Cat-osaurus @CaveCavy

They’re fucking making whales again

Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited

4 days ago

Pacas are slow and cumbersome on land, but they are excellent swimmers, and will head to the water to escape predators, like jaguars, pumas, and bush dogs. They can stay underwater for several minutes

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I’ll do you one better, they shouldn’t be able to record.

Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly

5 days ago

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Meta glasses should have a red light when they’re recording.

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Unironically this is twitter

people made stuff like this the whole time I was growing up, and it explains a lot

Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales

a week ago

For the United States Bicentennial in 1976, the government funded one of the wildest short films ever made. Created by animator Vincent Collins & produced by the United States Information Agency, the film goes on a kaleidoscopic journey through iconic American symbols.

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Trump wants to cut down Washington DC's oldest grove of cherry trees along the Mall and eliminate the public biking path and picnic areas so he can build a Trump golf course on public land, using public dollars, and taking spaces away from the public.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

a week ago

As President Trump toured the East Potomac Golf Links in D.C., he carried what appeared to be plans showing a far more extensive redevelopment of the course than officials have publicly disclosed, potentially transforming it into a championship venue. wapo.st/4varmox

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The Constitution barely survived today. By a 5-4 vote, Trump’s Supreme Court declined to let him rewrite the Constitution and end birthright citizenship. We’re hanging on by a thread. The fight to defend our democracy is far from over.

Crypto explained in 24 seconds.

Alaska's passive-aggressive map of the USA

Flaco the Eurasian Owl escaped Central Park Zoo in February 2023 when an unknown person cut the stainless steel mesh of his enclosure. For a year, he survived among the Manhattan skyscrapers. In February 2024, he was found dead on a sidewalk. The necropsy found four different rat poisons in his body. We know Flaco's story because he had a name and a reputation, but unfortunately, this story plays out among hundreds, if not thousands of birds of prey every year. A 2020 Tufts study found anticoagulant rodenticide in 100 percent of 43 red-tailed hawks tested across the northeastern US. In California, 92 percent of tested predatory birds showed exposure. In Massachusetts, 86 percent of dead raptors tested positive. In 2024, an entire great horned owl family in Lincoln Park died of rodenticide poisoning. The mechanism is the same every time. A poisoned rat doesn't die right away. It takes up to ten days, stumbling around in the open, slow and easy to catch. The owl eats it. Then another. Then another. The poison accumulates up the food chain until it kills the animal that was doing your rodent control for free. A barn owl family eats between 1,000 and 3,000 rodents a year at no cost to you. The rodenticide under your sink does the same job and kills the barn owl too. Flaco survived a zoo escape, a Manhattan winter, and a year of hunting in one of the densest cities on Earth. The thing that killed him was the poison on the shelf of your local hardware store.

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Training a new AI model

A chilling incident in Syracuse, New York is slowly gaining national attention, and it should terrify all of us. Yesterday, @syracusedotcom reported that two ICE agents showed up at a polling place to harass an election worker. Her supposed “crime”? Back in January, PaigeLynne Gonyea shared an Instagram post citing a Minnesota Star Tribune article that identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good. Gonyea didn’t leak any private information; by the time she posted it, Ross’s name was already public knowledge and circulating widely across national media. Gonyea told the outlet that the agents tried to lure her outside the building to “talk.” Fearing what would happen to her in the shadows, she instead invited them inside. “I’ve seen the news, especially in Minnesota, and I didn’t want anything to happen to me at all,” she admitted. Sit with that for a moment. Democracy has eroded so severely that Americans are a) fearful being alone with immigration officials and b) are being harassed by the government for sharing something that was in the newspaper. The agents provided Gonyea with a form letter, which she later shared. Per the outlet, it read in part: “This notice officially informs you that it is unlawful to threaten to assault, kidnap, and/or murder a federal official or that federal official’s immediate family member with the intent to impede, intimidate, and/or interfere with the federal official’s duties...” Gonyea has maintained her position, refusing to delete the post. “For ICE to come to me over a social media post just feels very 1984 to me,” she remarked. “[ICE] definitely should have known better to not go into a polling place, even if I said it was OK.” The incident has sparked a broader debate about the potential for federal agencies to be used in ways that might intimidate or obstruct the voting process. Trump surrogates like Steve Bannon have repeatedly floated the idea of using ICE to intimidate voters to avoid jail. Moreover, Bannon and other cronies know that a loss in the midterm elections will lead to prosecutions for many of them, himself included. “And I will tell you right now, as God is my witness, if we lose the midterms, if we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison — myself included,” Bannon confessed in November. All of this is lunacy — these people are not terrified of losing an election; they are fully aware that in a functional democracy, they'd be behind bars. Bannon's remarks were far from the first time a Trump crony has confessed to knowing they ought to be jailed. Elon Musk famously told Tucker Carlson on the eve of the 2024 election that he NEEDED Trump to win to avoid prison. This is a dangerous level of desperation, and yesterday, Trump tanked his own party's bipartisan housing relief legislation during a press conference, holding it hostage and demanding the GOP ram through a voter suppression bill. We are almost at the finish line and November is coming fast. It is critically important to stay on top of these issues, and crucially, we cannot allow this coterie of whiny bullies to fully destroy our democracy. Are you going to let them scare you out of exercising your rights, or are you going to vote? [Images: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz, PaigeLynne Gonyea/Instagram]

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@keithedwards She is absolute trash like the entire rest of her family

Brawndo: It's got what reflecting pools crave.

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here: Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.  Spread the word. Stand up for science.

At least the blue paint is removing itself...But seriously, someone with appropriate qualifications needs to restore the pool. Just like how everything will need to be restored when he is finally gone

Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix

3 weeks ago

Went back to the reflecting pool with a waterproof camera. Here’s what it looks like underwater where a section has peeled up and was removed.

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Bob Odenkirk has returned as Saul Goodman in a new video celebrating 250 years of America.

Yes. That's exactly and insanely what they've done.

Pat Dennis @patdennis

4 weeks ago

Are you telling me my tax dollars are being sent to rebuild all the shit that Pete Hegseth blew up also with my tax dollars

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I want a refund on every minute I spent in 8th grade learning that monopolies are illegal and that our government would protect us from greedy men....

@SethAbramson Someone should just rip it down ffs

@Avabelly__ Honestly, it looks like the perfect place to put in an attractive walk way of whatever paving medium you choose to the side walk. Bricks, stepping stones, cobble, gravel or some combo...etc. It's already well defined.