New fodder for stories. (But the shrooms aren't new.) Maybe wait to taste until they determine if it's possible to isolate & culture them? A label on one of the photos says that packaged mushrooms claiming to be these fellows were not--and some fakes were poisonous. nhmu.utah.edu/articles/exp...

www.popsci.com/health/diabe... #cgm #insulin #diabetes #bloodglucose

acupuncturetoday.com/article/3986... #mosquitoes #acupuncture #qi #mastcells

Anyone have “ShamWow guy running for Congress” on their BINGO card?

The Dale X Mothfur Collab with XEELA-phone playing at the Tiny Minotaur sound bath 🗡️🎶🎹 #drone #soundbath #experimentalmusic #mothfur

Possible links between #epilepsy and environmental factors like heat. #climatechange #seizures #insomnia

Block the #datacenters from being built in areas struggling with enough water for their residents, as is. #waterconservation #watershortage #TaylorTexas #ATX

@kitsunegarcia.bsky.social @silona.bsky.social Thought you would enjoy seeing!

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Central Park's lost Budgerigar continues to thrive in her usual area, near West Drive from 81st to 85th Street, aided by warm weather that is expected to continue over the next week. 🦜 💛

Ah ok here's a fun tip I ran across by accident, hopefully it still works if your algorithm starts going conservative, watch Tasting History by Max Miller. it's like algorithmic bug spray for fascism www.youtube.com/@TastingHist...

Blessings upon these folks (and their kin such as cashiers who stop people from buying large numbers of gift cards) and their efforts

Another great thread where rah shares and people chime in with good experience/suggests or Qs about managing things. 🧵 for extra.... 📌 Travel--emergency plane exit prep

Hank Green gets his butt handed to him by knitters for his misogynistic post about the physics of knitting. #knitting #knitters #hankgreen #physics #misogyny

Who else loves the #dragonwagondriver ? #dragon #dragonwagon

People are roasting the new Austin city logo harder than the #crackerbarrel rebranding. Maybe because we paid a million dollars for it? It's seriously an expensive eyesore. #austintx #uglylogo Petition here: www.change.org/p/let-austin...

Non-paywall version archive.is/202508201924... bsky.app/profile/mari...

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vazquez Garcia found what seemed to be a “smart” smoke and vape detection gadget in his school called the Halo 3C. He discovered it monitored much more than just smoke.

Gerrymandering is one of their many tools to silence our voices. They use the law to make our vote meaningless so they can stay in power forever. This is fascism.

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence. If true, then fucking yikes.

Fresh words ✨ allyfromnola.medium.com/why-ai-hurti...

Many contractor workers often end up in contract work specifically because they need flexibility in their lives, whether it's raising kids, caring for older family members, managing chronic illnesses, etc. And we have to pay MORE taxes for the flexibility we need to work.

I'm reading #thenewmenopause by Dr. Mary Claire Haver. #GenX aren't taking the set backs from #menopause from previous generations lightly. This explains why the #HRT scare from the late 90's/early 2K was a scam and what new options are on the table now.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r... #robobunnies #burmesepythons #snakes #florida

www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal... #hibernation #bodyhacking #ageing

Because we need to share all the good news. www.bbc.com/news/article...

kffhealthnews.org/news/article... #anemia #seniorcitizens #ageing #bodyhacking

www.discovermagazine.com/health/iron-... #irondeficiency

Tech bailout underway. Taxpayer money being stolen.

A dangerous provision is being considered by the Senate that would prevent states from regulating AI for ten years with no federal alternative. We must tell Congress to oppose this ten year ban on AI regulation immediately.

thehustle.co/the-surprisi... #soap #recycling #upcycling #hotels

Congratulations to Mayor-elect Gina Ortiz Jones! A proud military veteran, she’s exactly the leader San Antonio needs. She’ll be a mayor for all San Antonians — not one bought and paid for by Greg Abbott.

If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

theweek.com/tech/the-noi... #noisepollution #noise #bitcoin #bitcoinmining

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... #coopershawk #hawk #crosswalk

When they all bask at the same time, they become melted cheese

The words of our Constitution are crystal clear. Tell Congress to block Trump's acceptance of a bribe from Qatar here: bit.ly/4deysRT #TrumpCrimeFamily

acupuncturetoday.com/article/3963... (For the TLDR people, they are using patches not smoking) #nicotine #longcovid #covid #smoking

It’s after midnight in the UK so Happy World Goth Day 2025

There's so much bad news in the world. So, here's some wrapping paper designed by Japanese artist Ippei Tsujio that turns everything into bread. A delightful (delicious?) distraction. More info: spoon-tamago.com/bread-wrappi...

How Trump’s firing of the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyrights intersects with the battle over AI training, copyright infringement, and fair use www.theverge.com/politics/666...

reposting this thread for post-lunch peeps. if you like original creative works of any kind & you’d prefer they be produced by human beings—not stolen copies of their works blended into a soulless mush—then you can and should take action. call your reps and senators. sign a petition. (links below)

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/12/1... #Biometricdata #ai

AI is about creating accepted inequalities in populations people believe can’t fight back

Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld once calculated there were 43,046,721 possible variations of human sexuality. The point was less the number and more the simple, crystalline truth -- that queerness resists definition. Or, in his own words, "Love is as varied as people are."

Sneaky as 💩 They can get photos of a company's texts, too. Always hang up and call the numbers on your card or statement. (There are fake bank web sites out there, too. Sigh.)

Started listening to #carelesspeople by #sarahwynnwilliams which is about what goes on inside #Meta #facebook

Mad boi bite me so hard because I was trying to check his mouth since he hasn't been eating 😭 I think we just need to up his temperature a bit at night since it's been getting so cold #africanfattailedgecko #africanfattailgecko #leopardgecko #gecko #lizard #petlover