Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

"Every so often someone expresses their understandable frustration with the party of governance by threatening to withhold their vote in the general election.(. . .)But this is foolish at best, and it rests on a misunderstanding of what it even means to act as a party in politics."

This is a crime! Someone closer to CA, please adopt the babies!

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

"Made in China" is gonna hit different real soon.

Evolving Planet—itself a reskin/update of 1994's Life Over Time—is now two decades old (it opened on March 10, 2006). Here's a 🧵 of what's changed since then.

I love all genders🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Because I have no gender. Especially right now, transgender people are living with a lot of anxiety. Why are transgender people not allowed to freely love the people they want to love? Why can't transgender individuals live their lives with the soul they prefer?

Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.

Yeah, I'm going to say it: I'm not watching the Super Bowl, mainly because I don't support a "sport" that routinely gives its players traumatic brain injuries. But I did tune into Bad Bunny's halftime show. I speak only a couple words in Spanish, but damn if that wasn't a HELL of a fun time!

I'd say it ranks right up there with Mt. Rushmore, which I took my kids to see, just so they could say they'd seen it and then never, ever go there again.

BOOK! SOON!

As an adult with almost grown children, I recently rediscovered theater and, getting involved, have met some of the most caring, supportive people I've ever known!

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

My kid is trans. I'm so angry I'm starting to cry about it. Of course the defectors were from Texas and N. Carolina, but still. This is INFURIATING! How DARE YOU put my child in danger!

Not being a professional writer, I wasn't entirely sure what a triplet was, so I looked it up. Hey! I enjoy using those when I do write!

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

ICE can go right out and get themselves fucked. Well and truly.

So "tough guy" Pete Hegseth takes orders from civilians now? Gee, that's pretty sad to hear about the "SSecretary of War" (please read all available sarcasm into that comment)

Fuck this noise. Does this idiot have any idea how much gas costs?!

I won't be giving them a dime. I've known for a while there was something screwy with them.

If you see this post an anime you love

Also mine.

Born in the early 70's, so core gen Xer here. Honestly, I'm disappointed as fuck in my generation. Too many side with boomers for some idiotic fucking reason, considering how we got treated. In my 20s, lots of talk about how we might be the first generation to do worse than our parents.

For some reason, my brain first read this as "high resolution crimes."

Yeah, after a season of the new guy, I dropped the show, too. I'm a blacksmith. People ask me if I do it so I can be on that show. My answer is always, "No, I don't hate myself that much."

You can really tell an old person wrote this because they think quotation marks is a way to show emphasis instead of sarcasm. ("BIG" MONEY!)

"Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something...That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...and it's worth fighting for."

Illinois has few remaining wetlands. A Trump administration proposal could decimate what’s left.

*gently pats his set of World Book as well as Britannicas* Yes, my pretties, yes!

Dear god, yet ANOTHER reason to hate this type of software (but TurboTax in particular)!

Fuck this place. I'm 50+ years old an in no way shape or form can I be considered a boomer, and consider that an insult.

AND CAN NEVER become President again! I feel that's an important part of this.

TBH, I think even 5 minutes is generous. I quite seriously think 30 seconds would be a stretch for his goldfish attention span. I'm sorry, that's an insult to goldfish.

"Are they shouting 'boo' or 'Boo-urns?'"

Everyone knows the real answer is quokkas.

She is a bigoted piece of shit and I'm absolutely disgusted the SCOTUS is even giving her the time of day.

Correct. Land doesn't vote.

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.

I only recently learned about Flock cameras and as soon as I did, damned if I didn't find one on a street I take every day to get to and from work! I need me a FOIA request. But what do I ask for?

Damn, y'all. You're warming this old Gen Xer's heart!

Respond with the same actor as a hero and villain.

Wallace Shawn is a treasure! (and will always be Vizzini in my heart)

Locally, I have no elections to vote on where I live, but I'd vote for both of these as well!

I couldn't leave this one alone. Like it seems silly and harmless, but this is such a slippery slope in to damaging conspiracy theories like anti-vax and climate change denial, so I'm going to keep explaining it in the hopes people start actually thinking about things.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Are you kidding? My kids have COUNTLESS "aunts" and "uncles" who are just adult friends of mine I've known for 30+ years!

WTF? Leave our beloved flea markets alone!