And this is why we need science AND the arts

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

What happens when you pick an American Pope: he builds an entire international trip around a Thanksgiving Turkey pun

Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out

Carve it into the shape of a turkey and we'll put it in an overfilled deep fryer.

Me, asleep on a plane, being woken up by the attendant asking if I want a bag of nuts

That is a good early morning giggle right there

This Friday my wife and I will celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. This morning, we received an early gift. I have no doubt that other legal challenges will arise, but I’m celebrating today’s victory. 🏳️‍🌈💜

Today.

My Xylem painting at the Shop Made in DC show #sciart

Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

Southwest VA 🙌

LOCAL ELECTION RESULT: Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board. For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.

Well you Winsome, you Losesome 🤷‍♂️

Waiting for the first “Winsome, Lose Some” headline

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

this is the Pope his entire thing is going around waving to crowds and looking happy he is also such a White Sox fan that this is the maddest - and most human - I have ever a pope look

That seals it: going to Ireland next year ☘️

Someone decided to start the day with chaos.

Free groceries across the DMV for furloughed workers. (via @jointhemvemnt on IG www.instagram.com/p/DQFCW0BjqT...)

3 little words to drive him wild

Free Halloween Lyft rides offered in Alexandria to prevent drunk driving

Now this is a version of "taking your secret recipe to the grave" that I can get behind. 🍜📚☠️

The best short ghost story ever.

#food #recipes #death #genealogy 'To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes, out October 7, features 40 recipes found on tombstones around the country and beyond...' www.eater.com/eater-at-hom...

The horrors persist, but so do I.

Tis the season 🎃

Riding in the elevator with a mom and older toddler. Man gets on and is bellowing into his phone. Toddler looks at him and says, "That is not an inside voice." Man has grace to say, "You're right." Mom and I crack up when man gets off elevator before us, but inside laughing

[With a Transylvanian accent]: “Is Pepsi okay?”

Wonder what I would get if I LARRY my food order 🤔

When I told my wife this cat's name is Greg, she almost started crying.

doomscroll break

Whoa 📚 🏴‍☠️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

There we go

Now I know what you’re thinking: Did they make a video abstract for this important study? Reader,

Blue jays are not truly blue, they just look that way. 🪶🧪 Most colors in nature come from pigments that absorb and reflect light, but a blue jay creates its color through structural tricks: microscopic layers and air pockets that scatter blue light back to our eyes.

This is a truly remarkable finding: 17 years after introduction of the HPV vaccine, there was a decreased prevalence of HPV infection (and therefore decreased cancer risk) in both vaccinated AND unvaccinated individuals. Cancer prevention through herd immunity!!!

Exceptional news, library folks. 📚

For those anxiously awaiting it: the NSF GRFP solicitation is out, with a November 14 deadline for Geoscience applicants: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

🟡 M4.8 #earthquake detected 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California at 9/22/2025 2:56:12 AM PDT This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information

“Don't talk to me or my son ever again”

“I’m an eleven, but continue.”

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

This week marks 4 years since the birth of my second son and my breast cancer diagnosis. It’s my annual reminder to be grateful for life, and also to encourage other women to check their breasts. Women with dense breast tissue are at higher of breast cancer — early detection truly saves lives.