Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

Spoons: gone. Forks: exhausted. Your remaining options are knives and chopsticks, and I warn you that I’m feeling very *stabby*.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

*angry arm-flailing*

Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

FACT OF THE DAY. 26 March 1953. In a huge medical breakthrough, US medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had created the first polio vaccine. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.

Hahahaha, my dad had one of those book catalog club subscriptions and I had unredacted access to all of it. The best of 70s and 80s science fiction and horror, delivered straight to your door… and your daughter’s voracious brain.

CLEARLY it’s “manateam” and “dugang.” #SocietyForBetterCollectiveNouns

There is a Thai restaurant in PVD that serves a soup that they just call “soup” (but in Thai). It’s a beef stock, with shredded beef, celery, sprouts, lotus root, chili, ginger, galangal, and a fuckload of garlic. It can cure any disease. No one else makes it or even knows what I’m talking about.

Nothing like seeing a tick crawling loose on the dog sitting next to you while you’re on camera in a meeting and having to suppress the convulsive urge to start doing a full kill-it-with-fire check on you, her, and everything in a ten-foot radius.

whatever "service" is in that screenshot is just a complete scam, though, right? like it will tell you any text is obviously AI-generated so you will click the "humanize" button it's a gullibility filter—if you believe that it can tell something is AI-generated, you'll believe AI can humanize text

Years ago, my MIL was an ER nurse in California. A woman came in because her boyfriend had bitten her ear almost off in a fit of rage. She had lost her family and had nowhere to go. My MIL stitched her up, put her up at her apartment for two weeks while she healed, and helped her find her family.

Today in “studies of hypotheses no one really needed to prove”:

Once again, a whole bunch of people seem shocked! shocked, I tell you! at the idea that just because an author wrote about a thing, or even came up with an idea, does not mean they like or endorse that thing.

You know what? When someone tries to pick a fight with a huge gaggle of people over something pants-on-head stupid, we all can just block them.

I need this good news.

Decided to go mental-health seaglassing at the negative tide, sleet be damned.

The thing is, if you don’t accept that science went wrong in the past and has the potential to (and does) go wrong in the present, how will you be able to improve it in the future?

Airbnb lovely but leaking wildly. At least two ongoing trash fires at work. And, of course, two family members still dying. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

It’s the 5 year anniversary of this thing happening

Raven has an announcement #birds

Or, frankly, that there are quite so *many* worst persons.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

HOW are there still snow piles?!?

"Researchers and archivists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have identified what may be the earliest preserved recording of a whale: the song of a humpback, captured on March 7, 1949, near Bermuda." www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

Almost got the sun 😊

I stepped outside at 1:30 AM and this was my view. Aurora rarely disappoints. Good morning from Two Rivers, Alaska.

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

Every day, the world gets weirder. Only *sometimes* is that a positive statement.

the vengeful pillow by Edward Gorey

I remember when everything started moving to apps and I was morally offended at the idea of having to download all these little programs to access services when the Internet was right there and you know what, I was right

I snagged this shell at the estate sale I went to last week. It was unlabeled - I’m pretty sure it’s a Cerion spp., but they’re endemic to the Caribbean and the distribution is hyperspecific, with many species found on only one or two islands. Any Cerion experts that can tell me which one this is?

We’re about to have the one week of decent DMV weather before the humidity hits - so of course I have to fly home to Massachusetts for the worst possible reasons. Where I will be sleeted on, just to remind me that New England hates everyone and wants us all to be angry and sad.

One of my favorite authors (Ursula Vernon) recommending five of my other favorite authors. Seriously, this could just be a checklist.

I like how @hadley.nz uses his AGENTS.md file. (I swear it's not edited, it's what I have seen in the subtitles)

New Culture ship name just dropped.

Women’s clothing sizing is such trash garbage. How can I buy three pieces of clothing in the same brand, style, and size and end up with one far too big, one approximately okay, and one so tight that it hurts to breathe?

The ProPublica union has voted to authorize a strike. Around 150 journalists, videographers, copy editors and more voted to authorize, with 92% of the union voting yes. ProPublica allegedly rejected restrictions on replacing jobs with AI, and hasn't met other union concerns.

I can’t ever get over the people whining that there’s no content and no subject matter experts on here and they haaaaaave to go back to twitter - and then you look at their profile and they’re following 200 people. You have to do the work! Go search for the topics you want to see and follow people!

#rstats 4.6.0 "Happy Hop" scheduled for April 24. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.)

I am my father’s daughter: some days are just Jimmy Buffett days. *typing in rhythm to “Boat Drinks”*

Breaking: A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care. www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/j...

NIH has long engaged the scientific community in a democratic way. That's a good thing, and it's under attack. Watch out. New post by me, about why NIH's peer review process and advisory panels are pretty unique across gov't, and why they're so important.

Wanna see a ton of birds absolutely lose their shit feeding on little fish in the middle of the ocean? 🪶 🦑

Cats are such graceful, majestic creatures.

Cats are such graceful, majestic creatures

I need recommendations for audiobooks - read by a really good reader(s), that’s almost more important than the book. Someone I could listen to for eight hours.

How much *would* it actually cost to convince Nantucket to let someone try that thing with the crispr’d Lyme-immune mice, exactly?