People discovering that New England, much like Florida, gets more Southern the further north you go. -OS

People wanted Platner because he felt like an authentic Mainer. Unfortunately, they were correct.

Without stating your age, post a movie that released when you turned 18

*Eric Adams voice* LA is the Houston of America,

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

The yellow waterlilies have appeared.

It's great to see that Biden and Democrats are probably going to be successful in implementing drug price negotiations for Medicare. It's going to lower drug prices for everyone, across the board. Probably no negative side effects except a hit to pharma profits.

"Day 106, orbit 1644 — This timelapse shows the approach and docking of the SpaceX CRS‑34 🛰 resupply mission on 17 May. Isn’t it amazing to think that this docking manoeuvre takes place while flying at 28,000 km/h around the Earth?" asks esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. 🎥 ESA/NASA

For all the attention urbanism has gotten in recent years, urbanism as a field of study has often languished. In my latest essay, I seek to define urbanism, explore what makes it different, and correct misconceptions about what it's not. thefoxandthecity.com/articles/urb...

That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?

Maybe the Great American State Fair is all the venues we haven't played along the way ...

If not already classified as child abuse under existing law, it's time to legislate that parents have this responsibility

I love Puffins.

Bro is playing 40 chess

“… Paxton’s office struck with Hoffman’s prosecutors a plea deal that gave him minimal jail time and no requirement to register as a sex offender. On Monday morning, Hoffman walked out of McLennan County Jail after serving just 29 days of his 60-day sentence for ‘good behavior.’”

"The Window" in Big Bend National Park is a V-shaped notch carved by Oak Creek in the Chisos Mountains, serving as a natural frame for panoramic desert views. #PhotographersOfBluesky #WindowsOnWednesday #BigBendNationalPark #NaturePhotography #Photography

Claude Monet. Dientes de leon, c. 1900.

Republicans aghast learning the meaning of Elohim

Thanks for saying it loud enough for the folks in the back!

so incredibly based!

Suburban GOP voters are helping Texas Blue itself❗️

Unleash the attack ads, @jamestalarico.bsky.social❗️

The power to tariff trade (and to toll trade routes) has always been a tool of Empire. But Imperial overreach on tariffs and tolls on galactic trade routes also could have doomed young Anakin Skywalker. In this essay, I will argue ...

Squidmaxxing ftw

You are angry, angry that I am not validating your fear of death at the hands of the climate. I won't validate that, because, as a statistical matter, it is delusional.

Scientists have discovered a tiny blue octopus lurking beneath the waters near the Galápagos Islands. About the size of a golf ball, the newly identified deep-sea species was found nearly 1,800 meters below the surface during an expedition in the Pacific Ocean.

Hilarious to me that the spiritual leader of a billion Christians has has rightly come out against the malificence of the AI technoligarchy, while the King of The Atheists Dawkins is writing articles about how chatbots are sentient.

Estoy de acuerdo 😇

Please don’t let these “mean girl” ass gays, stop you from attending pride, or creating community with other LGBT people.

Naretha Blue Bonnet Western and South Australia 📷: Jan Wegener #birds

Please say it louder for the folks in the back!

We hebben een serieus probleem: een poepexplosie! Stinkt!

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

I think he's running

Pope Bob the White did not fight through fire and death at the Papal Conclave to bandy crooked words with a witless Thiel! He is showing us a Way into Light — that the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk keep this present Darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.

this is such an underrated photo from artemis ii. you’re literally looking out the window at the universe. it’s absolutely beautiful.

😭 Thank you, @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social Keep fighting the good fight!

My "President" told me he keeps losing on his Iran deals, so I asked how many Iran deals he has and he said whenever it happens he just sends JD to Pakistan to pick up a new Iran deal, so I said it sounds like he's just feeding random losing deals to Iran, and then his failson started crying

I don’t know if you guys have heard of the Melian Dialogue before. But I can’t believe nobody has ever thought to write about this thing before. othermeans.substack.com/p/american-m...

anthropogenic climate change is going to seem depressingly challenging to solve right up until the moment the Chinese are printing out ~40MWe molten-salt reactors from factories by the tens of thousands in the late 2030s

Have we perhaps considered that conservatives aren't freaks [derogatory] because of porn further frying their brains, but that their taste in porn is weird and racist because they themselves were already weird and racist? Food for thought

Alien (Muppets edition starring Rick Moranis!)

Alien Quest

Electing Trump president again pretty much killed any chance we had to get the Europeans to use gallons.

A full rotation of the planet Mars

This is a newly processed view of the largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons. It's 21 km tall. It's as wide as Arizona. Metropolitan LA fits inside its summit caldera. Its basal cliff is 7 km high. And it started to grow ~3.5 billion years ago but has lavas only 2 million years old.

revisiting this Mary Oliver poem. or it’s revisiting me.

what if swing voters go away but the balance favors Democrats this time