WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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A little poem from A. Harris

New safe-for-work curse word just dropped. This AI tool evaluation project I’m working on is absolute horses.

Some law remains. This law remains. The law remains.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

The best new Star Wars show.

Our septic tank had just been replaced when my dad told me what a styptic pencil was. To this day, I have to think about which word applies to which thing.

@gregdoucette.bsky.social this has your kind of wordplay energy

Except Philadelphia April is more unpredictable than that (as I put on a heavy coat)

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost with a dance or get eliminated

Honestly, it just makes me think of John Otway

-You Need To Know This Candy Will Make You Shit Out Your Soul Over 2-4 Hours -Cauliflower That Looks, But Does NOT Taste, Like Pizza -This Bottle of Amber Fluid Is Not Mtn Dew -Mushrooms Are Not Fucking Coffee -We Can't Legally Call This Cheese -Nut Juice

Same Ecological Niche as Chocolate Passes For Sugar Not Beef But Come On What Are Your Other Options

posted 14, 2024 𝕋𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕞𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕗 "The moment this southern right mother and calf accompanied by a pod of dolphins. As they curiously approached these surfers 4 yrs ago, still blows my mind"

Timeline cleanse, y’all

I made it though the whole day without showing my penis to anyone.

One of the best threads I've seen in a long time.

remembered a good tweet

All of Scooby-Doo is just a Shaggy dog story.

Aren't we all still mad about the almost Batgirl movie?

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

Back at the start of the 90s I took an AI class. There was a theory of language translation that all you had to do was reword the sentence into the standard 7 verbs then build translation modules to and from the abstracted language into all the languages you wanted to support.

Love this image of astronaut Christina Koch in the Orion spacecraft looking back at Earth, especially the floating braids. 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ 🔭 🧪 🚀 🌔

Lasers were a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to play with cats. Computers were also a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to look at pictures of cats. In other words, science was made for cats.

So I ran a control test, much like when I try a new pizza (straight pep) or burger (bacon cheese) joint. We start there as a base and if you can't deliver on that level we don't party. I set it to the 80s, hit random. Within a few mins I had Jimmy Cliff's "Reggae Night" video playing. It's for real.

We should really get on that. Solar powered teleportation devices would really change the supply line.

One from the group It gets worse the more I look at it

I guess Australia is used to making really long things - like a rabbit proof fence.

I've lived long enough to watch Expert Systems go for a promise to do take over all the important jobs to being useful for more niche purposes. I'm a firm believer that LLMs will be useful for something, but not the everything they are being hailed for.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men.

My ideology.

Spotted at a No Kings protest in Durham, North Carolina! Epic creativity!

Had only two sales this month so if you could check out my shop or ko-fi or boost this, that'd help a lot! thanks anaisfae.art/shop ko-fi.com/anaisfae

Carter: Colonel! O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say? Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years... Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"

Embrace your odd desires.

I will 100% support your weird cursive fixation if you spend the same amount of money and time getting American children to understand progressive taxation well enough that they carry that knowledge into adulthood. So you don't have to explain it like this (although this is a very good explainer!).

Finally, guidance on how to follow Carl Sagan's suggestion: ""If you want to make a pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" --Carl Sagan"

We need to remember the Triangle Fire not only because it was a tragedy but because it made people realize they can mobilize together and bring change. The fire made people understand why we need unions and then propelled them to do something about it. 🗃️

You learn something new everyday (unless you are not paying attention, in which case you miss it)

What the internet is really for. Finding out that The Drongos had a song you’ve never heard. The band last released an album in 1985.

Yes, alt-text needs a proof reader to see if they used the right picture or the right alt text.

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

3/ There has never been a clearer case for embracing renewable energy.  Nobody ever bombed a storage tank full of sunlight, or fought a war for the wind.

Someone should tell him he can't make Puerto Rico the 51st state, just to see if he takes the bait.