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American lady on TV just pronounced Asgard ass-guard and now I'm giggling. I've been hearing az-guard in my head. how do they ever try to do Thor comics seriously if this is what they're saying all the time??

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Re-sharing this, because it feels very relevant to our times—beyond just trans communities.

there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

New Oglaf: www.oglaf.com/show-business/

is it still a supply chain attack when the "supplier" is a stochastic parrot that just makes shit up? Asking for a friend

Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

By the way, this is *exactly* why "no Dem under 1K," "Blue Crew," and similar hashtags used for follow farming are harmful. I guarantee that's where these bozos got their followers.

just overheard a hairdresser telling his client about The Wrestling: "it's like monster trucks but people"

jack is doing the thing again

The intro video for a new series I've been working on with my dear friend Shane is up! Subscribe to get episodes as they're coming out: free, long-form videos about wood, coatings, chemistry and optics for beginners and experts alike. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJDM...

my esteemed coworker, brandishing a large knife: I wonder what gender it is? *cuts cake decisively* me: red velvet. an overrated gender cake: *falls over*

my lunch (or the remains thereof) is an emoji

watching everyone on this bus Google legionnaire's disease symptoms in unison after the driver's radio news blast about a Sydney CBD outbreak

This article notably fails to mention the time in 88 BCE when the people of the eastern provinces hated the greedy publicani so much that they rose up en masse and murdered 80,000 of them and their families in the streets.

you telling me a pig ironed this bob??

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

blaming the huge crows literally loitering by the curb as I popped out for milk early this morning for my brain deciding to encode my thoughts as a snippet from an Early @themountaingoats.bsky.social Song

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GIVE IT TO ME

When I was in Kazakhstan I decided кошкресенье (a Russian pun on “cat” and “Sunday” should be a thing so please also wish Jean a доброе кошкресенье, she IS a beautiful Kazakhstani kitty.

a big difference between saturday night when you're young and saturday night when you're no longer young is the meaning of ten o'clock. young ten o'clock means the night is really getting started. not young ten o'clock means sad because want to drink tea but can't do tea after 9 o'clock

this is some romance hero shit.

YOU GUYS.

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

can't even read a long poem aloud without singing the refrain anymore. because of folk

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

Ok, this is the kind of April Fools joke I love. Read the extracts below!

return of the mildly sinister real estate signage

I think that this superb parrot chick is objectively 25/10 adorable I can’t even with its face fluff

Possibly the most British quote ever from one of the Quaker elders about police charging their meeting house to arrest activists www.thetimes.com/article/ea7d...

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

I'm waiting downstairs during my kid's ballet class and the older group practicing downstairs is currently blasting the NumaNuma song

New from me. Would really love if you shared with your loved ones, colleagues, or anyone who has expressed they'd like to do something but are not sure what x heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/how-can-i-...

Just saw this, a literature roundup for the evidence basis of psychodynamic psychotherapies: www.reddit.com/r/psychoanal... In case your insurance only wants to cover something behavioral. Or just because science.

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop theonion.com/gang-in...