“On irony poisoning and the importance of being earnest.” www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...

one thing a whole lot of us struggle with at times is feeling isolated and depressed and like not enough people care about what’s going on and I really cannot emphasize enough that going to a no kings protest helps this feeling a lot there are so! many! people! who hate all of this shit

Also we made a really intense website with a LOT of information on it for folks, including a reading list, a huge timeline of events, an some additional explainers. www.tested-podcast.com/learn/ www.tested-podcast.com/timeline/

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

Okay, challenge accepted lol. The City in the Middle of the Night- Charlie Jame Anders Light from Uncommon Stars- Ryka Aoki Confluence: A Person-shaped Story- Nyri Bakkalian The Iron Below Remembers- Sharamg Biswas Water Into Wine- Joyce Chng The Mistress of Lies- KM Enright

Do I feel lucky enough to try to slip through the absolutely cavernous loophole I've just spotted in these application instructions

Nithya's housing platform is so good. Hard to overstate how rare it is to get the exact right person up for the exact right job at the exact right time. She actually knows what she's doing, which is something that we haven't experienced in the mayor's office in AWHILE

Holy shit

This is possibly the worst thing I have ever seen

I can’t decide whether (1) this is the most Seattle-brained thing I’ve read all month or (2) it makes sense or also (3) it makes sense because I’m getting to be Seattle-brained

If LoTR: SHADOW OF THE PAST ever does come out, gay Halloween parties are gonna be lit that year. Bear Bombadils! Drag Goldberrys! Old Man Willows and their stepsons! (Yellow)boots the house (barrow-)down!

Cybertrucks have a polar opposite and this is it.

speaking from minnesota, weird to see anyone asking about where are student protests in the wake of the most effective protest movements of my lifetime, one that included so so so many college students but not as /college/ protests.

Well, I have a new go-to example of how not to title a paper

yall wanna see some PG Wodehouse memes

Parseword #56 ⏱️ 2m6s 💎 Perfect www.parseword.com/daily

Song sparrow, Melospiza melodia, on a gray morning at Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve 🌿 🪶 buff.ly/VuSNs7w

"... the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in the Fellowship that y’all never developed into the first movie back in the day" guys I think? Stephen Colbert is writing a Tom Bombadil movie????

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

Gas prices, welcome to The War on Cars.

look I don't want to count my chickens or downplay the extent to which the right has fascist aspirations. but if the GOP had an unassailable, undetectable election rigging strategy - or the juice to openly do the detectable kind - you do kind of suspect they would've started here

It finally happened to me: I read this whole paper and was like "hell yeah this is great" and then saw I was thanked in the Acknowledgements, which I had forgotten about lollll Faculty-brain is real

Peak bloom, with a view 🌸

RU: Ok but you know something about this is BUGGING me. MICHELLE: ok but are they TRUE bugs Ru!? TRUE bugs?

Just imagined the Drag Race judging panel debating species concepts and ... maybe I need to go to bed earlier tonight

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Claytonia rosea, our Rocky Mountain Spring Beauty, blooming today off the Shadow Canyon South Trail #nativeplants 🌿

tfw you outlast the upstart loser that tried to copy your name

Demand that your senators do not accept any deal that gives ICE and Border Patrol more money to terrorize our communities, or fails to implement serious reforms: indivisible.org/actions/dem-... And then call your representative: indivisible.org/actions/dem-...

🚨 Some Democrats might fully cave in the DHS funding fight and back a new "deal" struck by Trump and GOP senators to fund Border Patrol and some ICE operations — potentially without any reforms. That means we need to flood Democratic phonelines today.

Fantastic news! 🦋🦋 Link to full report in 🧵 www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories...

A relief carving in granite from about 1500 AD, from Hampi, showing what I interpret as early evidence of goat yoga

Good news!

Okay, so if someone is posting screenshot text that they "found on Bluesky" with no attribution or even a timestamp or ANY part of the original post visible, instead of just reposting the original post ... What are they doing that for?

Eastern Bluebird perched & pretty as a picture #birds

Unfriendly reminder to anyone considering this compromise that Alex Pretti was killed by CBP. A continued blank check for their reign of terror is just as unacceptable as ICE $$$.

okay i'm sorry but this is so funny

Forget describing new species, how often are we adding new genera, families, orders, and classes? New higher-order clades are often "hidden" as symbionts or in less-accessible habitats

wow the dream of making everyone a podcaster is still alive www.404media.co/this-company...

Proposals are due May 18 for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and $3500 for 3rd years and above. Evaluation criteria and sample proposals available online: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

HUNGRY OPINIONATED BABY

Whatever else you might say about it this is, entomologically speaking, the very definition of "family resemblance"

Okay I think it's far enough past the original broadcast to say, no it's not surprising but it still drives me nuts that Nini ended up in the bottom because Michelle doesn't know what a monarch butterfly caterpillar looks like

Parseword #54 ⚡️ 47s 💎 Perfect www.parseword.com/daily

Listen, as long as you mark it “captive/cultivated”

presented without comment www.inaturalist.org/observations...

so many shitty institutions abandoning so many of us. keep a list, friends. remember all this shit.

Brown-headed Nuthatch. Did you know It is one of the smallest nuthatches in the world, typically reaching just over 4 inches in length and weighing less than an ounce? #birds

I hear you. (Amplifying.)