"Capt" Trevor Sloughter, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Decision Desk has called both of Georgia's statewide races, for public service commissioner, for Democrats.

If confirmed, this would be a really huge win for Democrats:

It'd be their first statewide win in any non-federal race since 2006!

Alt text: Screenshot showing partial results from the Virginia Governor General Election. At 18% estimated reporting as of November 4, 2025, 7:38 PM, Democrat Abigail Spanberger leads with 360,142 votes (57.9%) against Republican Winsome Earle-Sears with 261,950 votes (42.1%), for a total of 622,092 votes counted.

Decision Desk HQ has called the Virginia governors race for Spanberger. The millions of dollars in anti trans ads fell completely flat there.

Kinda wild that NYC is about to elect its first mayor who doesn't hate his constituents in over 30 years.

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More

It’s not just New York City: Dozens of other cities are hosting intriguing mayoral elections on Tuesday, including Albuquerque, Atlanta, Detroit, Jersey City, Miami, Minneapolis, and Seattle.

This is absolutely awful

Explosion at Harvard Medical School NBC News 'Intentional' explosion at Harvard medical campus under investigation 1 day ago The New York Times 'Intentional' Explosion Took Place at Harvard Medical School, Officials Say 1 day ago ABC News Explosion at Harvard Medical School appears to have been intentional, authorities say. No on... 1 day ago The Guardian No one hurt after 'intentional' explosion at Harvard medical campus, officials say 17 hours ago

When the suspects appear to be white guys, it’s not a bombing — it’s an intentional explosion.

Real National Guard patrol

Guy cosplaying as one

Spotted a real National Guard patrol in Dupont Circle (left) this morning … then an individual in ill-fitting fatigues and gear (right) shortly thereafter. Is this an actual guardsman? Did not appear to be a Halloween costume. It’s increasingly difficult to tell who’s legit, which seems dangerous.

they are trying to kill every trans kid in America

when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink

unconscionable evil

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...

"A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants"
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

First dinosaurs conquered land, then some of them became birds and conquered the air.

The sea is the next frontier for dinosaurs. ... Unless they go to space first.

At least tulips were pretty, this bubble is based on a technology that not only doesn't work but is actively harming so many different sectors of society, and its bursting is going to be ... I don't even know but I feel like I'll need a helmet.

A very good thread on the problems with using LLMs for tutoring / teaching.

Multi-century global and regional sea-level rise commitments from cumulative greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades - Nature Climate Change It is important to understand how much long-term sea-level rise is already committed due to historical and near-term emissions. Here the authors use a modelling framework to show how decisions on glob...

Really important paper led by my @iiasa.ac.at colleague Alex Nauels www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“The difference between decisive climate action today and continued high emissions is not just measured in degrees of warming but also in meters of sea-level rise” 👏👏👏

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview.

This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association.

I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

These people wrecked the country. Why do they think they can lecture anyone?

YouTube video by Anime! on TMS Official Channel CYBERSIX - EP01 The Mysterious Shadow | English Dub | Full Episode

And if you're wondering what's so special about that transformation scene that hit 9-year-old me, it's at this time stamp in the first episode:
youtu.be/nHlhHImKxyE?...

YouTube video by Thought Slime The trans antifascist superheroine you've never heard of.

If you don't have a clue who/what Cybersix is, you're not alone, but I highly recommend this video by bsky.app/profile/slim... about the cartoon and comic it was based on. Such a good video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DAN...

First animated crush without saying your age.

Was hoping to find a gif of her first transformation sequence from her male secret identity to her female real self, but perhaps BlueSky considers that sequence too risqué. Even as a child watching it, the scene was... something. Good stuff.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Made a similar point last week that you can make extra meals and let neighbors know that they will be available at your door at a particular date and time... Put up a flier in your building.

Bari Weiss founded The Free Press to ask hard questions traditional press were ignoring, such as "Is murder legal?" and "Does a crime count as a crime if I don't care about the victims?"

This note really spells out in unsparing detail just how extreme the policy being proposed is. For example, an elderly, legally settled resident of the UK who had lived and worked here for decades and is now drawing a state pension would be deported. BNP-level stuff.

They will have to specify that they're in Utica, though, since it's an Albany expression and wouldn't be out of place there.

Avengers: Doomsday should end with the Avengers thinking the multiverse is fixed and wanting to go out for hamburgers but every restaurant calls them "steamed hams" and they realise they're lost in the multiverse and that's the cliffhanger.

Post-credits is the shawarma scene but with steamed hams.

This is one of the greatest things I've ever read.

My linocut portrait of Katherine Johnson in a upward gradient of raspberry to purple ink (she is a Black woman in a shirt dress, with pearls, glasses and a watch, holding a pencil, facing left with her arms out on an unseen table like she was writing, looking at the viewer over her right shoulder). Behind her on the right is the Project Mercury rocket with capsule and launch trajectory in black. Beside her on right is the Earth in blue with two images of the Moon in silver above to show the trajectory for the Apollo Lunar Module.

For Day 25 #spacetober_challenge: historic missions-my portrait of mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬🧮 #histsci One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery🧵

The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces "You'd be doing irreparable damage."

btw the white house isn't the only thing these guys are destroying, they want to chop up the Smithsonian's space shuttle so they can let it rot in a Texas museum

www.space.com/space-explor...

Survey shows 91% of trans people distrust Labour YouGov poll reveals a startling lack of trust in Labour, judges, the police and the legal system.

We commissioned @yougov.co.uk to poll trans people on how they feel about parties, institutions and the UK.

A striking 91% of trans people distrust the Labour Party. goodlaw.social/wcsv

Scientists are overly fond of world cafés.