Brown tabby kitten being held in foster mommas hand as kitten stretches backwards

Potat interpretive dance

Noah Wyle as Dr. Robby, peaking his head into an examination room, on "The Pitt."

"The Pitt" vs. its fandom: Why is the show's vocal fandom putting "The Pitt's" characters on trial to be deemed “good” or “bad"?

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I went to the zoo yesterday, saw one of the Amur tigers rolling around exposing the Most Forbidden Belly, and then we LOOKED AT EACH OTHER from like, a foot away (me: putting a lot of trust in the glass of the enclosure there)

it was so unexpectedly cool! i was Perceived By Miss Murder Mitts!!!

It’s sad that if you want to get into mongering, there’s so much pressure to specialize in either fish, cheese, or fear.

my baby trees survived being beat up and broken by a wind/rainstorm, and are now making leaf buds!!! year four, let's go let's go let's goooooooo

after like, a year, i just remembered i have a bluesky! hello world.

Dark Lord of Derkholm by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh ""Why have we got six soppy men in a green haze hanging about?"" Tolkien and Disney, coffee and cotton, children and chattel, colonialism and capitalism, satire and sitcoms and sentimentality and as ...

Is it a problem that Dark Lord of Derkholm often decides not to dwell on the darkness of its subject matter because it's instead busy fitting more jokes in? Perhaps yes. Are all the jokes very funny? DEFINITELY yes.

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REALLY excellent article

peck-idg plz

this is a delightful story, thank you for sharing!

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

Lol. Lmao even

i just dug one of those holes today! dunno what the mysterious force is but it sure is there. I should've climbed into it, the better to watch the gulls from up close....

Red and yellow bunnies play "Connect Four", with themselves acting as the pieces on a giant connect four board. On either side, both the red and the yellow bunnies are arguing amongst themselves about tactics

Daily bunny no.2574 is discussing strategy

On one hand, it’s wild that people have been saying for months that they neither like nor want AI and it took an actual study to prove it. On the other hand, there’s a study now. You can cite it.

No one likes or wants AI (Cicek at al, 2024).

TIL they're PLANTS, not fungi! WHAT! :D I've never touched them bc they give me the heebie-jeebies (in a good way)

A gray squirrel splays itself out on the roots of a tree with a peanut in its mouth looking directly at the camera

Lookin good, Squirrel.

The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer In Japan, a system designed to distinguish croissants from bear claws has turned out to be capable of a whole lot more.

www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-... was the first thing that came to mind!

oh fuck yeah that quote rules

Rest in piss Turbotax

was talking to my mom about geography this weekend, and she casually brought up that when she was a teenager in the 70s, she had around 30-40 different pen pals from basically every country where teenagers learned/spoke English! got them from a penpal registry at the back of American Girl magazine

...I now want this as a tattoo

EXCITEMENT

couldn't think of any, so I asked my dad, and he said no, not really, but "you can hand someone a double bagel loss. 6-0 6-0." (you can't literally do that in a men's Grand Slam match though, bc those are played best 3 out of 5)

ohhhh gotcha gotcha gotcha! yeah that too!

absoLUTELY, it would be a delight and an honor :P still haven't actually seen Challengers but I do know what a match-point vs. a set-point vs. advantage is

AMIGA tennis is the one sport i actually know quite a bit about, if you DO need to toss around some ideas i would be thrilled to provide Sports Knowledge

also sitting mournfully at work wondering why neither of my beloved partners are texting me back even though both of their calendars are clear, and remembered that M mentioned them having Secret Hangout Time today. unbelievable betrayal of my instant-gratification needs, tbqh

this book about 18thc prisoners of war is very interesting but mostly i just want to inject the knowledge from reading it directly into my head so i can process it into a paper, instead of having to actually read the relevant chapters