Hoverflies so cute!!! Outstanding photo.
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Hoverflies so cute!!! Outstanding photo.
Mamie Till-Mobley’s strength and courage in insisting on the open coffin and having everyone SEE the brutal evil that was done to her child, changed the country. Heroic.
His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, deserves nationwide recognition & thanks for her strength & courage, and her words, in letting everyone SEE the brutal evil that was done to her child. It changed the country. She did get a Congressional Gold Medal. But we should ALL know her name!
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Bah. She’s probably right. I just don’t like rituals. Overrated.
Every accusation is an admission …
Butler is agreeing with the paleontologists - but she’s bringing the mechanistic explanation so it’s not just 🤷 vapid handwaving.
Wait, what’s the difference between “display” and “gender” here? All that display is due to sexual selection. * Peacock tails. * Irish elk antlers. * Big toothy hooked jaws on returning salmon (never going to eat anything ever again). * Teenagers doing dangerous stunts on skateboards.
“but … Pulaskis!” 😬 was my first thought.
Yes. Hard work - but worth it.
😂 Alaska says, “oh, look, fireweed! so surprised!” (Still better than the same reaction to *mallards” here in WA.)
Scientists Record First Known Shark Sounds | Scientific American
Unsupervised “self”-training is not going to magically restrict itself to the accurate stuff. It can’t. The corpus available is there because the (nominally) adult, (allegedly) thinking humans can’t stick to reality either.
“Self”-trained LLMs’ entire job is *making shit up.* It _cannot_ give you accuracy. Ever.
Duckweed. Huh. World’s smallest actual Plant-with-a-capital-P. An outstanding starting material — the bitty things grow so fast, it’s going to be VERY difficult to run out of duckweed.
Oh great. Another reason to adore SeaWolf. 😉
You forgot the west coast earthquakes! Plus a really few lovely not-dead-yet volcanoes …
Monarda = cheery!
kyute snek lines make it very hard to track a specific spot to grab - you aim for a stripe and before your hand gets there, the bit of stripe that seems to be stationary just … tapers to a tiny tailtip and disappears
If you hate summer weather, it might be true? Fog, fog, cold fog, low clouds & drizzle, fog …
Yeah, even cow tools are too dangerous in the hands* of sea otters. *Yes.
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Can he go every day?
Yeah, OBJECTS harder than a scrubbie pad are Not Allowed in with the sea otters.
Nobody lost any fingers (while I worked there).
Staff & vols dove in the “Dome” tank every day *with sharks*, and not even the visitors worried about the dogfish hurting anyone. But once in a while someone had to get into the (rather deep) otter tank. Very rarely, *with* the otters still in there. We always asked afterwards: “Are you OK?!”
I worked at an aquarium. Otters with fist-sized *rocks* cause enough problems. Otters with a combination chisel, pry bar, and screw-remover would wreak just outlandishly terrifying – and unpredictable – mayhem.
There are over 123 million forcibly displaced persons in the world due to persecution, conflict & climate change. On World Refugee Day, we stand in solidarity with refugees & call on governments—including the US—to meaningfully support them in rebuilding their lives with dignity.
Depends on *how* you fed a stingray - do you still have all your fingers? (Not that it could steal it from you, with those little grinder-y teeth. But they’re quite good at hoovering up stray pieces of other animals …)
This is EXACTLY what I keep tryna tell the non-scuba-divers who ask me about sharks! them: “Have you ever seen a shark?” me: “Nope! I don’t think so. But hundreds of them have seen me!” … and my ppl, most of them were dogfish. Seeing them would have made the day way more pleasant.
If you have any vertical terrain around, “more scenic” always means “steeper.” Steeper is dangerous-er.
Washington Trails Association over here in the PNW! (Including that most deadly national park, the North Cascades NP.) www.wta.org/go-outside
Not gleeful. Just trying to show how BAD an idea this is. With the most likely or the most horrible examples our black-humored little minds can come up with.
Hey, that cliff right there — it’s durable! And it’s a *much* faster way down …
Or sent them glissading down Aasgard Pass in the Enchantments in WA.
Exactly
When route-finding, AI never takes the bergschrund into consideration.
“ … in early April” (when the rotting winter snowpack has sagged and split into a deep crevasse across the width of the pass, and a river of meltwater screams along underneath it - perforce, anything that falls in, the current shoves right underneath the lower snowpack - unreachable till maybe June)
… or “glissade down Aasgard Pass” (even though the more dangerous route past that one ridge is the one that looks better from above)
Considering that “shorter” and “more scenic” routes both require *steeper* routes — what taf does AllTrails THINK will happen?! “Shortest” = “step off this cliff right above base camp”, doesn’t it?
ty for sharing that
And here I thought they were in danger from “law” “enforcement” due to asking him “nasty” (=substantive) questions. But maybe that’s a different set of reporters?
‼️ I have found my people!!!
soooooooo disappointing!
I’m stealing “unearned luxury.” I recently got a 2nd passport; I can now 🤯 live & work in a large number of high-income countries, and freely travel almost anywhere. Why taf?! is that not true for *everybody*?! Unearned luxury indeed, until free travel actually functions as the human right it is.
