Scientists Found Human Speech-Like Patterns in Sperm Whale Clicks The staccato clicks of sperm whales may sound like meaningless background noise to human ears, but a new analysis suggests they may be part of a communication system with a level of complexity approac...

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When your father is a professor and your mom directed Salaam Bombay

If you're a socialist with money, you're a hypocrite. If you're a socialist without money, you're a failure.

remember when celebrities seemingly randomly started coming out talking about how much they loved NFTs and thought it was super valuable and the future?

Awesome

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

I guess this is why The Thinker is hunched over -so burdened was he- from thinking all day and night

My Fellow Slobs, Hear Me!
Our Day of Reckoning will soon be upon us.

May Derek Have Mercy on Our Poorly Tailored Clothes

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

We've all been there...Ooft

Also, is a dead-ringer for Andrew Scott?

All hail

Percy Harland Fisher (1867-1944)
Washing on the Line. Oil on canvas.

I like that between Batman and Godzilla we have the mythological figures of our time.

Always happy to see either. In any incarnation

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

Oil slick from bombed Iranian ship threatens protected wetland Shahid Bagheri leaking fuel towards Hara mangrove forest, home to migrating birds and endangered turtles

Oil from an Iranian ship struck near the Strait of Hormuz threatens to poison one of the region's most important wetlands.

Local fishing communities depend on the mangrove forest for food.

If oil reaches them, it's likely to kill the fish they need to survive.

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Glerg

Torres del Paine (Patagonia, Chile 🇨🇱)

Perhaps her readership are people who throw things at Femi Oluwole in the street?

Who is still reading her novels/writing? And what shape are *their* lives in?

All these grinning idiots look the same. Do they come in multipacks?

godzilla is probably just freaking out cause people keep pointing at his nude body and screaming

Moonstone® is a luminous and elegant hybrid tea rose that captivates with its pearly white petals edged in soft pink. Bred by Tom Carruth and introduced by Weeks Roses, this variety has become a favorite among exhibitors and gardeners alike. Its exceptionally large, high-centered blooms and classic form make it ideal for cutting, by Grace Rose Farm.

Moonstone® is a luminous and elegant hybrid tea rose that captivates with its pearly white petals edged in soft pink. Bred by Tom Carruth and introduced by Weeks Roses, this variety has become a favorite among exhibitors and gardeners alike. Its exceptionally large, high-centered blooms.

You know what's lovely?
You both look even happier in the below picture

The relentless nature of their hatred is mono-to-nous

UK must feed and fuel itself - but Labour would rather attack wealth The policies of Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves push us to rely on imports.just as war, inflation and global instability demand self-reliance

The UK has relied on food imports since at least Napoleonic times.

Unfortunately, the Brexiters were so busy obsessing over blue passports and the tax cuts they never stopped to work that one out.

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...

Once again Labour destroying vulnerable people's lives based on cruelty and hostility. Labour wonders why they are so unpopular, it's largely because they spend so much time focused on making life worse for already marginalised groups instead of better for all.
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Michael Sowa (German Artist, born 1945)
"Easter Bunny on the Train", 1996.
Oil on Canvas.
Apropos for Easter :-)

Feel like the internet is getting stranger after 26 years online

They are bound by their having never believed or never heard the phrase "The truth will out"