The leaks have begun. The problem is Trump. 😂🤣👇

A close up of Octopoteuthis deletron swimming in a strange pose. It facing away from the camera, with its arms are raised up and back over its mantle, making a sideways U shape. Its fins are are wrapped around its mantle. You can clear see the zigzag row of little white hooks on its arms and the white photophores on the tips of its arms. The photophores have been curved. The squid is orange.

A Schoolmaster Armhook Squid (Berryteuthis magister) swimming above the sea floor with its limbs swung back. There is some ink in the water as the squid recently inked. All eight arms and its two tentacles are swung back. Its arms have two rows of hooks that are visible, with the two tentacle having no hooks. The squid's beak if clearly visible as none of its limbs are blocking it. It has a large mantle with two large fins on the end half of the mantle. The squid has an orange colour with white on the underside. The sea floor is rocky with lots of round rocks, and it is about 65 m below the surface.

A close up of a warty squid's (Onykia robsoni) hooks. The image covers about 3.5 cm. Its a bunch of hooks coming out of a squid's limb. They seem to have a fleshy sheath. The arm is white and orange.

The hooks on the tentacle club of a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni). There are several hooks in two rows poking out of fleshy sheaths. These hooks can rotate and each row flanked by a row of tiny, marginal suckers. The arm is a mix of off white and desaturated slightly purplish red

Many squid species have hooks on their arms, tentacles or both. These hooks are used to help grab and hold onto their prey. I definitely wouldn't want to be on the business end of one of these squid!

What's even more amazing is this adaptation shows up in several different squid families!

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Is this what a ceasefire looks like? Didn’t think so.

straightforward, easy to explain, obviously sane, will eventually be the consensus position that everyone will pretend they were on the side of

Hungary's New PM Just Showed Us What Courage Looks Like. Where's Ours? Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration

Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
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Deere settles US right-to-repair lawsuit with $99 million fund, repair commitments U.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere on ​Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for ‌farms and farmers that are part of a class action over costs and access to repairs.

John Deere has to pay farmers $99 million to resolve a class action right-to-repair lawsuit.

The company will also provide farmers with access to repair materials for 10 years.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

A galaxy aflame! JWST image of NGC 5134 is fire. Also, using real AI to find galaxies.

As I enjoy doing, I present a cosmic distraction for you, and it's a doozy: a JWST shot of the spiral galaxy NGC 5134 is fire, I tell you. FIRE.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-galaxy-a...

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We really sent the guy who couldn’t pick out donuts.

After Vance visit and Trump support for Orban, Peter Magyar gained even more in the polls and is poised now to have a SUPERmajority in the parliament which means more than 66%
Foreign interference by a foreign active government does this. Great job Trump and Vance!

This week's edition of the UK's New Statesman magazine isn't pulling its punches.

“.. The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history.”

@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Can we stop talking about impeachment and start talking about imprisonment

image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.

Donald Trump is a cowardly draft dodger. He wiggled out of going to fight in a war. You realize just how sick that is...when you see how willing he is to send people into a war he chose to start.

Funeral held for Al Jazeera's Wishah killed in Israeli strike in Gaza More than 260 journalists have been killed by Israel in Gaza since the start of the genocide in October 2023.

More than 260 journalists have been killed by Israel in Gaza since the start of the genocide in October 2023.

Old US newspaper comic showing a carnival sideshow with two men on stage and an announcer describing them. A crowd looks on. The 2 men on stage are joined at the ends of their long beards. One is labeled America First and the other has a large swastika on his torso. Annoncer: "And on this platform folks, those most perplexing people...the lads with the Siamese beard! Unrelated by blood, they are joined in a manner that mystifies the muddiest minds in the land!"

US capitalist democracy is fascism, and has been for a long time.

He NEVER went up his own ass, NEVER.
And for a global superstar out of Hollywood this is a rare rare thing.

From Carpenter to icon.
A credit to my profession.
Love the guy.

A visibly moved HARRISON FORD accepting his AFI Life Achievement Award in Los Angeles this month.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social

Believe the victims?! These are heinous crime allegations!

Demonstrations have been held across the US and Canada, opposing the war in Iran and Lebanon and calling for an end to the conflict.

One of many "I told you so" posts today.

We have may from 2016... sigh!

⭕ #TODAY
Hundreds march through the streets of downtown #Chicago chanting, “U.S. out of the #MiddleEast!”

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Well anyway, Donald Trump is a pedophile.

Trump will wake up today knowing he fucked up again. He over sold the ceasefire. It’s barely holding. No one knows what to do. He left himself no outs. He is a pathetic loser and the whole world sees it.

BREAKING: Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf says the U.S. has already violated key clauses of Iran’s 10-point framework before negotiations even begin — citing Lebanon ceasefire breaches, a drone incursion, and denial of enrichment rights.

He calls talks “unreasonable” under current conditions. 1/