Hello Bay Area drummers, Do you want to play in an 80s band? Are you excited about the prospect of playing Wham and Van Halen in the same set? Are you available to practice on Thursday nights in Oakland? Are you a nice person? If you said yes to these questions, hit me up in the ol' DMs

James Bond the Intern: Visibly Shaken and Thoroughly Stirred

snakes are actually mostly body very little tail (they got ribs the whole way down, butthole at the end). eels by contrast are mostly tail very little body (no ribs, butthole up front)

To me it’ll always be the Jamie Tartt vowel

Venus and Serena, or as they're collectively known, the Tennisy Williams

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

Genuinely blows my mind, the concept of a library. Like you get to read books and texts from decades and decades ago till now. For free. Amazing. 📖

Finally, my calling is here!

My brother-in-law has just provided one of the great holiday moments. A taverna on a tiny Greek island sent him a what3words location for the nearby parking because the streets are too narrow for cars. 1/3

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horsatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy!”

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

Exit light Enter night Take my hand Morocco beat the Netherlands

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

Philosophy job (12 months fixed term).

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

I know I’m a broken record but to see universities abandon critical thinking and completely chuck out their own policies around sustainability, research ethics, academic integrity, etc in the pursuit of shiny new tech has been quite something

Mel Brooks' 100th birthday has been going on for about four days according to posts on here. And you know what? Good for him!

One of my favorite chapters was on Joan Robinson, a fellow SPGS alumna. I use her quote to begin my enviro-econ class: "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

TIL that the first guy Diego Maradona went to and celebrated with after the Hand of God goal was the kit man at Napoli whose other more important job was peeing for Maradona whenever there was a drug test

This thread is amazing!!

“Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles.” Evergreen.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

Today I was discussing Executive Dysfunction with some folks, and how in our household we call it "The Sits" I decided to make an info poster. It's based on my personal experience with it. Yes, the person is me 😆 #neurodivergent #memes #executivedysfunction

me: should i chronicle history or document current events? funk soul brother: write about now

It's been a hecking couple of days for Irish cricket!!

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

does anybody, like, want these? i'm too lazy to ebay them and just want to get them to someone who wants them; i don't really have room & prefer my other tea things you'd only need to cover shipping

Dear Dubliners , you happen to be on the 16 today and see this little fella please pick him up. My friend did try contacting @dublinbusnews.bsky.social but its a Saturday and its early.

It's so hot in Austria that there are guys wandering around in sandals without socks.

The NHS is due to tackle autism assessment waiting lists by outsourcing some of the backlog to Becky and Olivia from Year Seven, it has been announced.

The grauniad has gone peak posh. “What do you call this in your language?”, seriously? Was it that hard to just describe the damn thing using a few more words perhaps, instead of doing the Englishman-abroad kind of thing of just repeating it at perplexed faces?

It's God's cruel joke that big kitties act pretty much the same as small kitties but can kill you

Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

Remember folks, if buying isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft.

LEAVE HER ALONE

Mel Brooks is alive! The automatic chill I got from seeing a black and white picture of him.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good fortune is in want of a coven.

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

banger today from Avery Steigerwald 🔥 https://www.havehashad.com/flrwx

My version of this for how fast airplane technology developed? Orville Wright flew both the Wright Flyer and a Lockheed Constellation

Naveed Azkhat, 39, felt himself becoming crushed under the weight of an unseen authority that wants him to jump through nonsensical hoops just to exist, but on closer examination realised he had just been asked to fill out some forms for the assessors.

But I don’t much like bubble gum either! 😭

Artist: @PSYCHOSUZANNE on Insta

Some people I actually want to replace by LLMs. At least there the verbal diarrhoea is expected. Imagine saying this to someone who is as well regarded a scientist in the field as Prof. Bender, and whose name you can see and look up, even if you don’t offhand know the origins of the phrase!

The whole planet is paying the cost of Americans’ ridiculously energy intensive 20 and 21st century consumerist lifestyles, and you’ve come to bleat at us about how we could just buy another domestic appliance about it?

Do you read romance or “spicy” books? Could you spare a few minutes, please, to help our excellent student Zoe Coulahan with her dissertation survey? (Feel free to share, too — thanks!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Uh… you mean the tasks it’s actually known to be relatively successful at??