me at work: there's no one single best way to raise a child me at home: ffs please just tell me the single best way to raise my child

me pumped full of prenatal tylenol and baby formula:

occasional double take when a baby safety advice list is all normal stuff and then they're like "lock away your guns"

Colima spider vessel (c. 300 BCE - 300 CE)

hate it when I want to buy a bottle of wine but then I realise it's got a cork not a screwtop. do you want me to drink the whole bottle at once or what

I loved talking to Signal's @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, who is such a consistent, clear voice of sanity (and always a great interview). We talked about (of course) SignalGate, what AI means for Signal, why tech bros continue to be such a disappointment, and much more. Read, listen, etc!

right but could you please tell me if I don't have an account or I don't remember my password

It will all be worth it when documentary makers get to play the White Stripes song, "Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine" underneath this bit of US history.

love a good bug story www.askamanager.org/2025/09/my-o...

This Etruscan guttus - a vessel used to store and pour liquids in small amounts, or to refill oil lamps - is shaped like an elephant. It may have been inspired by the elephants first seen in Italy during the invasions of Pyrrhus and of Hannibal of Carthage in the 3rd c. BCE. 🏺 300-200 BCE.

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

this is true. it is the unlikely-sounding but real answer to why there is so much fundamentalist Christian support in the US for whatever Israel does (and especially good if what it does causes more antisemitism so more Jewish people move to Israel. they need us all there. to die.)

TACO CAT

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Babby having his first few hours at nursery without us

I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Tylenol was always one of those American things you didn't know what it was. Like Twinkies and Pottery Barn and Ted Koppel and whatever the hell a caucus is.

Ah, the ideas landlord

You can't fool me, this is Smodysseus's car

I’ve been writing detective comics for a long time now, so I know when a close up magician has been pushed into a canal.

Gutwrenching but vital piece about #UKHE overreliance of international students' fees and how this harms those students -- who are often lured to the UK unrealistic promises about the cost of living. Good to see the human cost foregrounded in this. www.ft.com/content/3f49...

You might think the bizarre spectacle of this very clearly unwell man behaving like a deeply weird obsessive oddball, babbling about “sissy porn” on the witness stand, might have made him untouchable for media culture war bullshit purposes. You would be wrong.

Hello! You're through to the magpie hotline. Please listen carefully to the following menu options: Press 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy 5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a secret never to be told Or stay on the line to speak to an operator. Your call is important to us.

Alternatively, flood every workplace

hate that shanties are just for sailors, you should have songs to sing together at every job

Preparing to go back to work, my manager's off long term sick with brain cancer, my acting manager getting tests for suspected breast cancer, another close colleague stressed bc her child is in prison for Palestine activism in Germany, my "I've got a baby" v small potatoes in the Life Problems

Study for a Cat, Federico Barocci

The condition of fabrics from pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900 to 3300 BC. The thread measures a total of about 10 m in length. 📷 Laténium 🏺

Tried to water the baby asparagus but the spout was blocked so I tried to shove the blockage down into the can but the thing inside shoved back. Computer…enhance. #garden #gardening #oopsfrog

Nursery uses fancy organic formula, i hope he's not going to come back and start complaining about the Lidl own brand he gets at home

we what

Sort of, i guess

How does one very small nose make so much snot

Pleasing tentacles through time serendipity on the timeline

Mind-boggling that everyone is doing "but of course they couldn't do that, murder is illegal!" given what's been happening in the US

This is the language we need: unacceptable. Not "impossible" or "unworkable" and definitely not "unlikely". Unacceptable.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

A quick street view reveals the flooding in Penketh isn’t because “the drains don’t work”. It’s because residents paved over their front gardens to park cars. Those gardens used to soak up about 70% of rainfall. They removed the sponge. Now the water’s on their doorstep.

Hey @mangmangmang.bsky.social tumblr Bobwhited your Bruce www.tumblr.com/teaboot/7953...

Customer: YOU LOVE THE COOK DMV: YOU LOVE THE COCK Verdict: DENIED

a group of people were like "i found a way to live my life as a truer version of myself" and instead of being like "that's beautiful, how can i help" people were like "i don't think schools should have books in them anymore"

I have always believed this. No matter how strongly you feel about it, your child is not your property.

In Dutch, if someone asks you to repeat yourself several times, you can go "Of je worst lust!" which is "Do you like sausage?!" I'm sure there is an etymology behind that but I do not know it

PITCH: a dating show based on supermarket baskets 12 singles are asked to do their weekly shop then pick a partner based only on what the person bought

I'm driving from Lethbridge to Calgary to catch my flight home today, but I've made a special detour to stop in Vulcan Alberta, the Star Trek capital of Canada 🖖❤️

Customer: INSTEAD OF HOT ROD,ITS HOT RAM SINCE THE VEHICLE IS A RAM TRUCK. HOT RAM ALONE WAS TAKEN SO CHOSE N AS SHORT FOR HOT RAMMING INSTEAD OF HOT RODDING. DMV: "HOT RAMMIN" COULD BE TAKEN AS A SEXUAL REFEENCE Verdict: DENIED

I don't remember anyone saying 'deliverism' before about a week ago

listen i wish her the best but it's not what i was looking for when i googled "little cat"