Peter Jacobs

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

"Deadwood" and the community of spirits On rewatching David Milch's masterpiece in the age of the oligarch

As promised, forewarned, I have written about my most recent rewatch of DEADWOOD.

I think it is one of the most profound, sophisticated, and relevant works of art in recent American history.

To the 8 of you hoopleheads who will actually find this interesting, I hope you enjoy.

Keystone Kash Busted Celebrating in Olympic Locker Room on 'Work Trip' His assistant public affairs director insisted the FBI director was not in Italy for the Winter Olympics.

His assistant public affairs director insisted the FBI director was not in Italy for the Winter Olympics.

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

I've been writing about the Epstein case for years and about sexual violence for my entire career. I had hoped that the Epstein crisis would be a moment for real structural accountability but we're spinning off into fantasyland.

you know someone’s mad as hell when they post the bluesky daily active users chart

NextDoor first made me realize I lived among people who would have turned in Anne Frank and her family.

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

RFK Jr., once poisoned by mercury, is silent as EPA weakens rules against it The HHS secretary has fought mercury pollution for years. He’s now in an administration that wants to make it easier for industries to dump it into the air

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that contaminates people when air pollution settles on rivers and streams and gets into the fish we eat. Current Health Secretary RFK jr once had mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna, but has been silent these rollbacks

www.eenews.net/articles/rfk...

I am exhausted by 2027 already.

Project Drawdown launches Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support scientists working in the public good Fellowship seeks early- to mid-career researchers based in America who are committed to science and public expertise

FELLOWSHIP! We’re proud to announce the launch of the Climate Science Serving America fellowship, open to early- and mid-career scientists & engineers who work on climate solutions.

Full salary, benefits, and a research stipend. Remote anywhere in the United States.

drawdown.org/news/project...

I just got this as part of an itch bundle and I am really digging it. The work you've put it into it has paid off. 👍

Snowball Earth might have had a dynamic climate and open seas Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

"Snowball Earth might have had a dynamic climate and open seas": a nice article about our new study led by the amazing @cgrifgeo.bsky.social, just published in @scinews.bsky.social

www.sciencenews.org/article/snow...

@unisouthampton.bsky.social

What Are Heterodox Free Speech Warriors Doing About Trump's Censorship-Industrial Complex? Nada Trump is issuing subpoenas demanding social media platforms hand over data about ICE protesters but the 'Twitter Files' agitators couldn't care less

In the midst of the most aggressive and alarming federal assault on the First Amendment since the Palmer raids, the Biden-era free speech warriors have focused their outrage on . . . the injustice of releasing the Epstein files.

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This really is a great picture:

Dutch intelligence agencies warn of escalating Russian hybrid attacks The Netherlands’ intelligence agencies warned Thursday that Russia is increasing hybrid activities across Europe, combining cyberattacks, sabotage, and influence operations that could affect critical ...

nltimes.nl/2026/02/19/d...

The mass deportations will reorient domestic law enforcement while the slow motion destruction of NATO and the emboldening of Russia plays out internationally. This is all being openly planned.

The mass deportations will reorient domestic law enforcement while the slow motion destruction of NATO and the emboldening of Russia plays out internationally. This is all being openly planned.

The mass deportations will reorient domestic law enforcement while the slow motion destruction of NATO and the emboldening of Russia plays out internationally. This is all being openly planned.

The mass deportations will reorient domestic law enforcement while the slow motion destruction of NATO and the emboldening of Russia plays out internationally. This is all being openly planned.

The mass deportations will reorient domestic law enforcement while the slow motion destruction of NATO and the emboldening of Russia plays out internationally. This is all being openly planned.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

“I want to be forever Yoon” was right there

Not one but two sex scandals at Trump’s Labor Dept - one involving the Labor Secty herself AND a second one involving her husband. Wow.

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes - Honorees and Awards Ceremony The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes celebrate the best books of the last year at our awards ceremony.

Honored to see The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything named as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize www.latimes.com/events/festi...

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A view of the dolomites looming over Cortina

Not really a thread guy but an interesting thing about the mountains around Cortina and throughout the Italian Alps is that they’re fundamentally shaped by global warming, only it happened 234 million years ago

Scientists: if you have pursued/secured philanthropic funding in the wake of federal research funding cuts, I want to talk to you.

Reposts appreciated!