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Somewhat functional assortment of 7 billion billion billion atoms. Astrophysicist taking pictures of black holes. he/him.πŸ”­πŸ“‘βš«πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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The gutting of NASA Goddard has had a devastating effect on high energy astrophysics. The AXIS probe mission proposal was rejected without review. (The Goddard X-ray mirror lab was significantly impacted by shutdowns and pressured retirements, against the congress approved budget for NASA.)

09.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

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09.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Listen up liberal,

02.03.2026 08:30 πŸ‘ 880 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 3

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

01.03.2026 06:19 πŸ‘ 4048 πŸ” 937 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically.

Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

28.02.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 2293 πŸ” 583 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 17

1. kill khamenei and bomb everyone

2. ?????

3. liberation and peace for everyone forever and ever

great glad we’ve got that all figured out

28.02.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 612 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 3

It bothers me how nobody seems to understand that this, trans people getting booted out of the military without their contractually obligated benefits, etc. is ultimately about if the promises of the government are worth a goddamn thing as long as the Republican Party exists.

26.02.2026 04:52 πŸ‘ 1239 πŸ” 353 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 18

the complete lack of backbone from numerous - though not all - academic institutions has been one of the biggest disappointments of the Trump 2 era.

26.02.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 512 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 0

please return to the earthly plane soon your people cry out for you to descend from the mountaintop bearing new wisdom πŸ™

25.02.2026 07:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

18.02.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 3564 πŸ” 1300 πŸ’¬ 194 πŸ“Œ 478

You can understand so much of the Trump era through the fact that the average member of the commentariat and the prestige media class thinks that Chris Rufo is a valued colleague and has boundless contempt for the women he's talking to here.

30.01.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 256 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

26.01.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 32017 πŸ” 7599 πŸ’¬ 485 πŸ“Œ 369
A graphic comparing two quotes:

"Fuckin' bitch."
ICE agent after Renee Good was shot and killed two weeks ago.

"Boo hoo."
Federal agent after a man was shot and killed today.

A graphic comparing two quotes: "Fuckin' bitch." ICE agent after Renee Good was shot and killed two weeks ago. "Boo hoo." Federal agent after a man was shot and killed today.

These monsters are sick.

24.01.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 5037 πŸ” 1909 πŸ’¬ 581 πŸ“Œ 217

the President lied about this woman and her wife in front of the entire nation. he defamed the legacy of a murder victim. this is a moral humiliation of the entire nation that cries out for justice. as a country we must cast these evildoers into prison.

07.01.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 392 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

good example of how Trump wants to LARP as a dictator in a pathetic, impotent way.

I’m constantly in awe of how this administration is full of whiny losers who think it should be illegal to dislike them

06.01.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

05.01.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 7654 πŸ” 2203 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 134

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

04.01.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 5729 πŸ” 1662 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 129

I remember Iraq, I grew up on Iraq, I cannot believe we’re doing this again

and this time they are more bloodthirsty, more incompetent, and less interested in even pretending to justify it

more than twenty years later and somehow we went backwards

03.01.2026 07:14 πŸ‘ 1310 πŸ” 250 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 12

I am not a categorical pacifist and would face a hard test of my ideals were my nation ever involved in a conflict I thought was just so I guess it’s fortunate that this is an idiotic and immoral war of choice that absolutely no one should support.

03.01.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 743 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

It is your solemn duty as an American and as a person to do everything you can to oppose this war

03.01.2026 07:02 πŸ‘ 265 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

the madness, the frenzy, the boiling blood and the smoking brow

02.01.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 133 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 11
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NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

Throwing books in the trash to "save money" while the administration prioritizes a ballroom and naval ships named after Trump. Got it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

01.01.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 241 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 6

delineate chaos bewitched

27.12.2025 23:47 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 9

Bari’s complaint was β€œthere’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant

β€œwe intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

23.12.2025 03:22 πŸ‘ 3606 πŸ” 910 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 15

imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."

22.12.2025 23:10 πŸ‘ 3344 πŸ” 490 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 20

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

23.12.2025 00:12 πŸ‘ 2803 πŸ” 715 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 16

Vought is one of the top three or four enemies of the Constitution & American democracy. His removal from power is one of the highest priorities for any project of checking the dictatorship's lawless wielding of the vast powers of the state

19.12.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 1358 πŸ” 408 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 10