If anyone has questions about Mastodon and the fediverse, I am happy to answer.

11) I know I'm in the rare minority that's still masking because I take things like Covid seriously, but even outside of a pandemic, I have no idea what kind of person would willingly go through an airport unmasked. It's... you're crammed in with thousands of people, from everywhere. Breathing.

9) People are, all things considered, pretty good. I see twenty thousand people a day, and maybe two of them are assholes. Even on a stressful day, even in an unfamiliar environment, even hungry and tired and on a timer. That's a *much* better ratio than folks realize.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your belief that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder will fix you is a valid one. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worthy of your friendship.

See, now is the time to cancel your paramount+ subscription (if you haven’t already)

After spending a decent number of days offline and coming back here for a brief moment, I gotta say...this place is a doom machine. I can feel the walls closing in on my own sense of self and place the longer I scroll through this shit. Y'all get offline and reconnect with yourself and community

When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)

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#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...

These HOT PDFs in YOUR area are just DYING to chat with YOU!

Fun fact: CVS will do MMR boosters as a walk-in. You don't need a prescription. www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and...

my photo roll is roughly 60% cats, 20% bad pics of birds, 20% moss & lichen, and 10% bugs I haven’t yet posted on iNat. So when I searched for “birds” and it found only a few I wasn’t sure if I should blame my photography skulls or the iphone image classifier. But maybe I should blame evolution.

Back in 2000, scientists put a lamprey eel brain in a jar full of saline, plugged it into a light sensor, and put it on a skateboard. The lamprey eel brain in a jar would drive the skateboard toward the light. www.sciencenews.org/article/lamp...

This is disinformation. The quotes are decontextualized references to a work visa program that is entirely separate from the concentration camp. It's being shared by a lot of accounts. Avoid them.

I'm probably never going to post or repost. I recognize this makes me look like a fake account. There's not much I can do about that. If it helps, here's my two favorite pictures my wildlife camera ever took: