Mathematician John Conway was born #OTD in 1937. 🧪 He made broad and profound contributions across all of mathematics, but he is maybe best known by the general public for his "game of life" cellular automaton. Conway passed away in 2020, from COVID-19.

Happy Parent's recovering day to those who celebrate. Time to eat leftover cookies, throw out wrapping paper, and try to reorganize the house.

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

Oh yeah! Best news I've heard all week. Now do chocolate. 😀

Remind me again why people still use that platform?

Thanksgiving, a wonderful holiday where the main focus is giving thanks and then eating all the yummy food I've spent the last 3 days cooking. I hope no one goes hungry this Thanksgiving day. For those of you who are Ex-US, I hope you have a nice meal today too!

Thought you'd like some good news.. 🥰 www.iflscience.com/worlds-oldes...

Has anyone figured out yet what Elon is going to do with that Trillion dollars? #lookup

Reason 1,571 why I left Twitter. Anyway. If you are still there. Maybe check out some of these guys and see what you find. Lol.

Porto.

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Sounds about right.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Rare orchid brought back from brink of extinction. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For the bees! (Honestly a lot of insects rely on leaves) #info #bees #insects #themoreyouknow

Insight Timer isn't a Buddhism app per se, but it might as well be. It isn't grifty because the free version is just fine, but you can support many excellent creators through it. I'd recommend it in addition to other apps for meditation and learning. insighttimer.com

If you see this, post a picture of a bird.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

New fear unlocked! Mud volcano! 🔥

My son is doing his part! So proud of that kid. ❤️

More proof that Sean Duffy lied when he said Trump was canceling private flights at the same rate as commercial ones. A new report shows that private jet travel saw massive increases as thousands of commercial flights were being canceled.

This fish is old enough to drink and have student loans!

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

here, take this

Interesting article targeting wealth inequality, and a great suggestion by the "Patriotic Millionaires". Ground all private jets during the shutdown, instead of public flights. They depend on ATC, yet pay a fraction of the taxes needed to run the FAA. www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this. Stay safe!

I don't understand how the government can tell private business what to do with their own inventory when they want to do good for their customers, yet somehow could not prevent price gouging during COVID? Make it make sense, please. pix11.com/news/local-n...

pix11.com/news/local-n... SNAP recipients can show their EBT cards and receive some free food at some restaurants in NYC. The list is small, and the number of meals is limited, but let's hope this catches on!

SNAP benefits go to feeding baby AI chips now instead? Silicon >> carbon-based life forms?

...they walked away from the nonsense triumphantly & inhaled a chance to begin... #hopewearsmanyfaces #nature #photography #believeyoucan #onelove #community #wellbeing #mentalwellness

I, personally, have wished a few people away to the cornfield. 🌽🌽🌽 Unfortunately, they never go.

Do you remember when there was a famine in Africa and all those little kids were starving? And the Rock Stars came together and did Live Aid to feed them? Yeah, something like that to prevent kids on SNAP from going hungry over the Holidays would be good right about now... #SNAP

From a food bank staff member: Please donate money over cheap food. They have more purchasing power than you do and can do more with it. You can donate your free turkeys tho. :) For every meal donated by a food bank, 9 meals are donated by SNAP; the increase in demand will be crushing.

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I just keep thinking this thing would evolve into the biggest Gyarados ever.

If you are in one of the states that didn't turn on emergency funding for SNAP beneficiaries, please consider donating to your local food pantry. They are going to get slammed with requests in the coming weeks. And if you itemize your tax return, it should be tax deductible. #SNAP

If anyone was ready for Halloween, it has to be this Halloween crab! These absolute beauties live in coastal forests in Central America and Mexico, heading back to the ocean to make babies 📷 Halloween crab at Carillo beach in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Credit Thomas Splettstoesser (CC BY-SA 3.0)

#lookup It's not about the red It's not about the blue It's about the GREEN Wakeup and #lookup.

Seven legendary ornaments from across the franchise timeline.

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

people.com/kiss-cofound... So sad.

Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet. The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.