David Forester

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

Richest man alive, who sentenced millions of the neediest people on earth to death, thinks we should be nicer to AI

The hilarious thing about Whole Foods banning MSG is that Whole Foods is, nonetheless, packed full of MSG.

@hankgreen.bsky.social Today's 4x3 still claims it can't load. Just FYI.

Fuck yes! This!!!!!!

@hankgreen.bsky.social Squid have two tentacles and eight arms, octopuses have just the eight arms.

"There is so much out there to explore," said Patrick Lowrance, the Roman Science Support Center co-lead at IPAC. Congrats to NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a successful launch 🚀 🔭 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/ready-t...

AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/

this is an admission of a crime btw; superpacs cannot coordinate with candidates

“Morning sunlight is the single strongest signal for regulating when you feel alert, and it is far more powerful than indoor light.”

A long but good thread about perverse incentives around AI in the business world, and the smoke and mirrors games that are letting it drag on longer than it should, wasting resources at multiple levels all along the way. Essay version linked in Doctorow's second post.

@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov Please vote NO on HR 139. @mikelevin.org Please vote YES on HR9638 for permanent Standard Time. As both an astronomy teacher and a parent, I'm telling you that this is the better option. We had permanent DST once, it lasted a year. Standard should be standard

@phaneritic.bsky.social saw some cool rocks on top of San Jacinto while backpacking and thought of you. Sorry I didn't get any full 3D scans.

I feel bad for all the people who went into the park to see the fireworks...

Not surprising, but still sad. I asked my 8yo what happened on this day 250 years ago, they responded "we declared independence." "From who?" "England". The bar is on the ground and half the country couldn't step over.

@realinfowars.bsky.social just blew this wide open. The Phoenicians made secret tunnels, took over hell, and then encoded numerological messages in the Declaration of Independence taking credit for the plagues! youtu.be/tdSB8muDtzc?...

Funny, I could have sworn that once upon a time he claimed he was going to be losing money by becoming president since he would miss out on so many business opportunities. Surprise, surprise, he wasn't content to actually miss out.

Pretty sure my 3 y.o. has been taking notes from Sampson (Romeo and Juliet). I told them to stop hissing at the cat and they denied it, then when pressed said, "I'm not hissing at *that* one". They knew the law was not on their side if they said ay.

Only slightly unrelated, there's an opportunity for a sequel here: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2: Electric Boogaloo", about diverting power from Toontown to run a data center, and replace toons with AI agents.

Happy solstice! ☀️🌍

This is a disgrace. "A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

this is my pandacam www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...

This ocean-monitoring system was built over the past decade, and planned for decades before that. It cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. And Trump is dismantling it. It's fucking obscene. It's the moral equivalent of shooting a missile to blow up the Hubble Space Telescope.

Yet another crappy thing is Musk's fault. (This corroborates what I heard from an emergency management specialist in March of this year)

Time to make myself a custom website to use as my own homepage again, with links to all of these and more. I don't even need to host it online, just have the local HTML file.

Cowardly bigots.

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

Slightly increase a band: 4 Friday Tepidplay

I already knew this, and I already do this, but this post reminded me that it isn't necessarily common knowledge so I'm sharing it to raise awareness.

Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Sorry, but if you’re mad that the Southern Poverty Law Center paid informants to infiltrate Nazi groups to expose them, then you are a Nazi.

Jacquelyn Gill dropping knowledge! There are a myriad of factors negatively impacting the free and public education that our youth deserve, and most of the biggest ones are outlined in this thread.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least 3x… a pattern.” The most corrupt regime ever.

Post a picture of yourself as a doctor