I love it when scientific terms for hypothetical things are givens names that sound intentionally sci-fi. XNA (where the X stands for xeno) sounds like it was made up like that. It sounds so corny to say "zee en ay".

When the table of contents is banging

We know of about 6000 exoplanets: planets that orbit a star other than the sun. It sounds like a lot but they were all found after the 1990s. Until then we really only knew of 8-9 planets in the universe.

got trepanned too deep and now all i think about are sunflowers and early 2000s metrosexual button-up shirts

A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.

Isso aqui é uma coisa que eu gostaria que os outros entendessem Pra quem cresceu num lar whatever pra religião, é muito fácil olhar e pensar que é tudo baboseira. Mas pra gente, é cicatriz que vamos carregar pra sempre.

don't know who needs to hear this, but do not fuck with the Moon

Brazilians just found out Jeffrey Epstein apparently had a Brazilian tax ID number (CPF). Then someone discovered that this CPF is registered as a Pix key (Brazil’s instant payment system) at a small rural credit union.

Remember how I spent the last ten years saying the problem is the Thatcherite consensus going kaboom forever in 2008, and the entire political/media class hunkering down in a defensive circle around its flaming corpse, all guns pointed outwards? The editor of the New Statesman seems to agree.

In languages such as Spanish, you can make an adverb by adding ‘-mente’ to a feminine adjective: ‘claro’ (clear) > ‘claramente’ (clearly) This suffix has a fascinating origin: it’s the same word as the feminine noun ‘mente’ meaning “mind”. Click my new graphic for the story of Romance adverbs:

ever since i moved back to brazil i have been absolutely FLOORED at how fucking stupid the US is. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY STILL DONT FULLY HAVE A FEDERALLY ISSUED ID SYSTEM. WHAT DO YOU MEAN REAL IDS DONT PROVE CITIZENSHIP.

you missed the best one

They should make it so it's about two gay atomic bombs that are gay for each other: Thermonuclear Rivalry

Can't wait for the @badgayspod.bsky.social episode to end all Bad Gays episodes

Minister of Nightlife to require gay bars to put pay gorn on the TVs again so scare away the heteros

Bernard Stiegler’s corpse vibrating with rage this morning

So I'm reading vol 1 of Bernard Stiegler's Automatic Society and the introduction has a section titled "The question of fire and the advent of thermodynamics" and contains this dizzying paragraph. It's a pity we lost him in 2020 as I think he'd write some banger tomes about AI.

me when I am a blueberry

So a guy threw about £50k in cash out of the window to avoid the Feds and turns out the Feds weren't even targeting him, but now they are of course, after he threw 50 thousand quid out the window

Wait, it wasn't a Catholic wedding? Cancelled for heresy.

So a guy threw about £50k in cash out of the window to avoid the Feds and turns out the Feds weren't even targeting him, but now they are of course, after he threw 50 thousand quid out the window

Yes I've seen The War Between the Land and the Sea

Snippets? Apps? Visuals? Why classical music should stop trying to be pop

There will be a total lunar eclipse on New Year's Eve in 2028, I'm sure it's totally fine and not ominous

It is *SO FUCKED* that, in his final days, he had to sell memorabilia in order to pay his medical bills. This fucking country.

in case you missed it, the Allegations-plagued French demon twink and his new partner whose boyfriend has Allegations of his own defeated the virtuous and heterosexually married to one another Americans while skating to perhaps the most baffling choice of music imaginable

Dawson Wade Leery dying of cancer at 42 is definitely a sign that I'm old

into thin air

"Once the Romans left, we had little protection, and now they are everywhere" he continued (in Welsh, obvs)

Starmer's leady crise is all because of the righty wings of the Laby parts is in hock with the billyo class and the pedo nets as they want wanted to a lil bit of lefty purge and do some privy tees. That's why we need a genny lec.

Also, Jeune de Coeur is a great drag name for a "seasoned" queen

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I just need at least 1 (one) journalist to say "right, but you don't *really* think that" to one of these frauds

wait, why is Plaid "new" in this?

"He doesn't know I'm a fascist!" "Yes, he does, you're on TV." "Do I come across as a fasci—" "YES!"

"He doesn't know I'm a fascist!" "Yes, he does, you're on TV." "Do I come across as a fasci—" "YES!"

can’t wait to trade crude oil futures contracts with 12 year olds

bf managed to buy me a wine from Moldova

If the BBC weren’t cowards they would’ve made Barclay kiss this thing in The War Between Land and Sea

TIL they filmed this in Australia

I always thought the message of the film is that Joel and Clementine were sort of doomed to keep erasing each other and meeting again "for the first time" over and over.

Reform seems to reckon that some bits of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act that haven't been commenced apply to a university in Wales. And then threaten to put themselves in breach of Welsh statutes on institutional autonomy and academic freedom. wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Threatening to defund the Welsh university widely perceived to be a bastion of the Welsh language - it has one of the highest proportions of Welsh speaking students - isn’t a great look for a party looking to sweep the Senedd in May

OK, Google, what political party was she in?

it's easier to explain Gay to your kids than Enola Gay