NEW: I spoke to Japan's new climate change-tracking cherry blossom researcher, Genki Katata. This is a follow-up to my story for The Guardian last week about the search to find someone to do this work.
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gauge gap relationship (your partner’s earspool size is way bigger than yours)
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Never let them forget it.
so the splc thing is just the fash fishing for the names of the informants, right?
yeah, though that's a very intentional not knowing by way of pointedly not checking. honestly, i was surprised to learn motherless still existed; its kind of a relic of the old "all moderation is fascism; don't mind the literal nazis hanging out here" internet of the mid 00s
why were the survivors of the drone strike given to El Salvador except for torture camp? they went free this time, but the others?
El Salv's territorial waters are pretty far from the Galapagos, why did it have a patrol boat near the US one?
this would feel too stupid to be true if i didn’t already know that there were multiple identical versions of this going on
Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.
Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.
And then there's this...
the fencing visualization system i worked on with rhizomatiks
is coming to los angeles this weekend 🤗
If this were an ebike, the community would be really upset.
With the latest set of El Niño forecasts, NOAA's CFSv2 model needs to get a larger y-axis scale 😯
TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear
🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman
📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon
The U.S. is not overpopulated, this is a racist lie. Resources are not limited, they’re being distributed in a way that inflicts scarcity on the poor. You believe these lies because you’re choosing to consume fascist media. It’s up to you to answer why you consider those lies comforting.
Tech billionaires saying UBI is coming is hilarious because c’mon, how have they acted the last 5 years in response to the prospect of higher taxes on the rich and corporations to fund social programs?
honestly, the bigger incoming problem for the shitty exurbs is that all those 'homes starting in the low 700s' or whatever that are a 20 minute drive from a grocery store will simply lose value to the newly buildable lots in transit-adjacent areas
the ‘neighbors’ are complaining about the noise pollution of solar farms. truly amazing stuff
Table of percentages of people who love, like, dislike, or hate dinosaurs broken down by demographics. About 1% say they hate dinosaurs.
There is a nonzero number of people who dislike or hate dinosaurs. These people are bad and should be shunned.
An historic illustration of a white bat hanging upside down from a tree branch.
🦇 Happy #BatAppreciationDay! The ghost bat (Macroderma gigas), native to Australia, gets its name from its extremely thin wing membrane, which gives it a ghostly appearance at night. #SciArt: Proc Zool Soc London (1880) on BHL via @nhm-london.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28522650
what, specifically, is the complaint about my neighbors selling their homes and somebody buying them to build even more homes? is it that i am getting left out?
Yesterday, Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) 🦕 railed against the Archer traffic safety project, which is not in his ward.
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Also yesterday, an SUV driver injured a bike rider, and 2 other people at 58th/Western, which *is* in his ward.
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did you know you aren't required by law to inform the local unlicensed & unauthorized recycling crew that data centers are basically unstaffed and absolutely full of copper wire and such?
the more you know!
Standing athwart history yelling "Stop -- Hammer time!"
“at least, that’s what my roadkill raccoon penis says”
look at this guy, pouring foundations when the moon is visible. that’ll get you fey, that will.
one thing that will always shock me is how *little* it takes for the evil to overwhelm people
the median american is a goddamned alien.
also, of the seven(ish) arguably correct answers, three are just totally missing from this: where's archaeopteryx, parasaurolophus, or ankylosaurus, eh?
they sell fiber in gummy form; we clearly have the technology
ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.
can you just reply with a screenshot of a chatbot insisting there are 3 Bs in 'blueberry'?
just doing some light blasphemy: Diego Velázquez 1632 painting, 'Christ Crucified', only its been labeled 'Greys Anatomy' instead
