Chad Briggs

This is classic domestic abuser behavior

A petite female tabby cat sitting on a bed, with a small black nose and amber yellow eyes that judge everything you've done for the past 6 months, she was a street rescue following a series of Philippines storms in July

Everything is horrible and the world is burning, but Daisy would like to remind you that she still needs to be fed at 6pm exactly

In our USAF scenario planning, we had a special category of bad that fell under "Zombie Apocalypse" where traditional rationality broke down. We generally shelved those as being beyond our ability to plan. I think the US is dangerously close to that category now

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

two women sitting next to each other with the caption two dollars and fifteeeen cents ALT: two women sitting next to each other with the caption two dollars and fifteeeen cents

Parallel thoughts, slightly different dystopia

Newtok, canine sentinel of South Addition who brought grace amid turmoil, has died After being diagnosed with terminal cancer in May and receiving a steady stream of visitors through the pandemic, Newtok the dog died Oct. 6.

When we lived in Anchorage, our next-door neighbor worked at times in Newtok, and had a dog with that name adopted from the village. There is a great resilience-building story about the dog during early COVID www.adn.com/alaska-life/...

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

I was at a Paul Rodriguez stand-up in 1992 and remember he asked the same thing. Why were white people who hated Latinos so eager to look more like them?

Alaskans face massive health insurance cost increases unless Congress acts before year end | Alaska Beacon Subsidies for policies purchased through the federal marketplace are due to expire, affecting everyone in the state.

Alaskans aren’t prepared for how catastrophic the Trump healthcare cuts are going to be. In addition to making the ACA marketplace unaffordable for thousands of Alaskan families, it will raise premiums for everyone and probably shutter clinics and hospitals.

alaskabeacon.com/2025/09/23/a...

A declassified black and white early CORONA satellite photograph showing the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Soviet Union’s first missile flight test and space launch facility, located in Kazakhstan near the village of Tyuratam, some 1,300 miles southeast of Moscow. A rocket test stand and flame trench are at the lower right.

A frustrated Eisenhower knew but could not publicly say that secret photographs from U-2 spy planes and new CORONA photoreconnaissance satellites proved that no such gap existed. In fact, the United States had a six to one advantage in ICBMs (12 versus 2) and a small lead in SLBMs (32 versus 30).

Wildly overblown and disconnected from reality?
/dnrtfa

I feel the inherency

I have such a clear memory of this song, Jan 1, 1986. Sitting at my desk in a Wisconsin farmhouse, clear sunshine and bitter cold outside. Hand writing a junior high report on evolutionary biology, this song came on the radio

YouTube video by Movieclips The 'burbs (8/10) Movie CLIP - We're the Lunatics! (1989) HD

Such a clever movie
youtu.be/EECf2o9Ivaw?...

This is perfect to inflict on my students this week

I don't want my tiling hanging out with nazis

In Kosovo, that was taught in qualitative research methods...but to be fair, the students all knew already

I'm mad just reading this

Mork and Mindy (spinoff from Happy Days)

Good luck!

Silhouette of a cat looking out a window into a snowy front year, with the front nose of a large moose visible in the left side of the window. A family of 3 camped out in our yard ALL FRICKING DAY. But it was early 2021, and we had nowhere to go, the university campus was still shut down.

Our Kosovo rescue cat Violet looking out the window of our Anchorage house to see a moose sticking her snout near the window #adorable

One would need an advanced degree,that's like the 3 body problem in physics

Technologically advance a band.

Project Genesis

youtu.be/GAoEU3HcCRk?...

Here's a starting point for who you could talk to next time @dwallacewells.bsky.social - bsky.app/profile/rach...

In the Philippines we use Jollibee for bribes

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

My wife would say yes