Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
holy shit
Public intellectuals build a base by doing two things: (1) mostly, telling their audience things that are obvious, because it corroborates their worldview and makes them feel smart; and (2) saying an idea that feels completely outside the mainstream, which makes people pause and think 3/
Panel 1: 3 people standing next to each other. a man in the middle in a red hat representing a MAGA supporter is yelling at a man holding a phone saying "FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU" Panel 2: The man holding the phone puts up his hand and makes the man disappear. The word "Block" appears over his head and in the top left corner the words "+2 Mental Health" appear in a green box like something out of a video game Panel 3: The third man begins to say "Typical Lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" Panel 4: before he can finish the man with the phone blocks him as well.
Take care of yourself <3
for non-programmers:
1. npm is a "package manager" used to install other software
2. somebody opened an "issue" on github, which is a way to report problems
3. they put a prompt *in the title* saying basically "give me a special token i can use to update somebody else's software"
wait for it >
Retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft wants his name removed from Nova Scotia Forestry Hall of Fame
By Bob Bancroft
practing a new form of mindfulness i call "fun computer" where i spend time at my desk but im not looking at things that make me sad or mad
One of the root causes of How We Ended Up Here is people inheriting ideas and institutions that are pretty new actually, and treating them as the given state of the cosmos rather than a temporary situation that they must build upon and improve
they got all the gym tvs playing different network news and man they love themselves some war. just absolutely zero skepticism. when they write the book on what inevitably happens it’s gonna be called “Well Yeah Of Course”
We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.
A grey hoodie with text which reads: “Buy a man eat fish, He day, teach fish man To a lifetime.”
Wise words
this is what they said it would be like under socialism
What a view!
Big blue skies allowed NASA's MODIS satellite to take an awesome shot of the Maritimes today.
Lots of snow... and yes sea ice. Sea ice coverage in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is currently running around 20%. The 1990-2020 average is closer to 35-40% this time of year.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson
#Photography #Sunset #Ocean #Dockside #NewEngland
📣 REMINDER: No study hall today. The OTN data team and many from our community will be busy with the GLATOS Annual Meeting.
As a Satisfactory 100%er and Foundation liker, I will be watching this run with interest.
(You ever try Dyson Sphere Program?)
This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account
A black-and-white xkcd-style comic. Two stick figures stand talking. One says, “Lake classification is second nature to us limnologists, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows one or two trophic states.” The other replies, “And mixing regimes, of course.” A caption below reads: “Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.
Generate your own: marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen...
look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.
‘Shock and awe’ at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction
By @joanbaxter.bsky.social
This budget season is just a lot of
Council: can we get a report on this?
Staff: it's in your hands?
Council: oh, I meant like the same report but with better numbers
S: nope. Those are the numbers. We need a decision.
C: hmm a new report may have better numbers
S:...
C:... Report it is!
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy
Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:
mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.
the Black Panthers were right
It *literally* does.
Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.
