my mom just sent me a google invite to her oral surgery. I don't know what this means.

Just so I'm clear, if you phone up Rowling's helpline, you are at risk of having your phone call tweeted out to her 14 million odd followers for a ridicule party?

Had a doctor tell me "You're too late, but you're still pretty!" when I took too long finding him a glass beaker for an autopsy, so you know at least that's something I guess 😂

Here’s an example of why you really need the govt agencies focused on protecting people from theft or fraud by major corps. My wife has a jewelry business and sent a piece of jewelry to a customer via UPS. It was insured since it’s a pricey item. The package never arrived. The customer lives in a …

She’s so beautiful 😭

I'm not even joking when I say that, as a former writing teacher, I think even the act of bullshitting through a 10-page paper on a book you only skimmed is also incredibly valuable learning.

Good thread. I worked in a micro lab that did water and food safety testing for nearly half a decade, trust me that some of these companies don't even pretend to care if they are spreading deadly pathogens. If the government doesn't force them to monitor/clean things.... They just don't.

This sums up the frantic and coerced deployment of "AI" throughout public and private sectors. Results of even cursory audits are horrifying every time, invariably paired with forced adoption and retaliation for asserting professional norms. Colonialism is a cherry on top.

It's still too humid and hot outside for me. Summer suuucks! 😩

A sleepy Geralt 🥹 look at that cute little nose!

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

20 years ago today: TV audiences around the WORLD were left SHOCKED and BEWILDERED by one of the most iconic and *controversial* series finales to ever air:

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

ADHD Women's Summit— a summit specifically for a cohort of people CATEGORICALLY KNOWN to have auditory processing issues— is *Charging A Fee*. For *Subtitles*. What in the ACTUAL FUCK.

Your honor, I love them

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

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“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

bug feet train, quote with some bug feetsies

the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw

Rhode Island and Kentucky have merged

same guy

the world's richest man is posting shit right out of the book that inspired the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history. he's inciting violence worldwide. in my experience, people who talk like this want to see the world burn. he's in the unique position of being able to strike the match.

How I feel rn, having finally finished reading War and Peace

This goes for everyone making wonderful things. Writers, photographers, quilters, everyone. You can make an artist’s day by telling them what you like about what they do 😊

A North-American native owlet moth is a better pollinator than (non-native) honeybees. Get REKT, Apis mellifera! Cool talk by Christopher Cosma of the Conservation Biology Institute during our Lepidopterists' Society meeting.

For some reason I can't say the word "gluteraldehyde" without the worst country accent. Kentucky has cursed me.

A tiny exuviae I found on a recent hike at the Jefferson Memorial Forest! There were a lot of lightning beetle adults flying in the area, so I'm gonna guess that's what this one is from. So cute!

I am definitely not a fungus/mold person so I have no idea what this is, but it looked cool! Seen in the Jefferson Memorial Forest in Kentucky.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Employees at Scientific American were told today that the magazine has been sold to LabX Media Group, the outfit that runs Discover Magazine and IFLScience. And that means -- of course! -- editorial layoffs. The media mass extinction rolls ever onward.

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

"Whose Larva Is This?" A quick guide to figure out what you're looking at when you find something that resembles a worm or a Zerg unit crawling around. #insect #bug #education #SciArt

They're dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning trying to stop the algae.

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

me: hey can I expense $10 to make a spreadsheet employer: Absolutely not me: hey can I spend $10 worth of company tokens to have ChatGPT make a shitty spreadsheet I will have to put even more work into to fix manually employer: yes 💖

Please Use AI

A terrible quality video of an ant ending her nuptial flight on my leg for some reason, while I was stooping down to collect mosquitoes for a project. 😂 She was safely relocated once she was finished. My knees suffered greatly!

I really enjoy War and Peace but damn does it step on my heart outta nowhere sometimes. I'm getting closer to the end, relatively speaking at least. Just 8 hours left (out of 61 total).

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.

Forbidden fruit gushers

Happy pride

June 1st

happy pride 💕

happy pride month! always a good time to share this iconic message by Matti from Finland

such a classic scene