No way did that man write the phrase “various points of past contention”

With everything that’s going on these days, is it pointless to try to love yourself? My stupid therapist says no

5calls has updated with a script and they make it very easy to get the contact info for your local reps. 5calls.org/issue/stop-i...

press A to activate emergency slug noodle youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

I just called my reps too, using @5calls.org. Can’t do nothing today ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

"No matter how you feel about ketamine, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms"

No matter how you feel about AI, surely we can all agree that everybody should be forced to use it all the time

If you want revenge, then dig two graves. the first one is a practice grave to get a feel for it and the second is your main or "show grave"

every NYT headline is like…They expected pee: poo greeted them instead

It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be

Someone sent me this.

once as a kid i tried to pull an April Fools prank on my mom by dumping a bunch of salt in her coffee when she wasn’t looking. she kept drinking it and didn’t react at all. it was then that i understood what adulthood is

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

We’re just innocent men

I guess you weren’t ready to hear that

Gosford Park (2001) Gosford World (2015) Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

acab includes the bow street runners

I think the passage here where the author talks about her behavior literally changes behind the wheel resonates with a lot of people

I enjoy good writing on almost any topic, and this is exceptionally good writing on a fascinating subject. And it’s good news to boot!

I just think this is neat

There are so many no-good, terribly bad, wrong, AI-generated anatomical diagrams out there. Here's one I found on the website of an actual clinic in Minnesota. Yikes. Be careful out there.

YESSSSS

Bride of Frankenstein (1935). It'd been a minute since I'd seen this, and it soured me on The Bride! (2026) that much more. Because it turns out there is a raucous, queer, packed with gender riff on Frankenstein, and James Whale made it in 1935.

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

rock and roll photos

Ok that's too fast

"please consider options for students to participate remotely like we did in the early pandemic because we don't know if secret police are operating on campus and students may be scared to come in" is a hell of an email to have land in your inbox

Stoat hopping across snow: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Pilot on my flight: “Air travel is not fun right now. Please be nice to each other. I don’t want to be on CNN. Let’s just go home.”

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

Hasui Kawase (Japanese, 1883–1957) "Rain at Ushibori", 1929. Woodblock Print, 42.9 × 29.8 cm. Birmingham Museum of Art, United Kingdom. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I’m gonna show this one in my grad-level class on giving scientific talks, to teach Randy Olson’s And-But-Therefore (ABT) storytelling structure lol

I use Instagram for *literally* one purpose only: listening to this dad’s synthpop songs based on fairy tales his 3yo daughter tells him

if you want me to believe in them so fucking badly, YOU convince ME. it hardly inspires confidence that the pitch so far has been ‘you are obligated to use a bunch of shitty and inexplicably mandatory features designed for dumb assholes or else sam altman loses money’

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Transposons are both code bloat and coconuts but you can never tell which until it’s too late A feature and a bug and also idk some extra stuff that doesn’t seem to be doing anything wrong just now

Regularly I am amazed at the accuracy of the advice "If you feel like you hate everyone, eat. If you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. If you feel like you hate yourself, shower. If you feel like everyone hates everyone, go outside."

i quite enjoy the little scenarios in my head that i don't bother you with

I worry about this with writing. It’s become clear to me that students don’t understand that writing is a way to build and discipline thinking, which is very important. They’re right to be confused, because we (I) haven’t done a good job explaining. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Most of what a university can offer that students can’t get elsewhere is stuff they don’t know to “demand” ahead of time precisely *because* it isn’t available elsewhere. Judging the value of a university program by how much it appeals to people who’ve by definition not encountered it is backwards.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

It's a curious point that focus on 'symbolism' is always grafted on long after the fact. People will insist that Easter eggs and the Easter bunny are 'pagan symbols of rebirth' when there is no evidence of anyone pagan actually using them in this way.

The world does not need more undergraduate history essays but does need more people who can write good ones.

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

SPOILER but also this is very important information about the Project Hail Mary movie. Buying tickets now

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere. My shortlisted entry for the Cheltenham Illustration awards. Inspired by the changing landscape, childhood (and adulthood) fantasy, reflections, exploration of strange places... #art #illustration