But obeying will not save you. Giving in makes them demand you submit MORE. No amount of knuckling under is *enough*, and as soon as you’ve given up all you can — you’re “disloyal” & your “betrayal” will earn you worse punishment. Hiding only postpones the decision. Resisting is the only option.
Bastille Day is coming up soon too! July 14. Just sayin’.
peteturner your reply is so perfect I don’t even wish I could still edit.
🤦 Absolutely
70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. This collection is at the Library & contains moving narratives & photos. #Juneteenth Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...
🇫🇷 Y’know, Bastille Day is coming up real soon here. Celebrate! (July 14)
I had the biggest crush on Hans Blixen. (Still do.)
And yes, they kept irrepressibly burbling the same idiot lie even after all the nuke-sec ppl investigated & found nothing & reported it, LOUDLY.
Came here to say ☝️ this. It was a blatant, STUPIDLY transparent, obvious lie, all along.
… and being ahead of Sweden took real dedication & hard work!
This newspaper prints lies: dude has never focused on ANYTHING outside his own skin in all of recorded history.
“Because if I can’t harass them, I’m gonna cut off their fins” that’s what they sound like
Whenever I criticize reckless, dangerous, and harmful wildlife harassment from elements of the SCUBA diving with sharks industry, one of them inevitably replies "surely this is better for sharks than killing them and cutting off their fins?!?!" My dude those are not our only two options here.
But they are completely uninterested in managing & curing cancer, either.
I don’t think the Swedish Academy checks your school grades, though
Our entirely Croatian exchange student Ivno was transmogrified by high school classmates into the most Victorian-English/ pseudo-Saxon name ever - “Ivanhoe”. The very Slavic last name got a similarly extreme makeover to “York”. (I’ve been rolling my eyes for _decades_.)
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Jamelle, as usual, brings the 1-paragraph analysis with 20,000 times the insight and accuracy of the 3 alleged thinkers upthread
… a well-deserved medal. Hey, we can all give the a medal! Dear Dispatcher, here: 🎖️
Hey! We’ve finally found the leader of Antifa!
Yes! But 😞 I misremembered too - it’s an anarcho-syndicalist commune, not an autonomous workers’ collective, ofc. genius.com/Monty-python...
Dennis spotted at a No Kings demonstration
Where *was* Dennis on the 14th?! We sorely needed him! (and his collective)
Grebes! 🥰
Please. It’s John Phillip So-USA.
The only band that matters, still. These kids 🥹🤩🥰💪
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Yep. Vindictive compliance.
Nope, it’s vindictive compliance.
Resolve the trauma by celebrating the soldiers’ vindictive compliance with stupid orders.
Specifically, _vindictive_ compliance.
I much prefer calling it “vindictive compliance.” It’s not just free-floating, purposeless malice. It’s _directed_ angry behavior, intentionally sending a message.
Vindictive compliance. Show these soldiers some 🙌 appreciation for following the letter of their orders, while utterly bolloxing the spirit of the whole performance!
Also, none, zero, have questioned Trump on disappearing for three days last week and afterwards, sporting a catheter tied to his leg. WTF? If that were Joe Biden, they would be screaming at him about the pi$$ bag. It's infuriating. WHY I barely watch any MSMers anymore.
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Use a lot of it at a time! Use a tablespoon where the American recipe calls for a teaspoon. Or more.
The other neat trick 😋 is that you use a lot of it at a time. Double or triple what the American recipe calls for. At least. 2 tablespoons in a dish like that is the bare minimum.
It’s fresher by far than US supermarket paprika, which matters a lot. But also it’s grown & sold in a country where ppl CARE about how their paprika tastes & will pay for better. So QC, from deciding which peppers to plant onward, is on another level. Richer, brighter flavor. Not just red dust.
No, that tank is squeaking bc it’s old and cranky. Respect the tank! It was made 80 years ago to destroy a fascist dictatorship, it’s been put back on duty for an afternoon to glorify fascism & dictatorship — and it’s engaging in vindictive compliance.
ICE warrant only counts if it’s signed by a realio, trulio, sitting judge. Ask to see that sig.
It’s very cranky about exactly that. Hence the squeaking.
If they’re active duty — aren’t they fit enough that slouching takes actual effort??
That whole haunted-horseskull tradition is TERRIFYING!
I’ve had that “oh, no — last time …” dread all week.
In ancient Rome, the Senate debated making slaves wear something identifying their enslaved status. They decided not to, bc ppl (including the slaves) would see HOW MANY of them were slaves. TPTB did not want the enslaved to notice they outnumbered free citizens. That organized revolt could work.
Victimless for once
If any of my work-frens are here — we could rly use this rule.
Still so disappointed the Riejka museum was closed and we didn’t get to see the exhibit on _inventing torpedoes_.
We knew what you meant!
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Will it be smart enough to notice when they’re marching over a bridge? And then break stride so mechanical resonance doesn’t take down the bridge? (& the troops, in heavy exoskeletons) Maybe these troops can just claim they thought they WERE marching over a bridge.
Nope! Nothing wrong there! Unless yr fish-man doesn’t give you enough of Marine Boy’s oxygum for you hang out underwater very long … m.imdb.com/title/tt0062...
