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Domesticated animals have pulled our heavy carts and turned our large mills for centuries. But what about the opposite end of the spectrum—what if the wheel you want to turn is so small you can’t see it?

Turns out we can harness the power of bacteria to power the world’s smallest machines.

1/7 ⚛️🧪

Your movies are a highlight every season, congrats!

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

This is class solidarity.

In case you’re at all confused.

one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil

So....

1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz"

2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump.

3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order.

4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.

I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”

Like my main man Kurt Vonnegut said:

"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."

Hallmark is a business, trying to make a profit. Great American Family and GAC Media are backed by deep pocketed right-wing investors who see bland movies as on-ramp to promoting more explicitly political content, as well as creating ever-more-isolated media ecosystem that extends socital fractures.

Also, they’re decent politicians. Cooper worked hard for health care for poor people in this state and stood against the bathroom bill. He’s perceived as a good man and a strong democrat for NC.

I feel like it’s perfect weather for a person in perimenopause.

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Andrew Hozier-Byrne, the man that you are. Lovely show in Colorado.

As if take me to church is about an actual church.

It’s Pasta Salad Season, Baby! | Defector Every other week local farmers drop a box of produce off at my house. It’s a program in Philadelphia that is somehow, with inflation and whatever economic fuckery is in the air, cheaper than buying pr...

while wondering wtf i was going to make for dinner tonight i suddenly remembered @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social's pasta salad blog from last year defector.com/its-pasta-sa..., problem solved

Dropped and some sold out immediately. Good for her 😊 I saw where they really tried to stock up but people want to support!

This is interesting in light of 1) the recent thread where one of you elegantly explained the fascist appeal to signified bodies v. actual beauty and 2) how much weight signifies race and class THROUGH gender.

We manage capitalism’s global & local contradictions through Race, class & gender.

Showing the kids Bull Durham for the first time and it just occurred to me that “The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness" might be the most underrated quote in the history of Hollywood.

Visa Pause Could Leave U.S. With Fewer New Doctors Amid Shortage Hundreds of young foreign-educated doctors who matched to American residency programs could miss their start date as the Trump administration puts all new visa appointments on hold.

“IMGs without visas could miss their start date, putting their positions at risk and leaving hospitals in the lurch. North Dakota, Wyoming and Arkansas rely on foreign residents, with foreign-born/educated medical graduates being 38%, 33% and 32% of incoming residents” www.forbes.com/sites/emmawh...

Israel aggressively bombing Iran—unlike two incidents of strikes in 2024, which followed Iranian missiles launches against Israel—is in part another consequence of a weak, chaotic US president.

Worth noting that this didn't happen under Biden, Obama, or Bush, despite Israel talking about it a lot.

However will I survive without someone calling me a blue haired spic. Such thoughtful words, much diversity.

She was shot by another cop.

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.

Listen we tried to tell them. It’s no longer our lesson to learn. THIS is not our lesson to learn. FAFO is shorter to say.

A tweet from HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it's common sense and it's good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS's promise to Make America Healthy Again.

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

The Moment I Realized We Were Headed for Another Financial Crisis Banking collapses in 2023 almost triggered disaster—but the real crisis might be caused by what happened after.

This is really important - the GENIUS Act is, foreseeably, going to fill the whole American financial system with exposures to incredibly run-prone liability structures.
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I think about this once a week. ‘Not everything has to be an allegory. All the same…’ fuck man.

Kinda looks like a pawpaw! I wonder if they’re related.

I too say that when my boss asks me to do my job.