Guillotines.

Iowa needs drinkable water!

Tap water toxin: ‘I remember when I could drink water from the faucet’ | CNN The tap water of over 60 million Americans has alarming levels of nitrates linked to cancer and other health harms, a new report found.

“It’s a peace-of-mind issue,” Jones said. “If you know the water coming out of your tap is above 3 milligrams per liter of nitrates and you want peace of mind, then I think a reverse osmosis system on the kitchen cold tap is advisable.”

www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/h...

Woke 2 needs Democratic leaders to remember that the Federalists and anti-Federalists hated each other. Get that attitude toward Republicans and talk accordingly. They are your colleagues working against everything you stand for, not good-intentioned, misguided friends.

i have really come to the view that partisanship is to be embraced wholesale. partisanship and principle but not purity.

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it.

Anyway: fund basic research.

#CoverArt

Announcing The Bird Guide: North America! This landmark field guide, published in association with @cornellbirds.bsky.social, will set a new standard for North American bird identification. Publishing in early 2027, the guide is now available for pre-order from booksellers everywhere. 🐦‍⬛ 📙

Just market your film to folks with Prosopagnosia. Problem solved! Up to 2.5% of people will LOVE it.

Oops. That was two truths and a lime.

I live in Iowa.
I have hazel eyes.
Key.

Your alt-text is worthless.

I had forgotten about that! I showed that one to my spouse, it was so bad!

I'm glad this is on Bsky!

I am so so glad SciAm approved this script that mentions cocaine a gratuitous amount of times but is genuinely so interesting.

Even got to keep my favorite joke at the end, happy Earth day everyone hahaha 🌎

Doctor to patient: "Try to reduce your stress level, and if you somehow succeed please let me know how in God's name you did it."

I thought this felt relatable

100%. I thought NEW Zealand to NEWspaper was a meh link, and then the link was paper boat!? Because they're both in the water? Boo!

Since when? He was an Epstein crony and bought his position in the Trump administration.

Huh. Weird.

This guy was an Epstein crony and bought his position in the Trump administration.

"You wouldn't know it if you live in the USA or consume US media and politics, but the fight between EVs and ICEs is basically over. Internal combustion is on it's way out. First it'll look slow, then fast. Fleet turnover will lag sales. But ALL the growth globally is in EVs." - @jessedjenkins.com

Today's Hot Take:

If I catch you using "fat" as an insult towards anyone, EVEN that asshole in the WH, that's an automatic block.

Fat is simply a state of being, and has no bearing on intelligence, willpower, IQ, worthiness to breathe, or whatever other bullshit thing you think it impacts.

Gold Star Spouses urges passage of bills to help families ‘rebuild lives’ after a service-related death The bills provide assistance to families of fallen service members and veterans who were catastrophically disabled or who died from their service.

Gold Star Spouses of America urged lawmakers to pass three separate bills that would provide critical assistance to families of fallen service members and veterans who were catastrophically disabled or who died from their service-connected conditions.

AltNPS, 2/6/25: What started as a small group of park rangers has grown into a movement of over 100,000 federal employees. People all across the nation have risked everything to challenge Elon, his staffers, and the Trump administration, ensuring the truth reaches the public.

And you need to believe this INSTEAD of the much simpler answer that AltNPS is just a scam to sell merch and get social media engagement. It's not real. There is no nationwide coalition, and certainly not the "100,000 federal employees" that AltNPS claims to command.

A yellow Bird Buddy smart feeder on a WBU ABS system pole with a raccoon baffle.

A blue Bird Buddy smart feeder on a WBU ABS system pole with a raccoon baffle.

A platform feeder on a cheap shepherd's hook pole with an inexpensive squirrel baffle.

A bird bath between two feeder poles. It is far enough from each that a squirrel cannot launch from the bath to the feeders.

Placement and baffles. Place several feet from any object that a squirrel can jump horizontally across from or vertically down from, and use a pole with a baffle. I never have squirrels on any of these feeders. I do put the buddies on the sturdy poles with raccoon baffles because they're expensive.

And, they've given up. I imagine a lot is the expense of running AI ID on many thousands of images per day, but also they never even got good at it.
#BirdBuddyFail

Here's the definitive answer to the debate over "who started it": Republicans.

Before Trump pushed TX to gerrymander last year, the GOP had drawn 42% of all districts, versus just 14% for Dems (the rest were by neutral parties).

The maps below from @stephenwolf.bsky.social make this explicit.

Even if this is terrible, I'm tempted to go see it multiple times just a big fuck you to the studio who canned it for a tax write off.

The Untapped Potential of Organized Mainline American Protestantism Around the country, Mainline Protestant churches are stepping up to help organizing the resistance to ICE's incursions into their communities.

“While the white "Christian Left" alone is unlikely to rescue American democracy, its leadership, organizational networks, physical spaces, and congregants are all valuable, established resources for those efforts” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-untapped...

#Iowa