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Science journalist, bylines all over the place. Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton). www.davelevitan.com Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com

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i feel like this is all happening cause we stopped pumping up the jam

07.03.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1367    πŸ” 331    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 0
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Attacks leave dead vs killed

09.03.2026 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9224    πŸ” 2455    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 120

Ok. Cool. Thanks.

09.03.2026 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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2025 movies ranked A list of 61 films compiled on Letterboxd, including One Battle After Another (2025), Sinners (2025), 28 Years Later (2025), Weapons (2025) and Blue Moon (2025).

2025 was an *exceptional* movie year in general

09.03.2026 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Do not approach economists when they are in a state of agitation.

09.03.2026 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

David Attenborough’s 100th birthday is in two months, how are we celebrating

09.03.2026 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
A bearded dipshit standing in a pretty forest with a handsome macaque sitting on his shoulders and head

A bearded dipshit standing in a pretty forest with a handsome macaque sitting on his shoulders and head

The bearded dipshit is bending over trying to get the monkey off but he/she is simply not having it

The bearded dipshit is bending over trying to get the monkey off but he/she is simply not having it

Similar vibes to my wife taking these and laughing while I begged this fella to get off

09.03.2026 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An underrated thing is going to bed and *not* wondering what crazy shit will greet you in the morning

09.03.2026 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
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Wemby is illegal

#NBAsky

09.03.2026 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Is everyone ready for like four months of the tackiest shit imaginable

09.03.2026 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œIt will be fine soon, you rubes” clearly a winning message

09.03.2026 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Letterboxd diary entries for The Secret Agent, Sirat, and It Was Just An Accident

Letterboxd diary entries for The Secret Agent, Sirat, and It Was Just An Accident

Didn’t even mean to bunch them up but I’m suddenly three of five into the international feature Oscar noms and man what a slate

09.03.2026 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

The word of the year is β€œown goal”

08.03.2026 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I get it! I 100% get that some people will hate it. I wouldn't even say I "loved" it but man that was a viscerally interesting experience.

08.03.2026 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Genuinely, what made Lindsey Graham so remarkably horny to kill people in foreign lands

08.03.2026 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 2

I know it's not exactly playing wide in the US or anything but see it in a theater if you can, and go in without reading/hearing much about it

08.03.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is genuinely grotesque

08.03.2026 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Movie review for Sirāt: Holy shit.

08.03.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

I know it’s not worth it but my god the GOP freakout over the Afghanistan withdrawal compared to how they talk about Iran, what’s it like to have no fixed opinions at all

08.03.2026 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

ok less of an issue on this side tbh

08.03.2026 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

07.03.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 12355    πŸ” 4813    πŸ’¬ 551    πŸ“Œ 472

This is genuinely thrilling to me

06.03.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Rise of the Prediction Markets Is As Grim as It Gets I don't think Dante foresaw "insider trading on the specifics of illegal wars of aggression," but it definitely belongs in one circle or another.

Anyway

06.03.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

jfc everything I read or hear about these things makes them seem even worse, a perpetual motion machine of utter depravity

06.03.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I know assigning forethought to any of this is dumb but it really is wild to be like "we're starting a chaotic regional war exactly where all the oil is" and then be like "uh shit, right, gas prices, um, well,,"

06.03.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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An Army Corps project could wipe out one of Florida’s last thriving coral reefs The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida may be imperiled by plans to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades.

The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger.

People know this, right?

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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06.03.2026 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 295    πŸ” 224    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 11
1	LeBron James	43,127	 
2	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar*	38,387	 
3	Karl Malone*	36,928	 
4	Kobe Bryant*	33,643	 
5	Michael Jordan*	32,292	 
6	Kevin Durant	32,091
7	Dirk Nowitzki*	31,560	 
8	Wilt Chamberlain*	31,419	 
9	James Harden	28,977
10	Shaquille O'Neal*	28,596

1 LeBron James 43,127 2 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* 38,387 3 Karl Malone* 36,928 4 Kobe Bryant* 33,643 5 Michael Jordan* 32,292 6 Kevin Durant 32,091 7 Dirk Nowitzki* 31,560 8 Wilt Chamberlain* 31,419 9 James Harden 28,977 10 Shaquille O'Neal* 28,596

Kevin Durant is going to pass Michael Freaking Jordan for 5th all time in points scored in the next few games and also Kevin Durant is 11,000 points behind Lebron.

#NBAsky

06.03.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Like a Voltron of missing-the-point

06.03.2026 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thought about it, don’t think so, too much else in its bones

06.03.2026 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It genuinely is, as well as being a goddamn delight.

06.03.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0