Anna Willoughby

In the country’s 250th year, the government is cutting down 200 year old Cottonwoods trees to put up a border wall. Armed agents of the state wear military gear and hold rifles, ensuring the project gets completed. Or else.

And omit candidates, because these things are often not scraping in real time if you don't tell them to, and will give you months or years outdated info

VAR! In the early morning hours #OTD in 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photo plate of M31 that showed a Cepheid variable star. Using Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s distance-luminosity relationship, Hubble concluded that M31 is another galaxy outside the Milky Way. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Image: Carnegie Observatories

First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB youtu.be/akjrfwYPvy8?...

NEW: Ken Paxton's office is investigating pediatricians for vaccinating children. He alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

Once again, your "liberal" publications are the ones that launder eugenics and race science into the mainstream

Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.

Every accusation. Especially the worst ones.

It's a hoarding pathology. The "normal" person at some point says "enough" and shares the rest.

Man, the YT algo is ass today. Someone recommend something for me to watch.

Blue footed booby: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

(And it isn’t just Meta) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

Every minute of this is very valuable, watch til the end. youtu.be/n9fRpiCe59A?...

Ghostbusters. The one with Vigo the Carpathian. Absolutely screaming, my mom had to leave the theater with me 😆

Love this for us

In this op-ed, @emilymbender.bsky.social & I remind everyone that it's the BELIEF that these products are "superintelligent," enough to rely on them for this type of use, that almost rendered humanity extinct.

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

welcome to The Museum of Menacing Jugs

A redwinged blackbird for the #birdoftheday theme of #brown. #birds #redwingedblackbird #protectnature #EastCoastKin

Lulu the Long-tailed Tit. #Borbs #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ECK #Twofer

The Ravens came later for breakfast this morning and it is the first morning I have been cold sat with them for a while. They had some egg and suet and then Chips had a little clack at me before Gravy came to groom him. It seems to always be Gravy grooming Chips!! Just look at Chips face! 😊

A young Red-tailed Hawk preening while perched over the nature trail.

Freedoommmmmmm at Big Star Brewery

My #birdoftheday #borbs has to be this stunning Western Black-eared Wheatear taken in the spring near Pinoso. #birds #birdphotography

Sure, on the one hand Muse doesn't really do anything, but on the other hand it opens up a massive attack surface on literally all your shit

Check Ragsdale's hard drive.

A blackbird has met it's end in grizzly fashion just now in my neighbours garden. #Sparrowhawk is well fed though! #Wirral #UKWildlife

Throw this man into the nearest volcano

A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. I visited it today. russian drones burn warehouses full of books and damage whatever they can reach. A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. russia will never win.

@helenbennett.bsky.social says, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheDivers Quite literally this #kingfisher is diving. I spent ages waiting for it to come off its favourite perch, often for it to dive in the opposite direction! Persistence pays off eventually. #birds #wildlife #eck #canon

A Brown Bear mom checking out if the coast is clear before she leads out her two young cubs #bears #slovenia

Feels extra fighty here lately

I keep saying one of the biggest draws to ai for big companies right now is its utility as a liability shield

BREAKING: In a loss for Ohio voters, the 6th Circuit greenlit a state law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Ohioans must now show proof of citizenship when registering to vote at the BMV before the midterms.

Tiny things remind me why I keep doing what I do. A mini-thread about why teaching is valuable, & not always for anything having to do with the subject you teach. So, in my math classes, I have personal student whiteboards. We use them for practice during class. A student drew this on one of them:

My #elegant contribution for #birdoftheday is an Agami Heron #CostaRica #birds #nature #herons

Rufous-breasted piculet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous-breasted_piculet

“Damn. Forgot my earbuds.” #BirdOfTheDay #CaptionThatBird #eck #birds #birding #humor