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05.03.2026 15:28
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I had a busy day yesterday 🧵
A large remote controlled paddle boat with a green mouth and googly eyes
I 😍 the trash wheel in Baltimore Harbor
Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about
Alerts are flowing from Rubin Observatory!
There will be a proper press release in the coming hours, please see all the details then, and meanwhile, your favorite alert broker probably has public data available to peruse *now*!
We are up to well over 20k alerts after 20 min on sky 🔭
A screenshot of the new NEH guidelines, with eligibility text highlighted "The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present." The rest above it says "NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars."
"Exceptional work in the humanities for me (white) but not thee (non-white)."
Ohio State University has received nearly 300 requests to remove billionaire donor Les Wexner’s name from buildings because of his association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/23/o...
Caltech astrophysicist fatally shot on porch in Antelope Valley; suspect charged with murder
It’s hard to overstate how much blood, sweat and time away from your family goes into the preparation and submission of grant proposals. All for a tiny chance of being selected and pushing the frontier of knowledge.
These actions were unconscionable and they will always have been unconscionable.
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.
I feel seen
The play-by-play announcer for biathlon is driving me up a tree. Mispronouncing names, providing no updates on teams falling behind (what is up with Sweden?), repeatedly stating the obvious
"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."
Pic of bsky posts: Roxane Gay: Those little Girl Scouts got us again Emily Farris: We sold 122 boxes of cookies today. So many cookies and so many cookies to go
The bsky timeline reveals all.....
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
$83 billion over 10 years = amount Republicans refused to spend on subsidies to keep millions of Americans on their health insurance
$170 billion over 4 years = amount Republicans allocated in their budget for Trump’s mass deportation efforts, so Noem can keep deporting veterans and lying about it
Ok, but what are the names of the humans?
who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
A tabby cat stands next to their handiwork
Now with culprit
A wooden floor with lines of yarn criss-crossing it
Apparently one of the cats has been dragging a ball of yarn around the house
It was the comic sans
Re-reading this remarkable piece of writing by Katrina Miller today and literally every day is a good day to read her work www.wired.com/story/the-un...
Statement from she who should have been our President.
Perfect Byronic fraction
Open looting - directly providing favors and funds to Trump allies at the Kennedy Center's expense
Very young, messy baby burrowing owl.
Good morning! 🪶
Orange kitty about to leap into the snow
A kitty shaped hole in the snow
A cat staring out of the hole with a little snow on her head
A mistake in three acts
