In Central America, scientists found a spike in malaria cases after the fungus arrived. As frogs died, there were fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae; more mosquitoes resulted in a fivefold increase in malaria cases: wapo.st/3LHtdAj (gift). We allow extinctions at our peril. 🌎

this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of the best scarecrows I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

We have the Ukraine-Iceland game on right now. Every time the player Matviyenko is mentioned I briefly wonder why Matt Bianco is at the game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWSG...

Today’s shift is in honour of this shameful git who is mad at me for doing laundry

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

“A wet sandwich is the best sandwich.” My son just now, here for a short visit on his way to coach for the day and arguing with his mom about food.

A map of European countries playing football with Iceland

Today we found something magical, deep in the wild green heart of Sumatra: Rafflesia kemumu in full bloom. One of the world's largest flowers, to see this extremely rare species in full bloom is truly special.

Wow.

Best literary analysis ever

Operation Strapping Manservant

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.

This writing a memorial for Dave to be read at his funeral on the other side of the country is so very difficult. In many different ways.

Last weekend in Ottawa for the Canadian Premier League final the snow fell fast and thick and it was madness. Today in Toronto, a 4.5 hour drive away, for the Northern Super League final there's a weather delay because of lightning. Welcome to footy in Canada.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

Yep, well, apparently, it was THIS Bubba... NOT Bill Clinton after all. 🤷‍♀️ This is all getting curiouser & curiouser. 🤔

"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

You been hit by a smooth hymnal

I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

how the wind infiltrated so deep into the hurricane

I'm on this site for one reason and one reason only: to give unsolicited advice under posts where people are not looking for advice and without knowing if they've tried it already

Amazing how I remember all of this and yet think the current times are unprecedented.

I know who's missing a great marketing opportunity right now. www.hubbabubba.com #BlowingBubba

When I was snuggling with my kid just now, she told me she was disappointed by her book about the Donner Party, “because I thought they were going to feast on the people when they were still alive.” Then she asked if cannibalism was illegal. Then she asked if she could sleep in my bed.

that's sure one way to have this dog him the rest of his life

I try very hard to keep up with new music but sometimes my wife or my sons will bring something to my attention. And so tonight my wife and I are relaxing while listening to the lovely new Leith Ross album. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Mb...

Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile

How blow? How blow?

I don't say it enough: in this seemingly-perpetual cesspool, accounts like George Penney's are not just a joy, they're a necessity for our collective mental health.

I can believe that Trump might talk himself into believing this. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!

you masked morons think this is a good look? I assure you it is not a good look.

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok

You either die young and cool or you grow old enough to appreciate your poops returning to normal after vacation

At the

“It’s 8:00. The party’s gone on long enough.” Amazing how far back I can date my personal motto.

🚨Megyn Kelly in 2023 re Russell Brand: “You’re 31 years old & you have sex allegedly w a 16-year old?… She was a minor. Just because you can’t be prosecuted for it doesn’t mean it’s right.” Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old” @motherjones.com:

November 2016: welp. this sucks, but how bad could it *realistically* get? i mean.... November 2025: technically it's ephebophilia

America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.

Remember Virginia.🕊️

The management of this Home Depot came out with loudspeakers denouncing my pastor and the other assembled clergy members and concerned citizens as "not Godly people" and "not real Christians" which is a heck of an official policy statement to hear from a representative of the Home Depot corporation.

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

crazy IG em_clarkson