Newly described Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare to catch a single ant species

Jack Smith has a ton of courage. And he’s also correct here.

The struggle of being the chronically online person in all your relationships: when somebody sends you some breaking news, you are (internally) like, “Yes, I know. Indeed, I’ve reacted, I’ve processed, and I’ve already read about 5000 words on this, as this was 20 minutes ago.”

I don’t need someone to fix me. I need someone to tell me I looked cool after I embarrassed myself

People who are unfamiliar with the UCMJ may not realize that for an active duty major to do this in uniform, the consequence can be court martial and incarceration. All of it is prohibited, but the wearing of the uniform was an intentional choice, and a likely forfeit of both his career and freedom.

And 5-4 on the question of whether the Constitution settles it? (w/ Kavanaugh) What are we even doing here?

The conservative Court just struck down limits on coordinated spending between candidates and political parties — a massive win for Republicans that will fundamentally change how tens of millions of dollars are spent in congressional elections.

Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas dissent. How tf is this not unanimous

The issue is that nonpartisan, independent, and fact-based (good goals for journalism) have been replaced by centrist and equally critical of both parties, neither of which are journalistic principles. So confronted with a radical wing of the GOP, legacy media invents equally radical Dems.

Storied Colors: storiedcolors.com "named colors with documented histories."

Enhancing with CSS Grid Lanes: adactio.com/journal/22613 "Going from a carousel on small screens to a masonry layout on larger screens."

Chili Peppers of the World: Cultivars, Species, and Heat: www.notesfromtheroad.com/desertmexico... "An illustrated guide to chili peppers of the world, organized by Capsicum species and cultivar, with notes on origin, heat, form, domestication, and global food history."

a reminder that watergate was legitimately bad. nixon weaponized presidential power to cover up crimes committed by his subordinates, illegally spying on americans and using agencies like the IRS to harass political opponents.

Remembering my friend Om, as he’s gone. There are many things to say, and so much good work to observe. But the first thing I thought of, on hearing that he’d passed, was that he had chosen to speak up, more than once, to protect the most vulnerable in our communities. … om.co/2026/06/24/1...

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Your regular reminder Republicans in Congress are okay with this.

He sent the national guard to stand watch over his algae pit. Unbelievable.

Looks like we need every Democratic member of Congress to go stick their hands in the Reflecting Pool and get arrested, just to make a point about how ridiculous it all is.

Pro tip: never sign a treaty at Versailles.

Dog Not Sure How To Interpret Crazy Dream Where It Saw Squirrel, Barked At Squirrel https://theonion.com/dog-not-sure-how-to-interpret-crazy-dream-where-it-saw-1842455764/

Yup, this is exactly what I was hoping to see when loading a page from a search... Y'all, we really didn't have to break the web this way.

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

1. The Secretary of Defense is an idiot. 2. Disease has killed more soldiers than any enemy ever did. Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If only there were a shorter way to say "forced sex," like maybe a single word

I wrote a piece during Hegseth’s confirmation about how the multiple allegations of SA against multiple Trump cronies is in fact a feature not a bug within the movement. I don’t think I grappled with how much that pattern is (like history tells us) an intentional act of control.

Roost: roostsocial.app "A messaging app where your message is delivered at the speed it would take your chosen bird to travel in real-time. This reminds me of the fun, early era of social media."

Hrrm... nope, I still can't spell 'rhythm' right on my first try.

Looking forward to White House: Hobo Fights! Airing right after Spin To Win Healthcare and 401K Scratch-offs on the TGIF prime time lineup.

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

All reporters know he’s lying almost all the time. It’s the saying it out loud part that’s hard for so many of them (us.)

I feel like the latest comic from XKCD was crafted to specifically trigger @romanmars.bsky.social... xkcd.com/3250/ It says a lot about @99pi.org that I can't see a flag without thinking about Roman and team. It's always my first podcast recommendation: 99pi.org

Shortcuts Playground: github.com/viticci/shor... "Shortcuts Playground: A Claude Code and Codex plugin for building, validating, signing, and remixing macOS/iOS Shortcuts with natural language."

Learn AI Layer by Layer: learnai.robennals.org?ref=DenseDis... "An interactive, visual guide to understanding AI from first principles."

Rulebook: lucas.io/rulebook/?re... "A Mac app that automatically sorts, renames, converts, moves, copies, archives and tags files in the background."

No matter how well-known Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire" is, it deserves more.

Happy birthday to the column of Trajan, dedicated on May 12, 113 CE. You may not have any paint on you anymore & Pope Sixtus V may have plopped an odd Saint Peter on top of you, but 1,913 years ain’t nothin’. If you have a Trajan’s column pic: quote post it. www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/

The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/big-sur... "Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web."

Deep inside Skywalker Ranch, 1982: George Lucas: “Did that A New Hope tape release ship? The one with C-3PO on top?” Minion: “Sure, boss. Real fuckin’ sexy, just like you asked.” Lucas: “…what”

taken.: sinceyouarrived.world/taken "A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you." This is really well done. I love how they explain each data point and the way they wrote in general.

Here's the status line I use for Claude Code to provide useful information on my current project and session limits. github.com/alexj/oh-my-...

Hovercraft: sandwich.vision/hovercraft "A virtual presentation camera for Mac. Your slides float in the frame next to you, moved by hand. No screen share, no option-tab, no corner thumbnail."

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” ~President John F. Kennedy, 1961. Image: Bettmann via Getty Images.

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

For the life of me I don’t understand saying “false claims” instead of “lies”.

Okay, this is obviously very stupid and dumb and an indication of the decline of American public discourse BUT... The fact that only 33% of Republicans think they could win a fist fight with a SEVENTY NINE YEAR OLD MAN is proof that these people are in a FUCKING CULT.

Making an original Jubilee line door button into a Hue light switch: localghost.dev/blog/making-...

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...