"there are no atheists in foxholes" is a terrible expression. sure, the things that foxes worship do not resemble our "gods". that does not mean that they are atheists

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

This is INCREDIBLE. The Bearded Vulture has multigenerational nests that last for hundreds of years, built in very secluded places — and they’re FULL OF ANTHROPOGENIC ARTIFACTS.

Don,t forget to occasionally refill your apostrophes with helium or they,ll sink

Meanwhile, in the small German town of Bad Kerning, the Burnout conference has gone predictably awry

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Hi! We've made the Put This In Your Ear Object. It is the ideal size and shape to put in your ear, feels really nice when you put it in your ear, and can be used to clean out earwax, by putting it in your ear. Just one thing, though. Under NO circumstances should you put this in your ear.

For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected. Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.

A simple, haunting poetry in this information from a medical musuem website.

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Our neighbour has just had his second silver wedding anniversary. Not his 50th - 25 years in a previous marriage and 25 in this one. There can’t be many people who could say the same, surely?

As someone who knows nothing about rugby, this looks like Saints scored 80 points which was so many they forgot to count Rhinos' but reckoned it was probably somewhere in the mid-teens

Nice try Morrisons

every AI ad is like “hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?” and then the phone is like “sandwich” and the guy is like “wow”

I cannot possibly say space any other way.

Well don't I feel stupid

This was making me snort-laugh all the way through my lunch break. Highly recommend

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children. Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

still my absolute fave is this in a bird hide in Cumbria

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

Pretty fucking sure there’s a word in Arabic that means submission, lol. It’s a famous one. I bet you know it.

Habsbaaaaarg

Paracetomol is a very common ingredient in cold and flu meds, and pain meds (over the counter and prescription). Always check the label, and if you're taking one medicine which contains paracetomol, DO NOT take any others.

PSA: paracetomol/acetaminophen/tylenol obviously does not cause autism but it's a medicine you need to be very, very careful about taking no more than the rexommended dose, even slightly. Overdose can cause liver damage or failure.

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

okay we get it, it's a boy

To paraphrase something I saw yesterday (can’t remember where unfortunately!), they see their opponents willingness to have a debate in good faith as a sign of weakness

Thoughts: It's not debating, it's shouting over people and gaslighting them so that their frustrated reactions make you go viral. I am also very wary of people who think we should spend more time talking people out of their bigotry than helping those directly affected by their bigotry.

BBC Voice: And here in England the end of summer and start of autumn is marked in the traditional way with the Sacrifice of the Peter Mandelson.

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times. (1/3)

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

was idly looking up how many people DOGE is projected to kill and Google’s AI informed me that it was all in my head and that DOGE isn’t real

Tennessee Williams died in 1983, so he was alive at the same time as Venus and Serena - the other tennis-y Williams

Slightly diminish a book: The Snivelling of Lot 49 The Weak Force's Rainbow Mason & Neufon U

fascinated by Intel, in 1994, commissioning a Navajo / Diné weaver to make a rug using traditional techniques replicating the Pentium die

Lovely clouds this afternoon

PHONE ALERT TEST at 3pm. A final reminder for all those hiding a phone for whatever reason.

This is a fascinating interview even if, like me, you know nothing whatsoever about Lee Child or Reacher

Can’t even use the interior of an egg as a byword for homogeneity these days. Because of yolk

I have no respect for the way chimpanzees choose to live their lives

A dictionary project at my work is looking for Australian and Canadian copyeditors to act as consultants - anyone have contacts who might be interested?

Disagree. At least one guy is for sure.

shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Knowing the difference between a purview, a bailiwick, a wheelhouse and a forte isn't my thing i'm good at.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Freed from desire, mind and senses purified Freed from desire, mind and senses purified Freed from desire, mind and senses purified Freed from desire...

“the entire business model: Get people addicted to the thing to the extent they can no longer function without it, and they will simply have to learn to live with it doing a bad job.”

Wheeeen theee Bird in your room represents all your gloom Nevermoré When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave Nevermoré It will rap Tippy tippy tap Tippy tippy tap Waking you from naps aaand Your dream-a Then will fly Never tell you why Even if you cry Landing on your sideboard Athena