John Morris

Today in 1999, Ambassador Paul Nitze (92)—early architect of hawkish Cold War policies and former director of State Department policy planning, secretary of the Navy, deputy secretary of defense, and arms control negotiator—advocated the United States “unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons.”

A little rain drawing #inktober #drawtober

there is a dire shortage of cats on the feed. do your civic duty and post a cat

Awww I didn't know it was National Black Cat Day! Happy day to my little darkness, my fwuffy baby, who says "Meep!" and "Arf!"

just building on this thread shitting on RFK, the mosfet, the literal foundation upon which all modern electronics (particularly computers) is built, was invented by an egyptian guy named mohamed atalla en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed...

not my business i suppose but boy do i not see the point of a) being on twitter; b) getting into spats with randos on twitter; or c) coming onto bsky to brag about any of it

A belted kingfisher posing real pretty at Lake Kittamaqundi, Columbia, MD today #birds

The very reason my kid lost the best specialist doctor we have ever seen to Canada. This shit right here.

But if the thing they say is conscious, really were conscious, these companies are already guilty of murdering conscious beings by the millions, every single day. They know this. They would be dead as companies if these things got legal protection. They'll never let that actually happen.

…they would be. This is how we know they are not just a little wrong, but *TOTALLY* full of shit, and lying to us wholesale. Instead of talking about the very real ways we could be regulating the words coming back to the consumer from these moral hazard machines, they want us distracted by nonsense.

…once you follow it all out and chase down the details, a claim that *each* instance of Claude Fable x.y is conscious. Yet they aren't even permanently tracking how many of these "consciousnesses" they create and destroy! If the Anthropic talking heads and Sociopath Sam really believed their hype…

The boy meowed and asked if he could pet Douglas. Douglas was overstimulated so I told the boy that maybe waving would be better. He gave an enthusiastic wave and continued off to the cat toys with his dad (more meows). Good parenting because the boy was allowed to be himself but was given good

Safety tips and lessons that will serve him well as he grows up. Approach dogs with care. Ask permission before touching anything or anyone. Listen to what people tell you is ok. Meow.

My birth certificate does not say I am a citizen of America. The fact I am the person who is most knowledgeable about #Michigan #football in my entire #FacultySenate (and my #naturalization certificate) make me an American (and #Michigander). I’m guessing more than this guy

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

Compromised about human rights are never in good faith. Never.

thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

She had legs for days, claws for nights, and a tail for whenever she wanted.

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay theme: #BrownBirds - (mostly brown plumage) Really pleased to have found this little Brown Creeper along the creek last week -- it's a lifer for me! And charming, to boot.

TRON lightcycle design by Syd Mead. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8314462...

Good morning & welcome to Roast Dinner Day Stop worrying about what could be and take a moment to appreciate what is. Not every question needs an answer, nor every moment a plan. Sometimes, happiness is simply enjoying today instead of worrying about tomorrow

Read about my favorite ship(s) of all time

Every time I walk by this book I crack a smile: The cover, the interior, the whole thing came out SO. DANG. GREAT. I can't wait to get 'em to you all!

I have lived rural for almost 20 years, and I am flabbergasted at how unseriously family members just inside the city think about rabies. I have basically zero doubt that if one of my mom's dogs killed a bat, she would straight up shrug and tell nobody and that sucks so, so bad.

On PH and the emerg vet's recommendation, we got all three of them an early vaxx booster, and then the province put them on a strict 3 month in home quarantine that ended last Friday. They're fine! But ngl I was shocked at how many of my relatives were like "but you're not doing that, right?"

Be here all the earlier the next day, pangolin.

All standing pangolins look like Bob Cratchit asking for Christmas day off.

watching the 4K release of Ronin with frankenheimer's commentary and learning that the car chases in the movie were happening *at speed*. no camera tricks or anything, they were straight up *racing*. "we set up all the actors in high performance driving school so they were used to the speeds."

RIP Tom Skerritt, a reliable and enduring actor who you probably remember from...everything, basically. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I'm actually really curious to try now! Going to make these: lovingitvegan.com/vegan-black-...

I've seen vegan brownie recipes with black beans in them, but I assumed they were designed by the kinds of people who told us carob was an excellent replacement for chocolate rather than taking them seriously :-) (Carob is a perfectly pleasant thing that is in no way a replacement for chocolate!)

One of the easiest ways to ensure homes for insects is to avoid being too tidy in gardens and green spaces. Letting a patch of grass grow long (good for nesting bumblebees), leaving dead stems where they are over winter, and having a wild corner will all help boost insect populations 🐝

Real life it happened to me. Someone interrupted me while i was locked in writing a draft and now it’s gone and I may as well pack it up for the day 😭😭😭

So many people who don't write don't understand this, but it's so real.