finished project hail mary, looked at the acknowledgements, and went "I KNEW IT" when i saw two physicists, a chemist, and ZERO BIOLOGISTS in the acknowledgements of a book about alien microbes like, bruh

Samson and Delilah, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1528–30 (flipped), 📸 by Jason Miller

It’s flycatcher season! ID tips: 1) Find elusive flycatcher lurking in the woods. 2) Consult apps, books, internet, passers-by, and/or chosen god for answers. Nope. 3) Quietly approach bird and ethically collect a DNA sample. You’re almost done. 4) Set up your field-case DNA sequencer… 🪶

so excited to go watch the flyers **** taylor hall live tonight

kind of thinking about either buying a good camera+lens for birding or some nice binos

spring migration is truly upon us! two new birds for me today: great crested flycatcher and northern parula. plus some firsts of the year: scarlet tanager, black-throated blue warbler, kingbird, and american redstart what a colorful afternoon, i'm so happy

dudes rock

Chaos Reigns. #IgniteTheOrange

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

Yoru’s attack landed! Uni got compressed…

Applications for the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers are open until March 1! Apply here: alphawritersworkshop.org

miss him fr

This is the greatest thing I've ever seen

also while I'm having opinions, I don't think shane would be an omega. I don't even think he'd be a beta. I think he'd be an extremely polite alpha who showers 4 times a day and has multiple terabytes of "alpha gets bitched!!" porn (which is not a factual option in this universe) on an old laptop

Astoria the Wild Turkey walks the path south of the Carousel in The Battery before fly-up, often accompanied by her human friends. 🦃 ❤️

temperature drops 15 degrees in 6 hours, i have a crying jag about how it's not fair i don't get to be one of those people who has whole days without pain, these things are so related they're practically hailing from the house of habsburgs

The Reluctant Bride, by Auguste Toulmouche, 1866

No I don't want to look through the wire cam I hate the wire cam all my homies hate the wire cam

Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish. . 🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...

#BirdOfTheDay #WinterLight White-throated Sparrow with a snowflake ornament. #snow #birds #nature

writing a treatise on how the way so many authors are scared to make romance novel characters do anything actually bad Is destroying the tension in their novels

i'm writing concussed!shane fic, so if anybody has any personal experiences with concussions i'm interested in what it was like

microdosing having my life together by making bread with an overnight rise step

It’s Wallpaper Wednesday, Charlie Brown! 🎄❄️

The Ten Largest, No. 1, Childhood, by Hilma af Klint, 1907 (rotated), 📸 by @WeversAndrew

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

"It's the power of cats." What does Cam York attribute his strong start to? His new pets, of course.

BOBBY BRINK FILTH. #LetsGoFlyers | @fwwebb

we shouldn't use CO2 exposure as a method to sacrifice rodents for research

Sinnataggen (The Angry Boy), by Gustav Vigeland, 1928, 📸 by @alykhankr.bsky.social

Matvei Michkov shootout goals are still a joy to watch 🤩

Cupid & Psyche, by Benjamin West, 1808, 📸 via @V0LofTheWild

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

What if my body felt good instead of bad, huh? Have we considered that?

Hello, your one friend who is too woke here: There are arguably way worse long term ramifications to SEPTA getting funded by a Sports Betting app than there are to SEPTA not getting funded at all.

I know septa has negative zero dollars but they JUST shut the trolleys down and fucked up my commute for a MONTH, how are the tracks broken. its been 3 weeks.

MM39 days to go. #LetsGoFlyers

Was reading @edzitron.com 's how to argue with an ai booster newsletter (very good), specifically the part where he asks where the fucking useful applications of llms are when i looked up and saw an ad for chatgpt suggesting using it to INTERPRET YOUR DREAMS

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege

Scenario 1: OpenAI does not have enough control over its models to prevent them from providing detailed suicide instructions to kids who want to kill themselves. The models are a public health hazard and should be taken down.