Does anyone actually use their real birthdate? Way past age aapropriate content.
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Does anyone actually use their real birthdate? Way past age aapropriate content.
Parabolic in a good way. Most modern graphs of almost any other data are the opposite, including world population.
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Parabolic in a good way. Most modern graphs of almost any other data are the opposite, including world population.
Deactivated my X account today. Something to be thankful for this holiday season!
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Deactivated my X account today. Something to be thankful for this holiday season!
Reposted by Kerwin Carambot
Excited to say that my colleague Hui Zhang's magnum opus, providing a detailed technical history of China's nuclear weapons development and testing -- every test, what they learned from it, etc. -- is out now from MIT Press. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205182...
The Untold Story of China's Nuclear Weapon Development and Testing
The Untold Story of China’s Nuclear Weapon Development and Testing offers the most comprehensive account of China’s nuclear weapons development f...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Excited to say that my colleague Hui Zhang's magnum opus, providing a detailed technical history of China's nuclear weapons development and testing -- every test, what they learned from it, etc. -- is out now from MIT Press. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205182...
Putting this on my timeline for future reference
Another new publication! Thrilled to receive my contributor copy of Númenor, the Frail and Mighty reach print, also featuring @clarelmoore.bsky.social, @mercuryreads.bsky.social, @aranelparmadil.bsky.social, @putriprihatini.bsky.social, and more. Mazel Tov to editor @willsherwood.bsky.social too!
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Putting this on my timeline for future reference
Reposted by Kerwin Carambot
In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are — literally — fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all.
My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!
My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!
These Enigmatic ‘Fossils’ Could Rewrite the History of Life on Earth
Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once
www.scientificamerican.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are — literally — fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all.
My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!
My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!
Reposted by Kerwin Carambot
I'm so proud of us 🥹
the city, the councilors, the community
I believe very strongly that the answer to federal fascism is municipalism: safeguarding our local sovereignty and protecting our communities 👏🏾
Thank you to everyone who came to testify in support of PPI today — it passed unanimously! 💖
the city, the councilors, the community
I believe very strongly that the answer to federal fascism is municipalism: safeguarding our local sovereignty and protecting our communities 👏🏾
Thank you to everyone who came to testify in support of PPI today — it passed unanimously! 💖
This diagram shows the full framework of the Protect Portland Initiative — the coordinated framework structure our City will use to respond to threats of federal overreach and militarization.
October 16, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I'm so proud of us 🥹
the city, the councilors, the community
I believe very strongly that the answer to federal fascism is municipalism: safeguarding our local sovereignty and protecting our communities 👏🏾
Thank you to everyone who came to testify in support of PPI today — it passed unanimously! 💖
the city, the councilors, the community
I believe very strongly that the answer to federal fascism is municipalism: safeguarding our local sovereignty and protecting our communities 👏🏾
Thank you to everyone who came to testify in support of PPI today — it passed unanimously! 💖
Adult wisdom is mostly these types of realizations. Personal and political. When you realize things are done intentionally, too. That is revelation.
I don't have a daughter, but my brother cut my toe when I was two, and I was 50 before it occurred to me that he didn't do it on purpose and maybe I should forgive him.
October 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Adult wisdom is mostly these types of realizations. Personal and political. When you realize things are done intentionally, too. That is revelation.
Mottos for our times in multiple languages.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Mottos for our times in multiple languages.
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Anecdotal, but we should circle back on those anti-vax parents to "check in" on their kiddos.
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Anecdotal, but we should circle back on those anti-vax parents to "check in" on their kiddos.
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My least favorite brand of doomerism is talking about how we can’t fix any of this and why offered solutions are unworkable and asserting that the electorate is fixed and unchangeable. “Can’t” is the enemy right now.
August 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
My least favorite brand of doomerism is talking about how we can’t fix any of this and why offered solutions are unworkable and asserting that the electorate is fixed and unchangeable. “Can’t” is the enemy right now.
Uh oh!
Due to warmer springs and earlier snowmelt — symptoms of climate change — early-season flower species are flowering three weeks earlier than they did historically. Earlier wildflower season has potential for a mismatch between when wildflowers bloom and when pollinators are ready to receive them
Warm, dry spring drives 'compressed' but 'fabulous' Jackson Hole wildflower bloom
Teton County wildflowers bloomed early, profusely and in unison this season.
www.jhnewsandguide.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Uh oh!
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Read @chanda.bsky.social 's full thread. It's important to understand why and how Andreessen's claims aren't just vile but are preposterous.
I'm a professor at the flagship university for the fourth whitest state in the US. Over 80% of our students are white.
The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country.
We also have a food pantry.
The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country.
We also have a food pantry.
