🥳 Happy itsenäisyyspäivä, 🇫🇮! 🎉

This #Caturday morning, Leela is carefully sizing up her latest dastardly foe.

Jonathan is apparently the world’s oldest known land animal, has had a male partner called Frederick since 1991, and has met Queen Elizabeth II and her father George VI, as well as Prince Edward (luckily not Andrew).

The new National Security Strategy of USA "Summary: "Kill 'em all... or let them pay"... something along those lines, probably..." Thread: 👇

Really EBU, really?

*excited noises*

Ash and Alex from Voyager are in a Primus tribute band now! *Content warning for folks sensitive to "wobbly" camera work* www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed4A...

📪 Scientists are already preparing for a delivery from Mars. 👩‍🔬 How will they seal, transport and analyse martian samples on Earth? 📝 @esa.int and NASA teams share their plan to maximise scientific discoveries: blogs.esa.int/to-mars-and-...

a kind of architecture - Wind walkers -

#authorship HT @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social

EU Discord has never not been hilarious.

Analysis | Zelensky says he's serious about peace. It's impossible to evaluate that claim without seeing what kind of real estate portfolio he's offered to Kushner, Witkoff, and Trump.

1/ A story relevant to today's news. On September 12, 1942, the U-boat U-156 spotted a particularly juicy target: the RMS Laconia. A former ocean liner, she was now an armed merchant ship, usually carrying supplies and troops and she had no escort. U-156 attacked, putting two torpedos into her side.

The best thing about having fragile pottery send to your home is that it comes with a free void, the abyss you shouldn't stare into and... oh wait, it's just Moortje.

Me and the boys getting ready for Kyber Monday.

💉 South Africa, Eswatini and Zambia on Monday began administering a groundbreaking new HIV-prevention injection in the drug's first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world's highest HIV burden. ➡️ u.afp.com/ShEB

This image from the Perseverance Mars rover came down yesterday. The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly. Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.

Admire my whiskers, hooman! #Caturday

The future of everything is AI slop 😑

Labrador Lavr lost his forelegs in early 2025 when the dog was hit by a train in Odesa.Thanks to a timely reaction of caring people,he was taken to a clinic where surgeons fitted him with prosthetic legs Now he is happy because he can walk the streets again 📹V.Zaporozhets

Holy fucking shit this is a *real* image from a *real* (presumably peer-reviewed) paper in [Nature] Scientific Reports. How many people had to sign off on this figure? The editor, one hopes, the reviewer(s)? The copy editor? What had to happen for THIS to get published?

Happy Thanksgiving, Americans!

Nice level of polish on Stranger Things 5. Lovely to be back with these 30 or 40 year olds.

"Gravitational Effects of a Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through the Human Body" is a real paper just published in International Journal of Modern Physics D. 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2502.09734

The first human case of H5N5 bird flu (sadly, a fatal case) was reported at the end of last week. I've summarised what we currently know and what this might mean for @uk.theconversation.com

I had great fun with A.I. Messing around with it and making it do dumb things. Like asking A.I to send me dick pics. It first sent me images of Nixon. Then after a further prompt, it sent me images of Nixon merged with images of sausages.

Good 🧵 about Steve Witkoff, the narrative of him being a “useful idiot” is a dangerous trap to walk in. Witkoff has spent three decades swimming in russian money, russian mob circles, and russian real-estate pipeline. russia knows how to grow an asset threadreaderapp.com/thread/19933...

Dr. Angela Rasmussen on medbeds. She had me in five words, folks.

Holy Pretzel! Gamers Nexus are doing Linux benchmarks now. *This* is the YOtLD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovOx...

What Trump has made me realise is how much the post-Cold War relationship hinged on shared values rather than shared interests. Trump is illustrating how, whether on Ukraine and Gaza, our interests diverge and, absent those values, there's not much holding us together.

Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior shows off a new prototype trailer of the heavy metal platformer #Voivod #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux

Surely it must be because they want to give him an award or a medal. It couldn't possibly be to punish him, could it?

It's frustrating that we are getting technologies that really will transform our lives, and we should be thinking carefully about what that means, but the possibility of thoughtful discussion is being squelched by a stream of soul-crushing visions and wild hyperbole coming from Silicon Valley.

Mars, last Wednesday.

We don’t just miss the past. We miss a past vision of the future. My Soviet ice-cream memories open this video, but the story leads to something bigger: how authoritarian populists weaponise nostalgia today. "How Soviet Nostalgia Still Rules Putin’s Russia" youtu.be/gI1VcTVmqA8?...

Hmm, this could be a whole cinematic multiverse. Falling Down triggered by Cloudflare going down; Falling Down trying to get two-factor authentication to work; Falling Down trying to get an iTunes playlist to play on Sonos...

The video version of part 2 of our Werewolves podcast is now live over on youtube! Given it a watch if you want to find out how the modern 'hollywood' werewolf first emerged, along with plenty of werewolf and wolf related folklore from around the world! youtu.be/39ggjKN9hZw

"No, I am not from Russia. My account is dedicated to making America great again"

My take on Trump's peace plan, and why he can't pressure Ukraine into capitulation.

One of my cats is broken. #Caturday #RussianBlue #CatsofBlueSky #Cats #cat #Boimler

Wait, is that a spider on the ceiling? #Caturday

I hope you all find someone who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani

I stopped by The Incubator to have a little chat with my PhD mentor @microbetv.bsky.social about H5N1 bird flu. I guess I’m all grown up as a virologist now that my teacher is asking me questions, but as Prof. Racaniello taught me, you should never stop learning ❤️🦠

If you see this, quote post with the energy you bring to bluesky:

The thing is... THIS IS HOW MUSK ACTUALLY SEES IT Musk at least is convinced humans on Mars asap is more important than anything else to 'save humanity', and may believe his destiny is birthing sentient computer life that exceeds humanity a billionfold. A million dead kids is nothing.

Exactly. In reality, there is no choice for Zelensky, because accepting Trump's plan is off the table. What this statement is about is mobilizing the public both at home and abroad.

Fighting a plane with a plank of wood? Just take my money already! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXe...

"As silly as it sounds, a part of me almost felt like the universe owed me one. That for once, for one damn time, things would work out." 🫶🥹

Took me a second to work out the logistics here, Fred does like to fold himself into boxes in odd ways. Obviously I went in for danger tickles. #catsofbluesky

So, the deal is to make Russia's next attempted genocide easier? I really really hate this Administration.