Lol this spider decided to abseil down from my ceiling at the same time as Alex Honnold

SOS!! Share far and wide! The US Patent Office is working to make bad patents untouchable and that’s a problem for open source hardware! Read through EFF statement and get your comments in ASAP to help prevent this www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

I think the road to the current era of AI slop began when people started referring to any and all online media as "content"

China just reported a record annual trade surplus, of $1.2tn, despite President Donald Trump’s trade war. www.ft.com/content/f686...

For a good cross reference, notice how raising tariffs on China didn't hurt China – it just reduced American influence and made the American people pay higher taxes for goods bsky.app/profile/cram...

What's tangentially interesting to me about this is that amongst men, it's _not_ the seed-sowing pronatalists who act like they actually like children. Maybe it's got something to do with regarding women and children as fellow people, not incubators and clones.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

He's mad she won the Nobel Peace Prize and he didn't. That's it. That's what it's all about. Best part is she idiotically and sycophantically dedicated her prize to him and he still won't back her and prefers to publicly denigrate on a day like today.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Just yesterday, IOC president Kirsty Coventry said that Russian athletes can't compete under their flag in next month's Winter Olympics because their country invaded another country. Sure will be interesting to see how these same guidelines will be applied in 2028

There’s always a tweet.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Happy new year to all NIH'ers, whether fellows, contractors, or FTEs... WE'RE STILL HERE! "Agi idup, agi ngelaban" #nih

A friend is going overseas for grad school but unfortunately her mum only has capacity to care for 1 of her cats so she's looking to rehome the younger one. Anybody in KL interested in a young female cat? Great personality, very playful www.instagram.com/p/DS8zqM3ksu...

I'm reviewing abstracts for an upcoming scientific conference, helping the planning team to select which attendees get a chance to present their work. Some are amazingly good. Some suggest that the applicant has not ever been taught how to write an abstract. Here are some basic tips: 🧪

And because St. Louis took strict, COVID-like measures, it weathered the 1918 epidemic amazingly well. medicine.washu.edu/news/your-co...

Mayors in major cities here knew it existed before we sent troops abroad and we ended up having 1 in 5 households experiencing death or major illness in cities like Philadelphia bc of war bonds parades. John Barry’s The Great Influenza goes into detail. Highly recommended read!

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

I’m also concerned about crime among the wealthy. They’re doing an awful lot of crime, often quite openly, and getting away with it.

How about they just try you know helping the less wealthy and maybe there would be less crime

Tolkien is cooked. All new startups are Discworld, now.

Again,

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

They see it as a tragic tale of a brilliant( powerful leader who almost united Middle Earth until a small breach in his security let some weak little losers usurp him.

I, too, am worried about crime committed by the most wealthy

Just when you thought obnoxious techbros stealing names from Tolkien couldn't get any worse...

I do think it was a stock phrase- Random examples, but here it is in a 1928 translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, and in a 1611 book, 'The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans.'

Thanks to Jim Moylan, who pulled a borrowed car into a filling station on the wrong side on a rainy day & vowed to protect the rest of us from that annoying fate. What are some of your favorite inventions that make life just a smidge better?

And they took the family groceries to boot. I keep hoping that each & every person who is participating as ICE officers has their identity revealed. May their families be embarrassed & ashamed of their actions. May their children be horrified to have a parent who willingly did this. #FuckIce

El problema es que no se puede establecer un perfil porque cada caso es distinto. Hombres de derechas, hombres de izquierdas, hombres futbolistas, hombres productores, hombres cómicos, hombres actores, hombres sacerdotes, hombres doctores, hombres entrenadores... Si tan solo hubiera algo en común

Immigrants in the UK are being massively scapegoated for sex crimes right now after one was accidentally released from prison. Like, people were trying to set hotels on fire. There's a whole massive racist flag campaign. Knowing this was going to be a big story, it seems they've done this to try

Germany had a whole documentary about a telegram group chat of like 70k men all drugging and raping their wives. We got a follow up documentary this year where the journalists asked the police if they did anything with the evidence they were provided. Nothing. Not a single thing.

Gisèle Pelicot was just the tip of the iceberg.

House arrest request also denied by the KL High Court. No caramel macchiatos for kleptocrats and murderers. www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysi... #1mdb #najibrazak

It's not too late to get your flu shot. Flu circulates year round but more intensely during flu season. For N. hemisphere: Onset: October–November Peak: December–February (most often January) Decline: March Tail end: April–May (occasionally later) This is why we give shots until the end of February

JUSTICE "15 years in prison and a fine of RM11.4 billion, in default 40 years’ imprisonment, after he was found guilty of 25 charges of money laundering and abuse of power, involving RM2.3 billion of [1MDB] funds." #1MDB #NajibRazak #Malaysia www.malaymail.com/news/malaysi...

Steve is trying to work off the excess Christmas calories...

If you ordered a really cute two-piece swimsuit based on a verbal recommendation, but when it arrives it's ugly, that's "cakap tak serupa bikini" #peribahasa #bilingualpuns

Maomao catching Lihua's maid still using the lead white makeup on her and dumping it all over the dumbass' head is what I imagine lab safety officers fantasize about doing to repeat offenders #ApothecaryDiaries

Merry Christmas, here's a non-Lord of the Rings usage of "fell beast" by a Victorian paleontologist via @tetzoo.bsky.social Wondering if this was a stock phrase around Tolkien's era. If you ever got pranked by an Australian about "dropbears" they're real, just very extinct #prehistoricplaneticeage

JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections epidemiologically linked to Pizza Pops: 20 cases with four hospitalizations across five provinces in Canada https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=be602184-fe5e-4842-bb04-bd738a544d46&eventid=9b758861-a245-4f92-bed9-373650dc6ec3&utm_source=bluesky

That's a hell of a lot of coffee

I don't like the sound of this at all: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Apparently Dustin from #StrangerThings went to university in South Africa mybroadband.co.za/news/securit...

Neglected tropical diseases, countryball edition