I need university administrators (and probably some other people too, but definitely university administrators) to understand something: you cannot motivate your faculty to do more research or better teaching. They are already maximally motivated people. They did not get the job by being […]

“in order for Venezuela to increase from 1M barrels per day — that is what it produces today — to 4M barrels, it will take” 10 years and $100B https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trumps-idea-to-seize-venezuelas-oil-industry-faces-major-hurdles

Five years ago.

Never forget.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115843208336454093 Also, it turns out that the nugget is not actually a real part of the chicken’s anatomy! 🫢

Do I know anyone who went undergraduate at University of New Mexico? If that's you, please DM me. Please RT | thank you!

I know this is pretty small beer in the light of world events, but I was not expecting to have to write “risk of invasion by the USA” into the risk assessment for my fieldwork in Greenland in June.

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A sub-shrine on Mount Inari at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. #ToriiTuesday #Shinto #Japan

'Torii Gate on Snowy Day' - Kawase Hasui, ca. 1930s. #ToriiTuesday #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

The only reason you'd punish people for telling the military to refuse illegal orders is if you plan to give the military illegal orders. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8039wg1rdo

A customer just came into my store and immediately clocked the music on my sweatshirt as bach’s violin partita no. 1 in B minor, final movement, “tempo di bourée”, instantly solving a mystery I had been wondering about since i thrifted it a year ago

The question on the left is a valid inquiry into a matter of public opinion, whether the regime's illegal invasion is popular. The one on the right implies that Americans have the right to opine on deciding who leads a separate sovereign nation. We don't.

“Electrek has obtained a new suspension notice from the USPTO that shows the “Cybercab” trademark is in even deeper trouble than we thought, and it’s largely due to a mistake Tesla made by announcing the name before filing the paperwork.” “announcing the name before filing the paperwork” 😂😂😂😂😂

Spot the heron!

Listening to Tom Brady in the broadcast booth I’m often reminded of this great moment in NFL history

Acabo de hacer estos dos memes para LinkedIn. Creo que los voy a usar mucho. Si os gustan, sentíos libres de descargarlos y usarlos.

A back-to-work cartoon for @newscientist.com

What (and I can’t stress this enough) THE FUCK.

2026 is not just the Year of the Horse... it is the Year of the Fire Horse! This is an especially unlucky combination of element + zodiac animal, originating in the story of Yaoya Oshichi (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoya_O...). The yokai hinoenma (yokai.com/hinoenma) is based on this superstition. ❤️‍🔥🐎

'Owl and Sunflowers' - Utsushi Rinsai, 1880. #OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

Tourist in Japan: Omg I got a wagyu and sushi omakase! 😃 Residents in Japan: Garbage collection is the struggle we must endure 😮‍💨

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (and Neighbors)m NYC, 2017. All the pixels, each with an 11am checkout time, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32609074081 #photography

I love this post by @Daojoan When I was a student, I had a very similar way of studying. I don't think I have ever highlighted anything in a book ever (despite studying literature among other things). Nowadays, I don't use a single productivity app (they tend to kill my ability to remember, not […]

#silentsunday #nola #louisiana

“The paper found that the Southern Vowel Shift is becoming less detectable, particularly in urban areas such as Atlanta.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/southern-accent-linguistics-speech/685350/?gift=-Fv9R4P6cEEN68vsamhTNBbmLtHgChamnz3n-Dk5h_k #language #accent

Green banana flour. This was made from Cavendish bananas, green but fully rounded out, sliced about 5mm thick and dried at 58C (dehydrator using solar power) for about 8 hours, then milled in my new (to me) op shop Vitamix. It's a lovely fine silky flour. It […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I took this picture.

Today's loaf #Food #baking #bread

3/3 Garam Masala done! The cinnamon and cardamom get pounded a bit before going into the spice grinder (old "coffee" grinder that gets used for spices only - have had this maybe almost 25 yrs) and ground up more before the other spices get put in. Nutmeg gets […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Then came the faces I knew from my reporting in 2025: Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian students of Columbia University with green cards who had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for their activism. Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-born activist, sat near the front in a […]

Finished my paper airplane FPP #quilt recently and am already well into the next project. Except for the backing which I don't like enough to show it's all thrifted and salvaged fabric. Each plane is ditch stitched on my machine and then the "speed lines" are big hand stitching. #sewing #quilting

Space invader in Basel. #basel #spaceinvader

Been meaning to make Chicken 65 a while now, since Fall - inspired by mention of the dish in Automatic Noodle by @annaleen (delightful read! It's quite a food fantasy book) Finally made it - more Chennai style (dry) where it originated, rather than the more […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

I know, I know, but I started the dough yesterday. This is a hybrid matnakash and a hybrid fougasse. #vegan #baking #sourdough #bread

In September, The Lancet released a report with one of the most extraordinary statistics I’ve ever seen: since 2010, humanity’s total burden of illness and early death has dropped by 12.6 percent, driven by declining deaths from the world's deadliest infectious diseases: tuberculosis, lower […]

I came across an insult in Spanish, calling someone "the bloke who holds the basin for the brothel clients to wash their genitals". That's this man. Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4qgvwxp08o

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

So Trump can unilaterally and illegally declare war and kidnap a foreign president and put him on trial for crimes. But he and his incompetent DOJ insist it's illegal for us to arrest and put a US president on trial for his crimes.

I feel like letting every president of my lifetime get away with Unlimited War Crimes was a serious mistake

This one is resonating today. #Andor

'Moon at Musashino' - Tonouchi Misho, ca. 1937. From the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art collection. #FullMoon #JapaneseArt

Meanwhile Stephen Miller’s wife is posting stuff like this

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

wasn't this the opening plot of Air Force One? lol

Please help me spread the word. All boosts are helpful! 🚨 U.S. Out of Venezuela. Emergency protest TONIGHT, 1/3, 6:30 Santa Fe Plaza. Sponsored by Indivisible Santa Fe. Please bring flashlights to hold up. We will have a banner.