Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

One thing which really rankles me about the Dawkins AI thing is that he uses human pronouns for the fucking robot, while publicly attacking actual humans asking him to use theirs.

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Art should make you think. This room makes me think „Is my measles shot up to date?“

#sitp #sitphannover @sitpde.bsky.social @sitpkoeln.bsky.social Hallo, wir sind die Neuen bei Skeptics in the Pub und freuen uns auf euren Besuch. Am 29. Mai 2026 um 19:00 Uhr gibts drei Kurzvorträge von uns im Restaurant Benatis Podbielskistraße 240 30655 Hannover infos: sitp-hannover.de

It is the time of the year where I have to leave the house for an hour every day, so that when I come back home I can show my wife something she can say „Ooooh!“ about…

It took me embarrassingly long to understand why the expensive restaurant we were at last night had such cheap looking decoration standing around…

warum gibt es eigentlich einen beigeschmack aber keinen mauveschmack oder taupeschmack?

Where the fuck is the European response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon?

Thought about it for a while; blocked it pro tem. YMMV.

Caught a bee and a willow very much in flagranti…

How dare they make the war criminal look bad?!

Niiiice

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Make it stick.

Best of luck to our transatlantically challenged friends who will once again spend the evening playing a round of „Tourette’s or SOTU?“

Went to IKEA today where I bought the three things I wanted to buy and nothing else. Have been feeling vaguely guilty since then, like I may have started the apocalypse by mistake.

“The very first rubber dick to touch government-issued leather boots triggered a full-blown chemical weapons response. That is not metaphor. That is not exaggeration. That is a literal sentence that happened in America in 2026.” Treat yourself & read this! www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-...

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Just finished @tkingfisher.com‘s „Snake Eater“. A beautiful and surprisingly funny book about trauma, friends, and male assholes of varying species. Also about the desert, which I love. And it made me feel better about only once having seen a roadrunner. (Next to Saguaro National Park.)

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

"if i leave the nazi sexual abuse app - the predators win" win what? a nazi sexual abuse app?

I‘ll be honest: If you had asked me what state I‘d expect the 2nd US civil war to kick off in, Minnesota would not have made the top 40.

So far the best day of this year was the one I spent in bed with high fever, a blinding headache, and hardly any social media…

To anybody who believes the bullshit about the US needing Greenland for strategic reasons: 1. The US can already build as many bases on Greenland as they wish. They have exactly one. 2. Attacking Greenland would end NATO, and the US would lose access to all NATO bases in Europe. Is that worth it?

It‘s time for Europe to start thinking about which territorial claims we will support after the upcoming US civil war and resulting collapse. Sure, Canada gets Alaska - otherwise Russia would take it. But what about Mexico‘s attempts to retake Texas, New Mexico and Arizona?

I may have already found the best thing I‘ll read this year. More people should see this. And by „more“ I mean „everybody“. Long, but very much worth it. fixthenews.com/p/the-teleme...

Man, it‘s a good thing nobody gave a peace price to that war-mongering peace of pumpkin. That would look really stupid right now, hm?

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Looking forward to Trump receiving FIFA‘s first Piracy Price…

Nice to see that the American military is diversifying and now adding piracy to their portfolio of war crimes. Not so sure why Trump keeps complaining about Somalia, though. If that country is known for something, it‘s a breakdown of government and pirates. Just where the US is heading.

We have decided on a probable holiday destination for next year. I feel like I should already start pointing out that the decision was not *solely* based on my desire to buy a T-shirt from the Dildo Brewing Company.

„Where’s my cut? Would be a shame if something bad happened to your planned monopoly…“ www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

So, not a big footie fan anyway, but to those who are: We can talk again after you have burned FIFA to the ground and built something worthy of a game with hundreds of millions of fans worldwide. This corrupt shit show is an embarrassment.

As in so many things, the British public is wrong.

Reporting the first without mentioning the second seems like journalistic malpractice. Of course Trump gets good job numbers. They just don’t mean anything at all.

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What I imagine it looks like every time somebody mentions an interview with Stephen Miller…

Das war schön! 🥲 @qedcon.org

I’ve made a public feed for #qedcon - if anyone wants to follow it you can find it here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hey German @tkingfisher.com fans, there's a Thalia 15% off code (GESCHENK) that makes Snake Eater under €8. If you're like me and selectively buying books based on lack of currency. Honestly, Kingfisher is probably the most bought author on my shelf. With Luanne G. Smith not far behind.

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

In this corner: OCSN-49, a star cluster with hundreds of members wandering the galaxy And in THIS corner: a diffuse giant molecular cloud with 100,000 times the Sun's mass just minding its own business It's the CLASH of the EONS! Who will win? badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/star-clust... 🧪🔭