Chris Noto 🇺🇦🌻

Music and book lover, planted aquarium keeper, SF fan, photographer, sailor, husband, dad, and granddad. | Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

Trump's net-approvals on immigration, the economy, cost of living, and overall job handling, are all down in Ipsos' latest polling

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Denis Villeneuve talks about his desire to direct RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA:

“There's a possibility of adapting an Arthur C. Clarke novel, ‘RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA’. Like ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ it’s about astronauts coming into contact with another civilization. It’s an exploration where we engage with technology that could realistically exist in the future, unlike ‘DUNE’, which leans more toward fantasy. For the first time, I’d be able to work on hard science fiction. I’d love to do that at least once in my life.”

(via @KonbiniFr)

[Richard Kadrey @Richard_Kadrey]

Villeneuve strikes me as the perfect director for Rendezvous with Rama.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Some of the most useful insights into what’s happening to America are coming from political analysts outside the United States. Here’s a particularly lucid essay that I think you should read.

https://t.co/ciSbmU9Iaw

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

The United States Secretary of Defense just promoted a clip calling for women to lose their right to vote.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

I can't find words to express how upsetting it is that most mainstream Western reporters are silent about this.

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Donald Trump Lashes Out At Paul Krugman As "Deranged Bum"; "Now This Is Flattering," Economist Responds https://t.co/uBM8JxTuvY

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

G. K. Chesterton knew an old lady who, having no familiarity with Shakespeare, went to the theater to see a performance of Hamlet. After the play ended, she confessed to being “disappointed” because “the play was nothing but quotations.”

[bö·se scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

We knew they weren't smart, but some of them.. ..whoa

[Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @TabathaSouthey]

Some pure evil from @nationalpost. Note the quotes. I wonder if the journalists who penned this gave a thought to how normalizing the murder of journalists by calling them terrorists might someday bite them, or someone else whose basic humanity they recognize, in the ass.

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

Canada has a golden opportunity to become a global player in mRNA vaccine research. Now is the moment to fill the gap left by the US. Canada has been a major vaccine developer in the past. No time like the present to paint the way to the future. @EricTopol @PeterHotez

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Army Brigadier General Ty Seidule slams Pete Hegseth for reinstalling confederate monuments: “He is telling us that the values of white supremacy, and Jim Crow are this country’s and the Army’s values.”

RETWEET to thank Brigadier Gen. Seidule for standing up for America!

[Richard Kadrey @Richard_Kadrey]

I got a Covid booster today because who knows if we're ever going to see the vaccine in this country again.
News from Kennedy's CDC: "You can treat Covid with Skittles and wiper fluid!"

[Dianna Cowern @thephysicsgirl]

Whoa! The IAU named an asteroid after me! 🥹

“The International Astronomical Union officially announced that asteroid (21943) 1999 VG114 has been named "Diannacowern" in your honor!” 9km wide, baby!

I didn’t even have this on my bucket list! But I feel super cool now. Cuz I’m a nerd…

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

At the #WritersGuildAwards, John Oliver wins for best comedy/variety series https://t.co/Wjo0W7h9sI

[Scout Tafoya @Honors_Zombie]

Rule two: zero new ideas. All movies are just Aliens and Indiana Jones now. Fuck you.
Rule three: the Diplodocus has to smoke kools and drive a Plymouth