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congrats to the oxford botanic garden scientists who captured the moment when the infamous mediterranean squirting cucumber (ecballium elaterium) shoots its seeds up to 40 feet by exploding off the stem with the pressure of an inflated bike tire 🥒🧪

submitted 86 days ago • 28 comments

MPX issues Area Forecast Discussion (AFD) at Nov 29, 5:53 AM CST at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:54:09 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

99k views! Keep it right there! youtu.be/pJ5DFrdOyig #jamesadomian #comedyspecial

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Researching and reporting my story about how truly horrible Facebook has become genuinely rattled me, and changed how I looked at the internet permanently. It's important to understand how messed up they are. www.wheresyoured.at/killingfaceb...

submitted 88 days ago • 94 comments

Bolero's Wisdom - Gator Days

submitted 88 days ago • 116 comments

submitted 88 days ago • 76 comments

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

submitted 89 days ago • 473 comments

When he can tell you’re done with morning meetings.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck. I just realised Home Alone is Die Hard for kids.

submitted 88 days ago • 23 comments

Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵

submitted 89 days ago • 238 comments

"The basic idea is to turn the American government into the biggest crypto bag-holder of all time." prospect.org/power/2024-1...

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

Biden, failure of all time

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

Hey I'mma tell you right now all that stuff you talk about wanting a better world & being A Good Person is just a bunch of lying ass fuckshit if you don't even understand our socioeconomic situation well enough to approach service workers with a built in expectation to tip and tip well.

submitted 90 days ago • 19 comments

News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration. Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare. This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.

submitted 91 days ago • 782 comments

People are so miserable and lonely it’s like oh my life is unfulfilling and alienating you know what would help? Being a bigoted anti social loner asshole. Yeah great idea moron

submitted 90 days ago • 60 comments

It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle. We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal. It's time to #FreeJavaScript. deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

submitted 90 days ago • 21 comments

Holy shit I am so excited about this. And it works!!!

submitted 90 days ago • 86 comments

After seeing @emilyliu.me 's post this morning about using Bluesky for the comments section on her site, I had to try it. Here's a writeup on how to do it, with everything you need to set it up yourself in five minutes. Leave a comment on this post to test it out! www.coryzue.com/writing/blue...

submitted 90 days ago • 57 comments

Jeesuz fucking christ www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-...

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

The thing about Dude Wipes is that someone created a product, a corp. hired pros to develop the product, held meetings on marketing them, and now there are ppl whose entire workday is dedicated to them, and it’s all predicated on the idea that men take huge messy shits that require extensive cleanup

submitted 90 days ago • 615 comments