As some of the scientists still at CDC fighting the good fight with all we have left, we appreciate when journalists use precise language in their headlines. It matters.💚 Career scientists weren't involved in this sham, & would not propose change based upon political ideology & vibes G'night all 😴

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.

As a legal observer we are strongly encouraged to take "stop the bleed" training for exactly this reason

Watercolour painting of some flowers to brighten up your day! #art #watercolours #painting

My brother helped lead the rotavirus vaccine development. So my “Fuck You RFK Jr” today comes with more than normal outrage.

On top of everything, can't help but feel gutpunched by the biblical/mythological portent-at-the-crossroads quality of her name being "Good." ❤️

(And just to be comprehensive: American glass company guy suspected of being CIA using aforementioned as cover. But it's kinda neither here nor there b/c US companies operating in unstable regions always end up having pervasive interactions w/ US intel AND fully-fledged ex-CIA in the mix.)

It could be both. Delcy's father was tortured to death at age 34 by the prior (relatively) pro-US regime for his involvement in kidnapping an American glass company guy. Maduro/Flores may have skimmed enough to warrant giving up to the US w/ the goal of continuing/increasing Chavista hold on power.

Roborock’s latest vacuum is reaching new heights, literally. The Saros Rover is equipped with legs that help it climb stairs so it can clean multiple floors in your home. It can also clean the stairs as it goes, roll down slopes, and jump over (small) obstacles.

*Wakes up to vacuum pinning me down like some sleep paralysis demon*

I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶 So pretty! www.featherbase.info/zh/home

"I'm berry horny!"

SpongeBob is a contraceptive sponge and you can't convince me otherwise A SPONGE that... Lives in "Bikini Bottom" Next to a "starfish" Best friend is a squirrel named Sandy Cheeks

How long is the U.S. media going to continue to uncritically report the claim that RFK Jr. and his political appointees want to improve trust in public health while they are so obviously, inarguably undermining it?

New launch day!! Introducing Sweet Valentine! This colorway is highly random with speckles and splotches of color on a natural background. Ready to ship in DK and fingering, find it here: Hartfordyarnworks.com #yarn #fiberarts #indiedyedyarn #knitting #crochet

Hooooo boy.😬

Listen to real pediatric experts.

We aren't taking over their government. We don't have any troops in the country. There's no way for Trump to force his decisions on Venezuela without further military action. And the scariest thing about that is Trump & Co don't seem to have a clue about that fact.

Holy moley I didn’t remember there was a war with Mexico. JFC. We went into the fascist dystopian timeline. We did this right when we had reasonable prosperity, low crime, and NO reason for international conflict. It’s confounding. It can’t be a requirement to have a utopia to avoid dystopia!

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Future generations will not believe that we took a guy whose life was essentially a lab experiment in creating the most depraved, contemptible human imaginable, and half the country said: "Let's make this guy the most powerful guy in the world"

Your daily calm. (male mountain bluebird) #birds #calm #peaceful (photo credit unknown)

And once again: ALL OF THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF A TINY PERCENT MORE OF THE POPULATION HAD JUST FILLED IN A LITTLE OVAL NEXT TO THE BLACK LADY’S NAME. We ALL fucking warned EVERYONE, but too many didn’t listen or shrugged it off.

Black-tailed Godwit in its winter plumage #birds #photography

Watercolour painting of some garden pots. #art #watercolours #painting

Apparently, if you elect a president who is a narcissistic sociapathic rapist with arrested development, and then surround him with a mixture of yes-men too afraid to stop him and evil profiteers happy to use him, things don't go well? Who knew 🤷‍♂️

GRIS #art

Worth mentioning that Heated Rivalry is a Crave Canada production: 100% 🇨🇦 in origin, production, tax funded. HBO is merely streaming it

It's been less than a year and already my plains are a lot less fruited.

Pretending to have principles is how you get principles anyway

if pretending we're better than blowing up innocent foreigners gets us to stop blowing up innocent foreigners, I am more than happy to fake it

The FIFA Peace prize used to mean something

I think it quite funny that every thing I've looked up does not list the CIA as law enforcement 👀 so everyone answering "oh this happens so often" no it is usually other US entities doing it than law enforcement, without any of the legal rubber stamping you usually get, this is some weird shit sorry

Today, a very good boy with people eyes & three paws who found my sister when he was 7mo old, alone & so thin and had the eerie howl I didn't know cattle dogs could make who'd nosed his head under any still hand for 11 happy years ate only the ham his meds were wrapped in and is now gone.

Witnessing a Voltron of Racism forming here

So much winning 😐https://people.com/trump-administration-closes-nasa-goddard-library-books-11878391

"These systems favor high-probability outputs over genuine novelty” shows how in thrall to the Eliza effect these researchers are. Of course the systems go for high probability outputs. That's literally what LLM *do* - use probability to guess the next word. They are just advanced spell check.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Love the Community Note

And with that, I bid you all good night. May we do the very, very, very hard work that we will need to do in this new year, and make good things happen. The only liberation is a shared liberation. Let's find the courage to build it.

Happy #InsectThursday

the onion has had many “please put down the lathe of heaven” moments but this one tops them all

I wanted to highlight this comment because it needs to become a meme. I can think of 4700 instances where this needed to be posted as a reply in December alone...

RIP 2025 2025-2025

GUYS IM FROM 2026 AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. I HAVE TO WARN YOU. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME TO SAVE YOUR FUTURE. THE YEARS BEYOND WILL BE AWFUL IF YOU DON'T HEED MY WARNING you should draw more, write more, or make more games. If you don't, consider picking up a craft!

Nice picture. I hope you don't mind a contrasting contribution.

Anyone trying to convince you that “there are no new ideas” are grifters dedicating their life to making sure that they suppress the already existing ideas which could fix our society’s problems. They don’t care about human ingenuity or the spirit of positively advancing humanity.