A red tailed hawk starting to take flight off a telephone pole with high voltage signage

Caught a red tailed hawk album cover today. 🪶

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!

And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Excellent news as RSV vaccine in pregnancy protects babies from developing RSV and massively reduces risk of getting seriously ill and needing Hospitalisation

macro photo of the head, most of the antennae and front legs of a male ceanothus silk moth. he is facing the camera and surrounded by the warm purple petals of a few Cineraria flowers.

BOOP!

Mr. Ceanothus Moth (Hyalophora euryalus euryalus) feeling chill this morning...due to the chill (almost freezing last nite) & maybe rethinking his life choices and hatch schedule.

Can't decide which is more *ded* the antennae or that snoot tho!

#inverts #becurious

The (ALLEGED) Kash Patel drinking story certainly does check some boxes. It is always the giant dorkuses who are desperate to be seen as cool guys who binge like that.

(I am NOT talking about giant dorkuses who are comfortable in their dorkness. It's the ones who are chasing a formula for cool.)

TAKANO: Should Trump fail a mental fitness test, would you vote to invoke the 25th amendment?

RFK Jr: There hasn't been a president who is more sane--

TAKANO: Reclaiming my time. Would you invoke the 25th amendment?

RFK Jr: President Trump is the most stable--

TAKANO: Apparently not

Doorman and building staff may go on strike against building owners in NYC for the first time in 30 years+ next week, and I can say that among apartment building residents, there is a 50/50 divide between "Give them anything they want" and "Give them anything they want, you assholes."

How TF is ankylosaurus not even on there?!?!

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name

OAI: say no more

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme?

3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice”

Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

RFK Jr and podcast guest suggest food is affordable in the US – despite rising costs Health secretary and chef Robert Irvine claim Americans could eat healthier and more cheaply if they shopped better

If you think food has gotten more expensive, RFK Jr. thinks that’s on you.

My latest.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Making soup in a crock pot has to be one of the most low-effort ways to feel like a hardy self-sufficient good-with-hands blah de blah. I chopped garlic and onions! I rinsed and inspected beans! (And then I threw them into a pot with broth and spices and walked away for 7 hours SHUT UP, IT'S SOUP!)

The determined lack of self-awareness is WILD.

Oh I agree. There are LOTS of things to criticize Popes about, including this one.

I just meant that Vance has once again gone striding into a situation where he has no freaking idea how stomped he might get.

This is what we'd have if we didn't let billionaires and the fossil fuel industry exploit our system and people for profit. The techbro billionaires know this would be better for all of us, but they'd rather build huge dildos to blast people into space on suicide missions to gloss their ego.

Governor Spanberger is kind of like an anti-Mamdani in that she is ostensibly a normal boring Democrat with basically no media presence except for a weekly headline where she signs the "Deport All Republicans To West Virginia Act"

Vance came after a man who is the Pope AND a Chicagoan.

What a jagoff.

This is what happens to dogs that live with humans. A wolf will keep at a food reward task for a long time. Companion dogs will try a few times and then look to their human owners for help.

I'm just saying.

This is what happens to dogs that live with humans. A wolf will keep at a food reward task for a long time. Companion dogs will try a few times and then look to their human owners for help.

I'm just saying.

Congresswoman Files Articles Of Impeachment Against Pete Hegseth

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) just filed six articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of repeatedly violating his oath to the Constitution. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Added a couple of newer games to this megalist. (You have to follow my "see more replies" because long bsky threads are so brittle and fiddly)

I am having SUCH inner turmoil over yucky old TMZ switching to hounding politicians.

Leaving the cake out in the rain would not have been an issue if SOMEONE hadn't removed the cake from its plastic cake transporter, Susan.

Not one bit wrong.

Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

Good. Lord.

"...internal documents surfaced showing the company hoped to use the current “dynamic political environment” as cover for the rollout, betting that civil society groups would have their resources “focused on other concerns.”

www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Orban's chances of winning Hungary election drop after JD Vance rally Orban is one of President Donald Trump's key European political allies.

A Vance charm offensive could cause a drop in the popularity of pizza and days off work.

www.newsweek.com/viktor-orban...

In the near future, when China is the world's preeminent power and our influence is negligible, everyone is going to, understandably, blame Trump. But four decades of GOP governments prioritizing fossil fuels and throwing up stupid roadblocks to renewable energy is the real culprit.

When zuck released the video finally announcing legs in the Metaverse, I spent far too long adding this audio. I'm not proud, but it still makes me laugh.

BTW, I'm 54.