Just read something which seemed to be saying that most serious opinion had converged on our being alone in the universe as the correct answer to the Fermi paradox, and just to confirm, that isn't even close to true, right?

Weird thought: do you all think that the grammar of the language that someone speaks might alter their degree of vulnerability to propaganda?

The phrase "there's just you, forever, except with fewer working joints" has now haunted me for a full calendar year

the next mentoring day has been canceled

People are all like "Artemis II lost contact with earth for forty minutes because the moon was in the way" but that's clearly false because you can ring up someone in Australia from the UK even though the earth is in the way. What are they not telling us

One of the very best from Clickhole

a Chilean stove-top toaster... I realized only recently that this extremely practical gadget isn't widely available elsewhere

Well, spring is here

If a couple breaks up and then is seemingly gonna get back together, a fun phrase to use is ‘the once and future boyfriend’

I am, to put it lightly, not a big fan of AI, but as someone who knows some things about computers I feel like "just blame AI for everything" even in cases when it's obviously incorrect is counterproductive accurate critiques are better critiques

I expect there are lots people who would be profoundly emotionally affected by the things astronauts see and lots of people who wouldn't and if astronauts almost all have the former reaction that's just a selection effect

happy easter

Incredible

It's a commonly held misconception that the far side of the moon is "dark." In reality, it's just called that as a result of a failed sponsorship tie in with Universal Pictures' "dark universe" in 2017.

Portes is right. I have definitely come to see the value in political education, because "emotionally cathartic slopulism" has already taken over the Right and I think it could easily do so on the left too if we don't hold the line on, like, actually insisting that it matters you get things right.

As the Tour of Flanders is on Easter this year they should replace the cobbles with Easter eggs, and then instead of finishing the race covered in mud like they often do in Roubaix they'd finish the race covered in chocolate

My son is so disappointed by my lack of egg hiding imagination that he's now gone around to hide the eggs himself...

side-eyeing the other meek bitches because i suspect they're inheriting bigger and better bits of the earth than i am

Hard for me to knock this style of art criticism when my awesome tune "Party All Night" scores a solid 15/15 is.gd/WAvUw3

the Artemis II crew just posted a new photo. what the fuck

they did this for decades, on multiple continents, even after public health concerns were raised.

Going to start claiming all my language peeves are AI tells

Guy who refuses to call it plumbing unless it’s made out of lead

I just remembered this tweet, and I didn't post one when everyone was posting funny tweets

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

My daughter asked me, "Where does poo come from?" I was a little uncomfortable but gave her an honest explanation. She looked totally shocked, stared at me in stunned silence for a few seconds then said... "And Tigger?"

I imagine it's more along the lines of "That is such as remarkably stupid plan that will get thousands of soldiers killed"

Remco doing the Tour of Flanders! Will he win? I think he might! #RBH www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxsU...

"a myriad myriads of gecs" ––archimedes, the gec reckoner

i still keep this on my phone

"[The war] thatd be terrible for all Pakistanis, Indians and fans of mr Bean" is my load bearing tweet

i will also cheat with a tumblr one because this one lives in my head rent free

My favorite

i don’t mind seeing everyone’s selections for this prompt but the fact that the examples are a tweet i emphatically do not find funny and a tweet i don’t really remember respectively are sort of galling to me. and anyway the best tweet is this one

This is up there without question

sin dudarlo

This post from the early weeks of Lockdown is unlikely to be bettered.

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A favorite that I haven’t seen in this (fantastic) thread yet…

The New Yorker has digitized all their back issues, which is great, but I am dying from the thoroughly cringe AI summaries they've put on my articles

Tapping the sign

support to Sophie-Grace, it's awful to get thrust into the spotlight because some shitty bigot decides to use you as a stalking horse for his attempt to leverage his bigotry against you to become a martyr

I suppose this is true, but I don't think we should treat it as a fait accompli that Republican primary voters will want this in their other presidents. It's a broad church and when their beloved leader has left the stage this may be one of his doctrines that gets renounced

it’s without a doubt this heater from @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social