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@smilingnodding.bsky.social

theyre going to destroy every country that ever dared to fight their way out from under the thumb of the united states and all you mealy mouthed fucking losers are gonna stare at your shoes saying “I don’t like how they went about it but these guys were no angels”

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Marco Rubio on Cuba during the press conference: "If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I'd be concerned ... at least a little bit"

January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM

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Nikita Gill

@nikitagill.bsky.social

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

OF THE EMPIRE

We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM

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Joshua J. Friedman

@joshuajfriedman.com

"7 a.m. (New Year's Morning)," László Moholy-Nagy (c. 1930)

Photograph from a height looking down on a wide, mostly empty street, with a couple in black walking together and a bicyclist in white with a large basket strapped to his back

January 1, 2024 at 4:48 PM

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Lee Petersen

@leepetersen.bsky.social

Went for a long walk this afternoon with the temperature around −48°F. I only had my phone with me, since I left my mirrorless camera at work, and the cold can be brutal on shutter and mirror assemblies in DSLRs.

#alaska #fairbanks #winter #cold

A snow-covered boreal forest at sunset. Tall spruce trees stand widely spaced across a flat, snow-filled landscape. The trees are heavily coated in frost and snow, forming rounded, sculpted shapes. The sky fades from pale gray above to a narrow band of warm orange light near the horizon.

Another view of a frozen spruce forest at sunset. Frost-covered trees rise from deep, wind-sculpted snowdrifts. The low sun casts a thin orange glow along the horizon, while the rest of the sky remains dim and blue-gray. The foreground snow appears smooth with small rounded mounds.

A close-up selfie of a person outdoors in extreme cold. The person is wearing a red insulated jacket, a winter hat, a scarf covering the lower face, and a headlamp on their forehead. Frost and ice cling to their eyebrows, eyelashes, and facial hair. Behind them, snow-covered spruce trees and a warm orange sunset glow are visible.

A wide view of a frozen forest at sunset. Snow-covered spruce trees are scattered across a flat landscape with deep, uneven snow. The sky shows a strong band of orange light near the horizon fading upward into pale blue-gray. The scene appears quiet and still, with no movement visible.

December 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM

Henry

@henrydavidk.bsky.social

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night

A snoozing ship tzu in front of a fireplace with a cozy fire

December 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM

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CJ Fogler

@cjzero.bsky.social

ANTHONY EDWARDS

December 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM

Henry

@henrydavidk.bsky.social

Ant’s that guy

December 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM

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Dylan

@dylmdav.bsky.social

Anthony Edwards holy shit lol

December 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM

Henry

@henrydavidk.bsky.social

Setting this image as my out of office reminder

Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · Dec 29

Holiday week status

Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from the DUNE movie in the sludge with a Santa hat on

December 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM

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Henry

@henrydavidk.bsky.social

Let’s go wolves

October 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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Science Magazine

@science.org

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM

Henry

@henrydavidk.bsky.social

Making these again, they rule

Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · Feb 15

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December 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Brandon Beck

@brandonbeck4.bsky.social

NAZ REID GAME ALERT

December 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM

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Matt DeLong

@mattdelong.bsky.social

A night out in Cedar-Riverside

Cedar Cultural Center marquee reads “We love our Somali neighbors”

December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM

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public health is anti-war. guy

@publichealthguy1.bsky.social

some of the best science and pandemic prevention work — after tens of millions of pandemic deaths worldwide — defunded.

Colin Carlson says no war @colincarlson.bsky.social · Dec 5

Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share some sad news about the future of the Verena program.

As you know, in September, NSF delayed our annual payment indefinitely, and asked us to keep spending closer and closer to zero until they could “justify” another payment. We began to run out of funds at some universities this month, and will be fully spent out by late spring, so the goal was to get paid in December. We’ve been working with our program officer to make this happen, but sadly, we’ve learned we’re not getting an increment again, and there’s no clarity on when or how much we will be paid in the remainder of the grant (through September 1, 2027).

Because of this, the Executive Committee has made the difficult decision to essentially shut the BII down until / unless something changes. What that means is an indefinite end to all programs (e.g., seminar), training activities (integration workshops, trainee corner), and evaluation. On research, what’s able to continue will have to be navigated by each investigator; our goal is to work together to push out all the impactful science we’ve spent three years collecting and analyzing data for, but we also know that priorities may shift around to keep people employed.

If we’re lucky, Congress will pass a budget that lets us continue doing something like what we planned, and we’ll pick that back up when Zoe and Collin are back in April. Until then, Verena will continue to exist as a community where we can collaborate (and give and receive support!), and we’re working to find funding sources that can pick up from where the BII left off.

On a personal note: it’s been the privilege of a lifetime to work with all of you, and an unbelievably lucky thing to get to run an NSF center in my 20s. I’ve loved this project, and I hope it’s made as much of a difference in your lives as it has in mine.

In case I don’t see you later: happy holidays, be well, and so long and thanks for all the viruses.

Best,
Colin

December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Henry

@henrydavidk.bsky.social

Lights are up

A house with some festive holiday lights above the porch. There’s snow on the ground and it looks cozy.

The inside of the house featuring a scrubby but cozy looking Christmas tree.

A big old pine tree in the back yard all decked out in gold / white lights. Some bozo leaned a sketchy ladder against it for hours this day to put all this stuff up. Worth it though.

November 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM

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Ian Carrillo

@iansociologo.bsky.social

Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024.

This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.

Jornal Nacional @jnoficial.bsky.social · Nov 27

Anvisa aprova vacina brasileira contra dengue, a 1ª do mundo em dose única.

Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.

Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN

November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM

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Alexa Robles-Gil

@alexaroblesgil.bsky.social

In my latest for @nytimes.com, scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain. I became completely fascinated by navigation while reporting this story.

(gift link!)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...