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Cover photo: Moon at night with a sliver of it reflecting light
Profile pic: Red bodyboard lying on driftwood on a beach
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
My loyalty is to the social contract of this nation: the Constitution, which the Founders crafted under the influence of Enlightenment scholarship, Greek and Roman philosophers and the example of Haudenosaunee governance.
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My loyalty is to the social contract of this nation: the Constitution, which the Founders crafted under the influence of Enlightenment scholarship, Greek and Roman philosophers and the example of Haudenosaunee governance.
Ohhh that’s goooood. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Ohhh that’s goooood. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Word.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Word.
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The 400-mile Olympic Pipeline carries gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other petroleum products from refineries near Seattle down to Portland.
Olympic Pipeline partially restarts as Oregon remains under fuel emergency declaration
The pipeline delivers the majority of Oregon’s gasoline, diesel and other fuels from a refining hub in the Seattle area.
www.opb.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The 400-mile Olympic Pipeline carries gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other petroleum products from refineries near Seattle down to Portland.
Not an Onion piece …
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Not an Onion piece …
Oh FFS. Is there a nation where people are into science, reason and humanism (basically the Enlightenment)? Because I am little tired of feeling alone among so many fantasists. Nature is so full of wonder without the need for the supernatural.
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Oh FFS. Is there a nation where people are into science, reason and humanism (basically the Enlightenment)? Because I am little tired of feeling alone among so many fantasists. Nature is so full of wonder without the need for the supernatural.
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Oregonians have a little over a month to take advantage of federal tax credits helping to offset costs of home energy upgrades like heat pumps and solar panels.
Oregonians have 5 weeks to secure expiring federal home energy tax credits
The nonprofit Energy Trust of Oregon is encouraging residents to invest in heating and cooling pumps and solar panels, before federal money goes away.
www.opb.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Oregonians have a little over a month to take advantage of federal tax credits helping to offset costs of home energy upgrades like heat pumps and solar panels.
Pete Hegseth is a Chihuahua with small dog syndrome. Oh, he barks and he nips and he snarls and he growls because deep down he knows he ain’t all that and he’s big mad about it. Any old squirrel could easily kick his ass.
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Pete Hegseth is a Chihuahua with small dog syndrome. Oh, he barks and he nips and he snarls and he growls because deep down he knows he ain’t all that and he’s big mad about it. Any old squirrel could easily kick his ass.
Reminding troops that they can refuse illegal orders = reminding them what the law says. How the f*** is that a military law violation?!
BREAKING: The Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for possible military law violations after he joined a video urging U.S. troops to refuse "illegal orders."
Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders'
The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona for possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. troops to refuse unlawful orders.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reminding troops that they can refuse illegal orders = reminding them what the law says. How the f*** is that a military law violation?!
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If they want to prosecute Mark Kelly in a military court for proposing military personnel follow all lawful orders that should make for very good fun
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If they want to prosecute Mark Kelly in a military court for proposing military personnel follow all lawful orders that should make for very good fun
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Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
New threats from Trump:
The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."
The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
This is gooooood.
When people are mean to you, remember the universal truth that it comes from their own fears, not from a deficiency in you. So don’t react. Chin up. Wait for the reality of their own internal conflict to take care of it.
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This is gooooood.
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The requirements sound a bit different than in my STS-135 NASA Tweetup era. But also, any of my old spacetweep homies applying?
Here's an opportunity to visit NASA and attend the launch of the Artemis II mission to the Moon. Non-US citizens can apply. 🔭 🧪 www.nasa.gov/general/expe...
Experience the Launch of Artemis II - NASA
Lee esta nota en español aquí
www.nasa.gov
November 22, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The requirements sound a bit different than in my STS-135 NASA Tweetup era. But also, any of my old spacetweep homies applying?
New favorite word: backpfeifengeischt.
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
New favorite word: backpfeifengeischt.
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Omg everything is so stupid.
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Omg everything is so stupid.
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Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Sent your hordes out to plunder the countryside, but only one horde returned with the goods?
Problematic pillage gap
Problematic pillage gap
Adversary countries producing viral particles to destroy bacteria while you can't?
Problematic phage gap
Problematic phage gap
Electric field not invariant to transformation?
Problematic gauge gap.
Problematic gauge gap.
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Sent your hordes out to plunder the countryside, but only one horde returned with the goods?
Problematic pillage gap
Problematic pillage gap
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Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
The puffy, artificial look is rising in popularity - thanks to Maga elite such as Kristi Noem and Matt Gaetz
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
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Software utilities, I think, must be treated the same way: regulated (including price) and operated under oversight. Otherwise, they're just a robber-baron monopoly with a stranglehold on the economy.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Software utilities, I think, must be treated the same way: regulated (including price) and operated under oversight. Otherwise, they're just a robber-baron monopoly with a stranglehold on the economy.
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Office Hours tonight at 8pm! See you in a bit
Office Hours with Earth's Virology Professor Livestream 11/19/25 8 pm ET
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
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November 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Office Hours tonight at 8pm! See you in a bit
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
I love this idea.
I feel overwhelmed with gratitude to a local physician who bought my book in bulk so that she could plant copies in Little Free Libraries around our city to reach the public with its messaging in a grassroots way.
She made a collage of her efforts and delivered it to me today. 🙏
She made a collage of her efforts and delivered it to me today. 🙏
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I love this idea.