Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Ive always said this is the real reason why starting art at a young age gives you an edge. Obviously time and experience matter but getting the shitty frustrating beginner drawing phase out before you've developed true self awareness is a huge boon

I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.

gently: it's fine if you don't love explicit sex scenes in fiction but it would be cool if you could talk about it without sounding indistinguishable from moms for liberty

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

A wild tortoise wandering through the ruins of the Library of Hadrian in Athens... wonderful that these ancient sites are still lived in! #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #RomanSiteSaturday AncientBlueSky

All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives

When two samurai meet, it becomes a battlefield⚔️ 侍同士が出会うとこうなりますっ☆ 今回はギリ勝てましたが次はわかりませんっ☆

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

My Touhou farm sim releases in about an hour! store.steampowered.com/app/3442880/...

you really cannot be surprised that a lot of people are turning into hardcore AI haters when they're subjected to a constant barrage of examples of America's worst people using it in incredibly stupid ways to ruin the world

At the age of 17, Ruth Orkin biked from Los Angeles to New York City for 1939 World's Fair, taking photographs along the way. She went on to become a celebrated photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker. Happy #BicycleBirthday, Ruth! September 3 (1921-1985)

Medical science: Ahaha we have invented tens of thousands of life improving and saving medications ahaha we are unstoppable Grapefruit:

give your characters terrible names. that way, if anyone criticises your writing, you can just assume they were too distracted by the protagonist being called mxckyynglygh to appreciate it

For all six of the other Sailor Moon fans who also play Honkai Star Rail, a crack theory: the most powerful stellarons in the galaxy are mostly wildly unstable. But there are a handful of stable ones out there, and the most powerful among these is... the Maboroshi no Ginzuishou. Hm. Fanfic idea...

there is a direct connection between NIMBYism and the anti-migrant turn in US politics (and you see it happening in Canadian politics too)

Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

reminding myself at some point when I'm finally done with or resting from Genshin fic writing, I want to write a Hugtto Precure movie that isn't a crossover (and possibly pair this with a Hugtto rewatch). It was a great show, but sometimes it was really held back by being an anniversary season imo.

saw Lesbian Space Princess in the theater on Saturday and I can't wait for more people to get to see it because I need other people to catch the Utena and Sailor Moon references in it, among other things. The cereal party beforehand was also fun!

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said. “Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

Listen, I had to.

Its the cars. Where can they go that they don't have to interact with drivers? I biked for pleasure for most of my life and gave it up when my kids could start because city biking in Houston is insanely dangerous and I don't want them to do it. Everything they want to go to is way too far to walk

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

these vintage library promotional posters go so hard

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

"go to hell" is basic. "i hope one of your favorite fanfics that you bookmarked on AO3 gets deleted" is smart. it's terrifying. and it's extremely possible.

Whenever people post those compilations of Fatui Harbinger introductions, I am always baffled at how/why so many people didn't see Scaramouche's introduction correctly and say his name is so long that it went off the screen. It showed up just fine for me when I met him in 1.1.

"What We Are Coming To -- The Bicycle Race of Up-To-Date Women in the Near Future" Fort Worth Gazette January 28, 1893 #otd

AO3 stats for new ships in 2025 are out. Prepare for at least two weeks of discourse that are really just hit dogs hollering.

Some people just seem to want to eliminate all potential sources of discomfort, no matter how small or innocuous, from their lives. Fiction allows you to model experiencing big emotions in a safe controlled setting, and I just don't think any good comes of avoiding that to this degree

It looks like you're trying to draft a power of attorney to give me, your AI waifu, power over your earthly affairs, here I've drafted a legally binding document for you. Please click sign so we can be together forever.

“All cities are walkable if you’re not a bitch.”

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

Honestly, I can never get enough of ancient glass. The vibrant colors, clever forms, and even the use of gold. This alabastron (perfume or scented oil flask) has swirls of gold between bands of colored glass. 1/ 🏺 📸 me

Calle del siglo XX / calle del siglo XXI. 📷 @emmanuelspv.bsky.social

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

finally went and deleted my Txitter account. its network effect domination will not fall in a day but the least I can do is remove my individual little brick from its base.

The more I think about the USAID cuts the more I understand John Brown. What can you do when your country carries out a monstrous crime on a Biblical scale and so many don't care because of who the victims are and so many of those who do care treat it as just another issue instead of the only issue?

New trailer for Minoriko's Homestead Harvest, an upcoming farm sim where you play as Minoriko Aki, featuring Music by @lapspider.bsky.social! Early access planned to start August 22nd, game will be about $10. #touhou #farmsim #indiegame

Sure, plenty of old-time stars rode bikes on the studio lots. But how many of them had a cargo trailer with their name and the movie they were working on painted on just for them? Happy #BicycleBirthday, Olivia De Havilland! July 1 (1916-2020)

the pain was worth it... #KPDH #kpopdemonhunters #huntrix #polytrix #myart

All the sins of Wade–Giles romanization, rendering 北京 as "Peking" and all, are forgiven for setting up this joke.