Welcome to Alberta we have The separatist party (fascist) The Conservative Party (separatist) The Conservative splitters (conservative) The socialist party (liberal)

👋 Meet Maurice! If you’ve visited Jodrell recently, you might have noticed a rather persistent guest tapping at the windows of the Star Pavilion… Maurice, our resident pheasant, has become a regular (if entirely uninvited!) presence at Jodrell’s daily, free Telescope Talks and other events.

Carbon Dating xkcd.com/3205/

NRAO has summer research opportunities for undergrads! science.nrao.edu/opportunitie...

If I'm being honest, the collapse of the post-Cold War international order and the violent occupation of an American city are making it difficult for me to concentrate on housing policy.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

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Plato, 347bc:

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

Baudrillard said that eventually the stuff inside uncrustables would cease to resemble the stuff inside sandwiches but honestly I’m starting to worry we don’t have that much time left

Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will

your software engineering career depends on not developing a fascination with opening a farm, carpentry, or living in a camper until you have at least 8 years of experience. if you get the bug early it's joever for you

Towering grand slam from Vlad Guerrero Jr makes it 9-0 Jays

Making this in paint counts as service hours

POV: you are Taiwanese president Lai Ching Te

Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡

The ONLY reason people hate on cargo shorts is they are jealous of the unprecedented storage efficiency. Shorts you can store a whole meal in. Impossible to argue against in good faith

7:30am: egg white omelette with mushrooms 10am: apple 12pm: cut up fruit with yogurt 3pm: banana 6pm: grilled chicken with salad (light dressing) 8pm: frozen yogurt 830pm: 2 cookies 845pm: 4 cookies 850pm: 8 cookies 9pm: bag of Doritos 930pm: Big Mac and fries

Do NOT ask about her cat.

I'm trying to think about how I would have reacted if shown this headline five years ago

This TV has never heard of arXiv

SKA Mid.CBF? I thought it was pretty good myself but sure.

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

Omg, absolutely incredible reason for AO3 to have been down hachyderm.io/@vashti/1147... (alt text at original)

This is the idealized model of an animal. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. 🎢⚛️🧪

As a lurker, I don't know if there's been a day like this since "thirty to fifty feral hogs".

Having a much more pleasant time on the Discover tab since I started muting Resistance-Lib-AI-slop on sight; the occasional fetish porn is honestly much less jarring.

*weeping openly on the work zoom* no updates from me

six months into our "build a new, better monorepo" project and you'll never guess how it's going

When I buy myself a little treat in this dystopian hellscape

🎶 Brushing up my résumé, brushing up my résumé, my whole department's gettin' fired today, we were funded by the U-S-A 🎶

"Don't go outside, there are dinosaurs."

There Are No Single Women In Your Area! No One Is Looking To Fuck! Stay Indoors and Away From Windows, and Await Further Instruction

de Sitter xkcd.com/3077

Once again this is a case of Scott Alexander problems being predicted by....Scott Alexander. Some of his best writing is about how persuasive cranks can be and the dangers of open engagement with them

Never-Before-Heard Buzzword Flying Around Office Can’t Be Good theonion.com/never-b...

Okay, yeah, in fairness Marx did fail to anticipate vanguardist bankers desperately trying to turn the woke back on

My institution still hasn't been cut - I no longer know what to expect at all.

New first for me! Scientific conference in the US has cancelled, and is trying to reschedule in a non-US location; I expect to hear more stories like this, although this was a more internationally-focused example.

*TRUMP TO IMPOSE TARIFFS ON TLÖN, UQBAR