You know who loves mud season? Our beautiful snow-white horse, Casper. 😆

OH MY GOD

What’s in a Name? For These Snails, Legal Protection

What if the name written into legal protections isn't a valid taxonomic name? Is the species unprotected? Some fantastic on-site indigenous/academic collaboration and quotes www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/s...

I will get us to 6k followers.

By any means necessary.

Oil spills from the Iran war are visible from space | CNN Satellite images show oil swirling in the water after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities and ships. Experts fear an environmental catastrophe

I legitimately don't have words.

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You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2.

A few warnings:
Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is.
Absolutely /do not/ lick it.
Keep far away from any Supermen.
If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts.

Let's talk about the science here.

Elephant bird - Wikipedia

My child has declared this Elephant Bird Awareness Day and wants me to tell some people.

Were you aware of elephant birds? You are now.

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

In Milwaukee, you can request the city install a bike rack. I know of at least four spots in the city who have bike racks because I requested them!

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(Alt text for the quoted photo: green cargo bike with rear child seat locked to a bike rack.)

Palantir is doing cutting edge science on whether its possible for an entire company to have cocaine psychosis

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration “With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, ...

My institution relentlessly going whole hog on AI has the one benefit of inspiring colleagues to be completely hilarious-
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Practical Magic 2 | Official Teaser Trailer (Sandra Bullock & Nicole Kidman, 2026) YouTube video by Entertainment Tonight

I’m so excited!!! Pass the midnight margaritas!

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The current moon phase for April 20th, 2026, is the waxing crescent phase.

On this day, the moon is 3.12 days old and 12.44% illuminated with a tilt of 125.428°. The "approximate" distance from Earth to the moon is 362,617.61 km, and the moon sign is Gemini.

The soft orange/yellow blossoms of ʻilima (Sida fallax).

Repost from Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park

April is Native Hawaiian Plant Month!

The soft yellow blossoms of ʻilima (Sida fallax) are a familiar sight across Hawaiʻi’s coastal landscapes, including at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park. Traditionally used in lei.

NPS Photo/KAHO

Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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Photo of Iris the cat lying on her back on the carpet, trying to look endearing.

I was just enjoying some pistachio ice cream with the doomscrolling, when I heard a slurping noise and realized Iris the cat was enjoying it too. The ice cream, she doesn't care about the doom.

Uvalde wasn't an aberration.

Beautiful graphic with the text "The Biggest Week presents Birder Prom sponsored by Birds and Blooms, featuring performing artist and birder Bonner Black!" The graphic shows two birds anthropomorphized into human body shapes, with a Cerulean Warbler in a blue dress and a Blackburnian Warbler in a suit.

Obsessed with the unintentionally(?) queer illustration for birder prom that has both species in male-type plumage. A female Cerulean Warbler would be more yellow-blue than that pure soft blue, and the beautiful orange is a male Blackburnian Warbler.

like 200% more likely to participate now

Texas A&M Says Goodbye to CC, World’s First Cloned Cat CC CC, the world’s first cloned cat, has passed away at the age of 18, after being diagnosed with kidney failure. CC, short for Copy Cat, passed away on

Many of the traits we see in our pets or ourselves are not 'genetic destiny', although the genetic contributions are considerable.

Genes interact with environment to varying degrees & pets like CC give us a chance to see how variable the outcome of rolling the tape back & starting again could be.

An orange white and black calico cat named Rainbow greeting CC, who is in that late kitten stage, and is a tabby calico, no orange. They sit on a conference table, and Rainbow looks like she's about to either groom or bite CC.

The first cat to be cloned was a calico female named Rainbow (left).

The clone, produced at Texas A&M University in 2001 was named "CC" for Carbon Copy or CopyCat (right).

Notice something odd about the "identical copy"?
Not very identical is she?
But they *are confirmed* genetically identical.

Kash Patel is suing the Atlantic for a quarter billion dollars. I am begging people who are not familiar with Oscar Wilde’s downfall to read about his legal case. He filed a similar weak defamation suit, lost, and ended up serving two years of hard labor for the “gross indecency” the trial revealed.

I’m aware—I did read it! And her psychiatrist is the one who advocated for the brain scan, which is surprising!

I have never once doubted Molly Shah's genuine commitment to Palestinian welfare, or her attempts to reasonably do something to further it

I didn't always agree with her, but I don't believe she was a scammer, knowingly helped scammers, or was naive, and this site is poorer for losing her

This is a war based on lies

This rather creepy photo is Artemis II’s heat shield underwater, as taken by the U.S. Navy. This is the first photo we have of the heat shield, and upon initial examination it doesn’t seem to have the char loss that Artemis I’s had.

Congrats on your 5k! The rings look lovely!

There was never enough milkweed. #MonarchRanch #PlantMilkweed

And sometimes the things in your head may be deadly!

From Roots to Branches: Weaving Multiple Disciplines into a Living Manuscript • Career Authors Beronda L. Montgomery’s remarkable new book, When Trees Testify, connects Black American history and culture to specific trees, revealing a hidden botanical legacy. In this interview, health and welln...

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The thing that surprises me the most is that they actually approved a brain scan and didn’t just gaslight her that it’s all in her head until she died.