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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 8h

Lulz

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 9h

Lmao

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 8h

There’s a reason nobody reads TIME anymore.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 12h

From MBoC: Timothy J. Stasevich, Colorado State University, developed All Probes Plasmids (APPs) to simplify single-mRNA translation imaging—just 2 plasmids for multicolor, long-term tracking. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15h

Salvador Luria
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvado...

Salvatore Luria holding a drinking glass and grinning broadly. Black and white photo. In the picture he’s a middle aged man, balding, wearing modest but stylish mid century glasses, a jacket, white shirt, and dark solid colored tie (probably black)

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 17h

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

windycitytimes.com

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StockMarketNews @investinq.bsky.social · 22h

Here we go again.

Broadcom ($AVGO) just surged +13%, adding $200B in market cap after inking a multi-billion-dollar chip deal with OpenAI.

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 15h

Great time to cancel massive 6+ GW solar projects

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 22h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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🎃 Spooky Scary Jam (they/them) 🎃 @jaimekay.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Indigenous People Day!

Did you know that Indigenous women go missing and are murdered ten times more than average? They don’t even get a quarter of the attention that a white woman going missing would get. Please keep these women in your mind. Don’t forget them

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

www.niwrc.org

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 1d

This is a perfect encapsulation of what is so maddening right now. We can all see reality, but the lies are painted as having legitimacy behind them when that’s so visibly not the case.

Screenshot from the article:

“The piece also refers to “dueling versions of reality.” But this isn’t a case of one side genuinely seeing things one way (as “comparative calm”) and the other side genuinely seeing them differently (as a “hellscape”). It’s a case of one side (law enforcement, local journalists) trying to faithfully depict what’s really happening, and the other side (MAGA) concertedly lying about it to serve corrupt ends that are comprehensively, even intentionally disconnected from facts on the ground.”

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 1d

Irresistible to the Sensibles, because the greatest crime against humanity is not listening to them

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

“What if something terrible has happened?” said Toad. “What if Frog has fallen into a deep hole and cannot get out. I will never see him again!”

In Toad's imagination, Frog is stuck in the bottom of a deep dark hole.

From "Christmas Eve"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 1d

Many such cases

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Hey Portland friends, is ICE snatching people in your neighborhoods or is all the action just costumes at the main facility?

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 1d

Herceptin famously looked like an incrementally useful treatment at first. It wasn’t until the data were stratified by molecular lesion that its revolutionary effectiveness jumped off the page.

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 1d

What’s better since 2005? Starts with televisions, moves on to cancer treatment.

The delta for the latter is immense. Too few appreciate this.

Anna @annadistracted.bsky.social · 1d

The improvement and wide spread adoption of HPV vaccines is pretty big. But besides that we really do/did have incredibly cheap consumer goods and transportation thereof over the past 20 years.

Televisions are so so so cheap now (even if you do need a sound bar now too) and “devices” too

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

what exactly has gotten better for the average person in the past 20 years with all the innovation such as AI, exactly? what's the social use case here

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 1d

Biomarkers / oncotyping revolutionized cancer treatment since 2006, full stop.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 1d

The greater Bay Area has numerous distinct esoteric terroirs.

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 1d

Omnipresent. In late ‘80s Santa Cruz we called it “the undertow”.

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 1d

If you like biology and microscopes you should work at UNC.

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 1d

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 1d

“Peter Thiel or Muttering Schizophrenic Vagrant?” online quiz

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 1d

Money causes CTE

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