don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

If having a gun regularly on you (again, one was a cop, the other a guy, with multiple young kids, who said "a gun is never more than an arm's reach away from me back home") makes you more afraid of things, that makes it seem like having the gun causally makes you more likely to shoot it.

Worth watching the whole clip, but purely in propaganda terms it seems to me, admittedly just an amateur observer when it comes to war fighting, that it may be useful to send the message to the 91+ million Iranian civilians that we are not trying to kill them.

President Trump announces that to combat climate change he is facilitating crude oil prices going to $500/barrel.

“No stupid rules of engagement”

HPC Carpentry Approved as The Carpentries' Fourth Lesson Program On 5 February 2026, our Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the adoption of HPC Carpentry as the fourth official lesson program of The Carpentries, alongside the Data Carpentry, Library Ca...

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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.

Announcing his war of regime change, Trump said to the Iranian people, “The hour of your freedom is at hand.” Words from a president who has been snatching freedoms from Americans. A freedom taker presenting himself as a freedom giver. How authoritarians commonly present their wars of conquest.

CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes.

Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time.

What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

NIST to introduce restrictions on non-US citizens The precision measurement and quantum communities are upset about the secretiveness of the move and its potential damage to US science.

Restrictions on international researchers at NIST stand to be the latest blow to the US research community. #physics #quantum

"Tell me about the voices" was, at one point, not something I really expected to hear in a Senate hearing of this kind.

These days, it should probably be standard.

Gorgeous work!

Larry Summers should have been booted from any position of power and influence decades ago

this is fantastic news and I hope it signals a permanent end to his career rather than a temporary setback

OpenClaw’s integrations section showing a whole bunch of email clients, chat apps, note apps

Sorry, but if I find out that you hooked an AI agent up to a signal chat you’re in, I’m never trusting you with anything ever again

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

Families say Mount Sinai ended teen trans health program It is the latest medical center to stop caring for transgender young people after the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funds.

Mt Sinai has followed NYU Langone in blatantly violating NY state and NYC law by stopping provision of gender affirming care to trans youth.

Seriously, what are @mayor.nyc.gov, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social, and @governor.ny.gov going to do about this?

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This is a nice analog (and a relative, actually!) of our own #HPC - oriented jobs board, hpc.social/jobs ! Check both, and post your own opportunities if you are hiring!

This is why we don’t give up.

From what I remember from 2020 during the George Floyd protests, because some idiot set a small fire somewhere, we can now claim that Minneapolis was burned to the ground by ICE supporters, right?

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Greetings, Carpenters! The HPC Carpentry project's regularly-scheduled meeting is on for Feb. 19, and an agenda is now up. Feedback welcome! VTC venue and timing is on the agenda.

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BBC News screenshot with the subtitle "Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate..."

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake

And a happy year of the whores to you all

“I am somebody.” ♥️

The March 3, 2026 Total Eclipse of the Moon An Information Sheet by Andrew Fraknoi (U. of San Francisco, Fromm Institute)

Early Tuesday morning, March 3, a total eclipse of the Moon will be visible from throughout North America.

Board of Trustees member @fraknoi.bsky.social has provided an information sheet to answer your most pressing questions! 🧪 🔭

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"Completely incoherent":  UK court says trans people can use the bathroom at pubs but not at work - LGBTQ Nation The court found that workplaces have to separate bathrooms by sex assigned at birth other places don't have to.

A UK high court decision has implemented a full bathroom ban on trans employees. It does not apply to the public. So a trans woman working at tesco could be fired for using the bathroom at work that would be ok for her to use on her day off. Absurd.

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No thrones. No crowns. No kings.
No negotiation. No surrender. No fear.
Just us. And a few million of our closest friends.
March 28.
#NoKings2026

A musician playing a guitar in sugarcane that is somehow in the middle of a football field

First shot: sugarcane

The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times

Still used to make rum of course!