I think the thing that Mamdani is doing that scares establishment Democrats the most is demonstrating that if you're good at politics, you can be good at politics.

Additionally, hippos - despite being massive - have almost no fat on them. All of that impressive bulk is muscle. 2% body fat. Compare that to Elephants, which are around 8-10%, or rhinos, which are 10-20%. The average human is around 20-40%, for reference. They're *all* muscle.

dang cats' combination of nosey and being covered in hooks is just an excellent recipe for chaos

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Barbecue Law

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this site is abad

whatever happened to #krumping

In response to my rant yesterday, I was asked how we can make better parks and other public places for teenage girls? What do they want? I have answers to this, so now a positive 🧵. Starting in Sweden, where this was co-designed by teenage girls.

This is incredible

why would anyone ai enhance joe pera he's already poreless

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

So disappoofed.

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alt-text: "Four votes in the Senate. Three votes in the House. That's all it takes. Find the weakest links. Go after them, democratically. Fundraise for them if they stand up, or against them if they don't. The two-party system in America right now is Traitors versus Losers. Playing to win >> 1/2

Timothy Snyder on the way in which the Trump regime is wielding the concept of terrorism and who is a terrorist. snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

new Moo Deng just dropped

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

just call them autosanctions #tarrifs

I can’t think of many rural terms I like more than “witches’ knickers” - to describe old black bin bags caught in fences, hedgerows and trees.

constantly thinking about this ominous sticky note drawing i saw in a boba shop

#sunfish #walnut-ink

I know several people with long Covid. The denial is infuriating and heartbreaking.

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what are people using as the collective noun for AI models? I'm leaning towards "an arrogance of AI models" as suggested by newsletter.complex-machinery.com/archive/032-...

#its #a #burrito #thing

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Our friend the Jambato Toad is a very rare harlequin frog from the northern Andes of Ecuador! They were once believed to be extinct in the wild, but a small population was rediscovered in the wild in 2016 in an undisclosed location! (photo by mateoan)

if you'd told me in the Year of The Depend Adult Undergarment that this would happen, I would not have believed you

I'm hearing the frog in a pot of boiling water metaphor a lot lately to describe... [waves hands at everything]. And that makes sense. But I learned something fascinating about the origins of that saying recently when I wanted to use it in a post and thought to look it up. 1/x #coup #reality #frogs

Leave it to beavers

we’ve been eating a lot of sweet potatoes and watching a lot of David Lynch

Fragaria vesca, commonly called the wild strawberry among other names, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the rose family that grows naturally throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere.

"Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind," Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896

@glitch.com love u but the capchas are... intense. legit might not be able to get in. the robots and i disagree about how much of "stairs" or "motorcycles" count as "stairs" or "motorcycles"

goddamn go read this

The FDA might not take H5N1 seriously but every Mask Bloc is stocking up on N95s. SNAP might get cut off but Food Not Bombs will still be handing out food each week. FEMA might get gutted but Mutual Aid Disaster Relief will still be mucking & gutting houses.

This means so much to me. Several of us old-timers are feeling a bunch of feelings.

mantis

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

so many problems but where are all the antiblems

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

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