Wooooooe this is WILD. They are CHANGING PEOPLE'S OUT OF OFFICE MESSAGES.

Today, more than ever,

SAG-AFTRA has released a statement on Tilly Norwood, the AI "performer," saying: “To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation."

Ipomoea spp. are mostly twining climbers (Ipomoea is one of the most common climbers worldwide), but a few species are trees! This is I. murucoides of the seasonally dry forests of Mexico. Habit 📷: Alejandra Zayas CCBYNC4. #Convolvulaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Sharing. Because we need to know. Also because “John Brown Gun Club”.

We've already got hundreds of students and mentors here, sharing how the sudden policy change has derailed plans. We're looking at formally "delivering" results to NSF leadership tomorrow, please do keep sharing and spreading the word: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Back on my LotR bullshit and still finding fresh relevance. Deep in Appendix F, an apt description of so much political speech these days.

Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item

Some days you’re gonna hang on by hope. Some days you’ll exist out of pure spite. Some days you’ll live for revenge. Whatever it is that keeps your feet planted on this Earth in this minute/hour/day you hold onto it with everything you have. Live to see them die.

“Fishies” can refer to either multiple individuals from the same species OR multiple species as long as they are all cute (all fishies are cute)

"Researchers have discovered a plant that attracts pollinating flies by mimicking the odour of half-eaten ants." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

IT IS TIME.

Fantastic opportunity to get a PhD with some amazing people in an amazing place! 🧪🌍

Oh no people are eager to explain things to me

Live your life in such a way that you never have to end an interview with "if we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain"

"Protecting old forests worldwide is the single best thing we can do to slow the meteoric rate of climate change, but [USFS] is racing to clear-cut these forests, claiming that it needs to log so far in the backcountry in order to protect communities against wildfire." 🌍 www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/...

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

With their little knitted jumpers on.

It's LIVE CAM TIME. Fat bear week is upon us! explore.org/livecams/bro... The live cam sets have a "meditation" highlights reel and wow do they know their audience.

SCOTUSblog is now run by a conservative news outlet, so this should surprise exactly zero humans. no one should expect it to be neutral.

Happy Equinox, everyone.

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

The people who took my headphone jack need to be arrested today

Don’t waste much time thinking about any ideology or policy reason for the H-1B visa change. This is so tech companies will have to pay Trump for exemptions. Same as they paid him for tariff exemptions. It’s just a standard mob shakedown.

Life is about finding balance. For every hour you spend drinking a boozy milkshake and reading a good book, spend an equal amount of time reading a good book and drinking a boozy milkshake. It's that simple.

I will never not repost this masterpiece when it hits my feed

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

With alt text:

"the single-dose vaccine reduced mortality in wild koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) by at least 65%" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Life is full of unknowns. Are we good enough? Are we smart enough? Is a boozy milkshake part of a well balanced meal? Did my bones always feel this loose & angry? What is that ominous sound emanating from the forgotten tombs deep in the forest?

I cannot contain my glee. Estate sale find.

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

Anyway if there's a journalist out there who wants to talk about what the last two days of death threats have been like, I'm game. I even have some of the death threats to show you still.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Biology is absolutely positively bonkers.

it's easy to be self-destructive, in a world like this. it's tempting. it's comforting. I've been there. I still end up there sometimes. it's easy to feel like an act of self-destruction might make all of this count for something but, if I can impart anything, it's this: try something else first

gavin has never had a trans person on his podcast so “engage with each other,” UNLESS…

Taking the stairs again cause someone got stuck in an elevator again, hurray for government return to office!

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Pro tip: don’t read The People’s Project on the metro unless you enjoy Having Feelings in public. @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and @theferocity.bsky.social gave a great book talk!

It begins.

I like to remember that the united states wouldnt exist if we hadn't imported a man who was too homosexual for the Prussian army to whip our army into shape. We paid him in twinks

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".