This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world

This is so cool. 1946's edition of "The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon

with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs here's one of mine

these are fabulously joyful: do read them and cheer yourself up: "Hatless and barefoot under my parasol on a summer day, I watch a burly fellow working a well-pump and singing Suzhou folk songs. The water comes up in a sudden burst, like a spill of silver coins or a gust of snow"

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: The Mountain Goats (many, many times) Tori Amos Chapell Roan Bruce Springsteen The Postal Service

Goodnight my bluesky friends 😴 💙 💕

A compliment so good @angus.bsky.social put it on a mug for me!

Boss, the FASCISM.

You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925

I love you FT Editor who signed off on the this chart header 🤌

this is mesmerizing

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Wait, so the actor who played the singer who used the godfather's influence to get a movie role in "The Godfather" (1972) apparently got his role in "The Godfather" because of the intervention of his own real-life godfather???

I am, indeed, crying

logging off is not enough I need to go back in time and kill lord byron

I TOLD Y'ALL I didn't want to learn anything else!!! I said I was DONE with information and I MEANT IT!! I don't want to KNOW THINGS any longer! I was VERY CLEAR about this: do not inform me.

Give this all the awards.

I was worried this was a trap but actually yes, go google this instead of whatever else you were about to google

me waking up and opening this app

If you don't trust Google then you probably shouldn't use Gmail, but the claim it's training AI on your emails and attachments has *no real source that i have been able to find whatsoever* And they said on the record that it doesn't matter whether you have the smart settings on or not, they don't.

I handed out neighbor-printed whistles in Flatbush tonight and it was lovely. New Yorkers in motion do not EVER stop to chat but for this, they did. One church lady in a fancy hat gleefully took a whistle and told me she’d “blow they icy asses outta her town,” then apologized skyward for swearing.

Night like tonight you really start to think about how much fun it's gonna be when it happens.

This made me cry at my desk

The most Discworld-ass email I've ever seen

Heepity jeepity Curated poetry Makes LLMs do what- Ever you want Single-turn jailbreaking Vulnerability Bypass your guardrails and Serve us some cunt

Sets for Batman Returns were kept very cold for the comfort of the real-life penguins involved. This meant that cast/crew repeatedly got sick during filming. The real-life penguins though would often fall in love with their animatronic counterparts or feel so settled that they began mating.

Hello Friday. One of Sylvia Plath’s sketches.

Sex ed is more than anatomy and sexually transmitted infections. It's relationships, identity, the full spectrum of what it means to be human, to care for ourselves and for each other. Join 192 donors who’ve contributed $21,817 to our $40k healthcare fundraiser! www.classy.org/campaign/sca...

This administration has aggressively targeted trans people, seeking to force the nation back to an imaginary time where people like us didn’t exist—where gender is a prison to cage us, instead of a canvas to express our true selves. But we have always been here.

We are in an extraordinary moment for the fight for trans lives and greater gender freedom for all. I wrote this year’s Remembrance Report - about what we’re facing, where we came from, and why we will never forget those who came before us: www.transremembrance.org/insights-and...

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SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

What sound do frogs make, according to different languages. So far as I can tell, in Latin, frogs ('ranae') croaked ('coaxō'), which also appears to be their onomatopoeia for the frog sound: coaxō 🐸🏛️? It's 'croá, croá' in Spanish?

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

I grow frustrated with local news-- by focusing so much on stories of violence, they inadvertently promote the idea that the world is more violent than it is (leading voters to candidates who promise security at all costs). But holding up a mic to a cow is incredible www.10tv.com/article/news...

Extremely smug to have correctly identified the author of this quote (though I guessed The Other Novel)

You always ask me “Jorts why are you so wet?” but I never ask why your phone is at 7%

This is the coolest photograph I have ever seen www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-...

Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.

A really fun time: I talked to Alex Horne and Greg Davies about 20! seasons! of Taskmaster, their thoughts on cast chemistry, designing tasks, their own bond, and what comes next. @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/task...

a “Space Force”, if you will