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Hold fast and make things. Culture ship name: GSV Oh No, Not Again
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I've always been a bit embarrassed by my poor "naturalist" skills, especially as an ecologist surrounded by folks who can identify every tree and every sandpiper. Posting this, I've learned I'm not alone - and I feel better. scientistseessquirre...

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

There are now more music and books and TV and movies in existence than I could enjoy in an entire lifetime. Made by human beings who want to tell stories. We've NEVER had a shortage of people who want to be creative. What we have is a shortage of people who want to pay them.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Dear Dutch rail unions, Japanese transit workers have this brilliant strike technique where they keep everything running but simply don't charge for it. The bosses hate it because they lose all the revenue while having to pay all the costs. Any chance of a little cultural appropriation?

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

In this moment of anxiety, please enjoy a baby goose falling out of an adult gooses wing. Yes I wrote that sentence. Yes this happened. Yes it's ADORABLE. No I don't think I'll capture a cuter goose moment this year. 🐣 🪶

submitted 7 hours ago • 94 comments

Bugger me, this image. The correct response is not "yay skating" but "OH SHIT"

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

And now I'm sad because 20021 probably isn't going to happen.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm playing one of those games where you fit together hexagons with different terrain on them to make your own city. In Japan right now, so I have this giant octopus taking tea with Godzilla.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

It’s 102 years to the day since the deeply eccentric Edith Sitwell sat behind a curtain at London’s Aeolian Hall, reciting bizarre poetry through what looked like a traffic cone, prompting Noel Coward to take the piss, which started a highly entertaining multi-decade literary feud...🧵

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

Dutch antibiotic policy is very sensible and is getting results, no thanks to the godverdomme farmers.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Thinking about how David Bowie used to go around New York and London anonymously by wearing a cloth cap and carrying a Greek newspaper, so anyone who spotted him would think "huh, that Greek guy looks JUST like David Bowie".

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments