James Fitzwater

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

Continued support for blue-sky research is essential to fuel the breakthroughs of tomorrow. Carola Vinuesa, Francis Crick Institute

It took decades for the work of Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi—the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology—to have clinical relevance. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Dr. Jane made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, and also of humankind and the environments we all share.

She inspired curiosity, hope, and compassion in countless people, and paved the way for many others.

#ThankYouJane #RememberingJane

Photo: Marko Zlousic

The original logo for the Spontaneanation podcast consisting of a gold “s” in the middle of a green circle surrounded by a purple outer circle. Elegant in its simplicity. Designed by me and created by Liezl Estipona.

Hello Friends. I am ecstatic to announce that I have reacquired the entire Spontaneanation catalogue and effective immediately you can find every episode wherever you get your podcasts.

Don’t get drunk and fight each other.

Creator of AI Actress Tilly Norwood Responds to Backlash: “She Is Not a Replacement for a Human Being” Eline Van der Velden said AI characters "should be judged as part of their own genre [...] rather than compared directly with human actors," after news broke her studio is seeking representation for N...

The obvious countermove to commoditizing AI-generated actors is to train your own AI models to impersonate them.

Getting cease-and-desisted for appropriating the likeness of an AI model made by stealing thousands of likenesses would underscore the point.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

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YouTube video by NHL Fleury Takes the Net in Pittsburgh 🌸🏒

Marc-André Fleury. A return to Pittsburgh. A storybook legacy.
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Marc-André Fleury de retour sur la glace dans un uniforme des Penguins 🤩🤩🤩

(🎥: X/@TheDanKingerski)

YouTube video by The Daily Show Leslie Jones on the Dangers of Trump Memory-Holing Slavery from Our Museums | The Daily Show

NATIONAL TREASURE!!! Leslie Jones talking about slavery is toooooo much. I spit out my coffee!

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Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Huntington's progression slowed by experimental gene therapy An experimental gene therapy slowed Huntington’s by up to 75 percent in a small clinical trial. While not a cure, it may give patients longer lives.

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular:

The joy.

One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

If you voted for him, you've done this.

Teachers may not have caused the lack of public trust in science (not the only institution we've lost faith in) but unless we do a better job teaching kids to interpret scientific information to make good decisions, the problem will get worse not better.

Nice read from @evophd.bsky.social #edusky

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

A lot of you are dooming, and I get that. But it just makes me defiant AF.

They literally can't do logistically what they're trying to do unless we all acquiesce to it.

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

When you support Maximum Fun podcasts (and other independent media), this is what you're supporting. This is what it's all about.

Reduced Atlantic reef growth past 2 °C warming amplifies sea-level impacts - Nature An analysis of coral reefs in the tropical western Atlantic suggests that nearly all will be eroding by 2100 if global warming exceeds 2 °C, which will worsen the effects of sea-level rise.

🌊 >70% of W. Atlantic coral reefs will transition into net erosional states by 2040. If warming >2°C (SSP2–4.5+), 99% eroding by 2100.

Sea level will rise 0.3–0.5 m above reefs by 2060, 0.7–1.2 m by 2100, boosting coastal flood risk

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Kristi Noem joined ICE in a Chicago raid this morning. Agents blew the doors off a U.S. citizen’s house, handcuffed him, and put him in a propaganda video even after realizing it was a mistake.

This is America under Trump. No one is safe.

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups

Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

A forgotten generation of influencers - GEOSCIENTIST Older women could be key to reviving interest in geoscience through teaching their grandchildren, reasons Anjana Khatwa.

Dr Anjana Khatwa (@anjanakhatwa.bsky.social) explores how midlife women are key to reviving interest in geoscience and inspiring the next generation "who will influence thinking and behaviour in society at large".

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#geoscience #geology #midlife #women #influencer

Hi! Today @quantamagazine.bsky.social published a special issue on climate science, featuring stories about how Earth's climate fundamentally works that I needed to read after covering climate impacts for so many years. I hope you'll check it out! <3 www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...