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Read @chanda.bsky.social 's full thread. It's important to understand why and how Andreessen's claims aren't just vile but are preposterous.
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You can read the whole thing here. ❤️🔥
NOTE: at a moment when everyone was comfortable, when she could have said thank you and had everyone feel great about her, she said the hard thing.
She was willing to be unpopular, to be the buzzkill, to tell them that THEY, THE CAPITALISTS, COULD BE TOPPLED--
NOTE: at a moment when everyone was comfortable, when she could have said thank you and had everyone feel great about her, she said the hard thing.
She was willing to be unpopular, to be the buzzkill, to tell them that THEY, THE CAPITALISTS, COULD BE TOPPLED--
Ursula K. Le Guin — National Book Foundation Medal: Ursula's Acceptance Speech
www.ursulakleguin.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
You can read the whole thing here. ❤️🔥
NOTE: at a moment when everyone was comfortable, when she could have said thank you and had everyone feel great about her, she said the hard thing.
She was willing to be unpopular, to be the buzzkill, to tell them that THEY, THE CAPITALISTS, COULD BE TOPPLED--
NOTE: at a moment when everyone was comfortable, when she could have said thank you and had everyone feel great about her, she said the hard thing.
She was willing to be unpopular, to be the buzzkill, to tell them that THEY, THE CAPITALISTS, COULD BE TOPPLED--
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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There's no more shock left. Shame, maybe.
The New York Times's badly flawed editorial on antisemitism fails due to the paper's own double standards and shocking anti-Palestinian racism.
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/new-...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/new-...
#Palestine #Israel
‘New York Times’ editorial on antisemitism is just pro-Israel advocacy
The New York Times’s badly flawed editorial on antisemitism fails due to the paper’s own double standards and shocking anti-Palestinian racism.
mondoweiss.net
June 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There's no more shock left. Shame, maybe.
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A lot of us over 40 also feel the same way. Gen X is the first generation to not do better than our parents overall. And the economy was improving under Biden, but Trump is setting us back again. In ways that will be harmful for years to come. We need real change.
There are some centrist and center-right pundits making earnest pleas about Mr. Mamdani being a threat to the economy, and I don't think they understand that the vast majority of us under 40 don't care. This is not a system that works for us. It doesn't take being a leftist to grasp that.
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June 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A lot of us over 40 also feel the same way. Gen X is the first generation to not do better than our parents overall. And the economy was improving under Biden, but Trump is setting us back again. In ways that will be harmful for years to come. We need real change.
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Making this a part of my daily affirmations. 🫣
Reminder that disinformation from all sides will, historically, be rampant in a moment like this. Be careful what you repost.
June 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Making this a part of my daily affirmations. 🫣
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"The fact that harassment happens “online” makes it more violent, not less...Once upon a time, when a rumor threatened your ability to do your job or live your life offline, it was horrible. It was also bound to time and place. But once a targeted harassment campaign goes virtual, it never ends."
Opinion | Political Violence Is Here, and It’s Working
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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We live in the future! The things we are able to do now is amazing. It doesn't seem to translate back to our geopolitics very easily, but it's heading in the right direction.
You guys, we are not ready for what this thing is going to see. It is going to MESS YOU UP
www.scientificamerican.com/article/bloc...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/bloc...
This Revolutionary New Telescope Will Observe the Whole Sky Every Three Days
The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes combined
www.scientificamerican.com
June 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
We live in the future! The things we are able to do now is amazing. It doesn't seem to translate back to our geopolitics very easily, but it's heading in the right direction.
This is clarity! Start here. 💧
I wonder how many people report feeling better after taking random daily supplements recommended by influencers, when the real benefit might just come from drinking more water to swallow all the pills.
June 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is clarity! Start here. 💧
We are preoccupied with human and political catastrophe. Meanwhile this is going on just outside of our camera lenses...
Ecologists’ horror as nature reserves around the world are emptied of insects - with rising temperatures joining habitat destruction as likely causes:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
We are preoccupied with human and political catastrophe. Meanwhile this is going on just outside of our camera lenses...
Kicking off Pride month 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Also holy shit the Mariners Pride Month video is SO good
Baseball Is For Everyone: Mariners Celebrate Pride Month
YouTube video by Seattle Mariners
youtu.be
June 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Kicking off Pride month 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Bookmarking this! 🍓🫐🍎🥦
It's a great day to hit up a farmer's market and #shoplocal! Find the farmer's market closest to you using this ultimate guide to #Portland-area markets.
Ultimate Guide to Portland Farmers Markets 2025 | Locations and Schedules
Your 2025 guide to Portland's best farmers markets! Find schedules, locations, vendor info and learn how to save with Double Up Food Bucks.
stumptownsavings.com
June 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Bookmarking this! 🍓🫐🍎🥦