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Earth-Like Planets Are More Common Than We Thought, Study Says https://www.404media.co/earth-like-planets-are-more-common-than-we-thought-study-says/

And I thought retrocomputing was expensive...
This is a Goodwill (chain of thrift stores) listing for a literally broken cassette deck.
To be entirely fair, this is one of those "holy grail" ones, very coveted by those in the cassettes hobby.
(Also, who drops something like this off at a thrift store?)

So I’m teaching a friend who doesn’t have any development knowledge how to get started with Small Web development and I thought it would be a good opportunity to start creating and sharing the course on the Kitten web site, one lesson at a time.
Here’s the link:
https://kitten.small-web.org/course<…

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/the-illusion-of-agi-or-what-language-models-can-do-without-thought

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought
It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Dang, if you’ve ever thought “I wish the Fed would just straight-up say what they think instead of speaking in these oblique hints and coded nuances”…
…well, you get your wish starting around 0:45. https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/115879946721863996

@… if you thought that was smart — *puts on glasses*

I saw the cover art and thought this was some 1990s anarcho-crust band, but this is modern day hardcore!
#music

at first i thought this was a product/movie tie-in but i think it's just an ad for cops? does ACAB include grocery bags? #nyc

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Arthur Russell:
🎵 Planted a Thought
#ArthurRussell
https://arthurrussell.bandcamp.com/track/planted-a-thought
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zuPdhijmasKIcqPxkFu3v

Had to correct my Malaysian #grab driver who thought that Bahubali was a #Tamil film.
Most likely, only the Tamil version was released in #Malaysia but its a

I never thought I'd be so captivated by a guy doing automobile paint jobs but here we are.
▶️ Asking Strangers to Paint THEIR Car… - Marko
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2VpeYoLobwc&si=FAjjWwPB5D9_5K23

Roman elites drank from leaded cups because it made water sweeter. Radiation was thought at one time to have healing properties, so people would add uranium to their drinking water. Glowing dishes are still a collectors item. After the discovery of x-rays, shoe stores started installing them and using them on kids feet to size shoes. Lead was added to gasoline to improve engine performance, and paint to make it whiter. We all know about asbestos and DDT.
We look back at all of this and think, "how could people have been so incompetent back then?" Some of these things caused irreparable harm in their generation, some continue to cause harm today almost 100 years later.
If you wonder that, look at the whole #LLM thing and you have your answer.

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes,
the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same.
Where do those differences come from?
Scientists are realizing the defining qualities that make up each cell actually lie in a cousin of DNA called RNA.
RNA was long considered DNA’s boring biochemical relative.
Researchers thought it merely takes the genetic information stored in DNA and delivers i…

RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease
Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical modifications that make cells unique.

I love Deerhoof’s Actually, You Can not just as a great, fun album but as a time capsule from an optimistic moment. In late 2021, we seemed to be emerging from the shadows of Trump and Covid-19—who’d have thought the Four Seasons presser and the vaccines, respectively, didn't end them? The music bottles up joyful, radical imaginings of a better world that were in the air since the George Floyd rebellion, not yet extinguished by the reactionary “crime” panic to come.

Might make the move to kolektiva.social, just a thought! ❤

Just thought this was kinda neat discussion on the work the put into the slang in Cyberpunk 2077
https://youtube.com/shorts/o8uwh63MA00?si=thPbIZ1sOzTXq4o5

8yo: *cackles as she steals my veggie chicken nuggets*
me: "Hey, what are you doing?!"
8yo: *runs away*
me: "Those aren't even real, they're fake chicken. I thought you were a carnivore?"
8yo: "I'm an omnivore. I'll OM-NOM-NOM anything!"

After reading Matt Shumer's warning about what AI will do to knowledge workers https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/something-big-happening-matt-shumer-so5he/ I thought: Is anyone demanding a "just transition" for them, or is that only for the energy tr…

Something Big Is Happening
Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas.

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/
> When Goldman compared both populations, the results were shocking: Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70 percent more …

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic.

Our satanic rituals used to be so spontaneous.... but these last few months, they're always getting delayed to the future, as the scheduling system gets increasingly bureaucratic to the point it now forms its own esoteric body of thought......

< ionen> I feel like I'm updating uv/uv-build more often than I use it and it takes like 10000x longer to build than the package I use it for
Who would have thought that the #RustLang fad will make people force others to install humongous tools that don't bring any benefit to them.
#Python #PEP517

@… I seriously thought it was a set list before I got to the part where you said that.

You thought he was tiring, but Ekitike does not tire of scoring. A brace and should have more.
#LFC

"Plastic household waste burned as fuel on rise in Global South, risking health"
#Plastic #Plastics

Plastic household waste burned as fuel on rise in Global South, risking health
Burning plastic waste for household fuel, or to manage household waste, may be far more prevalent in poor urban areas in developing countries than previously thought, raising serious environmental pollution and public health concerns for individuals, families and communities. That’s according to a new global study that surveyed more than 1,000 “key informants,” including researchers, […]

Here's a thought experiment.
Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it.
If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality?
If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one wo…

Erstaunlicherweise betreffen vorausgesagte Wetterentwicklungen (gefrierender Regen, Glatteis) auch den Balkon. Who would have thought.

Spectral evidence for magmatic differentiation within a martian plumbing system: #Mars’ “Young” Volcanoes Were More Complex Than Scientists Once Thought: https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2026/GSA News Release 26-08.aspx

@… I know I know, tinfoil hat. Just a funny thought to me.

