nothing smacks of professional-grade logistics like FREE scrawled on a cardboard box in bubble letters

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

I'm in my basket making era, apparently.

The world is pretty terrifying right now, so I made a little basket. It's not perfect but it's mine and I'm very proud of it.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984

My man, I'm 37, and I've barely even begun to find Bugs

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.

Do you ever do something and then go "I probably shouldn't be allowed to wield this much power"? Anyway I 3D printed a life sized dodo skull. Stay tuned for the rest of the skeleton.

While the paper hasn't come out just yet, the news certainly has. Proud to announce our discovery of color patterning in a sauropod dinosaur. Will go in depth tomorrow.

NANOTYRANNUS IS REAL, Y'ALL!!!

Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine. Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Me: "That's a good point." Husband: "I have many good points. And also many bad ones."

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

My snake: begs for food Also my snake: ew, a mouse, hiss hiss hiss

melancholy

I've started dabbling in wigmaking for my dolls recently. Still a lot to learn and a few things that I still need to tweak with both of them, but I've been having a blast.

This was such a fun thing to commission and I can't wait to share finished photos once I'm done with his wig and painting his crown! Thank you for helping me make my dolly dreams come true!

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

Poetry. Sheer poetry.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This is a nice stick. I like sticks.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Repainted three dolls this weekend. I've had all of these sculpts for years but never finished customizing them until now. Maybe I'll try to make them new wigs next.

September is right around the corner, which means I suddenly want to play with my dolls again.

I solo hiked a 1.2 mile trail up a hill and back down again. Doran didn't come with me, but he's making sure we know that he's wiped from my hike.

Unattended children are the worst.

It was a good weekend.

Is there a field biologist in the Portland, Oregon, area who wouldn't mind being in a bear suit for an hour in the woods on August 4. For science. DM me.

It's blackberry season.

It's time to play Bloodborne again.

I asked him when he was going to pupate.

when a company announces they're going to start using Al in their products all I hear is "our stuff is about to get noticeably shittier, but you should be excited because it'll be cheaper for us"

Oh woah -- this fossil looks extraordinary. Shri rapax, a new, Mongolian #Velociraptor-like dromaeosaurid with robust hands and indications of a powerful bite. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #dinosaurs #Cretaceous

Here's a dogbane leaf beetle to make sure your Sunday starts off right.

It's always a good decision to go creek walking.

I think I'm a kayaker now.

Look at this girl. She is my favorite dumpster fire OC. 🫀 Always a blast working with you, lady!

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly

Dear Science Journalists, Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored. The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?

Take note.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time