Roused in the night by thumping and piteous mewing. Is the cat ok?? No. He has become trapped inside the bathroom, because the door (open) was not quite open enough to permit his egress, and only became *less* open when pushed upon.

This country is more attached to racism than survival

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

This is horrible, but I want to also point out how it truly exposes that anti-abortion proponents do not care about life and only care about hating women. If you kill a pregnant woman seeking an abortion, and you think abortion is murder, congratulations, you just committed two murders.

Extraordinary piece about being a journalist covering ICE/Border Patrol. I wanted to screenshot a couple quotes, but too many. Read it all. Agents wanting to bask in glory of journalist lenses while avoiding scrutiny reminds me of Arkan's Tigers, a Serbian death squad Ron Haviv photographed in 90s.

How is it Microsoft can devote endless resources to shoving AI into everything and yet still has not managed to put a regular degular search bar into the 'special characters' menu in Word?

These Ferguson activists all died within 4 years of the Ferguson protests. #Blacksky Darren Seals (29) Danye Jones (24) Bassem Masri (31) Edward Crawford Jr. (27) MarShawn McCarrel (23)

As the Starmer government announces a ‘crackdown’ on teenagers accessing social media, FIPR are publishing our response to express deep concern with the proposals to implement strong Age Verification by default for online services. These will not only affect children, but all adults in the UK.

Yes we know you had to hide inside and just survive debilitating heat in May, but we gotta crank up the emissions output for the bullshit machine. Whats it output you ask? Shareholder value thats what

It really does feel crazy experiencing climate change through extreme weather and have the gov cheerlead massive ai data centres and want to do away with net zero all together

Right so how many countries is Israel going to do this to before we decide it's too many because the correct answer is 0 and we're on, like, three now

hashtag Canadian research problems

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Pimento cheese is the devil's own foodstuff. Ruins everything it touches. Disgusting. After voicing this opinion I am no longer welcome in North Carolina.

I would simply throw a silver-threaded blanket over the haunted mirror that Tony Blair comes from and ring it with salt so that he can no longer communicate with our realm

So, manipulation? Idk, seems bad. "Getting people to do stuff you want them to do" seems meaningfully distinct from "convincing/persuading people to do the things you want them to do" -- in that the latter involves changing their minds, as a political equal, so that they want what you want.

late 19th century: be a nerd about modernism early 20th century: be a jock about modernism late 20th century: be a nerd about postmodernism early 21st century: be a jock about postmodernism

Friends, if you ever find yourself questioned by police about a matter in which you believe you are inncocent, you experience pressure to talk freely to demonstrate compliance and the legal rep advices no comment, then for God's sake do not comment

It's not massively important to me what people assume and infer about Nicola Sturgeon in the wake of the Murrell business, but it is extremely important that people understand that we all have the right to "no comment" the police

My cat protects me very diligently from any bugs that come into the flat, but this one is on the ceiling and it is causing GREAT CONSTERNATION. Items on shelves, always in danger since he came to live here, are now finding the floor at greatly accelerated rates.

I am searching for a monograph: Gislén, T., and H. Kauri. 1959. Zoogeography of the Swedish amphibians and reptiles with notes on their growth and ecology. Acta Vertebratica. Stockholm 1: 197–397. Anyone happen to have a copy of this issue of Acta Vertebratica? Probably no PDFs exist! 🧪

Labour politician tacking to the far right to try and win Reform voters? Does anyone know if this has worked in the past? This sounds like a great plan, but Im afraid I've recently suffered a TBI and have no memory of the past 7 years.

Downloaded @hankgreen.bsky.social's bean productivity app and now I have decision paralysis decorating its little house.

Seen a lot of posts pointing out how it's objectively not, but I'll add: Trump is not even the worst US president. The actual worst US president is featured on the $20 bill, and this is maybe an indication of why 'the system' is completely failing to stop these people.

Look, I know biodiversity is good and everything but I think we can all agree that there are FAR too many ants.

Barbara Allen did nothing wrong

every day i find an incredible guy (from a painting scroll attributed to qiu ying called "raising the alms bowl: the conversion of hariti, mother of demons) asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

I'm a big fan of the prole.info books/pamphlets, in particular both the housing monster and abolish restaurants. They're basically an accessible introduction to Capital focused on relatable issues of housing and service work.

I'm coming to the realization that most people don't actually care about things like accuracy or honesty. And I'm not sure what to do with that.

Absolutely incredible that all these publications are busy screaming and pissing the floor about how antisemitic the Green Party of England and Wales are supposed to be while simultaneously getting out the Big Book of How To Draw The Hated Jew for their editorial cartoons

I promise I’m happier than I look, it’s just too warm today for my favourite white and gold jumper. I should have worn a t shirt

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

When I heard stories about the giants of biology reading the great treatises of their fields to their infant children, I always assumed it was meant to illustrate their devotion to science or something -- but it turns out you just very quickly run out of things to say to someone who can't talk back.

We do not concede the south, the birthplace & continued lifeblood of the Black American experience, to people who hate us. We do not throw in the towel. Black people have every right to be southerners & very much are no matter who likes it.

"You just take things literally" No, that's kleptomaniacs…

Delighted by the inclusion of raccoons and pigeons in this set.

Amazing to me that people keep screaming about security failures in a situation where security did not fail. Bad things didn't even happen to bad people, so you can stop pretending to be worried about that. Stop whining for a bigger, badder police state.

Okay so what I’m hearing is that violent rhetoric about pedophiles in government is only acceptable if the pedophiles are made up

The operative word here being "trying".

“We need to tone down political rhetoric.”

science/public health communicators need to get better at this. stop playing their rigged game, you’re never going to win. they know what they’re doing. we need to as well

If the whisky that evaporates from the cask is the angels' share, is the devil's share the drops that run down the outside of the bottle while pouring?

Begging the publishing industry for a little more variety in cover design

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed today in a targeted Israeli strike. The IDF fired live rounds and stun grenades at the Red Cross ambulances trying to reach her. She is the 4th journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. Photo via X @HindRFoundation.

I'm still trying to make #cursedbinomialnomenclature and #blessedbinomialnomenclature happen, but I can't decide which one 'Ursos arctos' is. I mean on the one hand, 'Bear bear' should be blessed, but 'Bear [Latin] bear [Greek]' feels pretty cursed.

“The idea behind code review is not to judge people, but to check for errors and explain coding best practices.” Happy to be part of a recent piece that amongst other things, discusses code review: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI everywhere in everything, and yet Word's grammar check still has no idea what a 'clause' is, and is constantly trying to get me to insert erroneous commas, or remove correct ones.

have there been similarly culturally pervasive “everyone needs to start using this tech right now” pushes over such a relatively brief time frame as we’re currently seeing with LLMs? (This is a very genuine question)

This is enraging. It is also far too common, especially here. What's that? A vaunted local Asheville business just suddenly shut down, fired their workers and stole their pay? Again?

How old were you when you first heard about evolution? The concept, not any particular mechanisms.