Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

til that caffeine is a pesticide, and that's its evolutionary function in tea and coffee

humans enjoy eating a lot of different animal poisons don't we. chocolate too.

It's getting less attention than the transphobia, but the antisemitism of JK's entire world, and in the game specifically, should also be condemned. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/hogwarts-legacy-antisemitism-goblins-horn/

TIL that minus four degrees looks like a guy taking a shit.

-4°

Toot there it is.

#til #guy #shit

Don't

Until the US is safely walkable or bikeable, people will continue to buy urban tanks in self-defense.

Since my kids were three years old, they've known to raise their hand as high as they can and wave it around whenever they hear a car engine start.

Some strangers smile and wave back when they see my kids do this. They think it's cute! But it's not really that cute.

Absolutely the best Acknowledgments section of a paper I’ve read. From https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 #astrodon / h/t @playingwithdust

The sooner we can rejoin the single market & customs union to fix all these problems, the better: "Hundreds of seats left empty on London-Paris Eurostar trains due to Brexit" https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/eurostar-seats-empty-brexit-london-paris-b2268087.html

@XanIndigo you know about palaeoartist C. M. Kosemens sketches of how elephant/zebra/rhino and others look, if restored from found bones similar to how we did dinosaurs?
http://cmkosemen.com/articles.html

Kinda makes me wonder if we have plesiosaurs all wrong.

Penguins are secretly 50% neck by volume.

Doubtless you've heard that "we all get the same 24 hours in the day." Of course it's not true: rich people and poor people experience very different demands on their time. The richer you are, the more your time is your own - not only are many systems arranged with your convenience in mind, but you also command the social power to do something about systems that abuse your time.

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<in Cabinet>

RISHI: Okay gang. Tomorrow, a former Labour MP is likely going to be convicted of serious crimes
ANDERSON: Dey should av 'ung him
RISHI: Yes thank you Lee. Now if-
CRAIG WILLIAMS: Sorry... but should that be 'hanged'?
RISHI: What are you doing?
WILLIAMS: The minutes

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Cutest red telephone booth. Bath, England. 2022

#plants #flowers #gardening #phonebooth #England #UnitedKingdom #Bath #PhotographyOnMastodon #photography #travel #telephone

You hear about the pressure to be clever online, but even before the internet you had to think of witty banter for the pauses in your sword fight

@Unampho @thekernelinyellow

One of the funniest interactions I see online, is when Americans think it's inspirational that a young white US child is raising money not to buy themselves something, but to pay off their less privileged classmates' "school lunch debt."

US readers are like 🤗"Oh that's so precious! That sweet kid has a good heart!"

And EU readers are like 😮"Wait a minute... Go back a few steps... WTF is school lunch debt?! That's a real thing?! What is wrong with your country?!"