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Supracellular actomyosin assemblies: master coordinators of development In this Review, Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social discusses supracellular actomyosin structures, tissues where they function, their known roles as well as potential properties journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
The Navy followed orders, but the legality of those orders are an open question.
but "newsworthy"
This is what fascism comes from. Not economic conditions, not policy objections, but giving people a permission structure to indulge in performances of violence against an imagined subhuman enemy.
Snuff flick and straight-up illegal
it was a motorboat, not a ship
My spouse did this as well. Zero regrets.
It's the warmup for GOP snuff flicks from Chicago.
This is what they want in Chicago.
11 people are dead now wheeeeeeee
The White House is straight up posting snuff flicks.
Video of US strike on cartel vessel off the coast of Venezuela
Funnier than any joke we could write
Oh, for sure if persuasion is the goal! To be clear it's impossible to engage productively with the aggressively obtuse who do nothing but shit on all earnest efforts, and at some point it's about maintaining self-respect.
The problem is not being rude enough.
shockingly, public polling continues to show that people hate being forced to eat nazi shit sandwiches
Minimum cost to sink motorboat: 10 NIH cancer research grants.
dafuq
Two things can be — and are — true here: Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag. A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.
The Fed’s Reverse Repo Facility is on life support. The Reverse Repo once held $2.5T daily, now just $21.07B. That 99% wipeout could reshape markets for years. (a thread)
Everything about this is bad
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
There are currently 11 acting Institute and Center directors at NIH and this will add another. Two more and the majority of these positions will be vacant.
lmao they've pushed it back to 3
Maintaining a diversity of ongoing personal projects is important because it enables you to procrastinate on one by aimlessly tinkering with another, thereby creating the possibility that you'll finish one of them by accident.
shockingly, public polling continues to show that people hate being forced to eat nazi shit sandwiches
More broadly, no matter how they package and slice the fecal matter, people hate being forced to eat nazi shit sandwiches. I mean objectively the public polling on this is just remarkably consistent, despite the lies printed in the papers and apparently shockingly to those who print them.
You know what though? Vance is insanely unpopular. Somehow people are getting it, like a bizarre odor coming right thru the screen. All the more weird that the press constantly gives him a pass - all it'd take is them doing their damn job for the little nazi to fall straight thru the ice.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Glem Geenbald
ACLU is going en banc against the Trump lackeys’ dismissal of Boasberg’s contempt finding! www.allrisenews.com/p/aclu-crimi...
Glem is a great name for him tho
The hyperreal simulacrum turns out to be insanely fragile. It requires constant maintenance because people inherently sense that something’s fucked up and want to flee. That’s why BlueSky is an asymmetric threat.
important to realize that Greenwald explicitly wants to kill any site that isn't controlled by oligarchs and tyrants because his project requires trapping people in a propaganda-supported alternate reality
He’s doing right now to offset gutting University of Alabama, fwiw
i don't think being on a site that gives anti-Black racism 20k likes is good for the soul
Priorities FTW
My guy wrote an op-ed and it's really good. Send it to your advancement officer, your dean, your grandmother, your neighbor. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/02/o...
Trump’s slashing of NIH funding is gonna gut University of Alabama, one of the state’s largest employers. Moving SPACE COMMAND from blue Colorado to red Alabama is a sop to this - but it’s been high on Trump’s punch list since at least 2019 anyhow. www.cpr.org/2023/03/24/p...
Hello Chicagoans here, this was a legitimately bad weekend for shootings and those 54 people deserve better than these shitty news stories or bad social media discourse. 7 died.
The honesty is bracing at least. Like yeah, okay, you want to be in the people owning class. Ok got it, good good.
Hammer & Hope is great. Check it out.
It’s general. Gathering information is work, and working sucks. Or at least that’s my distillation of a Kahneman point.
Never heard of it.
Ditto.
My brother in Christ, you are a lightning rod and that is your perpetual destiny regardless of the platform you post on. It’s an important role! The nature of the discharge differs of course and that’s instructive, but it’s not generally representative of the user experience here.
The 2nd edition of “Vatnik Soup — The Ultimate Guide to Russian Disinformation” is officially out! You can order your copy here: www.kleart.eu/webshop/p/va...
They are not cells.
“Synthetic cells” Aka liposomes with retic lysate or other in vitro translation inside.
The Democrats lose because people are mean to me on bluesky 1/278
Our dimension got the wrong Rahm dammit.
The only worthwhile Rahm Emanuel was the fake one (Dan Sinker’s mayoremanuel old school Twitter account)
oh dear, time for another blogger ethics panel
Fuck those guys
I’m not booing you. Why worry about a few agitato types? Block and move on. It’s great!
Nah. Not seeing it. What you really mean is just another form of online-ism, because the behavior you’re describing happens on every single platform. And on this site it’s really a small number of highly vocal engaged users who do it (and all of them like yelling at you, pobrecito).
Gold just ripped past $3,500, smashing into record highs. This isn’t about shiny necklaces, it’s about crumbling trust in money and politics. When confidence in the system cracks, gold becomes the last safe place to hide. (a thread)
Racist fuckwads.
Every resident of Maine showed up for the guy running to unseat Susan Collins
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
my take is trump had some routine but semi-risky surgery planned so he could recover in secret over the holiday and that’s why he’s been thinking about dying and also why vance let slip he’s planning to take over some day and why his cabinet had a three hour love-in this week
They have a Santa Fe feel.
Sadly, yes. But still.
Left
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What a tool.
Sadly the effect of the fluorescent vest over camouflage fatigues is lost.
The National Guardners
Up is the new down
The Double Gold Nobel is a smart bet for tomorrow’s announcement
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“I have many words, some of which I’m saying to you at this time”
I always thought her sawing heads off dead whales was pretty iffy.
Jesus Haploid Christ on a crutch
My hot take is we should go kinetic against Russian clandestine operations in Europe
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Try nail polish on the 63x objective for a real pick-me-up
never get sick of seeing the self-own of someone posting something negative about bluesky while simultaneously censoring its name because they site you're posting on instead algorithmically buries any post or account that mentions one of its competitors
That’s true. What’s happening now is the first meaningful chance in a long time for things to change. Republicans there are sweating hard for bailouts / carveouts, not clear it’s gonna happen for them
Any working scientists who still post science content on Twitter should be hounded to stop. Any meaningful engagement is happening elsewhere, largely on Bluesky. Twitter is a brain-rotting waste of time.
This isn’t even beginning to account for the mass migration of scientists out of Twitter. They’re largely heading to BlueSky.
Eat shit Trump whore
Sean O’Brien is a fuckin scab with shit for brains
I love comedy
Honestly this rules but I’d be surprised if it hasn’t informally been sung in Zulu by native speakers
Wrong! Moscow and Beijing can always ask for more. And they will.
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
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At the very least his mitochondria are all fucked up.
Not to belabor the point but RFK Jr is going to implement policies that will kill thousands or even millions of people if he is not removed. Thanks to @thewarningses.bsky.social @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for the frank discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaxc...
NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE
Obsessed with images of a giant promotional statue of King Kong that accidentally caught fire
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
‘Active Clubs’ Are White Supremacy’s New, Dangerous Frontier talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/active-...
Incredibly it’s the highest bar we have. The one we end up with will likely be considerably lower.