A couple thousand years? Its been at least 150,000 years. Homo sapiens have been leveraging our collective strengths to lead to better outcomes for everyone for the entire existence of our species. Its literally what we evolved to do.

Life has been busy! New home, planning for the future, and trying to keep the groundhogs away from the vegetable garden. But the good news is that Cheese has absolutely taken to the new place as if we bought it just for him 😅

Wintu Shasta Salamander (Hydromantes wintu) in its limestone cave habitat #herps #herpetology #fieldherping #salamander

BREAKING: Illinois is currently shut out of Medicaid. Gov. JB Pritzker’s office reports that the Trump funding freeze has shut the state out of the federal health care program. Medicaid covers nearly 4 million people in Illinois. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...

It’s wild seeing folks on social media learning about export controls today

Introduce yourself in 4 movies Hard to pick a top 4 (or top 8) so there’s a recency bias!

I usually take my allotted wfh days, but is is really nice to have the quiet office option when I need it 😁 I haven’t developed a mega chair yet through

I actually trademarked “threepeat” after my 3rd pap smear without crying but no one throws confetti for me

Glory to the Great Khan, no mercy to our foes

your anxiety is a lying ass bitch

Conservative Outraged Tampons Available In Men’s Grocery Stores theonion.com/conserv...

Mental what our society could accomplish if we knew anything about women/female animals

huh...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

Happy Winter Solstice Things can only get brighter from here on out.

Morpheus: You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. me (42 years old): which one is ibuprofen

what is the us department of defense website guy doing www.defense.gov/News/News-St...

That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are

And they wonder why no one is upset when a health insurance ceo is murdered

the answer to "why don't americans have..." and it's something so simple like national healthcare or feeding kids at school the answer is "bc Black people would also have it"

Elon Musk, billionaire owner of Tesla, once belonged to a group of businessmen who played ruthless capitalists. In the game, called "Monopoly," players aggressively pursue a plan of real estate domination, buying land and building homes and even hotels, while trying to avoid being sent to jail.

The poster isn’t on bluesky so screenshotting but this is definitely one of the more evil UHC stories I’ve seen.

Twitter is doing Abrahamic-Pokemon Numerology on the assassin

important update:

Hallmark Christmas movie where a girl from NYC goes home for the holidays and meets a small town boy who has definitely never been to Manhattan, certainly not on the morning of December 4, 2024

f r i d a y n i g h t

Got to say “see you next year” already to a coworker leaving on vacation soon. I think that’s a personal record for earliest day in December I’ve used that dad joke

The Steppe horde hard at work

It’s time to think about becoming the change you want to see in the world.

My work computer is being a little dramatic today

A potential partner must have the correct level of enthusiasm about the Muppets. Too little and their hearts are devoid of joy. Too much and they are into an extreme kink so disgusting only a theatre kid could imagine it.

Saltwater Dems have lost the Mandate of Heaven. The spirit of the nation must drink from the fountain of the Freshwater Dems.

me: i’ve got something i want to say brain: ok me: and i need to know the dumbest way to say it brain: (excited) OK

Actually “per my last email” was not unheard of in millennia-old cuneiform letters. A woman named Datâ in the 8th century BCE wrote to her brother, “Why have I not seen your messenger until this very day? Now, if you are alive, let me forgive the shortcomings of your character…”

Is my entire adult life going to consist of discovering conditions I've had since I was a kid that were never diagnosed?

Yesterday one of my students taught me a couple of ways to sign “fossil” in ASL. The one on the right is evocative bc it’s the bone sign but buried. The one on the left is used more for plant fossils, apparently, and is meant to show an object on a slab. I love these!

[Beck voice] in the time of NFTs they stole my monkey

It’s morbin’ time at the salt shed tonight

Happy Post Hog Friday to you guys

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Gut feeling: Taking away funding for basic research is like when they said to kill all the sparrows because they were eating the grain, only the consequences will be much slower

I must have officially entered middle age - I now have a favorite wildlife live cam channel. Seeing the barracuda or cormorant is the highlight of my day #TeamFish www.youtube.com/live/qi0mY6z...

November 11 doodle

Proterozoic Rocks xkcd.com/3008

5 days until the start of #SciArtSeptember ✨ - #sciart #scicomm #artchallenge

Leptoglossus oppositus on a cypress tree, covered in today’s rain

You guys, my wedding is approaching fast and it's been tricky to find time make to art! This last #SundayFishSketch prompt was the handfish, which I happen to have a WIP of. Maybe I'll finish it after the Big Day?