Are you the parent (or expectant parent) of an infant or toddler? Are you confused about vaccines and on the fence about vaccinating your little one? I would love to hear from you and honestly listen. Please reach out.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
An infographic titled "Magnolia molecules: perfume and medicines" details the plant's chemistry. Pink petals contain cyanidin and peonidin pigments. Aroma molecules include aldehydes like 2-nonenal and heptanal, and terpenes like alpha-pinene and linalool. Medicinal bark compounds include magnolol and honokiol, which have antioxidant properties. It also highlights yulanosides, unique phenylethanoid glycosides. Chemical structures for these compounds surround a central magnolia branch photo.
Did you know magnolia petals are edible?
I didn't until this year, and discovering that they are led me to this exploration of magnolia chemistry (and experiments in making magnolia gin).
Learn more in the graphic here: www.compoundchem.com/2026/04/20/m...
#ChemSky 🧪
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My daughter has a capstone project (for 8th grade) on mocktails and how they have impacted drinking culture. She put together a survey for this project, if you are so inclined to take it, feel free:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You’re all set!
You’re all set!
the penne opticon
Great journalism here: "The BBC... found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public.
Some analysts say it bears the hallmarks of illegal insider trading..."
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.
There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections
I want to live in a world in which little children can play with their food without their caregivers worrying about there being enough.
I wasn’t trying to do that. I was agreeing with you (especially as a Middle Easterner). See also: Vanilla ISIS, Y’all Qaeda
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
A herd of goats staring at camera.
Goat patrol. Reporting for duty.
responses include:
“I have a niece who lives there” (Paris)
“Have you been to that chicken place?” (Peruvian)
‘We Are the Day After’ From Loss to Hope 🕊️
On April 20 at 10:30 am PT/1:30 ET you can watch the moving Joint Memorial Ceremony by Combatants for Peace with stories by both Palestinian and Jewish Israeli victims of violence. More information and free regisration: www.cfpeace.org/memorial-cer...
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry in Clue
Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers
Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
literally every day my wife or I go outside with our daughter people go out of their way to be friendly, offer aid or a kind word, no matter where we've traveled. it's nice to remember that hostility as default mode of interaction is not destiny, much as it benefits some to pretend it is
We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!
NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.
This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.
We all deserve more ease. That's really it.
A screenshot from an email from Starbucks, with the subject line: Inspire your next order with ChatGPT ☕️💬 There is a picture of an Iced Lavender Cream Matcha, in a glass with ice, a green matcha beverage on the bottom, and some lavender cream/foam on top. The Starbucks logo and ChatGPT logo are toward the bottom.
What the actual everloving fuck is this shit
Schizio commune mushrooms showing off their pretty gills on a stick
Good morning and happy #FungiFriday
My quote of the day
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Ambrose Bierce
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
The way I instinctively wiggled my toes 😍
