Science literacy rates are at an all time low

Call me old-fashioned, but when I can't decide what I want to order I just ask the barista what their favorite drink is and try that one out.

You can just *talk* to people. People who work at the store are humans just like you. We shouldn't be using chatbots to empower extreme social anxiety.

A large angular boulder sits perched on a small pedestal of glacier ice on the surface of the Black Rapids Glacier, Eastern Alaska Range, Alaska. The surrounding glacier surface is covered in rocky debris and sediment. A second smaller boulder on a similar ice pedestal is visible to the right. Snow-patched mountain ridges and partially cloud-shrouded peaks of the Alaska Range rise dramatically in the background, with a small hanging glacier visible on the mountainside at center. Overcast summer sky.

A glacier table on the Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska Range. The boulder insulates the ice beneath, while the surrounding surface melts down, leaving it perched on a pedestal. Eventually, the pedestal becomes unstable, and the rock topples, and the process starts again.

#alaska #glacier

Detienen a defensor del territorio y comunidades en Yucatán alzan la voz - Diario 24 Horas Yucatán Colectivos mayas respaldan a Sergio Oceransky tras su detención y denuncian criminalización contra la Fundación Yansa A.C.

Sergio Oceransky, a land defender in Yucatan has been arrested, and there's reason to worry that local land-grabbing families wish him ill in prison. Solidarity campaign news coming soon... 24horasyucatan.mx/2026/04/06/d...

Marg Leehane, part owner of Great Bear Lodge in Port Hardy, British Columbia, decided it was worth waking up the guests at 6 a.m. to show them two humpback whales in the bay.

TT: bookofcabins

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

I should probably think of something really juicy to distract my therapist with tonight so we both get an hour off from thinking about the news

the fuck am i supposed to say in therapy today lol

“She stopped in each of the hospice’s 15 small rooms, and she spent several minutes talking with each patient. She asked them if she could arrange to have their dogs walked; she asked if she could call their mothers for them or write letters for them.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

Food prices in the Arctic A 12-pack of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar is priced at $36.99 at the Northern store in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada, March 18. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

Images of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada ...

Daily life in Canada's Arctic as defense spending soars amid sovereignty threats

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ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy

The wife of an Army staff sergeant, who is set to train for deployment, was taken from a military base where the couple planned to live.

ICE agents had entered the base and detained Annie Ramos.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Javier Cercas: «La Iglesia española es una de las más reacias a Francisco» - Zenda Entrevista de Edu Galán a Javier Cercas por la publicación del libro "El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo" (Random House).

Javier Cercas: «La Iglesia española es una de las más reacias a Francisco».

Entrevista de Edu Galán al autor de "El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo".

Javier Cercas en la corte de Bergoglio El novelista retorna a la crónica con El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo, un retrato sobre el consuelo de la fe cristiana y el pontificado del Papa Francisco que es, a la vez, un libro autobiográfico...

'Javier Cercas en la corte de Bergoglio'. A propósito de 'El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo' (Random House), el regreso del escritor extremeño al género de la crónica de indagación. cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/letraglobal/...

“Bergoglio es solo un hombre normal y corriente. Ese es, ya digo, el secreto de Bergoglio” | El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo, de Javier Cercas.

Javier Cercas y el viaje hacia los otros | Opinión ‘El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo’ es un viaje hacia la comprensión de los otros. Nos engañaríamos, creo yo, si no nos diéramos cuenta de que Cercas ha comprendido también algo esencial sobre sí mismo

🖋️ Opinión | "‘El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo’ es un viaje hacia la comprensión de los otros. Nos engañaríamos, creo yo, si no nos diéramos cuenta de que Cercas ha comprendido también algo esencial sobre sí mismo", escribe Juan Gabriel Vásquez dozz.es/tv0zt4

Javier Cercas, tras escribir el libro sobre el Papa Francisco: "He vuelto ateo y más anticlerical de lo que era” El autor describe en 'El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo' su experiencia tras introducirse en espacios restringidos del Vaticano y viajar con Bergoglio en el 2023 a Mongolia

📚 Javier Cercas, tras escribir el libro sobre el Papa Francisco: “He vuelto ateo y más anticlerical de lo que era”

▶️ El autor describe en 'El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo' su experiencia tras introducirse en espacios restringidos del Vaticano y viajar con Bergoglio en el 2023 a Mongolia

Qué maravilla el libro de “El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo”, un ateo compartiendo su visión de un papa humano, demasiado humano. 🥹

‘El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo’, de Javier Cercas: magnífico libro friki En su inmersión en los sótanos del Vaticano el escritor concilia el libro de viajes con la resolución de un enigma. Construye un libro fuera de la norma, un reportaje poliédrico y dinámico en el que d...

Por supuesto que voy a conseguirme un libro sobre el Papa escrito por un ateo, faltaba más.

@chisco07.bsky.social

‘El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo’, de Javier Cercas: magnífico libro friki.

You pray for the hungry.

Then you feed them.

This is how prayer works.

— Pope Francis

Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice. Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

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And here I am, I expect to quit by April. If anyone is looking for therapy, that’s my evening (soon full-time) work that I love.

Anyway, after 30 minutes of realizing how undervalued I am and how their perception of all the extra activities they have made me go to didn’t match my perception, they “let me” miss work (after I implied they could fire me if they wanted but I was missing that one day of work)