why are ironing boards always so squeaky? is the solution wd-40? graphite? just dealing with it like i have for my entire life?

Alt text: Parker, a very handsome and large sea lion, stands behind his birthday ice cake, sticking his tongue out, and ignoring the small fish scattered on and around the cake for him.

alt text: A big male sea lion has turned his back on his birthday ice cake, with his nose up in the air. The ice cake is yellow with blueish fish and says “golden birthday” with the number 24.

Sometimes your birthday comes with big feelings. 🫸🎂

I’m sure some of the buttons in my collection are over 100 years old, since the jar started with my aunt’s grandma… Other than that, probably the old equipment at work that I want to figure out how to display since no one goes into the field with a reel-to-reel recorder any more!

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

In the 70s, my dad worked in a lab investigating lead contamination on CA produce, and he remembered testing a bunch of grapes, and hearing the lead precipitate *clunk* onto the bottom of the beaker.

i am really enjoying this game but nothing is gonna beat the high of getting a perfect score on the v first question a few days ago, thanks Dr. Ikram!

Sir Ian McKellen.

cream cheese. no.

Joan of Arcadia.

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and the children’s book world, is saddened by the news that author, mentor and friend, Jane Yolen, has died. She was 87 and her loss cannot be measured. Please find the full obituary here: www.scbwi.org/remembering-...

Union members ratified the contract Wednesday by a 99% vote, according to Unite Here Local 11 spokesperson Maria Hernandez. lapublicpress.org/2026/06/sofi...

Wake up y’all new structure ambiguity exercise just dropped. #linguistics

i did not have “take an elevator to an unfinished ventilation space/attic by accident” on today’s bingo card, and yet!

tempted to buy ice cream on my way home to celebrate almost the end of the quarter, but the chances that i can stay awake enough to enjoy it are slim…

this rules

In the 1st five years of your life you learned more about the world than you ever learned since, and at a faster pace than any machine has ever achieved. And you learned none of it from the written word.

Say what you will about Caligula, but he appointed an *entire* horse to a government position, not just the rear end.

Tonight, hours before our election count begins, USC's admin formally ran to the Trump federal NLRB asking them to overturn democracy. This shit is wildly cynical and has huge implications for academic workers nationally and I am begging my journalist followers to get in touch

Nobody sees the 4:00 am works outs. Nobody sees the hours of meal prepping. Nobody sees the time spent in meditation bettering myself. Nobody sees any of this. Because I don’t do these things.

This is a cat check point. relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

PSA

The rules require that I post this poem whenever the topic of pockets in women's clothing comes up.

h.s. english teacher told us that just because she had written something in quotes (in a hw question) didn’t mean it was actually a quote from the book the assignment was about. i had basically re-read the entire book the night before trying to answer the question.

textbooks for freshman year of college, i think? that can’t be right

Ahh no wait sorry let me fix that

Ok this is a truly great tweet

So close! That is a shape!

listening to someone nearby in my apartment complex absolutely fuck up driving screws, making that clonk-clonk-clonk noise of the drill bit absolutely ripping out the top of the screw :( over and over again.

and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all

i think one of most magical things about discworld is that i can read a book for the nth time and find something i don’t remember seeing before. of *course* octarine is a pigment of the imagination. #gnuTerryPratchett

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

From the full story linked in comments: "The beavers have also allowed the city to scrap expensive plans to dig a reservoir and levee. 'We said the beavers can do it for a fraction of the cost, certainly more sustainably,' McCormack says."

Bland

this is really good, and i haven’t finished it yet, but my god please do not inhale helium directly from a canister

This one right here just caught a bird, a reminder that this beauty is a just a wolf descendent trying her best

The Egyptian Revolution in 2011? I think I would probably be an archaeologist now if I could have stayed in Cairo that year

academics trying to normalize acceptance of AI hallucinated citations in their field: do you seriously expect me to show my work and check my work me, baffled, a naïf, a fool: yes that’s why it’s called *your* *work*

Fixed it for them.

hbd to ellie!!! 💙🦭💙

is it (L to R) kavanaugh, gorsuch, thomas, coney barrett, alito, roberts? i am not a professional supreme court justice recognizer

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

“I’m just so goddamn fed up with all this,” Gina Small, 29, said in a comment on the U.S. economy that one of her friends assumed was about the world’s ongoing humanitarian crises, another friend thought was about the weaponization of America’s military against its own people.

From me: O'odham leaders seek answers about damage to 1,000-year-old geoglyph

this came to me in a dream

we got a banger youtu.be/Ccq30minme8