"Your job is so fun," yes, but did you know I have to single handedly fight no fewer than sixth algorithms every day for the privilege of telling people to not set their beds on fire.

Reopen the Golden Door Repeal the Immigration and Nationality Act—immigration restrictionism is the Slave Power of the 21st century.

"[We] tried to mollify the restrictionists, but nothing was ever enough ... for immigration restrictionists. They wanted mass, indiscriminate deportations. They wanted to impose a specific demographic configuration by force. All justified by the ideological framework of 'border security.'"

(Though you might learn about it in such a class....)

Counterpoint: no you don't.

3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

a genuine lifehack I've found is that I refuse to hurry, and this has improved my experience of basically everything

who the heck decided to call it the cerebellum and not "skill tissue"

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

like to add ® and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug

the penne opticon

catherine fact: the thing that has *by far* done the most to my ability to stay on top of domestic chores was "to imagine what a concurrent, pauseless garbage collector would do and then apply the observations"

I should probably start saving now. I want to be buried like an 18th century Prince-Elector.

Mainly so I can torture my surviving friends with 3-5 hours of second-tier baroque composers and Latin obsequies.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

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

Caught a red tailed hawk album cover today. 🪶

"Person known to the state" *almost* gets you there.

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East Bay isn't open yet; AFAICT, not even employees-only.

That's about a different company.

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

Potentially relevant to your interests: bsky.app/profile/spac...

Yes. That is in some way the reason to have government: to help people have better lives. A government that does not do that for all members of society is basically robber barons in fancy dress.

(They're gonna yell at us for it, tho.)

(probably not under a free or open license, though....)

Got a DNA sequencer handy?

Yeah, the economies of scale kick in to make it worthwhile.

We’re gonna have to have the talk again about how there’s never a singular root cause to an incident but just many contributing factors aren’t we

We were going back and forth on which terminology we wanted to use for an upcoming publication, and ended up adding a bit explaining 1) why we're using what we're using for simplicity, 2) that the industry has sadly not coalesced on one term, and 3) that please can people not yell at us for it.

The Democratic Party loves Mamdani, as it has from day one, because he embodies the future liberals want. Not a savior, but a man who shows how we shall save ourselves.

Did the hot dog machine feature?

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.