taint believin

congrats to the oxford botanic garden scientists who captured the moment when the infamous mediterranean squirting cucumber (ecballium elaterium) shoots its seeds up to 40 feet by exploding off the stem with the pressure of an inflated bike tire 🥒🧪

MPX issues Area Forecast Discussion (AFD) at Nov 29, 5:53 AM CST at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:54:09 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.

Researching and reporting my story about how truly horrible Facebook has become genuinely rattled me, and changed how I looked at the internet permanently. It's important to understand how messed up they are. www.wheresyoured.at/killingfaceb...

only 27 people died from the pinto, "auto pilot" alone has killed 51, death toll for Tesla is at 614 as of now. www.tesladeaths.com

Bolero's Wisdom - Gator Days

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

When he can tell you’re done with morning meetings.

Fuck. I just realised Home Alone is Die Hard for kids.

Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵

Instead, we should look to history, path dependency, institutional structures, politics, and economics. For Tokyo, I think urban planning—walkability, mixed use neighborhoods, affordable real estate—all contribute to the richer media and commercial systems that feed into culture.

"The basic idea is to turn the American government into the biggest crypto bag-holder of all time." prospect.org/power/2024-1...

Biden, failure of all time

News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration. Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare. This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.

It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle. We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal. It's time to #FreeJavaScript. deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

Holy shit I am so excited about this. And it works!!!

After seeing @emilyliu.me 's post this morning about using Bluesky for the comments section on her site, I had to try it. Here's a writeup on how to do it, with everything you need to set it up yourself in five minutes. Leave a comment on this post to test it out! www.coryzue.com/writing/blue...

Jeesuz fucking christ www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-...

The thing about Dude Wipes is that someone created a product, a corp. hired pros to develop the product, held meetings on marketing them, and now there are ppl whose entire workday is dedicated to them, and it’s all predicated on the idea that men take huge messy shits that require extensive cleanup

People are saying Project 2025 will make Costco charge $7 hot dogs.

Olga Bell is pretty good. open.spotify.com/track/4367YU...

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

Saying “shitter’s full!” any time someone tries to teach me something

whoa are you telling me that the trans panic is bad for cis people too ?? whoOOAOAHAHH!OOOOOOHHAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! time to care about it i guess

if Trump just didn't do anything he'd reap credit for Bidenomics and probably hit 60 percent approval. but if his staff nominations so far are any judge, he isn't going to do that

SNAP work requirements fail to increase employment. Just plain getting on SNAP does improve labor market outcomes. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/... #EconSky

people will yell at you for expressing this opinion - maybe they're right - but it's how I and I think a lot of people increasingly feel about subsidies and liberal outreach to rural America www.volts.wtf/p/dan-savage...

someone needs to put this in a development economics lecture

it disgusts me the national democratic party barely pushes back at this attempt from the right to wind back LGBTQ rights decades after claiming to be the party of LGBTQ rights

the gender troll blocklist i started yesterday now stands at 972 boring losers bsky.app/profile/did:...

Jersey Mikes is about to become as bad as subway.

the good news is that you can mute/block them with the moderation list I made! bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you want to feel good today, read about how dumb greedy racists who lose everything because they think Elon is giving away free money.

Billionaires are a threat to democracy and it would be incredibly easy to divorce them of their wealth and put them in their place.

Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory: