Saavik ‘Can I hibernate now?’ Ford

How I feel when someone blocks me.

(ironically, going down the quote chain and found I couldn't go any further because I was blocked)

New Medieval Books: Inside the Stargazer's Palace - Medievalists.net In the final decades of the Middle Ages and into the 16th century, Europe experienced a renewed emphasis on scientific inquiry. This book explores that transformation—especially in the field of…

New Medieval Books: Inside the Stargazer’s Palace www.medievalists.net/2025/03/new-... #books

We were promised that the rich were going to leave NYC after Mamdani won and instead we have this...

Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance “Data centers … they need some PR help,” said President Donald Trump at the event.

NEW from me: the pledge big tech companies signed at the white house today is supposed to protect ratepayers from high utility bills due to data centers — but the WH actually has little ability to make that happen

"this is theater," @aripeskoe.bsky.social told me

Gemini encouraged a man to commit suicide to be with his 'AI wife' in the afterlife, lawsuit alleges Google's Gemini has been named in a wrongful death lawsuit.

“Gavalas, who reportedly had no documented history of mental health issues, named his chatbot [&] referred to it in messages as his wife. Gemini reciprocated…telling him their connection was "a love built for eternity." The chatbot told Gavalas they could truly be together if it had a robotic body”

an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’

i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)

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😂🤣😂

Honestly I gotta hand it to Trump. If someone had told me they had a plan to get 23% of the GOP to support abolishing ICE I would have called them a liar.

Any democrat who isn't all in on this is either deeply committed to cruelty or has the political instincts of a half-baked potato.

Forgot to mention: MT Sen. Sheehy is of course the guy who pretended he was wounded in Afghanistan when really he'd shot himself with his own firearm in a park in Montana. That also was never fully explained. Montanans seem to have a high tolerance for crazy. 6/
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‘My scientific career is essentially over.’ A brain drain imperils Massachusetts’ biomedical future. - The Boston Globe In a first-of-its-kind survey, the Globe asked hundreds of scientists about the impact of federal funding cuts.

“This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals? This is a generational loss of innovation, technology, and economic power.”
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www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...
Some important reporting! #scicomm 🧪

I don't think "affair" is the really right term when he was texting a congressional aide explicit messages and she wrote back "this is going too far, boss"

Oh wait I got one! My mom was a nun!

I was actually struggling to come up with something that would sound fake?!? Like… I feel like I have done enough outrageous things y’all know about there isn’t too much about me that would come as a surprise??? 😂🤣😂

Well in fairness the bears don’t know the rules 😂

I have been illegally close to a grizzly bear on more than one occasion (different bears, always caught by surprise and made efforts to carefully move away).

Map of the STAND UP FOR SCIENCE NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION events on March 7th.

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON SATURDAY??

#standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social

I, too, sit with lots of rage.

But I also stand up with rage!

JOIN US MARCH 7th! NATIONWIDE! Let’s pull every lever. Together.

SCRIPTWRITER: So, for the bad guys, I've got a cabal of secretive scientists!

SCIENCE CONSULTANT: Have you ever MET scientists?!

*scriptwriter goes to AAAS meeting*

SCRIPTWRITER: So, for the bad guys, I've got a cabal of secretive Golden Retrievers who are hiding tennis balls...

MY HOW THE TURN TABLES

Illustration of Eunice Newton Foote, by Carlyn Iverson

For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888), feminist and scientist. Thanks to her experiments with gases in 1856, she became the first person to recognize the impact of carbon dioxide on climate change. 🎢⚛️🧪🔭⭐️🪐 #WomenInSTEM 1/n

I’m 61 and a pacifist, but never say never

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

"If you run out of arrows, make sure to loudly announce this to your enemies. Be sure they know you have run out of essential munitions. Be sure they are aware you are having severe logistical problems." - Sun Tzu

can i just say how much i hate when i am having a magical moment looking at the stars and then boom there is fucking starlink and now i am thinking about how much i hate elon musk

my first book (2020) was about online neonazis and my second book (2024) was about christian theocrats. they gained strength, voltronned and became a government. my third book (2027) is going to be a history of notable sandwiches so i hope this means we will be governed by sandwichocracy

Yeah. And let me also be clear. I’ve never trusted Trump on this, or on the economy, or on keeping us safe in general. You are trusting him on this, though, right? No. You aren’t? I’m trusting the military and our generals. I’m trusting what I understand to be the operation and the people leading it—that is, the generals and our military and our allies. You’re trusting the people leading the operation who don’t include the President? Well, I don’t trust that guy. Yeah. He’s the Commander-in-Chief, right? Sure. Yeah. But I can’t [trust him]. And he’s proven that over the past couple of days, being all over the place, unlike everybody else involved in this.

Lol

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus Today in “Things that ‘AI’ has ruined”: No, I won’t be able to show up to your book club’s online/offline gathering, and the reason for this is simple: I, and li…

I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.

whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/03/i...

Isn’t this some kind of OSHA violation?!?

I’m sorry but no it is not “time to select your course materials for Fall 2026!!!!”