My OB-GYN friend posted this elsewhere, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

It’s fall- you know what that means. (Monarch butterflies migrating to Southern California, Mexico, and Florida)

"AI helped me by being so useless it forced me to seek help elsewhere" is some real galaxy brain shit

“I am a gardener, look at all these plastic flowers I bought.”

hey i just got an alert saying your personal info was found on the dork web

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

No, that's the rule, everybody knows the rule If you get in the way of the laundry, you get covered in socks

I swear, drivers in my county are allergic to coming to a complete stop.

Hundreds of hot air balloons fill the New Mexico sky — but safety starts long before launch. The NWS Albuquerque office provides Impact-Based Decision Support Services for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta —

Meteors will blaze across Michigan skies this month. When to catch 4 heavenly shows

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

“I'm down for it" means "I'm up for it.” Sure, why not.

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

The main function of AI is to make all text on the internet untrustworthy unless you personally know the source. We will boil the oceans and price people out of heat in winter for this.

Alright I have something useful for you to do. Think of any teachers and librarians you know. Do they know about Skype a scientist? Our program matches classrooms & other groups w/scientists for virtual Q&As. It’s free! They can sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html #Edusky #StemED

Here is an interesting adjective quirk that you probably aren’t even aware you are doing. In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order: opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/one-...

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The name ‘Tiffany’ is many centuries old. To many people, it sounds like a stereotypical name for a Valley Girl in the 1980s. This has led to a phenomenon called “The Tiffany Problem,” which describes things that sound anachronistic, but actually aren’t.

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which against the cold, Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

My sister knows me so well…

The flute is older than the wheel. A flute fashioned from the bone of a vulture was discovered in a cave in Germany and thought to be 35,000 years old, making it tens of thousands of years older than the wheel. Don’t reinvent the woodwinds.

Skype a Scientist executive director Sarah McAnulty had told her cats that people without an eel facts advent calendar may one day be at a “deleterious deficit of eel information” compared to those who do not participate in eelvent in 2025. (EelFacts.net)

i want a girl with a short dirk and a looooooooong dagger *sick beat guitar riff*

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

Reminds me of the @askamanager.org letter about someone (an intern, perhaps?) signing off emails with “Stay golden.” 🌟 I could do with more people using charming email sign offs.

Finally, some useful information

"ok but chris how much physical space does that data storage take" excellent question here on the left is 4 KB of storage and here in the right is 1 TB or 250 million times as much storage

B31.3 Giant ravens.

“Let’s not speculate as to his motives”— Nah I remember 25 hours ago when you were happy to speculate without knowing anything at all, and now you know MORE but want to say less? Fascinating.

Social media amplifies our worst tendencies: bloodlust, baseless speculation, the hunger for vengeance. We were not made to see people repeatedly murdered on camera. We were not meant to read every person's unfiltered opinions. It is corrosive to the soul.

“Sometimes action is all we have, to stave off despair.” - from SHROUD by Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social

First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him

Some commas have rules, but others are just about the vibes, man.

(the sound of children screaming has been removed)

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

I've started using "-ai" at the end of every search string to eliminate the slop

On this day in 1966, the first episode of Star Trek, "The Man Trap", aired on NBC. Although canceled after three seasons, it still managed to be one of the most influential shows of the decade, showing the world a pluralistic utopian future in the middle of the American Civil Rights Movement

🔭 All the Water on Planet Earth Illustration Credit: Jack Cook, Adam Nieman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Data source: Igor Shiklomanov apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...

If anyone needs me I'll be in the Secret Lab

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

look i know i sound old, but many things actually used to be a lot better.

There's HEEEEEERE artologica.etsy.com Original watercolors that reject AI. One of each, unique.

ANYWAYS, share some good news here in this thread :) I would love some good feelings right now

Being an adult means promising yourself you’ll get on a better sleep schedule every day until you die

Just saying. Normal people read the replies before replying! Everybody else: Welcome to Earth, I guess??