Just finished @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social ‘s Annihilation (I haven’t seen the movie yet as I wanted to read the book first). It was sooo good, I cannot even put into words how good it was. And refreshing? I know I’m like a decade+ late but wow! An extraordinary piece of work.

Being married can be really hard sometimes

Knowledge is being privatized and cordoned off from public view at a terrifying rate. Simple info you easily could’ve found for free online 10 years ago is paywalled and buried under tons of AI slop. It’s like watching the Library of Alexandria burn. Our collective intelligence is being choked out.

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar. The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue. The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

This is stunning! I love it so much

Bluebells. #WildflowerHour #WoodlandPlants

Doing similar biological reactions in a controlled laboratory setting in tricky, especially at scale like in biologics manufacturing. This makes a lot of sense and is something I hadn’t considered about beer.

“Who said I was nice?” Good for Cait

The thing that might finally send me over the goddamned edge is that mRNA is a critical manufacturing component of PEPTIDES.

woke up and still thinking about these

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

What about Godzilla minus one??? And Shin Godzilla? Those are great movies.

🔮 crystals hell yeah 🔮 I too love a good crystalline solid

also don’t let spencer cox’s PR team fool you into thinking that he is anything other than a reactionary

When you hit the vape too hard

For months now, LAPD has been kettling protestors, including teenagers. I join the chorus of supporters demanding the city drop all charges against our Angelenos who were practicing their freedom and right to protest and speech.

This is the type of greed they talk about in the bible

I’m not a mom, but I’ve noticed that “wine mom” and “Patagonia wearing mom” and “moms pushing strollers” are cited as people who aren’t expected to take political action, or even to hold strong opinions. You all had moms, why do you think so little of her? Because she made you eat veggies? Grow up.

it’s time for the modern day temperance movement targeting gambling

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Enjoy this weird little video I made back when that happened: I sampled Papa John talking about eating 40 pizzas and turned it into a video of the Simpsons theme

Be inclusive and put alt text please.

KIEDIS: Smith! Flea! What are your findings? CHAD SMITH: Evidence clearly shows the citizenry enjoy California, sir. FLEA: My readings also suggest the populace is interested in fornication. KIEDIS: (tenting fingers) Interesting. Yes

At chili’s

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

When even the skeptics brains are cooked and think the lying token prediction machine is useful we might be fucked ngl

IT’S MONDAY IN NANCYLAND

part 2

⚠️ WE FOUND IT! THE DUCKLING MOTHERLOAD! LITERALLY A LOAD OF DUCKLINGS WITH THEIR MOTHER. GLORIOUS GLORIOUS BABY BIRDS KEEPING US AWAY FROM THE HORRORS!!!! 😭 😭 🪶 🐣

Every random place in California is the most beautiful place you've ever seen

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

What's up croc? I tried to get a unique angle of this Morelet's #crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii). #Belize #photography #wildlife #nature

Vista Del Mar 2017: City installs then removes safety improvements 2021-2025: More people die Pershing Dr 2017: City installs then removes bike lanes 2026: Pregnant mom killed Westwood Bl 2015: Koretz removes Westwood from Mobility Plan Today: 3 killed michaelschneider.medium.com/las-darkest-...

Besides the fact that they’re lying… their obvious vice is money. It’s just that greed is so utterly accepted that it’s not even considered. Same on that last bit though lmao

good morning

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

Like any time someone says "we only used our own data!" they actually mean they only used their own data ON TOP of the dataset stable diffusion was trained on

If Bezos wasted $75 million daily it would take him nearly a decade to go broke. There can be no just society with billionaires in them. Their very existence as billionaires is a societal failure.

Using alt text is a way to be kind that you can start doing right now. It’s right there in your accessibility settings. Turn on require alt text before posting to help yourself remember (worth checking because this app sometimes flips it off for no reason).

nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre

Bro 😒

Grape Nuts (holding me back): Whoa whoa whoa, hey man, just let it go! This asshole isn't worth it!

Legitimately, if you want to be able to fight anything long term, you have to take time to remember what you're fighting for. It's hard sometimes, but make it a habit. Joy and hope sustain people!

It’s fitting that airbnb is an Olympic sponsor bc neither are good for host cities

"The reward for beginning the journey to a better world is not the better world. The reward is every power of nightmare, rallying itself against you."