I can't be the only one with a furious urge to mash R1 when the red touche icon appears

Get your hands off my pontoons!

An image of a cyclic peptide that has been labeled "The image shows a person holding a cell phone. AI-generated content may be incorrect."

This truly is the best technology in history, and everyone should rely on it for really important things.

Boltzmann's tombstone

S = k log W

Jules Winnfield to Hegseth: I don't remember asking you a GOD damn thing

Illustrated scene of five long-haired men wearing matching blue outfits with wing-like designs on the back, sitting on a hill surrounded by large stylized plants and pink flowers. A small animal lies beside them. The group faces away from the viewer toward a soft landscape with trees, clouds, and a faint rainbow in the sky.

On this day in 1975, Harmonium released their second studio album Les cinq saisons. Considered one of the best Canadian albums ever made, it went platinum in Canada with 100,000 copies sold. It also earned four Juno nominations, including Group of the Year.

Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings For decades, a guy named Aadam Jacobs has been recording live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 feature the likes of Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Phish, Fugazi, and so many more. With the help of archivists, the entire

A music lover has been secretly recording live shows for decades - now there are thousands of free downloads online, including some major acts from the 80s and 90s. {kottke.org/20..../treasure-trove-of... kottke.org/26/04/online-treasure-tr...

Vance to Heisenberg: "you should be careful when talking about matters of uncertainty."

‘Bloodborne’ Video Game Getting R-Rated Animated Movie Adaptation From Sony Sony is adapting the 'Bloodborne' video game into an R-rated animated movie, the studio said at CinemaCon.

*frenzy meter rises*

Wishing a happy Brian’s Hat Day to all who celebrate.

Trump's Desire to "End Civilization" on Hold... For Now YouTube video by Internet Today

So @rickyftw.bsky.social's back from his jog through Death Valley... and it's @eliotetc.bsky.social's duty to inform Ricky why he might be better off sweating his ass off in the desert as #InternetToday returns for yet another American Fascism Gut Check!

As the husband of an Iranian woman, as an American, and as a human being, I’m honestly not sure how much more of this I can stand.

THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND, EPISODE 6: LENNY RANDLE. | Secret Base Get more from Secret Base on Patreon

it's been on my list to make a video about lenny randle for six years and i finally did it. THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND, EPISODE 6:

why do I feel like I have BRAIN DAMAGE

from now on this is benzene again

Join us for the final #COrgI virtual seminar of the 2025/2026 season, this Thursday 2 Apr! We've got two fantastic talks: one from my @uvic.ca colleague @nelsonyslam.bsky.social and PhD student Katelyn Le from the Van Humbeck group at U Calgary.
Register online at: www.cheminst.ca/cic-virtual/...

Join us for the final #COrgI virtual seminar of the 2025/2026 season, this Thursday 2 Apr! We've got two fantastic talks: one from my @uvic.ca colleague @nelsonyslam.bsky.social and PhD student Katelyn Le from the Van Humbeck group at U Calgary.
Register online at: www.cheminst.ca/cic-virtual/...

When tossing a sports reporter from the rink becomes a story PJ's Ponderings: When you throw someone out because of what they wrote, you are inevitably going to draw attention

Apparently the Canucks didn't know about the Streisand effect?

theprovince.com/sports/hocke...

they've never seen as much food as this underground there is half as much food as this

I'm sorry but wtf is this image. Palladium fraternizing with niobium? Bismuth cavorting with fluorine? Dogs and cats, living together?
MASS HYSTERIA!

Great story by NPR - a rare (but extremely welcome) positive story about chemistry and medicines discovery.

.... And if the conflict lasts longer than that...?

How many MRI scanners are going to be unexpectedly decommissioned because they can't refill them with liquid helium?

(obviously I'm also freaking out about NMR spectrometers...)

This war is too stupid to be real.
And yet it is.

An absolute legendary artist and pioneer. I can't get over the level of awesome in this photo.

am I the only one disappointed this isn't a pi*

Nitrogen, Ammonia, and the Strait of Hormuz

Chemistry in current events: the connections between fertilizer, the Haber-Bosch process, and the Persian Gulf. Read this and your knowledge will exceed that of most of our current political leadership after only a few minutes of light work:

at the request of @legendofq.bsky.social and many others; here is the directors-cut of our boring and pointless discussion about local grocery stores.

what's that quote, "history doesn't repeat but it does rhyme"?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oi...

not to be a Metallica pendant but I think it's Damage, Inc.
and I would lobby to swap that with Creeping Death (lower main group seems fitting for that)