"Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab accidents."
📝: Carl Zimmer
I'll give one guess on what they found for SARS-CoV-2 🙂...
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/s...
This whole thread makes me furious
Fantastic! Thanks!
10 and 32 ME! (If they’re still available 🤞)
btw if Canada wants to retaliate by burning the White House down again that's fine
Alysa Liu, daughter of a Chinese refugee and pro-democracy activist, brings glory to the USA. 🇺🇸 🥇
They said it. We’re all thinking it.
Did they just forget to turn it back on after your leave?
Had a few to choose from, but the nerd in me has to claim Gabe Newell (though Hasan Minhaj is probably more widely known).
Catching up on this afternoon’s ice dancing (I missed the rhythm section of the team event so they’re all new to me). My thoughts, so far
1) 90s music is an inspired theme
2) Love the various costumes designed by Madison Chock
2) any team that uses AI music should be put on a plane home asap
Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane
Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character, wrong answers only.
This is such a loss. May his memory be a blessing and his writing an inspiration.
i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
In addition to being bad, this is all pretty stupid.
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I’m so excited @sideways440.bsky.social is back, and it’s like they never left youtu.be/-dJLcqHdRv8?...
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
Read the poem in it's entirety: poets.org/poem/renee-n...
40% of Bluesky have been contestants on Jeopardy making us a very smart website but all of them came in third so its not like that impressive
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are January sixth and pronounced doonawluhdahnee soodahleenay
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The vaccine autism thing is bullshit but even if you believed it, it seems incredibly fucked up to then believe that raising child death rates is some sort of worthwhile trade-off to reduce autism rates
Today is the day that Donald Trump truly became president.
Always the bridesmaid and never the bride of having your president kidnapped and renditioned to stand trial in another country…
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
