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Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

submitted 4 days ago • 240 comments

Here’s the pitch: They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks *and* the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident! It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY! Need a title.

submitted 7 days ago • 255 comments

Courtship dance of the peacock spider 📹 Michael Lun / wa_peacock_jumping_spiders

submitted 18 days ago • 503 comments

Someone tell Schumer that the OPM is being taken over by college students protesting a genocide so we can actually see some urgency from the opposition party

submitted 24 days ago • 44 comments

President Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed a compromise name for the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 35 days ago • 185 comments

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

submitted 37 days ago • 195 comments

The Horniman Natural History Gallery features this stunning walrus. It was transported to England, purchased in 1886. There, the taxidermists, having never seen one in the wild, stuffed it until the wrinkles smoothed out. This is a fully inflated walrus, my friends. MAXIMUM WALRUS. (📷: Tom Natt)

submitted 42 days ago • 70 comments

Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement. This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 47 days ago • 252 comments

The stock market is seriously over-valued, get ready for TrumpCrash 2025!https://cepr.net/stock-market-and-budget-projections-do-the-numbers-add-up/

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips theonion.com/clarence-tho...

submitted 69 days ago • 380 comments

"If the plan goes through, hundreds of billions of dollars of public assets will be spent or leveraged to buy a million Bitcoins, allowing the tiny minority of Bitcoin moguls to finally cash out their holdings into real money." prospect.org/power/2024-1...

submitted 82 days ago • 44 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (2/20) #booksky #bookchallenge

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

According to CDC's wastewater program, almost all wastewater sample sites in California, from San Diego in the south to Redding in the north, have tested positive for H5 bird flu.

submitted 86 days ago • 11 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (1/20) #booksky #bookchallenge

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

And remember to spay and neuter.

submitted 92 days ago • 25 comments

Very long but worth reading to the end.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

submitted 89 days ago • 86 comments

You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

submitted 92 days ago • 508 comments

America is over 334 million people. The idea you’re gonna run all of this like 13 colonies subsidized by enslaved Black labor is dumb. We need to keep pointing this out since it’s the core of conservatism. www.oliverexplains.com/p/the-right-...

submitted 94 days ago • 148 comments

I gave an outreach talk today and explained what climate scientists do.

submitted 95 days ago • 12 comments

Very cool.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago. They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.

submitted 101 days ago • 161 comments