Give the kid the illusion of choice. Ask - do you want to go to restaurant 1 or 2 or 3? They say 3, when all three are fine with you.

ah yes; the real problem with Bluesky is [checks notes] not wanting to interact with transphobes, Nazis, white nationalists, bigots, anti-vaxxers, racists, incels, misogynists, and conspiracy theorists

Also I think books are great because they are so accessible. You can be a reader without a ton of money with a library card.

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Invent a band: Noisegarden

Drop someone RUNNING 👟 🖤 🏃‍♀️

Curling - from 2010. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling...

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

the US university system is one of the great wonders of the modern world and it should be celebrated rather than attacked at every turn by dipshits who don’t know what we have

Told my wife the Avs would tie it up when it was 3-1 and we will have 4 more OT periods to make this last another 3 hours and 10 minutes to Midnight MDT.

When Bluesky doesn't like my posts

bluesky isn't dying. we're doing library crimes

Good Cop: i’ll let you off with a warning Math Cop: it was a minor in-fraction

Thought of another one -- way too obvious. Make a band out of two others: Korn Hole

Make a band out of two others: Red Hot Chili Cranberries

Make a band out of two others: No Rage Against the Doubt

Make a band out of two others: Smashing Blind Melons

So the plan all along was to drain the swamp so they can paint it to look like a mini-golf hazard

Slightly increase a band Pearl Preserves

Slightly increase a band Bowling for Lasagna

Slightly increase a band Jimmy eat Neptune

Slightly increase a band They probably are giants

The real gen-x song from the 70s. 588-2300 Empire share.google/Xt9s86gzWLDv...

I present: a tiny rant news.chanda.science/archive/who-...

Once a bad lamp, always a bad lamp.

That Ford driver lost her "Focus".

I will try to read this later today. Thanks @kathleen-gregory.bsky.social.

📢 Excited to share a new preprint by our colleague Kathleen Gregory and Dorothea Strecker from Humboldt University of Berlin on the financial sustainability of open data infrastructures. 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2604.27580

🎵 “It’s been” 🎵

No one asked for this — but “no one asked for this” is one of my niche interests, so now I am going to annoy two platforms simultaneously. (I learned this from PBS) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I just hope they had fun out there.

The Derby was different in the Jurassic.

Good Cop: the husband seems nervous Math Cop: he's our prime suspect

consulting my Book of Grudges before passing final judgement on a reply guy

Trump Fires Board Members of Group That Oversees U.S. Science Funding. Gift link: nyti.ms/4u7I3kr

Don't forget to strap down your wood chips everyone

Nice thread on our crazy educational system.

Damnit. Demon Guard (tm) is out of stock.

We were told dinosaurs have feathers.

Thank you for your attention to this beer batter.

Ketchup belongs on hotdogs.

Though his mind is not for rent Don’t put him down as arrogant His reserve, a quiet defense Riding out the day’s events The river Peart 7:19

It's a trap! Ackbar 13:7

How I arrived on BlueSky:

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

As delightful as it is to find a coterie of woodland animals in your kitchen making breakfast, the chipmunk is in over his head with flipping pancakes

I thought he was the antichrist in 2016 get on my level

"you have to pivot to start using AI for everything!" no, I don't, I will not be doing that

Erica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"