Johnny Vector

Must-watch via @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social And yes, I'm one of those climate scientist "fat cats" they refer to 😂

An answer to a question, but this subthread deserves to be a top-level post. Boosting it in hope that both my followers read it.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

As the son of an astronomer man, I can confirm.

They are genre writers who only work in one genre: Magic Ruralism. driftglass.blogspot.com/2018/07/magi...

Need to contract these guys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pT...

It turns out that choosing the lesser of two evils is, in fact, a moral imperative. And some folks want to wait for the Revolutionary Perfect, but I would equally challenge them to demonstrate a single time where a 'start from nothing, year-0' revolution has turned out well for most people.

Dear [Johnny Vector], Your ballot was received by your local board of elections. We expect to finish counting mail-in ballots on November 13, 2026.

I voted today. Have you?

Trees, oil on canvas, by Soichiro Tomioka (1922-94). Japan

Excellent thread from Chris

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

I used to set my alarm to NPR news, and lie there for several minutes half-awake and semi-aware, then wonder later how much of what I remembered was true. Best example: "Wait, did they just say my lab-mate from grad school won the Nobel Prize in physics?" Spoiler: Yes they did.

Memento Mori 💀🦋🏛️🐈

A labmate in grad school told the story of getting fired from the McDonalds in Golden Gate Park after 3 days. Joke’s on them; he went on to win a Nobel Prize.

Ho boy, do I have a story for you. The question of how ice breaks has been central to glaciology for well over a century.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Hey @adrianboafo.bsky.social! This is why we're filling in the bubble next to your name in MD05! Don't let us down.

her: did you know makeup expires? me: *spits mine out* WHAT

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Can’t tell if recent news story or old Sondheim musical.

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...

Spot of drive-by ornithology from the cargo bike

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

I'm especially fond of this one she did of The Bear busking in my kitchen in Norfolk in 2013. The Bear was always "The Bear", NEVER "Bear". That would have been a very different cat. (People who still call him the latter tend to be people who followed the Twitter account but never read about him.)

[with gritted teeth] the WHIMSY will be INCREASED proportional to the DIFFICULTIES

Beth Mole at Ars Technica is not messing around.

MAD TV’S 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY 1. Butter Ball Saul 2. Hicks 3. Widow’s Bae 4. Mad Men’s Wearhouse 5. Succotashion 6. Kevin Hart Can Fuck Himself 7. The Wirewolf 8. Slow Lorises 9. Twin Peaky Blinders 10. Reacheround

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic feature."

Andy Beshear has an entire chapter in his new book about backing the LGBTQ community and it's worth a read. He talks about how the anti-trans ads were tested in KY during his election and how vetoing anti-trans legislation didn't hurt his reelection campaign.

I’ve been thinking about the Cornell rape all day. And I have to say, there are very good men in my life, many of them, who are confident and would have stepped in. And I also have to say I think something men and women need to reckon with is that those men are the exception.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Has Randall been reading the Broken Earth trilogy?

Stories like this are why I support ProPublica with actual cashy money.

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Did you know we can double the production of solar panels with the factories that already exist?

Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT

This seems fine.

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.