100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

I hate when I'm so tired my eyes hurt

It's wild to me that people are still blithely talking about taking holidays to far away places like there's nothing going on that might make it a bad idea.

You won't find many kākāpō Easter eggs in the latest episode of the, Kākāpō Files ... because they've all hatched! And by every measure, this is now officially the biggest breeding season on record. #kakapo #conservation #birds www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/kaka...

Better to die in Iran For your country and your pride Than to live in a nation that would ask you to be kind

7000 of our neighbors in Massachusetts abducted. In what world would we accept a government taking away 7000 members of our community?

this shit is why I need to be rich. screw buying news outlets and firing all the left wing reporters, I want giant plush.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

this could be the first moon mission to fall for a “Microsoft Help Desk” scam

I enjoyed them but they're admittedly not the funniest ever, except maybe the last one.

With the world focused on the acute wartime environmental risks in the Middle East, it's important to remember that these legacies can last decades, as this study from the Solomon Islands demonstrates. www.undp.org/pacific/pres...

Name this album.

now I'm just thinking about the bumblebee getting absolutely fucking bodied by a kākāpō

one potential use of ai is to generate an image of trump shaking hands with the mothman and ask him to explain it on camera

We just need one sickly, highly contagious child with a very specific make a wish.

A few years ago, James Shaw got up and made a speech on a Member's Day about a particularly odious bill in the name of Simeon Brown. I think about this speech a lot. I am thinking about it again today. #nzpol

most helpful summary www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, archaeological study reveals www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

as a c-drama enjoyer, lol

I'll have to wait until I get home to contribute to the funniest tweets thing, I have screenshots on my old computer.

Time line cleanser. Wee kākāpō flaps 🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfGL...

The other option of course is a firefly squid. As @coreydanks.bsky.social just pointed out to me, the number of photophores on the firefly squid would likely make for a more interesting design, which is very important (and would look cooler in the dark) photo by Solvin Zankl

oh boy. because the stream is now new, it must be more easily findable by trolls. there are some very angry people in chat who can't stand other people enjoying stuff.

UPDATE: The kākāpō cam is BACK! New link is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSW...

birds are awesome and this one is particularly blue and cool (and apparently Florida's only endemic bird species!)

moon's haunted

Space exploration is *necessary* for fixing this planet. NASA does so much fundamental earth science using satellites & specialized aircraft. of course that's the part of NASA the bastards are defunding to support their shitty wars & climate denialism

SLS, NASA's Moon rocket 🌙🚀

Okay DoC has acknowledged the issues with the livestream and working on it. Maybe it'll be back after my nap.

There is no -FUEL CRISIS- in New Zealand There are no sheep on our farms But everybody's talking about WW3 'cos everybody's talking about WW3 But we're as safe as safe can be There's no unrest in this country We sleep in a well made bed in a well made bed #nzpol #OneTerm old songs the best

No DoC livestreams running, no new post on their Facebook. Guess I'll play games!

goddammit the kākāpō livestream seems to have ended unexpectedly but when I went to read the chat messages it accidentally went to the DoC homepage and when I go back it doesn't load chat anymore

I guess I'm compromising, did half an hour in the soothing bird watching game demo and now I'm going to bed half an hour early. lol. I need to try to get myself to Eastgate first thing in the morning since it's usually when I feel the best.

Huh, just logged into MyMSD to see how much my much-vaunted benefit increase is ($8, for the record) and noticed that it's still advertising me jobs in Pōneke. Checked my profile and they definitely know I'm in Ōtautahi. I guess because I've got a medical exemption so I'm not looking for work?

It's such a cruel cruel time but yesterday i was in tears of restored hope in humans listening to this on the radio. www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/591...

Finished that c-drama. Now to decide whether I play a game for a little, start watching something new, or just go to bed early.

Late night cassowary painting. #sciart

My ten year old just took me through the PowerPoint presentation he and his school friend made on the Polynesian Panthers and the Dawn Raids. The kids will be alright.

The petition to move the mathematics conference away from the US was sine’d by thousands of mathematicians, cosine’d by many more, all because they wanted to avoid the tan gent.

Wellington Zoo's 120th birthday is the weekend of April 11-12! You can pre-purchase tickets and go into a draw to win a bunch of stuff and they have a limited edition lion soft toy. And a new close encounter with the kororā!

Probably time me and the non-existent fluff in my throat went to bed.

Nora-A2 has been making the cutest buzzy noises just on the regular all day

Oh hi

Someone just referred to today as my “Gilbirth Day” and I can’t believe it took me till my 50th birthday to hear that joke. I am ashamed of everyone I know who had 49 chances to make this joke before now and didn’t.