Daily tree fact: The older a tree gets, the more human bones they collect and hoard beneath their roots to nourish them through the winter. That’s basic science.

lordy I thought this was satire

These Charles Shultz drawings are doing cartoonist things to my brain.

I can’t think of a better day to wish you a merry Christmas

Omg I am such a dingbat, I went to look up news articles about foxes, to see if there were any funny examples of foxes doing things in urban environments, so I googled "Fox News", and obviously it gave me fox news, and I was like "What the hell!" then realized that no, this one's on me.

Checked out a cute new coffee shop near by and finished this great comic book! Thanks @nicolegoux.bsky.social and Dave Baker for another fun read. #NormalizeReadingInPublic

Comic books aren't just escapist fantasy. They're sophisticated social critiques.

It’s desert bus time!! Starting at 6p eastern today and running for about a full week 24hr/day (depending on donations), get your funnies here: desertbus.org!

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Is there a German word for the unyielding disappointment you feel when you start a new hobby and you’re once again not a savant-level genius at it immediately? Because there should be

My nam is fishe And normily I swimm in rivere Lek or see butte somtime i swimm up to farre i fal from skeye an smashe yor carre

Today!! Comic Book Club!!

🌷✨ shortboxcomicsfair.com ✨🌷 comic by @weisanboo.bsky.social

major traffic incident

Green-and-Black Fruiteater near Jardín, Antioquia #Colombia #birds #nature

For a break in the horrors, enjoy some silliness. Like this… youtu.be/RzkQC0e91Nc?...

nobody wants a thinner phone. everyone wants a longer computer. look at this rig. phenomenal

Does anyone else feel as if they’re just *barely* keeping it together, like chronically? Everything is too much, fucking everywhere, all at goddamn once. 🫠

Life is hard because sometimes I need to adjust my meds and sometimes I need a crisp Diet Coke and I still can’t tell which is which

Immigrants are a net good and more people should be saying so. Signed, an immigrant.

News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n

Book club time! @cbccpodcast.bsky.social Lunar New Year Love Story and a (decaf, ice) Paper Heart Latte at Meanwhile Coffee!

Gotta be honest and say that it once again feels stressful that all the evil people are doing evil things and making life worse for everyone

I have designed a new shirt for @topa.to, it's been ten years since I last did one so this is kind of an experiment, we just need to sell 30 to fund them. In black or watermelon. For all those who hate heat. topatoco.com/collections/...

Here's a @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon #science #scientists #laboratory

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

Dear Disney. In Moana, we establish the sea is sentient. In Frozen, the sea kills Elsa's parents. ELSA VS MOANA is a revenge thriller where, etc, etc.

My schedule for next month is pretty barren, so, if you need wild art that you won't find anywhere else on your next project, consider hiring me? Covers, sequentials, character design, album covers, I do it all! Portfolio: lanelloyd.crevado.com I also offer commissions if you don't have a project

Our next batch of Comic Book Club Buttons are Here! Join us on 9/7 at 4:00 PM at Meanwhile...Coffee in Herndon, Virginia as we discuss the Multi-Eisner-Winning OGN Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham.

A poem from this morning.

I don't use the word "abomination" often but...

I believe it because it’s an amazing image!

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

a crime happened ON them? TO them? ABOUT them? how specifically do crimes happen on or about parents www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

this may be the pinnacle of my science communication career

happy anniversary to one of my favourite stories

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." -Edward Abbey

We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

Do crime. Drink Milkshakes. @archiecomics.bsky.social Vs Minor Threats #1 is available August 6th at your local comic shop! Preorder now! 💥 @pattonoswalt.bsky.social @blumjordan.bsky.social @darkhorse.com 💥

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

I've seen it repeated a few times but I can't stop thinking about it: in the, say, 50s, cost of living(rent etc) was far lower, but THINGS were more expensive. You could live comfortably, if you simply bought less. Now it's the opposite, cost of living is huge, and THINGS are cheap

Since I posted this video, Newsweek and HuffPost have covered the story - which is great, but obviously nowhere close to enough

July is Mozzarella. For sure.

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s astigmatism