A painting; Anamalocaris, with a moody expression, clutches a stein in a dark, underwater bar. Opabinia is sitting with her, talking animatedly. Other creatures in the background drink and talk as trilobites scurry around delivering steins.

I encourage you to stop on in to the 'Shale and Well Met' for a pint of.. well, I'm not sure what. But boy is the company great!

The next wave of GLP-1 drugs are coming—and they’re stronger than Wegovy and Zepbound The upcoming drugs CagriSema and retatrutide target multiple gut hormones and could cause twice as much weight loss than current treatments. But experts wonder how much is too much

You've heard of semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy), tirzepetide (Mounjaro/Zepbound).

But there are new drugs coming, ones that leave these in the dust, and leave clinicians and scientists asking: Can people lose too much too fast? www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

By me.

Parked domain tax and land value tax to help fix this?

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"

Ferbruary #oldknees

D'you ever get a stupid idea in your head and then you can't do anything else until you get it out? 🎣

You don't have to like Israel's current government! You don't even have to agree with the political process that went into the creation of the Israeli state! But in this context, posting about "the Israelis" is just posting about "the Jews".

Yeah you know what fuck this place

Torres is a no and DNC Vice Chair Kenyatta says its a mistake

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

But I am really struck by the rapidity and scale of the government's retreat from its much more extensive and destructive list of demands that it tried to impose on schools at the start of this mess.

It would be far better if Cornell and other schools simply said "no."

But still, a notable shift.

There are bad things here, including the transparently bad-faith mess about reporting students races + SAT/ACT scores to the government so they can falsely accuse Cornell in the future of illegal race-based affirmative action (a move that imperils perfectly legal class-based affirmative action).

Maaaaaany graduate students at CSHL have stories. I'll send them your way.

I tweeted once about him and was immediately called out by our PR. They sat me down and told me they knew he was problematic but that he brought in too much donor money for us to say anything bad about him.

In today's wild news:

The son of a CIA Deputy Director was recently killed fighting in Ukraine...

...for the Russian military.

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”

@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

APOLLO: “Trade Between China and the US Collapsing .. The consequence will be empty shelves in US stores in a few weeks and Covid-like shortages for consumers and for firms using Chinese products as intermediate goods.”

Socialists AOC, Bernie Sanders caught on video exiting $15K-per-hour private jet to attend 'Fighting Oligarchy' rally https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/aoc-bernie-sanders-take-private-jet-to-fighting-oligarchy-rally/

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha holy shit

they're calling O'Brien the worst union leader of all time

"My destination was on the left, but that doesn't matter."

All crew,

Again, please do not insert unknown USB drives from random planets into computer ports on the Enterprise.

Worf

There's video of the fight on Twitter, apparently.

This piece of art has the same energy: derpibooru.org/images/25199...

A scholarship program helped boost diversity at U of M. Trump’s DEI crackdown just killed it. The University of Michigan Alumni Association has ended the LEAD Scholars program, a merit-based scholarship that worked to improve enrollment for minority students.

New story from me: Imani* was in class when she discovered a scholarship program she relied on had been shut down.

“I don’t come from wealth ... Ending the program puts a burden on individuals who don't have it like most of the wealthy people here at the University of Michigan"

A Gemini module mated to a small Service Module flying over the Earth.

People fly vintage airplanes; perhaps one day they'll fly vintage spacecraft. Here's a concept for the 2100s: the Gemini Heritage flight. A fully restored Gemini capsule is mated to a more efficient Service Module (with upgraded safety features) and recreates a historical mission.