Just the other day I learned of the existence of the bearded vulture, the only vertebrate that eats mostly bone. And it looks super metal.

There is a type of bee orchid whose flower mimics a bee which has been extinct for millennia, and of which we have no evidence; except that there is a bee orchid that mimics it. The flower remembers.

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

You can remember where polar bears live by the regions they live in. Arctos is the Greek word for "bear." Thus, "Arctic" means "they git bears there," and Antarctic, by virtue of the "anti-" prefix, means "they don't got bears there."

Wow! Senators Kelly and Slotkin and Reps DeLuzio, Goodlander, Houlahan, and Crow encouraging members of the military to defy illegal orders!

We cannot trust anything this admin says or does 🫩

One of the good guys! I always appreciate @pattonoswalt.bsky.social

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Who wants another baby earwig update? Everyone? Thought so. The babies are now two days old and slightly darker than when they hatched. Mama is guarding them and will stay on the job until their second molt. Btw, in the earlier post, the newly-hatched babies only had--

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

Thanks to staff of the Harvard Crimson for demonstrating the importance of local, community journalism (and for running a wiser, more informative, and more righteous editorial department than the Washington Post's). www.thecrimson.com/thread/2025/...

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

Let’s be real. The reason for the season is the same reason for every season - maximizing shareholder profits. 🎄

Oh my. James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists. Get this man in the Senate.

Loving this Larry Summers arc where he’s like, wow taking a step back from leadership now that I found out about my own behavior which I have had access to at all times

Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.

“As the anti-vaccine movement continues to be nurtured by Kennedy and his followers, this threat will only continue to expand and grow more severe”. You can read more of the piece I wrote with @jimalwine.bsky.social for @livescience.com below.

I don't think a liberal would say that women are underrepresented in STEM fields for biological reasons. www.theguardian.com/science/2005...

Nvidia, here ya go

I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics. COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...

Just because three white nationalist don't like pedophiles doesn't mean we have to form a sisterhood of traveling pants with then

One last thing… Andrew Tate was on the verge of being charged finally with all his wrong doings and now… he’s free. To continue trafficking.

Sex pest : i am retiring from public life public : good fuck off sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions public : did we stutter

Country people don't play🌾

Trump has two speeds: lie and deny, or "yeah, we'll get around to that after I'm dead"

“you take everything from me, old man” — my five-year-old daughter. just now, when i told her we’re going to bed

as a reporter, the part of this that i’ve simply never understood is how the next person to ask a question when he does something like this doesn’t simply repeat the question that set him off. it’s not just solidarity with your colleague, it’s an important question that remains worth asking

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

It all boils down to "Might makes right, and I'm rich so I can violate whoever and whatever I want" MAGA is built on anti-abortion rhetoric because they supposedly value children but they neglected to mention it was because they need a constant supply of CSA victims

Epstein’s War

Beautiful #forestschool Saturday 🌿✨

My parents are long gone, but memories of their trolling still make me smile, decades later. I once came home from college to find the family dog wearing my sweater. And my dad delighted in drawing marker mustaches on Mom's framed school photographs of me, which were hung all over the house 🤣

How many opportunities for a reckoning have come and gone already? The MAGA/techbro side's whole thing is using other people with impunity, especially the most vulnerable people. They are predators in every sense of the word, and anybody who isn't wealthy is subhuman fodder to them 🫩

People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best Thank you @paulgp.com

And Trump continues (at least for now) to be correct that the more open you are about your criming, the less the public cares

Beautiful autumn day at forest school! Kiddo showed me the bamboo forest ✨🌿 #forestschool

#aurora showing in eastern Kentucky tonight ✨

The most devastating parenthetical aside I've ever had the pleasure to read

#ThanksAI I appreciate how you see something that looks like Greek in this Veterans Day email from Chipotle

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

Good morning to all the old folks who think "MC" is MC Hammer's first name ✨ Please, for the love of God, stop voting for Republicans 🫩

Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated 🫩

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

Tbh I find the whole "Blue Wave" thing very triggering these days 😬