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Love this Chappel Roan hit

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American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

submitted 8 days ago • 1738 comments

1st Cir., per curiam, holds that it does not violate parental rights for school to use a student's requested pronouns and requested name at school without informing the parents. Of note, the decision uses "they/them" throughout to refer to the student. www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

submitted 9 days ago • 783 comments

Good trouble in town today, beep beep

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In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

submitted 19 days ago • 353 comments

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

submitted 45 days ago • 667 comments

Y'all. Spinning tops for grown ups, carefully made from thoughtfully chosen materials, are extremely satisfying.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

I've been this close to going back there to stay on touch with family, but, UGH.

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Very good research domain: how do we automate our lives without seeing the planet on fire? 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/3PhOQFW

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Ran an excellent session of The Quiet Year for NYE. It's a blast!

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OK, let's try this to show the HPC community already has momentum and can thrive here on Bluesky ... If #HPC or #supercomputing is of interest to you, please interact with this post in some way - either repost, quote, like, reply with insights or just your fav gif, tag friends, etc.

submitted 105 days ago • 36 comments

Whelp, lost my first apple pencil. Thanks for the design flaw, Steve.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

OK, I've now received this email. It is legit. Let's talk about how you can check in the future before flying off the handle. The key to looking for authenticity is in the headers of the email. What are headers? Well, think of them like the envelope that your regular mail comes in. 1/

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

The Heliocentric Model of Open Science Documentation in a nutshell zenodo.org/records/1400...

submitted 121 days ago • 3 comments

I know I should have been ready for this, but "hundreds more infants died than expected" still took my breath away.

submitted 129 days ago • 13 comments

Its ubiquity grants calcite the power to inspire wonder everywhere in the world, with such variety in growth habit, clarity, and fluorescence. Calcite always has my vote.

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🤭

submitted 158 days ago • 10 comments

that reminds me, I never shared the illustration of Rowling @bitterkarella.bsky.social asked me to provide for Midnight Pals

submitted 159 days ago • 3 comments

Choosing quartz is like saying your favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla. I've always been a bubble-gum-ice-cream-with-sprinkles kid. #rhodochrosite #mincup24 www.mardanifineminerals.com/blog/2020/10...

submitted 159 days ago • 2 comments

My lovely fiancee sent me this

submitted 220 days ago • 5 comments

One of my favourite Roman roads: a section of the 'Via delle Gallie' in Donnas, Val d’Aosta, Italy. The wheel ruts are still visible. The arch was carved into the rock. The road that was built under Augustus. It began at Mediolanum, present-day Milan, and passed...1/2 🏺 AncientBluesky

submitted 229 days ago • 3 comments

The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.

submitted 241 days ago • 30 comments

a fun fact is that any time i see a sign in comic sans, i assume they chose that typeface to indicate sarcasm.

submitted 266 days ago • 2 comments

On the anniversary of Roger Moore’s death, let’s remember this lovely story about what a class act he was.

submitted 280 days ago • 21 comments

I want to go to there

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never not thinking about this, from an interview with Edward Gorey:

submitted 505 days ago • 4 comments

Podcast rec: After Dark episode about the earliest evidence of ghosts is just delightful, for the content and for the absolutely charming guest, Irving Finkel, whose books I'll be reading now pronto shows.acast.com/64e89a796854...

submitted 289 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know who needs to hear this but,

submitted 292 days ago • 21 comments

I have people saved in my phone like “Mary Landlord” and “Jim Maintenance” and it occurs to me that’s the way that Anglo surnames have always worked

submitted 417 days ago • 35 comments

Cops fired a gun when they raided Columbia. Manhattan DA says it "did not appear to be aimed at anyone & no one was injured," meaning it was probably some cop thinking they were in a TV show firing at the ceiling, but even the framing neatly elides the question "Why Was The Fucking Gun Drawn???" JFC

submitted 299 days ago • 9 comments

Oooooh, saw a Dark Fishing Spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus), such a beautiful creature! (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)

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Genius.

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A photo from this time 3 years ago, just in case you weren't aware that moorhen babies look like haunted candy corn 🪶

submitted 308 days ago • 5 comments

Wormification - #InsertAnInvert2024 "Long, not limbless." I chose to do a paddleworm, specifically Phyllodoce medipapillata. I think this is the most beautiful worm I've ever seen on land or sea. I was DELIGHTED like a child seeing glitter for the first time looking at reference pics. #sciart

submitted 312 days ago • 4 comments

WIP Wednesday. #insects

submitted 316 days ago • 4 comments

congratulations, you played yourself

submitted 316 days ago • 23 comments

So the co-creator of Space Ghost and one of the guys who basically helped invent Adult Swim today works as a delivery driver for Amazon. I'm referring to Andy Merrill (voice of Brak, who put together the SG pilot in a storage closet at Turner) who apparently got extremely screwed in the deal.

submitted 317 days ago • 42 comments

Millennials: this is my texting device. Do not call me on my texting device. Gen X: whoa. Had never thought of it that way, but we are SOLD. Never making a phone call again. Gen Z: Hey! Oh, nothing in particular, I was just waiting for the bus and thought I'd call and say hi!

submitted 317 days ago • 5 comments