kid2 just listened to me intently while I explained how air embolisms in xylem (often caused by winter conditions) prevent plants from bringing water up to their leaves, and how grapevines have the amazing ability to repair such embolisms
This kinda made my day 🥰💚
The weird new ant paper that shows queens laying eggs of a completely different species has me thinking that more species are probably cloning sperm in their spermathecae than we’d thought.
After all, most queens only mate once and cloning would be a great mechanism for keeping the party going.
Not really all that happy that the prime years of my life will be spent watching the world have to re-learn all the lessons we learned from 1900-1945
But people do get mad if you speak Spanish in public, to the point that I often censor myself from speaking Spanish to my kids (native speaker here) in public ..gotta read the room beforehand
I’m from LATAM. I have nothing against Mexican flags or people. Zero.
The question is whether these are reliable Dem voters
Best birthday present
I'm tired of playing nice. I've been talking to Joe Jacobson from Progressive Action Fund about creating an ad targeting vulnerable members of Congress on cuts to scientific research at NIH and other agencies. I've raise about $30,000 for this but we need $50K. 1/ secure.actblue.com/donate/paf20...
PSA: never plant Goji berry bushes directly in the ground
These mfers are tenaciously invasive
These shoots continue to come up from a few bits of root within a week or so of being removed
I’m gonna have to dig up this whole section to remove any root remnants
Life finds a way, eh?
lol, mushroom fruiting bodies poking out of my worm compost bin
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
Thanks
Where’s this?
Yeah, burying seems like the thing to do
Leaning towards burying. Thanks
Blurry pic because I zoomed in from afar
I just found a dead and rotting bunny in our garden shed
FUCK!
How do I get rid of it safely?!
Instead of mitigating transportation costs, auto interest deductions are a $30B giveaway to the affluent and those who sell cars for a living.
The new GOP tax break will further push people to drive, worsening pollution, road safety, and inequality.
It’s a near-platonic ideal of terrible policy.
Why are King Cages so much than the competition?
#IYKYK
Love the wrinkles on soaking beans
I like this line of questioning. Yeah, why would it be incompatible with equal rights? Certainly a binational state could achieve that
If you do a close read not only of the Bible but the archeology,
it starts to look like the Israelites, & all but a couple of Judean kings, worshipped a goddess for pretty much the whole First Temple era.
The implications of this are... far ranging--
& her name might not be what we've believed.
Yeah, and anti-vaxxers in th GOP, their to support for Trump (they found a welcome home in the GOP because of the dynamics you highlight), and RFK Jr leading HHS
What the F are we doing here?!
BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses.
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
they’re well aware of how weak their position is — both in court and with the public — are are desperate to manufacture a “win” from nothing vs a conspicuous defeat on both counts
*courts will rule against them
*patient groups will protest being made into bargaining chips and human shields
Yeah, it’s not fun to think about
How do we fix / change that?!
