Come for the $18 state inspection, stay for the $1300 repair. 🚗 Living the American Dream. 🫤 #life #USA #expenses #car

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Right, literally torture ants to *kick start* yogurt making (and then bury milk in an ant nest for 26 hours). 🤦‍♂️ I know, for science, but still screams Ig Nobel. 🏆 arstechnica.com/science/2025... #science #milk #yogurt #fermentation #ants #IgNobel

Banana(s) on the run. 🍌 💨 (Sep. 13 at a produce store in #Bengaluru #India) #photography #amateur #bananas #imagery

What a #beautiful arrangement. How I wish I were in #Udupi to savor the grandeur in person.

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

So exhausting..

The movie "10x10" is 2-hour yarn with a 15-minute story. I recommend it 1/10. #movies #entertainment #review #PrimeVideo

If you think you see a lot of AI slop in the west, wait until you see social-media content in India and nearby, especially countries where WhatsApp dominates. Practically every recent video and graphic circulating there is AI generated. 🤮 #social_media #AI #LLM #slop #video #India

This only happens to you once

In this episode of Pointless Surveys; WhatsApp: How was the call quality? Me: 5 Stars, but the person I called is just downstairs, in the same home, on the same network. So, 🤷‍♂️ #technology #surveys

Now, if I can use the RPi 500+'s keyboard as an external keyboard for another computer.🤑 (The included RPi can be headless server for all kinds of uses). arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... #technology #computers #RaspberryPi #nerd

I saved the current New Yorker cover cause it goes much harder than usual.

"Bondi and prosecutors have reservations over charging Comey" Trump only wants fodder for rants and distractions. An indictment suffices for that. Failed cases give him even more fodder. Win for him whichever way it goes. 😢 us.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p... #uspol #Comey #justice

While you wait for the rapture: m.imdb.com/title/tt2699... #rapture #recommendation #entertainment #HBO #TheLeftovers #TV_Shows

Admit it. You long for the days when the President mused about injecting bleach as a public health measure. #USA #health #vaccines #Tylenol #autism

#psa: Trumpenol causes brain damage. #Tylenol #acetamenophin #health #Trumpenol #USA #warning #sarcasm

Cool. Fall season is here. 🙄 #weather #ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat

"Melania Trump's home town is known for the sale of pants". Known for Pants? And just selling pants, not even making them? Really? 🙂‍↔️ www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-p... #biography #Melania #Slovenia #weird #BBC

Sunset in a town square in #Germany. We see the back of the #CityHall and a bit of the #GiantWheel through the waterfall. The church in Pic 1 is in the vicinity. PS: sharing two giant-wheel pics cos I couldn't choose between them. 😳 #FotoMontag #photography #amateur #Deutschland #Bavaria #Sunset

The eternal fight between V and W, when transliterating Sanskrit व in English. (Also applies to other Indic languages.) E.g., वर्ष (year) is often written "varsha"; not "warsha" though w is the closest sound to व. hachyderm.io/@smurthys/11... #languages #writing #transliteration #Sanskrit #English

In India, today is the start of "nawaraatri", which is nine nights of triumph of good over evil. It is also the start of "dasaraa" ("dusseraah") which is 10 festival days, with the 10th day attributed to several notable "good over evil" events. Happy nawaraatri and #dasaraa to all who observe. 🎊

NOT EVEN “A”???

"Trump administration ends government’s annual report on hunger in America" There. Hunger problem solved. Next. /s apnews.com/article/trum... #hunger #uspol #sarcasm

The past tense of ‘to go’ is ‘went’, but this form used to belong to the verb ‘to wend’. We call such verbs suppletive. Surprisingly, ‘to bring’ is suppletive too: ‘brought’ comes from a different verb. My new graphic tells you all about their past. In certain varieties of English, ... 1/

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

"Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas. Allows for case-by-case exemptions if in the national interest" 1. Prepare for more offshoring. 2. Case-by-case exemption. Sure "national interest". 🤑 finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-a... #USA #employment #immigration #business

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

I love the intense colors and the good vibes things like this carry. 🌱 Aug. 31, 2025. Tulasi (holy basil) plant in front of a home in #Udupi #Karnataka #India #photography #amateur

From inside the aircraft I flew in this morning. According to the inflight map: 1, 2: Somewhere over and near Zvornik, #Bosnia. The river in 2 should be #Drina. 3: Somewhere over #Switzerland with a view of the #Alps. #photography #amateur #flying #travel #sunrise

Zelensky: US-Russia summit was ‘successful’ for Putin. Truer words were never spoken? 🤔 us.cnn.com/2025/09/13/w... #Russia #Ukraine #Zelensky #Putin #USA

Aug. 18, 2025: #Sculptures and scenes from #Shravanabelagola #Karnataka #India These are from one of my favorite spots at this site: a doorway with "gajalakshmi" over it. More pictures as time permits 👇 #photoMonday #FotoMontag #photography #amateur #tourism

1. Ben & Jerry to Unilever: This is not the Ben & Jerry’s that we founded. 2. Unilever to Ben & Jerry : This is not the Ben & Jerry's that you own. I made up the second one, but you know someone at Unilever said that. us.cnn.com/2025/09/09/f... #BenAndJerrys #Unilever #business

I can’t believe I caught this 🦋 Just before noon, I figured I better check again… the hangar bay was opening! Little out of focus for a few seconds, but I got the focus back- apologies- I was so excited & shooting w/ the sun on my viewer.

Mood: Honesty is not all it is cracked up to be. Lesson learned. #mood #emotion #lesson #honesty

#NYT: $10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Administration because "contraception is not lifesaving”. This is such a dumb timeline. 🤦‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h... #uspol #USA #USAID #health #dumb

I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”

Bluesky team: #1: Let's add a new feature #2: Oh yeah, let me implement Bookmarks #1: OK, but let's call them Saved Posts #2: <implements feature with Bookmark icon 🔖> #Bkuesky #bookmarks #naming #UI #joke

A more beautiful sculpture of Ganesha does not (and cannot possibly) exist. (Aug. 30th, #Udupi #Karnataka #India) #Hindu #Ganesha #clay #art #sculpture #photography #amateur

JUST IN: Trump threatens 'Apocalypse Now' style action against Chicago to boost deportations

I uninstalled Acrobat. I have had it with that Adobe crap.🤮 Bye Felicia. #UX #Adobe #Acrobat #technology

This is disgraceful.

"I even have a Department of War. Now give me my Nobel Peace Prize." - Someone in Washington DC. Probably. #uspol #USA #war #names #DepartmentOfWar #DOD #NobelPeacePrize

Did they really not see the big FU, or did they just say FU and press on?🤔 (an actual graphic on an actual website for a tech leadership training "university") #graphicsDesign #business #unfortunate

Netflix recommends me the movie Scarface because I watched Troy: Fall of a City? 🤦‍♂️ #Netflix #recommendation #moview #entertainment #fail

I’m really struggling with what to tell PhD students about AI.

One year to the day this "car-breakdown mishap that led to an adventurous bus journey" happened: This year I avoided the issue by taking a bus directly. The bus ride was still adventurous but it was wise to entirely avoid potential car troubles. #India #travel #adventure