I do feel like 2000% more ink gets spilled by Americans talking about JKR's transphobia and the need to defeat Harry Potter than about actual laws passed by transphobic American Republicans

Begging people to turn off Face ID/Touch ID/other biometrics on their phones (at least as it pertains to unlocking your phone)

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

there's a format of post on here that I really hate where people will write some commentary right here *AND THEN WHAT IS SUPPOSEDLY A BREAKING-NEWS HEADLINE IS FORMATTED LIKE THIS IN THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE POST

Mark Watney in The Martian when he makes condensation to water the potatoes (I am rewatching the Martian)

“If you see dolphins, it’s safe to go in the water because sharks are afraid of dolphins” is pseudoscientific nonsense. Dolphins and sharks are near each other all the time eating small fish close to shore. If you see dolphins feeding there are almost certainly sharks feeding nearby!

You really really really should not be asking AI for point blank information and so you really really really should be ignoring the little google AI blurb at the top or at the very least clicking through to check the text of the actual citation i am begging you

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

128th anniversary today of this rather important story appearing in the Lawrence Daily Journal, Kansas

they literally renamed the entire company after this

"you got any games on your phone?"

Help these people! Also, a great follow list in the replies tbh

i don't know how else to express myself man #neurodivergent

Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before

your vote is rarely the single decisive vote but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be

why did nobody tell me this was happening www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibition/p...

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

this video wasn’t meant to be a “prediction” but like ya’ll, I called it I thought rewilding in Pokopia whilst breaking down the nature/culture binary to attract humans would’ve been like… themes… but after seeing spoilers, it is the Explicit Text of the Work huh

if john james audobon was alive today he would be SO into pokemon you guys

Electric Vehicles xkcd.com/3214/

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Running for Congress on a platform of sneaking into Polymarket HQ and unplugging all their stuff. Overflow crowds at a local Knights of Columbus hall roar with delight as I promise to pour Florida's Natural Grapefruit Juice (with pulp) into the USB-C port of every computer in the damn place.

Our Executive Producer was named the first fellow in the Outrider New Media Accelerator program! We're so excited for the opportunity to work with @outrider.org to tell important stories in nuclear science, coming soon!

I've been incorrectly using just " - " (including the spaces around it) in place of the em dash for about a year now

A message from Brian McGinnis, the firefighter and Marine veteran who was forcibly removed and injured by officers during his anti-war protest at the Capitol

Cannot imagine some random bozo coming into my office while I’m working, taking control of my computer, completely screwing up a video I’m working on, and my response then being “cool man here’s some SciShow merch”

In the last 4 days one of my senators broke a Marine’s arm, the other one announced he wasn’t running minutes before the filing deadline so his hand-picked successor could take his place without a primary and my rep announced he was giving up his seat as well. How’s y’all’s congresspeople doing?

“i decided to help out and deescalate the situation”, posted on twitter with a video, just bought this man’s lawyer a new boat

Is a Senator who interferes with Capitol Police to break the bones of a Marine Corps veteran who's staging a protest subject to arrest for battery, or does that somehow fall under the Senator's constitutional privilege?

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Spin on headlines covering this are abysmal! That was not Timothy’s job, and he Broke The Man’s Arm!!!!!

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

I point to this from a week ago: bsky.app/profile/your...

i love pokemon pokopia. would love to play it someday youtu.be/wrZVL6-q9Jg

They yassafied them

"Sometimes reporters make Trump sound smarter than he is" could not be summed up in a better image. he quite literally Did Not Say That

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Anthropic: Claude now writes 80% of its own code! Claude: You can wear a T-shirt as pants : )

roses are red cherenkov is blue just use a screwdriver what's the worst it could do

People in their 30s will be a new city and say things like “I’m really into public transit”

How do people do so much at conferences [remembers the widely available stimulant most of the country is addicted to that I avoid] oh right

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

Bad news! The administration is revoking the endangerment clause for climate change. Good news! Now I have something to talk about with all of the strangers downstairs #AAASmtg

Oh for fuck sake. How is anyone still falling for this bullshit? You can’t just dig tunnels in Florida. Our unofficial state fish is the sink hole. Anyway. RIP Harry Potter land, swallowed by Elon Musk’s giant unfinished hole in the ground probably.

I needed the fancy cursors

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Excited to work for a nonprofit now! A lot has been said today about how @complexly.org is built on the idea that good information is worth it. I’m so happy I get to present that good information to people in a way that makes them want to experience said information!!!