Just watching a woodpecker get some grub. Chillin.

Btw this is absolute loser shit. Don't do this. Go read a fucking book

Platner's barely got any hair to speak of, but he can't shave his head for obvious reasons

Never really got into Henry James, but I really liked his brother William's book «The Varieties of Religious Experience». It was, imho, ahead of its time

I think today is a "relisten to the discography of Led Zeppelin" day

«wastrel» is a good word, and we should bring it back

I'm no synesthete, but this seems right to me

Just learned about cameo carvings of semiprecious gemstones, which in turn taught me about the planar striations of coloring in onyx and agate... the world is cool af

I don't think it ever clicked for me that Casanova and Marco Polo were both Venetian

What the fuck are we doing

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

The devil wears nada

Billionaire real estate investor Steven Roth says he considers the phrase "tax the rich" to be "just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

RIP Project Freedom (May 4, 2026 - May 5, 2026)

"Holy shit, it's the same man"

я коли обід в ресторані коштує 20 євро і я коли цікава книжка коштує 35 євро

this is hands down the funniest and bleakest translation option we have ever been given all at once. it is both of those things on a level that nothing else has even considered touching.

I am surprisingly adept at flooring if any friends ever want to redo theirs.

Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.

Had an interview today, and I made one dumb comment that's been swimming around in my head for twelve hours

Akira (1988)

Actually you know what, let me just

*taps earpiece*

Data should be illegal

Marketing fail: Walmart sells 250 year anniversary merch that looks like America died.

This guy exclusively eats at strip clubs I guess

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

As we say in the Midwest, "Ope!"

Apparently Bluesky for dummies is a thing

That's $5/gal in Ohio

Для українців: Є англомовний фільм «Крамер проти Крамера», а «_____ проти Fighting Polygon Team» це рівень відеоігри Super Smash Bros.

Kramer vs. Fighting Polygon Team

Everything about this image is extremely powerful to me

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Йде сніг 😑

«I Love You Always Forever» is such a bop, and you're lying if you say you disagree

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social why don't you like ranked choice voting for federal elections

Thinking back on highschool when this Cool Guy told me that he "lives life without regret," as though he had stumbled on some brilliant insight, and I said something to the effect of "What? Well that's fucking dumb."

Cat took a stinky dump but I don't want to get out of bed... Guess I'm using my third and final wish

Tick bites are one of my biggest fears. A Lyme vaccine would be a genuine relief

Check out this amazing portrait @byelacey.bsky.social did of our three tortoise shells

My favorite sentence in this article is “catfish, which is safe to eat,”

Which version of The Wicker Man to watch tonight? Maybe these posters painted in Ghana will help me decide?

They should invent a world where rich people realize how average their intelligence is

the atlanta hawks have now joined the "30-point club," having scored at least 30 points in a single game

It's official: Louisiana's Republican governor just suspended state congressional elections so lawmakers can pass a new gerrymandered map first.

This didn’t happen

I don't want tax cuts. I want to pack the court and prosecute every criminal in the administration.

Midday nap? As a treat?