We simply cannot allow our increasing comfort with the word “butt” obviate our need for adorable, polite regional synonyms!

We have to fight for “heinie”! Protect “tush” at all costs!! Don’t let “derrière” slip away into the cold, dark night…

Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053

New national holiday idea: A week off just to read 📚

I just got “The Art of Logic in an Illogical World” by @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social and after only a couple chapters I can already tell I’m going to walk away changed. Beautiful explanations of logic, implication, and abstraction. It’s fun, accessible, and addresses relevant issues. Best gift this yr

The thing is, you can replace “cruel” in this sentence with funny, artistic, thoughtful, thoughtless, compassionate, greedy, kinky, creative, or any of 1000 other adjectives.

Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?

And now, I will take you
to one of the bookstores in Kyiv.

I want you to see how beautiful
Kyiv is.

I understand Elon Musk is trying to get people to stop donating to Wikipedia, which reminded me that I hadn't yet made my usual annual donation to Wikipedia, so now that's been taken care of

One thing I like about Bluesky is that you can say "murdered" or "killed" or "strangled" or "pushed in front of a subway car" or "sent to Davy Jones" or "gifted a pair of concrete shoes" or "shoved into the a wood chipper" or "poisoned like a Medici" instead of "unalived"

Why is anyone allowed to call these tools “intelligence”? Surely advertising standards should intervene. It’s machine learning, which is really just advanced statistics. It’s not intelligent, and it can’t be trusted to get the sense of a text right. Calling it intelligence is dangerously seductive.

the greatest christmas story ever told uses the threat of dying alone and unmourned to scare a wealthy man straight and i think that’s just really nice

I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!!

No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.

After I moved to Canada a couple of years ago I realized that I was no longer constantly running a massive stress routine in the background of my mind worrying about health care and guns. It was weirdly noticeable only when it stopped.