I for one don’t find any of this entertaining and I am going back to my cave.

Back when I was young, we didn't have the internet, so you just had to read Wrinkle in Time at age 10 and live with that as your understanding of reality

Okay, so if the new pope is American, can he run for president?

Alt text, because that’s what Mr. Rogers would do.

New supporter here. You’re doing important work.

Okay now I can’t unsee this

Cory Booker is talking about saying goodbye to John Lewis before he died right now. This is an extremely moving and important moment. Tune in to witness history.

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

Make this go viral!

Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.

Thank you, @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social. Keep pushing.

Folks, I need some good news. Please.

Oscar Isaac & Pedro Pascal hugging and being adorable BFFs

This could be you & Oscar

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months

Isabella Rossellini is wearing blue velvet at the Oscars tonight. 🥹💙

Yes

If Miranda Priestly was in charge of public health communications:

James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.

Twin Peaks Day should be a national holiday.

I sent you a request to connect on LinkedIn. I have some leads with the consulting group I work for.

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen.

1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.

—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.

Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

Can someone send whatever 19 year old Nazi Elon has “working on” grants.gov a text and let him know the grownups have work to do?

According to grants.gov help desk: Grants.gov is currently down and being worked on. Grants.gov has no official eta on the restoration.

One thing I really want to know is what was David Lynch’s TM mantra

Don’t Despair, Organize: A Resistance Roundup & Progress Report As more Americans realize we’re actually witnessing a government coup – via Executive Orders – the resistance is blossoming, in many forms. Here’s a rough picture.

"As more Americans realize we’re actually witnessing a government coup – via Executive Orders – the resistance is blossoming, in many forms. Here’s a rough picture..."

resistingproject2025.substack.com/p/dont-despa...

Reasons to have been anti-DEI:
-free speech/ cancellation concerns
-burdensome bureaucracy concerns
-actually racist/ sexist/ etc

The new regime of withdrawing articles, deleting data, and policing grants to make sure they don't say "woman" or "minority" nicely tests for which of these mattered.