1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

THE 3 DAY WEEKEND IS NOT A GAME

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The unmitigated gall of this company to market themselves specifically as a replacement to trained librarians and to exhibit AT THE BIGGEST conference for trained librarians…. It’s really something Like you’re really going to market to US about how replaceable you find us. Interesting strategy

The sphinx stirred. "Halt! If you seek to pass, you must solve my riddle, or I will kill you!" The wanderer skulking in the sphinx' shadow froze in place. "Riddless? It wishess to play a game of riddless? We know riddless, we do, my preciouss, we do!"

Co fucking signed 🤬

"Quack, quack"

"that's private medical information that I'm not going to share with you" - this one works best if you're cis, to give us cover to say the same.

ST. LOUIS—Apologizing to all customers who had received a defective product, pet food giant Fancy Feast issued a massive recall Friday for 1 million cans of food that cats just kind of stared at before wandering away.

One of the best things you can do as an adult is realize that you didn’t actually have to stop drawing, coloring, painting, playing with clay, doing whatever else you loved as a kid. Even if you’re bad at it. Maybe especially if you’re bad at it

I forget who originally made this observation, and I’ve cited it on Bluesky before, but: every five-year-old knows they can draw, and every eleven-year-old knows they can’t.

Going to remind everyone now, buy new filters for you air purifiers now, get more masks, buy an air purifier if you don’t have one, think about getting a humidifier, and refill your rescue inhalers. This year’s fire season is shaping up to be a bad one. I hope I’m wrong, but prepare now if you can.

at least 16 (There are a few that I'm not actually sure.)

ICYMI: NOAA predicts a below-normal 2026 Atlantic Hurricane season. With 70% confidence, the forecast is for a total of 8-14 named storms, 3-6 hurricanes, and 1-3 major hurricanes. More: www.noaa.gov/news-release...

Movie where the woman who can kill with a smile and wound with her eyes from the Billy Joel song "She's Always A Woman" is set loose and the scientists who created her are forced to let Jolene from the song "Jolene" out of cryostorage to bring her back but instead they team up.

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. One of two cats that roam the neighborhood. This one might be feral. (The other one wears a collar and is much friendlier.)

*aves saint laurent

And look. You’re allowed to throw away things that belonged to people who have died. You are allowed to say “I tried to donate it, nobody wants it, I’m not going to use it, it served its purpose well and now I am going to get rid of it” Even if it’s old.

Sometimes the best thing to do with heirlooms is use them. Take the train set out of the box and let your grandkids play with it. Use the fine china. It might break. Let the doll’s lace dress get dirty. Not all value comes from being untouched for eternity.

"I meant to do that!"

Ah, so THAT'S the source of the increased humidity due to all the White Tears.

Of course I drew the whistling potato. #art #potato

Oh. Oh, dear. I had missed that, too.

If we actually had clean indoor air standards, robust vax policy and funding for next generation vax and antivirals, and required masking in key settings like healthcare? This would be much less of a misery for everyone, and CERTAINLY much less of a mental and financial burden.

PSA for YouTube Creators! Just wanna share this in case you don't want Google to have access to remix your YouTube shorts with GenAI using Gemini! YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED. Here is what it's doing and how to opt out of said option if you don't want your shorts to be remixed with AI.

Please check your videos and bulk edit them all. This is so so very horrible!

When the sky winks its eye… 😏

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon. No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn. The parking attendant moved on.

When assembling your dog, please make sure that you follow the instructions carefully.

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won the Democratic nomination for governor on Tuesday, stunning the field by avoiding the runoff her rivals had hoped would expose lingering doubts about her ability to win in November. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Anyway if you're a man wondering how to get women to like you apparently friendly conversation where you let a woman finish her sentences is the trick.

Thread, up and down. (Up is about DOGE and Ebola, down is about... well... the other epidemic in wealthy circles.)

If you're curious about how this plays out, may I recommend the book INTO THE DROWNING DEEP, by Mira Grant?

Memorial Day weekend if often the first time of the year that many of us get to the beach. Remember, rip currents can sweep even the strongest swimmer away from shore. If at all possible, stay near a lifeguard while swimming. Learn more at: weather.gov/beach

At least Clippy was cute and didn't actively steal from my friends.

Does your local tech company understand consent? > Yes! > Maybe later

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

Hey I dunno who needs to hear this but: if you want to paint your bathroom trim to match your cabinets, you can just contact the cabinet manufacturer, ask them for the RAL or hex code of the paint colour, and then get any major DIY store to mix the paint to match

LibraryReads Hall of Fame PLATFORM DECAY by Martha Wells has been selected as a LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick for May!

Colorado just legalised ‘balcony solar’ for apartments and renters These systems can be mounted on apartment balconies, patios and walls, opening rooftop-style solar access to millions of renters and multi-family households. buff.ly/ArwMR52 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Young capybara in a Hawaiian shirt! Cutest. Thing. Ever.

The library isn’t just for books; patrons can take advantage of resources such as digital magazines, eBooks, and audiobooks that can be accessed from almost anywhere. Here are five ways your library can help make summer more enjoyable and productive: buff.ly/RwNXHId #Libraries #Resources #Summer

💊 The antiviral ensitrelvir was found to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to COVID-positive individuals 💷 The U.K. government announced £4.75 million in funding for ME study 👂 A new phase 2 trial is studying a compound for Long COVID related tinnitus Research updates: bit.ly/42PMTY7

Irises! In. My. Yard.

I miss the era when rich people used to build libraries and theaters. We need more of that and less AI.

Merkitty

1. A Kansas Judge has struck down the anti-trans "experts" the ADF parades. "Cherry-picked information, conjecture, and research taken out of context," ruled Judge Folsom III. He then established 349 facts that support trans care and reversed the Kansas ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.