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I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

Saturn, in shadow.

My experience with millennial women is that they tend to be a bit more outwardly accepting, outwardly expressing queerness, but internally conflicted. Whereas Zoomers are much more comfortable with trans people and queer sexuality. Including their own queer sexuality

The wild thing is like… I thought they were supposed to be all Western Civilization shouldn’t they be trying to teach everyone Greek and Latin?

I had a talk about masculinity with someone today and the point I made that I am proud of is that it’s not that masculinity is “worse” than femininity; it’s that feminism has been able to free women from the more destructive elements of femininity in a way that it hasn’t with men and masculinity

The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998. The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

there are only three acceptably masculine activities. punching other men, having sex with other men, and podcasts

The idea that gender is this thing that entirely exists inside of you that is not dependent at all on how you exist in the world and in turn how the world sees you is such peak liberal nonsense—for the most part gender is an action, it's something you *do*

See that bright speck?

That's Venus.

Photographed from Saturn.

I remember when the response to a potential transgender bathroom ban was a boycott of an entire state which forced it to back down, and after years of big liberal papers publishing articles like "the Reasonable Questions About Transgenders: Are They All Perverts?" it's no wonder that energy's gone.

White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act “We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”…

I cannot articulate to you how damaging this will be to NASA science and to the scientific leadership of the United States generally.

To say nothing of the precedence of the White House and NASA leadership simply ignoring Congress.

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

That small dot moving left to right is 3I/ATLAS.

It's a comet that was discovered on 1 July 2025.

It's travelling at 58 km PER SECOND and isn't gravitationally bound to the Sun.

Which means you're looking at a comet that formed around another star, passing through the Solar System.

*movie trailer voice* in a world where weird grifters have slashed Medicaid and funded a secret police...in a world where anyone can be primaried...one mayoral candidate will risk everything. This hot commie summer is WOKE 2: You Snooze, You Lose

People talk as if rooms full of high-IQ people are zones of breathtaking displays of wit and wisdom, and clarifying insight. Anyone who went to a selective institution can tell you this is horseshit, but lots of folks enjoy the illusion, for lots of reasons.

The expansion of American transphobia from a minority position is almost wholly astroturfed (more like astroTERFed) by a few writers, editors, and capitalists at the Times, the Atlantic, and maybe NYMag.

There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.

Perfect summation of a complex feeling about a simple thing.

Something I wish I'd known when I was younger is that fear of shame is not a moral compass

‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight Gaza at Cop29 Advocates and officials argue that consequences of Israeli siege are inextricably linked to tackling the climate crisis

Military conflicts account for about 5.5% of global emissions - more than aviation.

Imperialism is killing all of us.

There can be no climate justice without peace.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

arguing about which star trek characters count as cops while overlooking that star fleet is a literal military is like getting upset about finding poison ivy in a forest

Fun fact—when you die a day or two after eating this, they will be able to pour your liver out of your body at the autopsy.

www.autoweek.com/news/industr...

Today I learned that there were smaller walrus ancestors and I am extremely happy to report that the researcher speaking about this did indeed refer to them as the “smallrus.”

Just a reminder that hard work isn't intrinsically a good thing in & of itself.

You aren't intrinsically a good person because you perceive yourself as being 'hard working' and others aren't bad people because you perceive them as not.

Hard work being a moral good is historically constructed.

funny that the only person in the department who has consistently misgendered me developed and taught a class on empathy in science

94% of people being happier after transitioning is all the more remarkable when you consider *how transphobic* society is. like, the benefit of living as your gender outweighs a whole bunch of other bad stuff. Trans people have six times the unemployment rate of cis people!