גדלתי על התרגום הישן של בילבי ("גילגי") ויש שם קטע ששואלים אותה מה השעון כלומר מה השעה והיא עונה "חפץ קטן ועגול שסופר וסופר ואינו מגיע לשלוש-עשרה"

כפסע מהפסקת אש

Oops. Turns out Ilhan Omar only supports (((Very Specific Sanctions))).

In case you though I was straw-manning

Me and my shadow.

לא נסעתי, שמחתי שלפחות יהיה לי זמן לעבוד על מטלות מהבית, ועכשיו אני לא מצליחה להתחיל

80/20 rule but it’s 20% of the people causing 80% of the problems

באיזה קטע אני צריכה להחליט בעצמי אם לנסוע מחר לספור זוחלים באזור מלחמה או לא? מה אני, אדם בוגר?

At a certain point, you GET TIRED OF BEING TREATED LIKE A SLOT MACHINE. Honestly, I hate that the term “rejection” for not sleeping with a man is the normalized one. It sounds so active, even violent, when actually, it’s passive. Your pitch didn’t change her mind.

For Millennia humanity has survived wars, famine, plague, a myriad of unimaginable horrors that killed off more of the population than we can even begin to imagine in modern contexts. They still had kids.

אמ;לק: פוסטים בפייסבוק עזרו לחוקרים להבין את הקונפליקט בין בני אדם לנחשים בתאילנד 🧵🐍

קיבלתי מטלה בקורס לכתוב פוסט על מחקר שמשלב מדע אזרחי. זה בפייסבוק אבל מעט אנשים ראו אותו מן הסתם. יש מתעניינים? #פידמדע

Let's explore the phrase: "In the aftermath of the slaughter" If you were a farmer in England in 800 AD, you'd "mow" the grass for 'mæð' or 'mǣth', a grass-harvest. If the season was good, a second crop would sprout from seeds of the first. That's the 'æfter-mǣth', resulting from the 1st event.

Tbh, my politics on AI at this point are “I don’t want my friends to yell at me.”

Yes, and on the flipside: they can't just dislike something, it has to be Problematic and immoral

Life hack from a marine biologist: When your blue sea dragons need a little snack, remember that they never evolved to swim, so you have to drive the Portuguese man-o-war around and pick them up like a little bus 🎥 by me during field work :)

הבטחתי לא לכתוב רק תלונות אז תדעו שאתמול הצלחנו ואפילו מצאתי שממית עצים!

הייתי אמורה לחפש זוחלים בקריית שמונה ואז היה גם גשם וגם אזעקה

it is not coincidental that the main excuse for antisemitism before the creation of Israel was that Jews were stateless, and the main excuse after it has been that Jews have the effrontery to want a state.

Saw another whale shark today in the Maldives! I think this is the best video I’ve ever taken of any wild animal! 🧪🌎🦑🐟🦈

העירייה החליטה לתת קנסות לעסק שפתוח בשבת למרות שהןא ממש לא היחיד, אז מלא אנשים באו לתמוך בהם ועכשיו יש לי גלידה

We also can deduce this by things like the presence of Gods actively intervening in human affairs, a pre-modern army that stays on campaign besieging a city for ten years, and the fact that its hero spends literal years being blown about the Mediterranean instead of sailing straight back home.

Apparently it is "propaganda" to assert "citizens of this country are ordinary human beings who do ordinary human things." Which is why I say, again: people do not want you asking very basic questions about how Israelis live. They do not want you seeing Israel or Palestine as a real place.

The most incredible eyes in the world: independent swiveling on stalks, 16 color detectors (humans have 3), can see UV, infrared, polarised light, etc. But for now, just marvel at the swiveling eyes.

הו לא, אורה הכפולה

Seems weird to be arguing (racistly) whether Helen can be pretty enough to start a war (if she's not a white person) when there are stories out there claiming she was hatched out of an EGG.

The whole talking point about "why aren't American students protesting Iran murdering its citizens" that floated around in January-February was (and remains) a very smarmy one. But it really can't be denied anymore that a lot of Americans on the nominal left have just forgotten that ever happened.

חשבתי שהרבה אנשים לא רוצים להיות בצפון עכשיו אז יהיה לי קל למצוא סאבלט

השם המדעי של הירגזי המצוי הוא Parus major אז בכל פעם שאני מקלידה אותו אני מתחילה לזמזם את Dallas Major של לילי אלן

בשעתיים האחרונות עשרות פיצוצים, דיווחים סותרים על נפילות כן/לא. אין התרעות, אין הודעות מפיקוד העורף, אף אחד לא מסביר כלום לציבור בקו העימות. אין כלום. העירייה יכולה להעביר רק מה שדובר צה"ל מעביר לה כי פיקוד העורף ניתק את הרשויות באזור מהמערכת. הוציאו הודעה על פיצוץ 1 תקין #בואולפריפריה

its a metaphor for how most people actually think about extreme scenarios. eg they behave like they don’t believe in the scenario while publicly saying they do

Data centers are just light industrial. They do not emit society-killing rays. Mf you are railing against data centers on THE THING THAT IS PRODUCED BY DATA CENTERS.

TBH it is kind of funny that the collective takeaway from The Hunger Games seems to have been “elaborate fashion is bad” and not “children murdering each other for sport is bad”

Yes, the booktok left and anyone to their left really believe that mentioning Israel as a place or Israeli as a nationality is tantamount to a war crime, their feeds tell them that, oodles of Decolonial influencers insisting so, please stop being surprised

One underdiscussed emotional land mine when discussing the horrors of the world is that I think people have very different beliefs about how common really, really horrible things are and in what context

A subskeet. If your ideology's members were all killed or captured and abandoned the ideology and your forces defeated in battle, your ideology failed. Ideologies about society are not given white room abstract test runs. Their first obligation is to survive the contests inherent to life.

המלצתי לאבא שלי על ספר והוא נהנה! לא יודעת אם זה קרה עד היום

God this is so legitimately childish and offensive. Fairy tales for children. "I like to think that this trio had a Hollywood escape and then lived happily ever after as untouchable, uncontainable nomads." Well, Molly Crabapple, the odds are they didn't. The odds are they were hapless & helpless.

How your email finds me.

#41: Macaroni Penguin Named by British sailors referencing its stylish feathered crest, just like the feathers in Yankee Doodle. In 18th century Britain “macaroni” was an insult for excessively fashionable men obsessed with Continental fashions. Looks good on this guy, tho.

#45: Zitting Cisticola Cisticolas (roughly meaning shrub-dwellers) all look about the same and are best told apart by their songs, which they’re named after. Runners up include: Chattering, Bubbling, Rattling, Tinkling, Wailing, Churring, Croaking, and Wing-snapping Cisticolas.

#53: Robust Woodpecker A sturdy, strong, powerful, solid, hefty, burly, brawny, vigorous, hardy, resilient, durable, reliable, dependable, full-bodied, stalwart bird.

Reminder that there is no scientific definition for "ultra-processed food", and no theory for the mechanism by which it is supposedly uniquely harmful.

This whole thread is perfect

Intelligent

קניתי, קילפתי, ריסקתי והקפאתי מלא מלא שום טרי ועכשיו הידיים שלי בריח שום, מי היה יכול לחזות את זה

Yeah ‘a kind of factory’ is the best way to think about this because it doesn’t make you dismissive of the sometimes real concerns (it often isn’t nice to be near many factories), while preventing you from going insane by putting it in perspective.

I have been informed that in addition to good things, there have also been bad things! Never change, bluesky

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

His beak looks like someone carelessly installed it upside down, I love it