Rachel Feltman (she/they)

if you follow me on both here and threads you might think I'm like A/B testing content or something but I'm actually just incapable of having enough thoughts to use two platforms and have to figure out which one hits the right fun vs. brain melting balance

rachel use bluesky to actually keep in touch with people and read interesting thoughts, not to try to chase the dopamine fix you got from being a weird little microinfluencer on twitter challenge

a picture of a facebook marketplace listing. The text reads "fisher price 2-in-1 Like a Boss Work Office Activity Center baby infant kids." The age range is shown as 4-7 months. The photo shows an activity center designed for a small baby to sit in the middle of, so they can spin around and play with everything around the edge of the toy. The toys appear to mimic things you would find on a white collar desk. There is a a fake computer, a fake phone, a spreadsheet, and other accessories like tissues and a printer.

buying this baby cubicle for my kid as soon as he's four months old so he can start practicing make number go up for shareholder, circle back on email, and other crucial life skills

a man is sitting at a table with a knife in his hand and says angry cannibal noises . Alt: a man is sitting at a table with a knife in his hand and says angry cannibal noises .

this gnawing is done with gleeful abandon, growls, throaty laughter, and lots of frothing at the mouth, except when the long pig fails to satiate his bloodlust. then he chomps harder. while also screaming.

ways in which having a #baby is turning my life into a #horror movie (complimentary) part three: he sprouted a tooth at three weeks old, which we were told would probably fall right out but which has instead proven to be sturdy enough for him to gnaw on human flesh (mine).

wow @dropout.tv licensing Don't Hug Me I'm Scared somehow inches them even closer to being a streaming service curated especially and calibrated precisely for me, Rachel Feltman, a person who used to think she was unique and had original thoughts

ok the fist-eating thing also reminded me of a certain burlesque act that, iirc, is your favorite and you had performed at your wedding

ways in which having a baby is basically turning my life into a #horror movie (complimentary) part two: upon discovering that he has hands, he immediately became preoccupied with the task of consuming them whole, Event-Horizon-Blood-Orgy-style

ways in which having a baby is basically turning my life into a #horror movie (complimentary) part one of many: his best friend and only conversation partner is an entity we refer to as "the baby in the mirror"

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Rachel Feltman's Weirdest Thing and Sundry Shoppe Bookshop Hi! I'm Rachel Feltman, the host of Popular Science's The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week and Scientific American's Science Quickly. I'm also the author of Been There, Done That: A Rousing History ...

I finally got around to making a @bookshop.org affiliate shop full of books from Weirdest Thing and also just books I like! We've got science! We've got history! We've got WLW regency romance! Stay tuned for more nonfiction, plus lots of horror and weirdfic bookshop.org/shop/weirdes...

yesterday was my birthday and I spent most of it soothing a three month old baby who got his first tooth at three weeks and already has a second one so be nice to me

Rachel Feltman (@rafeltman) • Threads, Say more 495 Followers • 0 Threads • host of @weirdest_thing, author of Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex, ghost writer and writer of ghosts, aspiring bog body. See the latest conversations with....

will I be on here more? maybe. I'm also now possibly on threads www.threads.com/@rafeltman

Thank you, that's so kind!

@feltman.bsky.social My friends and I had a Powerpoint Party, and my theme was The Weirdest Thing I learned this week
Also my look was full of eyes (earings, necklace, pants and make up) And i hand painted some bubblegum! My favorite podcast, and Kudos to your book hehe

I love it!!!

a group of people are sitting in a room and one of them says please i have a child . ALT: a group of people are sitting in a room and one of them says please i have a child .

yes it's true

a girl in a cowboy hat is holding a stick and says i 'm tired of this grandpa . ALT: a girl in a cowboy hat is holding a stick and says i 'm tired of this grandpa .

trying to get my pittance NJ unpaid maternity leave stipend but have to first prove I was employed by the temp agency my main gig used to avoid giving me salaried benefits, which now literally doesn't exist and has been swapped for another temp agency that keeps forgetting what state I'm based in

How Far the Light Reaches Audiobook on Libro.fm A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this

fyi @sabs.bsky.social's perfect and wonderful book is part of the @libro.fm Shop Small Sale libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Another show I loved that had terrible lab protocol but at least it was consistently sloppy lab work! I had no trouble believing those under-appreciated space capitalists played fast and loose lol

a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it ALT: a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it

I can't be more specific because the show is SO GOOD and people deserve to go in completely blind but when you see it you'll know what I mean because you too will be yelling at the screen at the first indication of what is about to happen

a man in a white shirt and tie is smiling while talking to two women . ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is smiling while talking to two women .

when a show is incredibly good except the plot hinges on someone in a BSL-4 lab removing a layer of PPE while examining a specimen

when all you leave behind is a legacy of not fucking and of making really good chairs it's easy for people to think you were just very sweet and chill!!!

YouTube video by SearchlightPictures THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE | Official Teaser | Searchlight Pictures

genuinely very excited for this film about how shakers were metal as hell, actually www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...

“I came to apologies bc I find apologies quite interesting & bizarre. They’re something that is called cheap talk bc anyone can apologize, whether or not they mean it—it costs them nothing—so you think they’d be meaningless, but they’re really meaningful.”🧪
@feltman.bsky.social

I really like the Doctor Thorne miniseries from ITV!

Here's a fun version of this: end-to-end development of a vaccine costs about $3-4B (assuming no incremental benefits in platform tech!). OpenAI's last cap raise came out to $40B. So, for the cost of non-consenually seeing Jason Momoa plow Marilyn Monroe, you could instead fully cure ten diseases.

yeah sorry there's too much to unpack there

I think about this often

Transforming Presidential Health Care: Insights from a Former White House Doctor A former White House physician reveals the medical realities of caring for the president of the U.S.

On today's Science Quickly, I interviewed a former White House doctor about the president's care, aging and more: "It is a fact of science, it's not a political attack, that humans past the age of 60... start to have cognitive decline."

"We have a gerontocracy."

Listen on @sciam.bsky.social 🎧