Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

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

Uh, somehow I’m between the 95th and 99th percentile. There really *must* be a market for boring, reply-guy content!

Happy Pythagorean triple day (9/16/25) y'all's

The problem and reason for the dichotomy of reaction between someone criticizing right-wing Kirk and someone criticizing a left-wing victim is that the right-wing maga mob are prepared to harass and attack en mass anyone who dares critique their heros.

Loved this from @jamellebouie.net this weekend (gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...)

“Civility” with respect to tone cannot be divorced from incivility of content. If you opine to me, in pleasant, measured tones, that stoning homosexuals like myself is an example “affirming God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters,” I’m unlikely to treat that as civil discourse.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

America, 2025

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Agreed, but I have often gotten into a pedantic argument with a friend about this. I believe “respect” is an earned acknowledgement of expertise, authority, or goodwill, but that “courtesy” is owed to all, unless they have proven they don’t deserve it by their deplorable actions or behaviour.

Great idea but it doesn’t work worth a damn on iOS. Safari doesn’t let you select countries or states; Chrome does, but doesn’t let you move them. And no love for Canadian provinces.

Bluesky right now ...

The layoff of the American Experience team is such a stomach-dropper of a story. This is really tragic for people who want to understand our country better - the story-telling they do is unparalleled. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...

I have clients who call me the TARDIS of software developers: I don’t always take you where you WANT to go, but I always take you where you NEED to go.

Here’s a slightly longer version of those who need a full 144 seconds of joy. The full Coldplay Tiny Desk Concert is on YouTube at youtu.be/j82L3pLjb_0?... Viva La Vida starts at about 2:55 in.

You can’t pack more joy into a 90-second clip than Coldplay’s 2020 “Tiny Desk” @npr.org #LetsGoLetsGoLetsGo 💕

Needed a little something.

So I think a lot about the whole “we/they didn’t vote for THIS” thing. Because some people who voted for Trump will say they didn’t vote for whatever Horror is going on, and then the natural response is “but you fucking did, what are you talking about” And I think we may be framing this wrong

I always thought Trump was the worst amalgam of Nixon and Reagan. Nixon was brilliant but paranoid and distrusted everyone. Reagan was dumb as a rock but had a competent support team that made him shine. Trump is as dumb as Reagan and as paranoid as Nixon.

If the nazi site is nicer to you than the non-nazi site then that might be a you problem tbh

Gonna be a wild couple of days if Musk doesn't get to it first

“Mom, can we buy a dictator’s palace?” “We have a dictator’s palace at home.” The dictator’s palace at home:

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

This is the same crappy meal that he served at the crypto dinner. His chef has really got to diversify his menu.

I last visited Paris during the massive heat wave in 2003. The aircon in my Hilton room was not at all up to the task, even though it was a north facing room. I understand the ambivalence over air conditioning in a climate that doesn’t need it often, but … www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...

I was an avid reader of Fleming’s Bond novels and I always said that, despite his short tenure, George Lazenby was the most accurate portrayal of the written Bond … and then came Craig. He was the epitome of the literary Bond AND successful on screen. Just amazing! 😻

We don't need a soulless ghoul like Stephen Miller. We need an uncompromising bastard like Lyndon Johnson.

Nope, No, Negatory, Yaccarino is not going to launch a “polished” redemption tour, and expect people to forget how she blatantly cheered Elon on when he inadvertently and then purposefully revealed his worst right-wing authoritarianism and - bonus! - racism. No way.

Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting. -- Joel Spolsky

Ditto.

The young raccoon on the left enjoyed a delightful time playfully sparring with its mother...until her patience wore thin, prompting her to give the little one a dunk in the water to help it cool down! #wildlife #raccoons #StanleyPark #Vancouver

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

At some point, someone in power will need to revisit these cases with the view towards treating them as bribery and charging the participants accordingly. Not a surprise that the DOJ pledged to stop pursuing corporate bribery charges at the start of 47’s term.

He taxed US citizens by 20-40% for products from Vietnam and allowed Vietnam to import products for free.

“everglades concentration camp” is right there, and more descriptive

Dispensing copyright-related “it depends” at #alaac25, courtesy of @libraryfutures.bsky.social!

Second look at strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as basis for government?

A man is dying. His granddaughter asks, Where were you born? Austria-Hungary Where did you go to school? Poland Where were you married? The Ukrainian SSR Where were your children born? The German Reich, then USSR. Where will you die? Ukraine. Wow! You sure moved around! What? I never left the city!

I put all the Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event so you don't have to. 🇨🇦 (I was looking for this and couldn't find it, so it became a weird hobby. It genuinely may be of interest only to me.) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Signed up! All I ask is that each individual post on @gandersocial.bsky.social be called a “goose,” as in “I’ll forward you a goose I saw on Gander” and “As soon as it happened I goosed it” And of course, “Man, that was a career ending goose.”

brutal thread