Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/09/2026There are always going to be people, like newborn infants and sick people, who can’t be vaccinated. That’s why it’s all the more important for the people around them to be vaccinated. 521629
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. 796166633671
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider. 42130222201
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/07/20261) no country is obligated to provide aid to another 2) abruptly cutting off aid that is already being relied on, with no chance for anyone to replace or adjust - in fact, destroying vital medical supplies in their warehouse rather than see them delivered - is tantamount to murder. 1234054
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” This man did incalculable damage, while 'carried away.' 671623406
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o... 230119713099
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/04/2026We are about to find out how their security and prosperity was tied to ours, and how when we disregard theirs, ours suffers. 712725
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Trump is demonstrating the importance of credibility in international relations. He is not credible. He’s shown that others can’t trust what he says, and can’t act as if his stance will be the same tomorrow. He can’t communicate demands or make reliable offers. He made America’s word is worthless. 301967394
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Once this is over, every corrupt personal donation to Trump must be fully investigated and the perpetrators prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, no matter who they might be. 918139
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialMinas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...ergosphere.blogThe machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable. 1101782530
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 17/03/2026A fleeting moment preserved for millennia: around 1,900 years ago, a child stepped onto a Roman tile left to dry in the sun before firing, leaving behind a footprint that still speaks across the centuries. Found in Nijmegen, on display at Museum Het Valkhof. #TilesOnTuesday 📷 me 🏺 9461113
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14/03/2026The older you get, the more you realize that World War II was basically YESTERDAY. When I was born in 1970, it felt to me like ancient history. Now I have been alive more than twice as long as that seemingly "forever" gap of 25 years. 221658
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialScience Magazine @science.org · 28/01/2026The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: scim.ag/4boPkq8 scim.agU.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took officeA Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies 18489339
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I find I am honestly unsure what the long term implications are of the United States demonstrating twice in three months that its new preferred way of war is to engage in bolt-from-the-blue decapitation strikes with no obvious follow-up plan. My instinct is that it will not turn out well. 311569239
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Today marks four years since Russia invaded Ukraine. These are some thoughts (recorded yesterday) on what Ukrainians have done for all of us and what we can learn from them. 291276519
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium. 312542822
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Regular reminder to keep these three statements in your head at the same time: The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. 110937
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/08/2025There is a point in life when you realize that the future belongs to younger people than yourself, and your job is to assist them. 1026844
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 28/08/2025This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint) 577252823325
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialamy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like 36191718726
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.social100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 23/07/2025July 23, 1925: The center of Boston, photographed from an Army Air Service plane. 1134
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations. 9079102511
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 22/05/2025Today is International Biodiversity day! What does that have to do with rockets? Some of the satellites we send to space are used to track biodiversity... and our designers like to do cool infographics that compare payloads to animal weight! You’re whale-come! 🐋 25627128
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialBoomer @boomerthemoose.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I heard there was a secret ooze It turned four turtles into dudes But you don't really care for pizza, do ya? They fought like this, Two swords, a stick A couple sai Some nunchuck tricks Those Ninja boys-a callin Cowabunga 9070472424
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/01/2025FWIW: As I’ve gotten older, I’ve had to acknowledge the sad fact that in this world of ours, bullies often prosper. But my loathing of bullies has also intensified over the years. And as bullies are ultimately weak, I do think the Putins, Trumps, & Musks, if confronted and resisted, can be defeated. 561117152
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 11/12/2024Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full Of Sky “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” 1139081
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.social🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/11/2024Every academic right now 1345290580
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialMelissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano) 146154553265
Reposted by @boston82.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/06/2024We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes. 18075431918
