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The UK Online Safety Act is doing great so far. For instance, I now need to let Bluesky violate my privacy in order to access my DMs, but can still access literal actual porn as easily as typing 'porn' into a web search. Definitely protecting minors here, good job, no notes.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

I once saw one crossing the road, carrying a mouse in its jaws. The mouse was like 2/3 its own size.

FAO @adamramsay.bsky.social

A least weasel. It fits in the palm of the hand.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Hey y’all — urgent request:
Our comrades in Sudan just fled their town after RSF forces advanced. Some of them were injured in the escape. We’re raising $2000 to help cover medical costs.

If you can support or share the link, it would mean a lot:
👉🏾 opencollective.com/sudanese-comrade-medical-fundr

After reading the article, I would hazard to suggest that titling your essay with the position you mean to critique is a pretty dangerous strategy for a subscriber-locked publication.

(NB: I do not subscribe to NYT and I would never; you shouldn't either.)

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

In one of my first-year bio lectures as a @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk undergrad:

Lecturer: Can anyone tell me what Watson and Crick discovered?

Me (sourly, in my head): Rosalind Franklin's notes.

Class: ...

Lecturer: Rosalind Franklin's notes.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.

Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

@vscode.dev Is there a way to turn the autocomplete suggestions *on* for code and *off* for comments, simultaneously? It seems to be very good at guessing what code I'm going for (and is less typo-prone than I am), but the autocomplete suggestions for comments are usually way off, & very distracting

tapping the sign so hard all my fingers fall off

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/davi...

Hey, I really appreciate you using 'described' rather than 'new' in your skeet, but I think it would be best to use that language consistently. Animals that are new to science are not 'new'!

I'm curious about what falls under 'other political content'.

I think the decay one sounds more interesting, or at least more underexplored

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

This has been demonstrated to be a basic fact of migration over and over and over again. It's a centuries-old truism. But bigotry hates facts almost as much as it hates people.

find the lunch joint in your town that's offering a new hoagie called the Sean Dunn. those are your people

How to Do Things with Condiments - JL Austin

A fine black toad with bright white fingers, toes, and lips, and brown pustular blobs along its legs, resting on a dark green leaf.

A black and white toad on a green fern frond. The head and limbs are grey, and the body black.

A toad looking at the camera over a brown leaf, its black body splotched with yellow and white. It is very Halloween-core.

A black toad with huge yellow glands on its legs, head, arms, and parts of the back. Jack Skellington himself could hardly have painted a more Halloween-flavoured toad.

Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸

vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...

Sound on for the "Meep meep!"

This is an excellent opportunity for everyone to read @reproutopia.bsky.social's "Enemy Feminisms" to understand what "conservative feminism" means & its complicated history.

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-e...

It's almost like the aggressive attack on trans people was just a pretext for rolling back any kind of gender equality whatsoever

A more senior PhD student told me that multichannel pipettes would become my best friends. I was sceptical because I was afraid of them, but he was so right. Now using a single-channel feels like walking when I've got used to riding a bike.

Right, same.

See that's the other thing. You ever see a hot dog stand with felafel wraps? Or any veggie option, even?

Healthier *and* tastier *and* more sustainable!

I meant 'creampuff'