oh well this is rather fun, a new fungus for Great Britain! 🪸🧪🍄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...?

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

It was 20 years ago today... The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars with the best camera ever sent to another planet: HiRISE! A massive thanks to all our team @uarizona.bsky.social , JPL and @baesystems.com who keep this adventure going on strong. 😃 #uahirise

this guy is cool as shit

In this ancient Babylonian dialogue, one friend asks, "Why are you so gloomy about many things?" Let's do some dead languages together for a sec. The word translated here as "be/become gloomy" (qatāru) can also mean "to billow with smoke". How might we get from smokey to gloomy?

societies typically talk about human cognition as working similarly to whatever is seen as the latest and greatest technology. that’s why we currently describe the brain as a roguelike deckbuilding game about characters making their way up a spire

The New York City Council is considering a bill to allow the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development to seize buildings from landlords who have racked up housing code violations and debt from unpaid taxes and fines and turn them over to better owners. gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

True Art

can YOU spot the bots?

RETVRN but for whatever this is

there's an ad for a gym on Youtube that uses the "choose life" cadence while talking about gym facilities and I'm not sure they remember that the monologue ends with "I chose not to choose life, I chose something else"

There’s a terrible tendency that any time anyone comes along and starts saying things that are popular from a left perspective, established thinking goes ‘all very nice yes, but it’s not SERIOUS is it’ even whilst all the accepted serious people fail absolutely constantly at the absolute basics.

By popular demand, a train horn on a bike vs right on red car brain. I kinda suck at editing #bikesky

The People of Bluesky Crowd Round to Appreciate Andrew O’Hagan Eviscerating Mr Windsor, 2026, Rembrandt van Rijn

it's funny how farage has been basically given free reign to say "we're going to slash taxes and improve public services and kick out all the immigrants and you'll all be millionaires" for thirty years, but as soon as someone from the left comes along, Very Serious People want to know "how it works"

I know we're all waiting for the day when It Happens, but honestly, I'm waiting for this one just a little bit more. Every time this cunt outlives someone, it feels like a theft.

instead of "better or worse" you get asked how many lights there are

would quite like another tattoo or three.

bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods

Saw someone link to a piece of open source, self hosted porno organizing software and it’s beautiful — a clean interface, fantastic metadata handling, an incredible wiki and KB. I have absolutely no use for it but I’m just stunned by the attention to detail that only a pervert could achieve here.

Taken during a visit to the PNW ♡ #Ferns

bsky actually might be a vanguard for whatever the next phase of social media is, not in the decentralization sense but in the "we actually never intended for users to use the website and got mad when they did" sense

SQUID SQUID SQUID SQUID

extremely The Boy voice; "quack quack!"

i am glad to hear that bluesky is listening to me and i look forward to my seat on the board

Took the kids to a bday party yesterday. One of the kids kept whispering in the ear of other children at the party, dragging them off somewhere for a few minutes at a time. She did it to my youngest, and when I asked him about it that night he said, "we were just going to see the god in the mirror"

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/3893 『1/25スケール 電柱』発売！ "1/25 scale utility pole" now on sale! #ガチャポン #gachapon

checked cnn and was briefly convinced that dr breen is a senior iranian diplomat

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

These authors went looking for technosignatures around (in)famous exoplanet K2-18b with 2 of the world's best radio interferometers. They found none, but cool work and great to highlight that these searches are happening. arxiv.org/abs/2602.09553 🔭

This geopolitical crisis could’ve been an email

chat is that good

It’s not quite ‘have someone come in with a gun’ but ‘if you’re not sure where a scene is going have a bunch of capitalist giants fight a crab’ is also a maxim to live by.

perfect, no notes

the Youtube Japanese -> English auto translate can't keep up but this seems to be an extended comedy bit about Asuka variants (original show + movies) trying to get a happy ending

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

calmly explaining to my in-laws that they may be british citizens with british passports who’ve paid into the british tax system for fifty years, but sadly everyone at the spectator summer party has agreed that they need to be deported back to a country where they have zero living relatives

it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the true end of Evangelion

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

This is an excellent rule for storytelling but also implies that Philip Pullman witnessed the death of God as a boy.

À fascinating stat about Brexit polling in this piece. You'll know it when you read it www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Thank you to all the people who are good at talking about random things for hours.

i was reminded today of the adorable Tenga mouse mascot, gleefully running home to absolutely demolish his little pecker

DON’T FUCKING WARN THEM JUST DO IT

The results of your Voight Kampf test are in. You are human, but stupid.