Life on Earth developed itself to create and sustain the perfect creature: the earthworm. As an ancillary work, Life developed Man to understand and admire the earthworm.
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Life on Earth developed itself to create and sustain the perfect creature: the earthworm. As an ancillary work, Life developed Man to understand and admire the earthworm.
why did we even domesticate peeves
True story: I once rode the Disney World bus to Disney Springs, and it inexplicably kept looping forty five seconds of “King Tut” by Steve Martin. Driver says “Yeah, the feed is busted, I’m about to quit.”
She's a real space cadet. Incredibly intelligent, hell of a pilot. No surprise she made it into Astronaut School.
everyone on bluesky should get a tamagotchi. and to keep it alive you have to make good posts
The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.
Me: It’s Friday
People on here: It’s Friday for me as well
Me: We agree
People: Yes for this whole day
Couldn't restrain myself and made this into a Linkedin post
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)
True Art
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This @defector.com story is a good (non-political) example of why it’s not enough to have a bunch of individual reporters with newsletters running around. You need some kind of institution with the resources (and principles) to publish despite legal threats. defector.com/a-complimentar…
mitochondria would be a beautiful name for the powerhouse of the cell
Also, the robots lie about how much they lift or whether they've even lifted that weight, and occasionally throw the weight through the window or try to flush it down the toilet
The institutions supported by the grant are: Franklin Institute, Please Touch Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Zoo.
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: improv comedy groups can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs
Reminder:
Bro, sorry I was late. I was busy hooking up a banana to my aux to get the perfect fruity undertones.
6 bad doodles with text under each one. horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab. shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style. crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes. shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away. crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped. horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.
#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request
Poppyseed, an all-black cat with a few white hairs, sticks her tongue out as she stares off into the middle distance
Truly an exceptional specimen
"A ROBOT MAY NOT HARM HUMANITY, OR, BY INACTION, ALLOW HUMANITY TO COME TO HARM!" I scream at my Roomba as I trip over it for the 50th goddam time
Ringtail with its tongue sticking out
Ringtail with its tongue sticking out
A couple of early morning ringtail bleps.
the extent to which all cats are just cats is really incredible
Two cats have jumped onto a sash window and climbed up under the blind, dislodging it
Working from home proving more stressful than I feel is necessary
For us, it's remembering to replace the hand towel on laundry day
INVENTOR OF THE AUTOMOBILE: *trying to skooch a chair down the street* this sucks
I enjoyed this so much! I can read all the entries through 1300 without difficulty (I still read Chaucer for pleasure), can parse 1200 with some effort, and after that it’s picking out stray words and phrases.
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'
