It’s getting to be that time of the year again youtu.be/sjco86ekIlQ?...

Really cool to think about how ore-grade cobalt is like 110-250 ppm of cobalt, while a used cobalt battery might 1000-10000ppm when reckoned against the entire battery. And that's not even considering the other useful resources in a battery.

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

"Groomers act like different dog breeds" remains one of my favorite genres of TikTok.

Personally, I would also accept the corporate death penalty for coupang too

IT'S A GOD? That Doesn't Mean It Outranks You!

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst

Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide. www.science.org/content/arti...

Found this elsewhere online, am sharing it for fellow Iliad enjoyers

cryptography is a mathematical system for transforming problems which aren't key-management problems into key-management problems

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads): mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...

Commentary: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process https://theonion.com/not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/

I continue to not really understand people who want to write books but who don't read books.

Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before

This is actually a perfect meme. Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

Blueberries once they shed their leaves look so strange and skeletal

This week on the blog: More Peasants! This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc. Now with pie chart! acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

Context: Korean myth says that a lesser son of god came down to earth to carve out something of his own. He and his retinue brought technologies and knowledges such as farming to the barbaric people below and began a civilization. (1/n)

thank u Hades 2 for adding animal familiars 🐸💕

Me, about to be disappointed: I wonder what's going on in the world

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

I wrote this after the election but it might be time to repost it, because it’s even creepier now, and more on-point.

IN CASE OF METHODISTS HIDE DOWNSTAIRS

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

When Andrew noticed a little old man among a group of new arrivals at his prison, he instinctively knew that the man was Korean. He went over and greeted him. From there, they formed a powerful bond: "He needed help navigating incarceration. I needed a father."

Ever been curious about World Anvil? It's like a wiki for your worldbuilding with a super active and friendly community! Here's three worlds I highly recommend checking out to see what you can do🧵 (note: I am friends with these people, it is a friendly community after all)

US Chemical Safety Board posted a new video. It is a good day

Lol I just found this random bsky account that posts hourly photos of E18 with a (presumably LLM-assisted) caption 😂

my favorite thing to do is to sit in one spot in my house and give expository dialog to anyone who walks in uninvited and talks to me

Been struck by a sudden desire to try a rose hip. Unfortunately all the spring roses in the backyard had been pruned, but I spotted a Bengal rose with green hips and a Rosa canina which might bloom later in the season. Here's hoping 🤤

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

We must reject the cold equations

Agreed, it's really more a thought exercise for critics, lit scholars, and wannabes in each camp. Writers need not commit themselves to neatly categorizing their own work. (Also, per Nietzsche and others, categories only exist in our heads.)

i love the concept of space whales so much, i had to include them in solaris. an article about the leviathans, their friends, and the great migration: an event that occurs every four centuries during solar maximum www.worldanvil.com/w/solaris-nn... [ #art #solaris #worldbuilding #featurefriday ]

This is interesting! Some climbing nightshade (solanum dulcamara) climbed all the way through a bush and is now happily fruiting on top of it.

my dad wants AI to be the next new thing, for it to be clever and smart, and so he gives it opportunities to be clever and smart. like a kid he wants to help show off, half feeding them the answer as they're pushed infront of us. a construct of a construct, a mechanical turk but you're the turk too

Bladder campion (Silene vulgaris, engsmelle)! It's a common wildflower with a very distinctive shape that gives it its name. Spotted in Sweden near Örebrö.

Collected sightings of various swedish plants on the swedish trip :)

"Listen, we're not on a studio set. We're not on the backlot at Sony. We're in New York City, and it's going to feel like it." for @defector.com, i talked to the team behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign videos to learn their secrets (see: a lot of sincerity; and a dash of Tim & Eric)