Scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic floods, storms and fires made worse by human-caused climate change. The wildfires in Los Angeles are just the latest examples of this extreme weather.
Trump can’t legally own a firearm, but he’s about to be given the nuclear launch codes.
Very normal country we have.
Underrated moment of the Zuck on Joe Rogan podcast was when Joe was asking him why he uses a rifle more than now to hunt, and Zuck says the “conversation rate” is higher
Some media rushed to make a podcast this week commenting on the Britney Spears memoir before even reading it.
And it shows.
I look forward to all the apologies and new takes in next week's episode.
A tray of psilocybin mushrooms. On a cutting board beside it, a pair of hands in black gloves holding a small blade prepare the mushrooms for use. A headline reads: Psychedelic Mushrooms Hit the Market in Oregon.
Oregon debuted a first-of-its-kind legal market for magic mushrooms this summer. “I’m trying to reset my brain to where I can look at life in a new way,” said one of the first clients of a licensed therapeutic facility. nyti.ms/3Fq9SNP
Microsoft’s CEO testified that the internet was really the “Google web,” and that even his company found it difficult to compete with the online search giant. He is the government’s highest-profile witness in its landmark antitrust case against Google.
What happens when you skip the small talk during a date and go straight to hand-holding? Or gazing into each other’s eyes for three minutes? Here's how a gathering in Brooklyn encouraged people to achieve a deep, romantic connection by jumping directly to the physical.
A street level view of cyclists in front of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. There is construction on the towers of the building. Photo by Alejandro Garcia/EPA, via Shutterstock.
Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, the famous unfinished church, is inching toward completion after more than 140 years, with five of its six central towers fully built as of last week. But construction of Antoni Gaudí’s basilica will last until at least 2026. nyti.ms/3F2mpGQ
USB has a silly facial expression
Nothing to see here, folks.
Domestic short hair black kitten sits on a bed
Twiiiins
TBH, I would pay to see this over the Mona Lisa any day.
My weekend plans
It me at the end of a 26 episode broadcast season.
You know how like steampunk is a version of the future according to the technical and imaginative limitations of the past? This is like that, but specifically for like the six months in 2012 when Facebook controlled how pop culture worked.
hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
May they sleep well tonight
It me.
I love that the picture editor basically trolled the author.
If we all agree that a cookie is round and a biscuit is rectangle.
What's a TimTam?
It was 34.4c at lunch today. Spring in Sydney.
Duolingo app is not happy
Duolingo app is depressed
Duolingo App is happy
My three moods
Jack Dorsey funding and creating Bluesky, joining the board, then deleting his account and posting "removing a bunch of noise" to Nostr is exactly the sort of sequence of events that explains why Twitter no longer exists
And yet still not available on the headset in Australia. Genius.
Has anyone solved the mystery of who ate the corner of the desk?
#truecrime
There are two types of people in this world. Those who answer a question asked on social media. And those who can see that somebody else has already answered the question on social media but still answer it.
Ok, Fred, we all know how smart you are but you weren't first. Can't you see Wilma's post.
