Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Everybody be quiet and look at this baby toucan.

“My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. -S.R.” Tweeted by Sonny Rollins on Dec 31, 2023

On the tube

Lmao

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

Umabee, a dog with a massive tongue, wears a bowl and its lid as clothes and is the tourism mascot for Higashiyamato, Tokyo.

Every line of this poster is more baffling than the last, it stopped me dead in my tracks

I DID NOT KNOW HE WAS A BUSINESSMAN

Wish you could best those multi-coloured Pac Man ghosts in the flesh? Now you can. A life-sized Pac Man arena in Singapore is turning a classic arcade game into a real world experience. 👻👻👻 Run! #games #arcade #pacman

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

The most hilarious part of this is that the recall only affects 173 total vehicles, because that's all Tesla's sold of its rear wheel drive model.

Told my kid I was having the kind of week where I just need to scream into the void for a while. He made me a void. You can use it too, if you'd like.

Get Off Chrome now.

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Fact: The person who named sweetbreads isn't allowed to name things anymore.

Well yeah, that’d do it

Ukipi is a persimmon fairy from Ukiha City.

In Ireland, we don’t say “I love you”, we say “Mo ghrá go deo” which means “I will love you for as long as it takes them to finish building the Children’s Hospital” and i think that’s beautiful

Aside from everything, I had completely forgotten about NFTs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

Roses are red Violets do gladden

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

Jubapyon is a gregarious cool frog who sometimes appears in Takafumido Book Store in Azabu Juban, Tokyo.

a teenage boy just made it clear to me that he thought the shirt im wearing was advertising the two separate concepts of guns and of roses

train jazz www.trainjazz.com

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They're cowards for not doing this.

I’m very proud to have co-ordinated and co-chaired the group that produced this guidance, rationalising the use of sterile gowns in spinal anaesthesia Hopefully this provides international clarity and helps improve the sustainability of our practice doi.org/10.1111/anae...

New guidelines published today - Sterile gowns are no longer mandatory for single-shot spinal anaesthesia in uncomplicated adults. Backed by top anaesthetic organisations, this move cuts waste and keeps patients safe. Full details 👉 https://ow.ly/6Jhi50YKOQW #Ansky #Medsky

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Excellent in so many ways.

"SpaceX bought 1,279 Cybertrucks in Q4 2025, representing over 18% of Tesla’s total US sales during the quarter. That’s not fleet expansion—that’s a bailout wearing corporate camouflage" www.gadgetreview.com/spacex-bough...

“Scientists push to have platypus listed as 'vulnerable' on conservation register” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Went to a Christmas fare years ago. Spoke to the animal handler at the event & said the "antlers attached to the horses head make the reindeer look so authentic". He looked at me like I was crazy. I thought Reindeer's were mythical. Wife still reminds me of this.

- Grey-headed Fish-eagle (Haliaeetus ichthyaetus) is found in South East Asia. - Photo courtesy of Tan Tze Siong‎. What a shot!!!

A pair of mascots from Saitama City: Midoritaro has Saitama Football Stadium on his head, and Moukariyakko has googly eyes, an upside-down head, and a lucky gold hat.

RIP Michael Crichton. You would have loved Congo the Movie Pinball.

Available now at my local library. It’s quite the brand extension!

"Light Fossils" dinosaur light painting by artist Darren Pearson, known as Darius Twin, using a unique photography technique. The artwork is created using long-exposure photography, where the camera shutter remains open while the artist moves handheld lights to "draw" the figures in real-time.

dad: so whats the deal with the war me: *speaks for 5 min* dad: wow that is an impressive analysis me: thanks I took it from a person I follow online who is a subject matter expert dad: oh whats their name me: They are a cartoon dog wearing underwear as a face mask called Piss Prevail On Earth

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids https://theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-can-t-believe-she-ended-up-movi-1825827223/

One of the very best from Clickhole

Finally, some real journalistic action