Happy Polar Pride Day! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Today is a special day in the international polar science and operations community when we celebrate the contributions of our LGBTQ+ colleagues. Polar science is the ultimate teamwork environment - and making sure everyone feels included and welcome is crucial.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

I generally want to see a Piastri win but Max just tu-du-du-du-ing a fifth WDC at this point would be far more entertaining.

The blackjack date picker is incredible

Any cafe that offers an iced americano as a substitute for cold brew should lose their food handling permit and I’ll die on this hill

Have you *ever*, in all the thousands of shootings in America, heard a word about a friend, roommate or partner of a shooter?

I got an entire grandstand to chant for Hadjar on his cooldown lap hell yeah #f1 #zandvoort

new phonetics just dropped

Kinda wild we're all just pretending that the IAU's definition of a planet doesn't mean Mercury and Venus are Small Solar System bodies by definition.

Sometimes I need to just go stare at the water for several minutes/hours, so here’s some of that, if you need it. East River, August 2025 🌊

My power company sends me an update on my power usage relative to my neighbours, but since I’m in Amsterdam I really feel there should be an option to compare my power consumption with my neighbours who also own synthesizers.

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minimalism is a scam invented by big small to sell more less

Dear Those Trying To Separate JK From Wizard Books:

I looked up the academic background of the host of PBS Otherwords and apparently we were in the same tiny graduating class at UT Linguistics. Tiny planet.

It's fake, for those who haven't looked into it too closely. Lots of AI morphing in the background near the coastline and foreground where the terrain meets and the waves push up. Fair play to this one being trickier to spot, it looks more trained on real tsunamis, but people: look for morphing.

Excellent & somewhat unexpected #HungarianGP pole from Charles Leclerc just now, his 27th in #F1, lifting him above Mika Häkkinen in the all-time list. #AnorakFact

Since people are still doing it and I'm going to have time to kill until I figure out what to for the rest of a chaotic week that promises to have lots of little pockets of down time: 1 like = 1 opinion about subducting slabs.

If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.

"I spun" bro channelled Kimi Raikkonen with that one

People. Don't do this. Shungite contains heavy metals, unless you like chugging them it's just simply a bad idea.

Linguists should have a serious talk about the concept of mono- and polygenesis and philosophically pick a lane. Don’t become an Altaicist, but at least recognize that we’re already doing this with polygenesis by treating unknowables as impossible just because they’re unknowable.

I’ve always firmly believed everyone should just be required to double major in one crunchy thing and one non crunchy thing. The tech landscape would be less of an ethical wasteland with more arts education. And lots of arts degrees aren’t super valuable skill sets compared to how they’re advertised

Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day theonion.com/geologi...

Normal person in MRI: anxious, claustrophobic, impatient Me in MRI: “Sick, a bed and good techno” *falls asleep*

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social my fiancée is doing her first deep dive (in Thailand) tomorrow and she’s afraid of a shark coming up behind her. Any shark science words of wisdom? I’ve tried telling her they’re sea puppies but no dice :(

Absolutely yeeted a puffer fish today, so that’s my day

losing to Nico Hulkenberg must be a truly saubering experience for some of these teams

NICO HUUUUUUUULKENBERG

Just know if you're walking around Centraal and your American boomer ass starts making "me love you long time" jokes about my Asian neighbours I will absolutely loudly call your ass out for all to hear.

Long shot, but is there anyone on here who studies (or knows someone who does) historical animal populations in cities? Particularly non-domesticated animals (rats, raccoons, squirrels, etc.) in the 19th and 20th centuries. Would love to interview you for a book chapter I'm working on! 🧪 #histsci

Found an ancient photo of some of my 101L students learning not to lick the lead poisoning thing

I feel like a whoooole lotta folks are about to learn about New York’s Ultra-Orthodox voting blocs when it comes to statistical outliers in election data.

Amsterdam partied like a morgue full of fresh Botox patients who accidentally got a full-body dose but NIN brought the noise

I just had a conversation start in English, switch to Tok Pisin, then Hawaiian, and finally Japanese when someone else joined. This is the single most linguist exchange I’ve ever had.

25 hours of Please Let Jamie Chadwick Kick Ass

You know, if the Bene Gesserit were real and cared about winning a WDC we’d all need to be worried about Lily Verstappen turning herself into a giant worm and overthrowing the FIA

The 1010 Bento has me GASing extremely hard, but I’ve got to offload a buuunch of synths to reach that price-point :|

My entire WestJet flight from Halifax is complaining about the cost of airfare in Canada, en masse.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Wait when did bsky get this big?

Jesus Christ man you are the president.

Mad props to the wedding photographer who just declined our wedding after sending us a contract because I objected to a line that essentially said “if I don’t show up you get a 10% refund”

Thanks to "Shop Bob's Unclaimed Freight" for having a huge-ass Eucrite for cheap. I guess that's a bit niche?

shoutouts guitar vader btw

I just managed to find an archive of old Guitar Vader songs! Now to introduce my fiancée to mid-2000s Japanese indie rock.

Crystal Person but for fossilized feces instead "Coprolite really has such cleaning tendencies and vibrations! I keep a big pile of it surrounding my shungite obelisk in the living room!"

Sure looks like a lot of Americans are about to learn the American-[nationality] trick of “viewing American citizenship as more of an embarrassment” since it looks like the new Pope views himself as more Peruvian.

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.