributions of authority, and you see the real problem…

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Try as they might, the Trump admin will never be able to extinguish the light of knowledge and pursuit of science

submitted 9 days ago • 39 comments

NO KING

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Today my therapist 1) laughed at my jokes, 2) had no idea that we'd already gone over, and 3) said, three different ways, that she wished I had a larger public platform. I believe this is what we call Winning Therapy. (Hire me! My therapist thinks you should!)

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Guess what, asshole. I am autistic, have a fucking PhD, and have been married for over 20 years. Fix your heart or die.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

Thanks to everyone who has planted a Jen Fleisher for City Council yard sign. We ordered 100 and we’re all out - way to go! Sign up to get yours from the new batch (and if you can donate $10 or more to cover the costs, we’ll get those even sooner!) Jenfleisher.com/signs

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

ICE spotted conducting "welfare checks" in c'ville. See at U heights. Black Dodge SUV TKR-8945

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Don't let Donald's tariff stupidity distract you from talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon that put our troops in danger. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not. And we can multitask our criticisms.

submitted 17 days ago • 87 comments

[Report for 🧪 feed] A trusted editor has asked if I can identify a lab or PI or research team who have lost funding/shut down a project, whose loss will help narrativize the current moment for an everyday reader. Is this you? Or someone you know? Would love to hear recs or be in contact.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

laughs in biomedical supply chain I have very bad news about a lot of chemical basic ingredients.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

How it started / How it's going

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 21 days ago • 392 comments

Does anyone else think it’s weird all the domestic manufacturing jobs obsessives don’t seem that interested in producing housing? The thing you absolutely have to make in the U.S., there is a severe shortage of it, a ton of pent up demand, and opportunities for good paying jobs producing it?

submitted 22 days ago • 33 comments

Less complaining about how big rallies don't do anything, more brainstorming about how to activate their attendees to get involved with targeted campaigns, direct action, and mutual aid.

submitted 25 days ago • 126 comments

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 26 days ago • 338 comments

Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil. As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course. (📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)

submitted 27 days ago • 101 comments

Great thread! And a nice reminder not to let the tariff nonsense distract us from other critical stuff.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

For my latest, I wrote about my HHS RIF tracking doc and why it felt important to cut through the fog of terror to capture the data:

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

Electing judges is a bad idea. Discuss.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

submitted 29 days ago • 523 comments

📢Polls close at 8PM. Go vote. buff.ly/EERHvCl

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration. So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY. Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.

submitted 30 days ago • 51 comments

Gonna do battle with a conspiracy theory tomorrow. Would appreciate your support 🙏🏻 foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/cens...

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

When I was still a media reporter, I looked at the finances of the White House Correspondents Dinner and how much money it actually raised for the association's student scholarships: www.cjr.org/politics/whi...

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

VDOT is conducting a Strategically Targeted Affordable Roadway Solutions Study at the Ridge Street and West Main Street (US BUS 250)/West Water Street intersection in the City. Your feedback may help VDOT develop improvements for the intersection. Give your feedback at bit.ly/4l7h5Wv

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t emphasize enough that cynicism is a dictator’s best friend. Stay outraged. Believe in and work for democracy.

submitted 35 days ago • 40 comments

It's been a while, so here's my reintroduction post for new followers. I'm Sheryl, and I'm a pay-whatever-you-can lawyer in Illinois, US. There's no right to a public defender in evictions or foreclosures in IL, so I represent people facing homelessness who otherwise couldn't afford a lawyer. 1/9

submitted 35 days ago • 60 comments

23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do. Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF

submitted 37 days ago • 18 comments