Good evening

One of the more whimsical bathrooms I've pissed in lately

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

I broke my arm and the biggest positive aspect is that strangers are all treating me really nicely when they see the cast. Unfortunately the negative side of this is that they also all pay more attention to me and every person I speak to asks me how I broke it

Hmmm I wonder what census data he could've been referring to

this is me in real life

Good evening

Wait WAIT How has no one already done this? There's a fanfic of The Lottery in the form of a Chotiner interview, you've seen that, right? archiveofourown.org/works/733964...

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Perfect when it is too hot to eat but you need cold, salt and a meal at the same time

𝚂𝙾 𝙵𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙷. 𝚂𝙾 𝙲𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙽.

Daughter learned how to send a slinky down the stairs and made me take a video

New frog album goes crazy (video unrelated)

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An exciting astronomy milestone was hit last night, as DESI completed its original 5-year survey mapping 40 million galaxies in the night sky! DESI continues operation, now aiming for an 8-year survey and ~60 million galaxies. 🔭🧪 #cosmology newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/04/15/d...

little frozen treat enjoyer

It's Basil's 4th birthday 🎉

NASA released two images Friday taken by Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman as he and the other astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft continued their journey in space. 📸: NASA

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

Does a doctor have a First Amendment right to tell you that ingesting arsenic will cure your athlete's foot? Why would that be different from this?

"he has no point to make" would be harsh from a literary critic but andy weir says it about his own writing

Helping me pack

After months of fact checking and revisions, I printed out my plant cladogram poster and submitted it to this biology art show going on today and tomorrow. If you're in Tucson, check it out! The main png here will be illegible due to compression, so I'll post some close-ups in the replies

Fig. 1 for the ages

I miss trilobites. Bring back my boys

This is pretty much the explicit thesis of omelas, and yet the popular interpretation of the story (including by my teachers in school!) just completely misses the entire point and goes "ooh, pain and suffering! How intellectual!"

statement from Dolores Huerta: "I have encouraged people to always use their voice. Following the New York Times’ multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences."

“It's much easier to get something published in JAMA or the New England Journal of Medicine if it's supportive of gender-affirming care.” Well. Yes.

Every time a pedestrian hurries through a crosswalk it's a victory for car culture

the whole piece was fun but this is the part i am still thinking about tonight

Two of them

If I grab his head like this he becomes completely motionless and starts purring

He wants to join me in the bathroom more than anyone has ever wanted anything

Something I like about Le Guin's writing is that she's able to mention skin color without making the description weird. It's nice to see an author just say brown instead of comparing every non-white person to coffee or chocolate

The most predictable thing ever.

"The US military recruits from the sociopathic progeny of middle-class families who fully buy into US exceptionalism and Christian fundamentalism" is a less sympathetic narrative though isn't it, you fucking bootlickers.

Out of curiosity, has the NYT ever published even a single opinion piece written by a socialist?

noticed a big dark shape rustling in the palm tree when suddenly this little fella popped out and expertly climbed down

Btw the context here is that cops showed up to a snowball fight at the park and started assaulting people

i cant get a good night's rest, no matter how much time i spend on the computer

Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream.

He just wants to be friends

Cat update: they're all still good

Watching Eric Berger (historically a Musk fanboy) struggle with the revelation that Musk is a fake engineer conman white supremacist never loses its entertainment value

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”