I absolutely snorted out loud in an important, quiet historic reading room. And then had the giggles for 5 minutes. Fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers!

This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

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Check the status of your ballot and sign up to help cure ballots at the link in our bio! #thisisyourcity

Super fun to be wearing my new smart watch while home with a sick toddler. No, Fitbit, I didn't work out for 93 minutes this morning, but now I know what having a crying feverish kid does to my heart rate I guess

lol stop drinking mediocre coffee but also SUPPORT UNIONS

Good news! Now you can wrap your gifts in bird-y data-y style with my Of A Feather wrapping paper. This paper features feathers representing 511 birds whose names contain the words winter, christmas, snowy, snow, red, or green. Ships everywhere, plastic-free! 🪶 www.jerthorp.me/product-page...

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

Tonight is good reminder that Democrats need to primary the shit out of disgraceful fraudulent traitor John Fetterman and get that piece of shit out of office for good.

Money is tight right now, of course, and we’ve had a few people write us lately to say they can’t afford subscriptions. If you’re struggling but want to solve our puzzles, hit us up any time - [email protected] - and we will happily hook you up free for a year. No questions asked.

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It's election day! To all my fellow US folks: make sure you get out & vote. The eels demand it of you. Eels, of course, are citizens of the world. So they can't vote in local elections, and they have to rely on you to do it for them. Even if you won't vote for you, be a proxy vote for an eel! 🗃️🧪

Thank you, @danclarkreports.bsky.social for helping spread the word about PRI🦣 2 months left to save this important research and teaching center somehow! 🧪⚒️🐌 #science #earthscience #Antarctica #NewYork #Paleontology #fossilfriday #Cornell

Philly, go vote!

From #herps to #insects, #birds, & #mammals, the leaf layer is more than just nature’s carpet - it’s a sanctuary, food source, & protective shield. These critically important pieces of microhabitat are entirely removed when we throw away our yard leaves. #LeaveTheLeaves 📸 @xercessociety.bsky.social

It’s Election Day! Know your rights. ✊🏽

All right, here's my final pitch for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Get to the polls tomorrow friends, and let's bring this home! gregpak.net/2025/11/03/t...

Capitol pressroom interview with the Paleontological Research Institution's director Warren Allmon about PRIs connections to science education throughout NY and the fundraising campaign for the next 60 days to make sure the end of the year isnt the end of PRI capitolpressroom.org/2025/10/31/u...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Tschüssi, Leipzig! Auf wiedersehen & bis nächste Mal

Pride flowers anyone? These were inspired by the fact that 90% of flowering species have individual flowers that are both male and female 🌸 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4338...

Do not be a doomer about this. Just call your New York friends and remind them to vote, and tell them to do the same. He is more popular and will win with good turnout.

This young male Satin Bowerbird has developed some of his first mature black satin feathers... around his eyes so it looks like he's wearing eyeliner or mascara XD #birds

Starting tomorrow, AVCX will be running a mini subscription drive for the fall. We hope to add 100 new subscribers, which will keep us healthy going into next year. If you’re able to spread the word, our thanks!! If you have a platform or outlet where you can plug us, we’ll gladly swap too

@profharley.bsky.social and I are both quoted in this Guardian article about the science of menstrual blood - the author made sure to point out we are married but not that we are also co-PIs on an R01 studying menstrual blood and endometriosis. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Philly: Donate - Donate | Philabundance - Leading the Fight Against Hunger secure.philabundance.org/site/Donatio...

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

A Balinese blawong, or a decorative stand to display keris (traditional dagger), also popular in Java. This one is shaped like Hanuman and was made of jackfruit wood. At the bottom are ceremonial Balinese keris, the types that would be displayed proudly on a bawong. 📸: Museum Nasional Indonesia

There's so much in the world. You can't know it all.

Husband and I were just comparing pay. He’s in a unionized faculty and his salary has increased 14% over 2 years. I’m in a non-union position and mine has increased 7.5% in 4 years (plus my retirement matching has been cut in half). 🙃🙃 as if there weren’t a million reasons to unionize already

CA: Voting on Prop. 50 starts today. Your vote is likely your best means of holding back tyranny in your lifetime. Mark your ballot (this is a one-issue election, so it will take about sixty seconds to mark, seal, and sign/date. Mail, drop off, or take to a Vote Center to scan, and you're golden!

POLLS ARE NOW OPEN. Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️ findmypollsite.vote.nyc

If you're in a higher-risk category, get your mpox vaccine. I know people who had the Clade IIb variety and it was *bad*. You don't want this one...

This is actually super easy and a lot of fun. The kids are excited and surprisingly knowledgeable. Please volunteer if you can! 🏺

A recent study of schoolchildren finds that the youngest students harbor the most germs.

Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure #savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑 @lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...

Cicero, Lipschitz

Hi y'all. Delighted to see all your protest pictures! Please turn on your alt text reminder and slap a description in the alt text. We're not just fighting against Trump, were fighting for each other.

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will: MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR. Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We are at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

🧪 #linguistics

Abolish ICE 😉 Happy Thursday everyone ❤️

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

I’m seeing Godot on Friday and now the entire time I’m gonna be imagining this guy waiting for the show tunes to start

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts! Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking! Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November. SquidFacts.net