Instagram also replaced their search with an “ask ai” box. For months now there has been no way to pull up an account by name without nominally triggering an AI feature.

The very aggressive marketing of “dietary supplements” to healthy people by the supplement industry (an industry that was worth around $200 billion last year) is a scam

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Sporting bodies like the IOC and World Athletics are reacting to public pressure from a small but very vocal group of people who demand the world be simpler than it actually is. It takes time and resources away from real problems in sports, and it harms women more than it helps them.

In light of today's IOC ban of transgender women athletes in the Olympics, reupping this piece I wrote with @nicolanese.bsky.social last month. www.livescience.com/health/there...

I hate all fake product pics on Amazon, but I hate fake product pics of walking pads the most.

If you ever wondered what women’s sweaters looked like in 1897: here you go, you will not be disappointed. Source: archive.org/details/krl0...

Been looking through old knitting patterns again, and my god the 20s and 30s did incredible things with geometry

TIL there was an ear warmer dark ages. We had the technology, we just didn't know how to wear them. Pic from a 1919 knitting manual: archive.org/details/utop...

One of my more exciting and mysterious knitting projects: making this 1940 sweater pattern that nobody online has made, and the old timey instructions leave many unanswered questions. The moment of truth: trying on the front and back panels. It fits!!

Who else out here making #fanart

Finished the divine comedy, had to update the meme

BREAKING: A judge just blocked Kennedy's handpicked vaccine advisers, and all votes they've taken in the past year. They will not meet this week. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Having a hard time believing this ides of March story, you're telling me senators did something other than send out fundraising texts

A gorgeous classic painting of literal hell (Dante style) and it’s flagged as “adult content” I mean technically yes the babies are all in Limbo

Search your camera roll for hell

The larger the better imo. I could certainly get an elephant out, just widen the door frame if needed and entice it with snacks. One particular mouse? A bedbug? A specific norovirus particle(*)? Hopeless. (*) controversial taxonomy, I know

Ruin a book or band name with one letter: Define Comedy

The Q&A threads on fitness reddits used to be full of people asking dumb questions, hundreds per day. Now I guess they all go to chatgpt because there are like 5 questions/day in the threads. Been thinking about model collapse. What do the LLMs even have to scrape these days?

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

I wrote Grammarly to ask whether they’re using my name for Expert Review (because how would I even know??) and got a message that they’re shutting the whole thing down:

I emailed to ask if they are using my name because…how would I even know??

Babe, wake up, they're reinventing the commentary tradition from first principles

Noun dot com was the funniest internet era because there really were people who would go “where can I find [thing] on the internet? There’s probably a website at [thing].com so I’ll start there” and people waged whole wars and lawsuits to get those domains

Took my daughter thrifting and for some reason she did not want to buy this poodle doll with lipstick and human hands

In Ovid's version, all the gods are agreed that Persephone didn't eat anything and were about to let her go home when a RANDOM GUY who had been hanging around the pomegranate orchard was like "well actually..."

Kid is reading the Wikipedia page for fluorine, giggling with each new fact he learns, and calling it an "original OC do not steal" element

the pro-measles party doesn't want to go on record as accomplishing their goals??

I honestly think a lot of ai use is driven by feeling the other person in the relationship (teacher/student in this case) is putting in the least effort possible so you might as well match it.

Me to Catholic monarchist weirdos online: oh, sure, you want a Catholic theocracy, but is half your family volunteering at fish fries for the next 5 Fridays?

My kid, upon learning that mourning doves are the suburban version of city pigeons: "The idea that you'd have the same animal in a different region but it's a different color is some video game-ass logic."

worth remembering: "AI", as in machine learning, is a LOT older than the current round of chatbots, and it was pretty popular among tech enthusiasts (which leaned left!) for years it wasn't until it was redefined to mean "bot that replaces artists" that everyone except billionaires turned on it

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

Took me 20+ years but I finally got around to knitting my husband a sweater. This was so much work and he absolutely adores it. Finished it last night and gave it to him this morning :)

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

I've been thinking about how Victorian Era scientists accomplished so much work, until I came across this: The Darwin family lived at Down House with a butler, cook, gardener, coachman, housemaid, two nursery maids, and a governess for the girls. Never less than 8 servants lived at Down House.

My kid insists that the chair in her room cannot be facing her bed during the night. She says it’s because if she wakes up in the night she thinks a monster might be in it watching her But if it’s facing the desk, then the monster is probably just playing Minecraft and she can ignore it.

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Ok the new muppet show is amazing. Sabrina Carpenter is my favorite type of Muppet Show guest: the celebrity who is secretly actually just a muppet

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

If WB can make Lego everything how does Disney not just have Muppet everything? Muppet Avengers, Muppet The Mandalorian, Muppet Cars.

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

We’ve been getting mail and I have never been prouder of myself

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

I like to knit with wool yarn so I have been going to thrift stores to look for wool. I discovered 2 surprising things. 1) there is very little wool but l find cashmere on almost every visit (!) 2) all the cashmere is pink

What's described here about EV charging is exactly the reason you see so many Teslas on the road, despite the company being so horrible in other ways. Tesla charging networks are (mostly) reliable; so is the routing app which is built into the car. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...