Jessie Zupcic
@jessiezupcic.com
Sustainable Seafood Advisor 🐟 • Oyster & Anchovy Connoisseur 🦪• Lover of Pizza 🍕• Bean Fanatic 🫘 • Student of Wine🍷 & Beer 🍺
It has been brought to my attention that some people don’t know that Pegasus and unicorns are not the same.
July 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It has been brought to my attention that some people don’t know that Pegasus and unicorns are not the same.
Umami is the flavor that fills the soul.
June 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Umami is the flavor that fills the soul.
Hey Mr. Nugget, yer the bomb. 💣
May 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Hey Mr. Nugget, yer the bomb. 💣
Pinocchio lizard!
The Pinocchio lizard was first documented in 1953; over the next 13 years, researchers discovered another handful. Then the species seemingly vanished until 2005, when a group of birdwatchers happened to spot one near Mindo, Ecuador.
Learn more about this rare lizard and their remarkable snouts:
Learn more about this rare lizard and their remarkable snouts:
A Snout of Significance - bioGraphic
This Ecuadorian lizard uses its remarkable proboscis for wooing, not warring.
www.biographic.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Pinocchio lizard!
U.S. IDs will no longer specify M/F/X. Instead, Y/N will be used to specify who has or wants 30 dolls.
May 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
U.S. IDs will no longer specify M/F/X. Instead, Y/N will be used to specify who has or wants 30 dolls.
Pro tip - piss off a Californian by calling it “Cali”
May 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Pro tip - piss off a Californian by calling it “Cali”
A “single gram of silica gel could have an internal surface area of eight hundred square meters—the size of almost two basketball courts.”
www.scopeofwork.net/silica-gel/
www.scopeofwork.net/silica-gel/
How Silica Gel Took Over the World
Silica gel packets seem like the only thing keeping our packaged food crispy and our belongings free of mildew. How on earth did they all get here?
www.scopeofwork.net
April 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A “single gram of silica gel could have an internal surface area of eight hundred square meters—the size of almost two basketball courts.”
www.scopeofwork.net/silica-gel/
www.scopeofwork.net/silica-gel/
I get decision paralysis in the toilet paper aisle. 🧻
April 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I get decision paralysis in the toilet paper aisle. 🧻
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🔗 Link to the audio/visual essay on The Pudding: pudding.cool/2025/04/musi...
How Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music
Songs have a far more complex and concealed musical history, spanning genres, cultures, and even centuries.
pudding.cool
April 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Sometimes random words burst into my mind and refuse to leave me alone for days on end. This week it’s “obfuscate.”
March 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Sometimes random words burst into my mind and refuse to leave me alone for days on end. This week it’s “obfuscate.”
I just need a manatee to give me a hug.
March 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I just need a manatee to give me a hug.
That moment when you recommend a podcast to your friend who recommended that same podcast to you…
March 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
That moment when you recommend a podcast to your friend who recommended that same podcast to you…
Google Docs is pulling some Microsoft Word auto formatting bs and my patience is wearing thin.
Don’t @ me about “proper” software (looking at you, @willduncan.com 🤣).
Don’t @ me about “proper” software (looking at you, @willduncan.com 🤣).
March 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Google Docs is pulling some Microsoft Word auto formatting bs and my patience is wearing thin.
Don’t @ me about “proper” software (looking at you, @willduncan.com 🤣).
Don’t @ me about “proper” software (looking at you, @willduncan.com 🤣).
College didn’t radicalize me, but Kurt Vonnegut sure did.
March 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
College didn’t radicalize me, but Kurt Vonnegut sure did.
Reposted by Jessie Zupcic
ICYMI: Earth has been hotter than it is today, but does that mean today's warming is natural? Not quite. Read more about the planet's hottest eras and what they teach us about today's climate. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
February 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
ICYMI: Earth has been hotter than it is today, but does that mean today's warming is natural? Not quite. Read more about the planet's hottest eras and what they teach us about today's climate. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
Bear with me… what if postdocs accommodated “…or equivalent experience”?
February 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Bear with me… what if postdocs accommodated “…or equivalent experience”?
New forage fish just dropped.
👋🐟 #NewSpecies: Hata et al. describe an entirely new species of Rainbow Sardine, Dussumieria apollo!
👀 https://buff.ly/4k2a0Ge
#Australia #fish #biology
👀 https://buff.ly/4k2a0Ge
#Australia #fish #biology
February 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
New forage fish just dropped.
You mean to tell me that the mid-90s cinematic masterpiece, Fly Away Home, was a lesson in migratory bird conservation!?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Long Flight to Teach an Endangered Ibis Species to Migrate
Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.
www.newyorker.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
You mean to tell me that the mid-90s cinematic masterpiece, Fly Away Home, was a lesson in migratory bird conservation!?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In apparent protest over litter box conditions, the cat left a turd next to her food bowl.
February 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In apparent protest over litter box conditions, the cat left a turd next to her food bowl.
Happy #WorldPulsesDay !!! @ranchogordo.bsky.social how are you celebrating!?
February 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Happy #WorldPulsesDay !!! @ranchogordo.bsky.social how are you celebrating!?
I’m here for the persistence of NOAA climate.
A new study reveals that shifting seasonal sea levels along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast are driven by wind-driven water movement, an insight that will help scientists improve sea level forecasts and better predict flooding risks.
www.climate.gov/news-feature...
www.climate.gov/news-feature...
February 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I’m here for the persistence of NOAA climate.
If Elon Musk could just go live on Mars, that would be fantastic.
February 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
If Elon Musk could just go live on Mars, that would be fantastic.
So we’re really calling them “skeets”!?
January 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So we’re really calling them “skeets”!?
Hair ice is my favorite thing I’ve learned about this week.
Hair Ice! Not a mushroom itself but a reaction of freezing water being formed into hairlike via natural antifreeze in the hyphae
January 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Hair ice is my favorite thing I’ve learned about this week.