🫧 Smoke trapped in a bubble on water: surface tension, soap film physics and fluid mechanics in action

god this design is so cool. the bike frame is kept as light as possible, then all the heavy components (battery, compute, jump mechanism) are put in the roll cage up top, and they use its inertia to flip the bike around. so fun! rai-inst.com/resources/bl...

“Cancer world is an isolating place. For those of us who negotiate it while pregnant, the difficulties we encounter compound this feeling.” Na'ama Carlin on cancer in pregnancy: navigating two medical systems spkl.io/63322ALPrG

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

Honey what’s wrong, you’ve barely touched your chewable anthropomorphic ginger tardigrade

gotta be another way to do this

“How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed” (12 Feb) washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

Nashiro (mascot of Hita City) is an alien with a see-through cranium, showing its brain, which is a pear.

an incredible distraction from present panic is historical panic! in sheep no less

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Yahata Inu, the mascot of Kai City, looks like a cat but is actually a mix of a potato and a dog, with a leaf from a local zelkova tree on its head.

Miyaneko, a white cat whose ears make an “M”, is the mascot for Miyazaki City. His special skills are dancing and overreacting.

A very kind review of a recent study we published on location of prehospital intubation and whether 360 degree access is really required in most patients.

Kikuchi-kun, the unofficial mascot of Kikuchi City, has a melon hat, cow legs, a grain of rice nose, a blue water body, hot spring eyebrows, loveheart lips, and the crest of the historic local Kikuchi clan for eyes.

Gen-chan the Japanese river otter is a mascot from Ehime Prefecture who plays the saxophone.

Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ status check: 8 months in, 19% availability, and all of Musk’s promises are missing Elon Musk promised 500 cars in Austin, coverage for half the US population, fully unsupervised rides, and expansion to 8-10 cities, all by the end of 2025. None of it happened. /1

Koapyon, a bear in a bunny costume, is the mascot for the village of Kamikoani in Akita Prefecture.

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

Sutamu-chan, an angel of good fortune from the Milky Way, is the mascot of Ogawamachi, Saitama. Sutamu-chan’s body is a piece of the traditional handmade paper the town is known for, decorated with bamboo leaves and stars from the Tanabata star festival held there each summer.

Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are

If I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me.

Rinrin-chan, the tourism mascot for Tokyo’s Itabashi Ward, is a fairy of the ward’s official flower, the “flaccid anemone”. His special skill is photosynthesis.

Musashi Ranmaru, a naughty boy in a butterfly helmet, is the mascot for the scenic town of Arashiyama in Saitama.

the jerk stop called

Kasumigaunya, a white cat, is the mascot for Kasumigaura City, home to Japan’s second largest lake. The lake is on his head, and his ears are sailboats.

Vanimaru, 5-year-old accident-prone Prince of the Vanilla Kingdom, is the mascot for Yokohama Vanilla, who make delicious salted vanilla financiers.

imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago

The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep. Stop snoring, ye sleepers

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

As screenwriter of the Labubu movie I want to clear up some misconceptions. Yes, technically they do eat human flesh, but only necrotic tissue around wounds. Doctors use them to clean up injuries and promote positive health outcomes. Labubus are humanity’s allies, except for evil Labubus of course

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

AI use for progress notes is causing serious privacy and clinical risks in aged care. Professional bodies need to act. AI shouldnt be used for client notes and reports hellocare.com.au/ai-use-for-p...

Look here, Beelzebub, you don’t do it

GLP-1 agonists (eg Ozempic) are showing promise to reduce alcohol drinking and perhaps opioid use. This is, of course, a potential therapeutic success which arises from the random walking of science, not an “efficient” directed research program.

We used to do real science

Kamosy, a train conductor serow (Japanese goat-antelope), is the mascot for JR Takasaki Station.

You know, I wouldn’t even know writers festivals existed if it weren’t for their regular paroxysms of weird unit behaviour.

I was on Facebook for reporting purposes, and what’s going on over there appears to be Soup Binders.

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

not to put too fine a point on it, but this is what the internet is actually for

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth