Starting all kinds of questions to Americans with "on a scale from 1-4..." is the funniest thing I've seen in a while.

The difference between being at Wimbledon for the tennis and being there as influencers and socialites and to mingle with celebrities.

It's probably on most occasions an unfair prejudice of mine, but often when I hear that people are wildlife rehabbers or rescuers or run an animal sanctuary or hospital, I suspect some level of animal hoarding disorder.

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...

If the US coach had any integrity, he would have kept Folarin Balogun on the bench against Belgium.

If I believed praying did anything, I would pray for Belgium to knock out USA tomorrow. I almost don't care about football, but I still find that worth praying for. You realize how much more awful patriotic Americans and Trump would become if they won the WC?

Unpaid internship my absolute ass. The exploitation in this field beggars belief.

“The Dunning-Kruger effect is one of the key drivers of the American chainsaw massacre, because the anti-science purges are being driven by people who think they could walk into any job and instantly do it well.”

So, I somehow came across the Isle of Man flag today for the first time. What in the gory slasher snuff movie semi-swastika hell kind of flag is this?

Hey IUCN, very disappointed to see that SSC membership renewal page allows people to provide a link to the nazi site but not BlueSky. Why are you supporting the destruction of biodiversity promoted in X? Do better.

Nævn to ting der passer bedre sammen end tåkrummende AI-slop og boomer-politikere fra Venstre.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hong Kong is pretty moist recently.

Elderly men, kite-battling in Hong Kong, Ma On Shan. The goal is to use your line to cut down the other kites.

Yeah, sure. Why wouldn't Dr. Phil be going to Greenland to look for oil. Seems about right. www.newsnationnow.com/vargasreport...

I think UFC should probably be illegal. Not because of the fighting per se, but for the same exploitation reasons that cockfighting is illegal. We're just putting base instinct creatures in a ring to fight each other that aren't smart enough to know what they're doing or that they have a choice.

Today I saw an Instagram account with an AI pfp and all AI-slop content complain that someone else had stolen their content and not credited them, and I did not feel particularly bad for them. 🤷

Two former advisors to the federal government called out Prime Minister Mark Carney for slashing environmental rules and ignoring experts in climate science and policy. thenarwhal.ca/carney-canad...

Josh Hokit just ended his post-fight speech at the White House UFC event by yelling "Michelle Obama is a man!" A disgraceful spectacle through and through

womp womp.

This is very interesting, shocking, and enlightening. On the surface it's a video about cleaning a hoarder's house, but there were also 8 dogs and 3 cats trapped in this hell, and the video is very informative about the UK and RSPCA's inability to handle cases like this on a variety of levels.

Danish right-wing party, Danmarksdemokraterne, erected a wolf-shooting gallery, at a large political gathering. Here's a politician from Venstre, proud of his aim and declaring that we should not have wolves. The hatred of wolves, and just nature, in the Danish political right is off the charts.

Everyone should be boycotting everything that has even the slightest involvement of FIFA until that irredeemable mafia organisation is burned to the ground and replaced with something else.

I can't tell you how disappointed I am in my fellow academics' ability to recognize AI-writing. Someone posts a wall of text on LinkedIn that could not be more obvious AI, and not even edited to look less so, and a long list of names I recognize in conservation are all "So powerfully written!"

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

This was like 12 cm long. At Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology.

My wife 🇺🇸 & I 🇬🇧 applied for a spousal visa to the UK Our application was rejected (I'll get on to that) but first, read this statement from the rejection letter Now imagine they are telling this to families who might have been apart for months, in extremely difficult circumstances, it's shameful

WildCRU wins the Vice Chancellor’s ‘Making a Difference Globally’ Award! The award recognises the exceptional work of the team, who share their expertise globally to build local capacity, support equitable livelihoods, strengthen policy, and improve human-wildlife coexistence. @biology.ox.ac.uk

DK has had recent environment ministers who were pro-hunting but anti-nature. Looks like the new one is pro-nature and anti-hunting. I'd prefer one who is pro-nature, pro-hunting, but if I can't have that then pro-nature is a lot more important than pro-hunting.

Denmark's new government looks to be the greenest in decades. We've been saddled with farming lobbyists as environment ministers for a long time. The new environment minister is the former president of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation. A small flicker of light in a lot of darkness.

Van Hollen to Rubio: "Let's face it, Mr Secretary, the Trump foreign policy has become a dumpster fire"

How hard can it be to make a man like this president?

"shouldn't be punished" had me chuckling.

Moms in "photo edit request" groups are just the worst since AI. What kind of psycho uploads a photo of their teenage daughter, who for whatever reason isn't looking happy, to a public group and asks for help to make her smile? This type is not uncommon, and I write "moms" because it usually is.

1/ The sustainability transition doesn’t just advance from the top down and the bottom up – change also happens in the middle, and that’s where most of us can make a real difference Quick thread on a great new paper showing how *everyone* has an influential role to play 🧵

How did they catch him?

The One Piece Netflix show cares 50% of the time about costumes. The other 50% they all just wear Uniqlo.

Clearly the solution here is more good dogs with guns. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This may be the worst Facebook page I've ever seen. Almost all the content is "heart-warming" AI videos of toddlers, alone, going up to big dogs in cages to stare them in the eyes and hug them. And all the comments are about how sweet it is. This shit will get some gullible idiot's child killed.

The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril. (Published March)

There's an interesting environmental ethics discussion to be had about the inability to kill most of the sea creatures in Subnautica 2, which you could do in Subnautica 1. The developer idea is that you should be attempting to survive with the local fauna instead of against it.

It's a special kind of weird to live in Hong Kong, where everyone knows Denmark only for cookies, and then also seeing the American idiot Jeff Landry in Greenland, trying to buy Greenlandic children off with promises that USA has cookies for them...

Best reply ever.

LMFAO

"You knew I was going to wear the turquoise-green T-shirt!"

Good points, well made.

"Hippo Comes to Rescue Baby Antelope from Crocodile" Dear Kruger Latest Sightings, please go have a swim in a hippo's vicinity, pretend to be in distress, and wait for the hippo to come and rescue you. Let us know how that goes.