Fucking Ben the first owner's first husband ("the weird one," her brother confided) planted some goddamn shit in the yard and DIDN'T USE THE RIGHT WARDS ON THE PIPES I HAVE GLOWING SPORES COMING OUT OF MY TOILET, BEN

So. Fructose, and by extension high fructose corn syrup, _does_ in fact cause obesity. news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories...

The point of blue states responding to red state gerrymandering with their own gerrymandering isn't to somehow produce a fair result. It's to make the cost of starting the gerrymandering game (which the GOP did) clearly too high to start. thehill.com/opinion/camp...

We typically cover book-to-movie projects, but how about we explore a retelling as another form of adaptation? Here's part 1 of a 2-part series analyzing #WhatMovesTheDead by @tkingfisher.com, to be capped off with our live show interviewing her at Norwescon! 📺 bit.ly/4cOMqeq 🎙️ bit.ly/4vUnJFd

Ukrainian airborne skeet shooting.

Tracking IPv6 as a percentage of traffic across Google's services. It looks like a consistent 45-50% of traffic is IPv6, implies adoption isn't as dead as people have claimed. www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6...

So true. People forget this too often. xkcd.com/3233/

Too soon to say "deplatforming works"?

Was a huge Clannad fan in high school. RIP, Ms. Brennan.

So, "birds aren't real" becomes "these birds really aren't real". interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...

Orban conceded so quickly because he saw the writing on the wall and wants to decamp to another country as fast as he can, before the investigations start. Ideally a country without an extradition treaty with Hungary or the EU.

Hummingbirds looking a bit rough this year.

They want CHILDREN to have more babies!? Fuck that. Declining "fertility" among teen girls is NOT a problem, it's a success.

just had a thought...

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

The Day We Met: Chapter 4, Page 41

Possible alternative to conventional opiods: www.science.org/content/blog...

Meanwhile in Japan

So, apparently the global take-away from Trump's speech tonight is "The US has no plan for restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. They're gonna walk away and leave the rest of the world to clean up the mess.".

Happy TDoV, have a pic of Girlmode Ranma hatching from an egg that predates the literal Trans flag

A possible way to deliver CNS drugs without having to figure out how to bypass the blood/brain barrier. www.science.org/content/blog...

I can see Anne doing exactly that. Remember, this is the woman who should've died multiple times while riding and she's still around (and is probably the most popular of the royals at this point).

My GOD

Next goober coming up, Mobu the Oceanic Manta Ray! Next on the list of stuff for this goober: the big shapekeys: some body size stuff, visemes, expressions, and face tracking shapekeys! #vrchat #vrc #vrchatavatar #furry

I keep thinking of Beaker...

This article asks what the Democrats should do now, having mostly won the DHS fight? Not hard to answer: hold the line. We're going to have budget bills starting in not too long, don't vote for any of the GOP's budget bills. Wait for the mid-terms. newrepublic.com/article/2082...

Hey! I'm an author of (dark) fantasy and slow-burn, lesbian romance. The first two (out of four) books in my World Without Love series, set in a post-apocalyptic world caused by Aphrodite, can be found in many stores as well as on Payhip! linktr.ee/NicoleHidalg...

It pre-dates genAI, really. As far back as I can remember it's been true that lots of people want to Have Written a book who have no desire to sit down and slog through actually writing a book.

This should be a Democratic point when it comes to budget bills: "Not a single dollar for war, nor for immigration enforcement, until the FAA can staff traffic control to a minimum safe level that doesn't get people killed.". That picture alone is worth an hour's ranting.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Especially given you don't need ID outside the screened area. This is going to make previous ICE deployments look like a Sunday-school picnic. Trump seems bound and determined to give Democrats control of Congress in '26 and the White House in '28.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuba rejects US request to import diesel for Havana embassy operations while Trump continues oil blockade of island.

Really cannot overstate how bonkers the heat wave out West is. Just obliterating records. 🧪

HA.

Someone patched GIMP to look and feel exactly like Adobe Photoshop. Same keyboard shortcuts. Same tool layout. Same everything. It's called PhotoGIMP and it's free.

Curiouser and curiouser. "...researchers estimate that approximately 20,000 crows – traveling from all across the Puget Sound – from Seattle, from Mill Creek, from Mukilteo from Snohomish, from even Whidbey Island – meet, exchange information, and baffle scientists."

Out of curiousity, I checked on AO3. There are 6 _pages_ of listings for fanfic of the Epstein Files. Brain bleach isn't gonna cut it, I need something stronger. 90% H₂O₃ might work though. Hmm. Can you condense that into liquid?

Spouse goes up to bed, it's 3 am. About 5 mins later, I call him on the phone since I'm downstairs. Him: Yes? /utterly befuddled and sleepy Me: Ummmm, I just got Shiva hard...would you come unsynch it for me? Dean: /pause Ok... He does, 7 secs, he logs out, goes back to bed. :D Only gamers!

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

Assault bassoon.