I watched this video essay the other day (it was fantastic) but what I find hilarious is that at SciShow we posted this video a few weeks ago about animal swarms (including murmurations) with the most tongue-in-cheek Attention Economy title I think we've ever done youtu.be/9WeYlTmqViQ?...

every computer I've owned in the past 10 years: i'm gonna have my headphone jack... on the left every wired-option headphones i've owned in the past 10 years: i'm gonna have my aux in... on the right must i have a cord crossing the front of my body at all times? must i suffer?

Monday: Which Sunscreen Tastes the Best? Tuesday: Behind the Scenes of the Hit Movie Franchise, Avatar Wednesday: These Three People Owe Me Money Thursday: Top Snorkeling Locations 2026

this jazz song from the 1960s sounds like video game boss music. it's giving yoko shimomura's kingdom hearts stuff. it's giving toby fox. and i know it says more about those composers than it does the jazz piece but that doesn't mean it's not a cool connection www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUba...

dr stone is pro-science propaganda (affectionate)

never underestimate the healing power of Seeing a Cool Bird

LeapFrog Unveils LeapPad for Adults: ‘Media Literacy Edition’ ggtribune.com/2026/05/19/l...

Despite being a glorified tech demo you can beat in 4 hours, Fragmentary Passage is unironically the best game in the series

I think it's time the left start getting angrily political about routine stuff in TV shows and movies. "It's an *outrage* that Dutton Ranch doesn't have solar panels!" "They cast a man to play Jack Reacher?!?! What?!" "None of the Fast and Furious cars are EVs? NONE? I thought this was America!"

Hello if you are reading this please respond with your favorite (or any) fictional science communicators you can think of. trying to come up with a big list for reasons... Ms. Frizzle, Captain Planet, Smokey the Bear, Senku Ishigami... they don't have to be animated those are just my first 4

monday: papers that break the most traffic laws tuesday: best units tier list wendesday: why slicing > dicing thursday: we sent all the scishow hosts to antarctica to see who survives the longest (me)

saw this follow and was very disappointed when i realized they were not talking about the aquatic mammal : (

This past winter Missoula got less than HALF the amount of snowfall compared to average. Fire season is going to be a nightmare this year. [yells into the void: almost like the climate is changing or something!!]

Let's radically accept our flaws! Let's be grateful for the wisdom imparted to us from difficulties! It's 100% OKAY to be a HUMAN. It's impossible for your worth to be determined by cold machines and corrupted entities! The world needs you to show how diverse joy can look! Culture is waiting!

more fish requests! request fish by tipping $15 ($10 if it's native to arkansas) over here: ko-fi.com/odvunir [ #art ]

Slightly Increase a band Vampire Week

I’m not going to post a screenshot so I don’t doxx myself but in this one spot google maps regularly wants me to jaywalk across 5 lanes of traffic and I really want to know why it thinks that’s a a viable option 😭

My parents, who live in the Palm Beach area, once said to me that they don't think ICE is an issue in Florida because they don't see them. I had to explain that's because police and sheriffs do their work for them. ICE loves these 287(g) partnerships because they make their abuses less visible.

The Fallout fandom has the hardest time separating Watsonian from Doyalist analysis out of any fandom I've ever been in "Why does X happen?" "wEll, BeThESdA-" "Why does X happen IN UNIVERSE."

Just came across the term “sovereign ai” for the first time. Am I correct in clocking that it was meant to be a term so that the developing world doesn’t get AI colonized, but it’s being corporate captured into “companies should run their own ai off their own hardware”?

ooh! ooh! I've got one of these

you don't have to like wil stancil or agree with his theory of politics to examine the evidence and conclude the tiktok conspiracy theory about him that's being circulated wider than just bluesky is insane

I'm not in a position to make a judgement about this but it feels like using "AI psychosis" to mean "sometimes benignly talks about the bot as if it actually feels things" is not a great appropriation of the term psychosis.

I'm selling a complete-in-box copy of #Pokemon Ranger, game fully beaten and ready to transfer over a #Manaphy egg! I'd much rather this go to a content creator than a reseller (for like #shinyhunting or something), so if you're interested hmu and I'll give you a discount in exchange for a shoutout

keep seeing a google AI ad that is like "you can trust getting point-blank information from our AI because we show you the cited sources : )" do you ever click through to those sources? i've had it link to & highlight things that had nothing to do with its answer, or completely contradict it

Pluto shit makes me want to scream

A job I’ve never thought about before until I saw a truck at the airport today is the person who pumps the lavatory waste off the plane In the very small chance someone with that job is reading this: thank you I appreciate you

in all manners except physical, this is me

something something emotional support ballroom

Age! Of! Fishes!

When The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes came out in 2020 I was like "Can't believe Suzanne Collins wants a nostalgia payday." Finally read it this year. I was WRONG. SHE HAD MORE THINGS TO SAY Things said include "You WILL examine your complacency in facism" while holding her audience at gunpoint

hey, wait a minute

A) This dog is like 40% of the reason Frasier is one of my favorite shows, more sitcoms need pets B) I didn't know this was THE SAME DOG, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Car rental companies: we're getting rid of our EV fleet... no one rents them... 😔 me: WHY DO YOU WE TO RETURN THEM WITH A FULL BATTERY? LOGISTICALLY IT MAKES NO SENSE FOR THE CUSTOMER! THEY LITERALLY SIT IN YOUR PARKING LOT, CHARGE THEM THERE! Car rental companies: it can't be helped... 😔

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

Something I *will* essay about is that every discussion with differing opinions have become life or death online. I feel bad when someone disagrees with me and feels the need to apologize because we have built a culture of online thought homogeny where any disagreement has been viewed as betrayal.

happy #earthday, i made a video about a cringey made for TV special from 1990 that features questionable science/environmental communication and way too many celebrity cameos youtu.be/-yaalCH_Q4Q

yelling at my computer "YOU'VE DONE THIS BEFORE" as it struggles to receive a 10GB Airdrop

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Are there any electrical engineering types in my circle comfortable doing some math to estimate how much electricity would be wasted by leaving a fridge door open for 10 minutes (in 1990)?

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. Here's how it works. https://youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD5Y90r

Do people have examples of things they would consider “slop” that are specifically Not Primarily AI-Generated? My example: Cable News (not all of it but certainly a Lot of it)

one of the biggest technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with crypto, AI, metaverse or any of the things the media relentlessly hypes

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

The next Deep Dive comes out this Thursday with a very special guest host Maya Higa! Watch at youtube.com/scishow

My latest for @sciam.bsky.social is all about the real biology, ecology, and climate science that is used to create the world of Pokémon, and how scientists use it to teach science in the real world. This is just about the most fun I’ve ever had interviewing anyone, and I hope you enjoy! 🧪🌎