Holiday seasons are so full of family drama. On this day in 1066, my 24th great-grandfather, having invaded from Normandy and slain my my 27 great-grandfather, was planning his Christmas Day coronation at Westminster Abbey.
We know how that turned out: when William was cheered, soldiers outside thought it was a riot and set fire to nearby Saxon homes.
And a very merry Christmas to you, too.

So I joined a gym, the local YMCA, for the 1st time in my life. Yesterday I participated in my 1st drop-in exercise class and discovered I'm not as fit as I thought I was. I'm now committed to attending at least one exercise session each week. I might need my wife to drag me there occasionally.
#StayActiveStayHealthy

Trump America accuses Europe of "civilisational erasure".
A clear case of pot and kettle, or worse, of psychological projection.
(* Civilisation: the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste.)

Sonnet 030 - XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone…

From single scenes to extended scenarios: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the construction of imagery-rich events https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324764 "perceptual representations in the posterior neoco…

From single scenes to extended scenarios: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the construction of imagery-rich events
Mental events are fundamental to daily cognition, including the recollection of past experiences, the anticipation of future scenarios, and engagement in imaginative, fictitious thought. Typically, these temporally extended mental events unfold within coherent spatial contexts, rich in naturalistic scenes and objects. However, there remains a significant gap in understanding how these events are represented in the brain. This study aimed to investigate the neural patterns involved in the constr…

Why Bears QB Caleb Williams choked up saluting Ben Johnson https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47501950/chicago-bears-caleb-williams-ben-johnson-playoffs

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice.
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid ... I realize now that Prince wasn’t paranoid, he was prescient."
https://

It's Time to Rage Against the AI Music Machine
If AI music takes over "humans will begin to echo the machines, and there will be a downward spiral into slop."

> Last Tuesday my kid came back from school, sat down and asked: “How does ChatGPT actually know what word comes next?” And I thought - great question. Terrible timing, because dinner was almost ready, but great question.
"So whats the next word, then?"
https://matthias-kainer.de/blog…

So whats the next word, then?
The maths behind Transformers, explained so that a 12-year-old (or your dad) can follow along

Thought I had a good sabbatical plan for the spring, but it's been upended by a one-time opportunity: I've ended up on the committee creating India's new national 11th and 12th grade curriculum/textbook in computer science. So much for the best laid schemes, but also exciting!

Random thought: the centralization of authentication to a few big OAuth providers like MS and Google, combined with services that time out your cookies and force relogins every so often, makes phishing people so much easier.
Want someone's account creds? Just pop up something that looks like a ms or google login form, odds are they're so conditioned by login fatigue that they'll automatically type their creds and TOTP token into it.

Hey, @AdaPalmer: I am starting Guy Gavriel Kay's *Written on the Dark*, and I remembered his *Tigana*, which takes place in fantasy Renaissance Italy (and involves it being conquered and occupied by other Italian historic eras, or so I interpret it).
As a scholar of the Italian Renaissance and auctorial colleague of Kay, I was wondering if you'd read it, and what you thought? I enjoyed it a lot.

This illustrates what i always thought, there is no copyright issue with regard to AI. It is just a matter of making financial deals...
#ai

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.

After a morning of hilarious (not!) Sharepoint collaboration fails in meetings, I thought I'd give Copilot attached to Outlook a go.
Surely, I thought, creating a meeting request from an email would be a core competency? But no! The verbose 'reasoning' looked impressive, but the .ics file it created failed to import. Whyyyyyy, MS, whyyyyyyyyyyy?

RE: https://mastodon.online/@annaghughes/116053959450622439
Thought this thread was headed in a different direction; glad to report it wasn't! Anna is one of my best follows on any platform.

I looked at the photo below and thought "Why are they all carrying lava lamps? And why is that soldier sticking his weapon into his eye?"
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-leaders-warn-us-could-betray-ukraine-in-leaked-call/

Macron warned US could ‘betray’ Ukraine in leaked leaders’ call, Spiegel reports
According to a transcript obtained by the German outlet, Europe rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy and sharply criticized Washington.

@… Just a thought but do you have any sources of inspiration for single page iPhone Home Screen layouts?

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RE: https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/116059031767089232
I certainly have NO TRUST in anything this administration says.
Some skepticism is something I have long thought wise. But this administration is so extreme and so consistently lies and breaks th…

In the mid 1990's graphical software like Photoshop and Corel Draw became wildly available and easy to use.
Many thought it was the end for all info graphic artist because anyone could, now, create, all by themselves, their own atrocious colourful flyer in Comic Sans.
AI remind me of that now.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Madlib:
🎵 REEKYOD (feat. Black Thought & Your Old Droog)
#Madlib
https://pfcuttin.bandcamp.com/track/black-thought-madlib-ft-your-old-droog-reekyod
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PpnDYRLipOJnxlT2Ewl6a

A lot of my thoughts and personal perspective was shared on Twitter; now the online dumpster fire and harassment tool X.
I've made all of my tweets available on a separate server here: A lot of my thought and personal perspective was shared on Twitter; now the online dumpster fire and harassment tool X. I've made all of my tweets available on a separate server here:

RE: https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat/115888963974814557
Guys, I thought we agreed that once he got the fuck outta office I wouldn't have to hear this dickhead's name any more?

My partisan eyes, watching live, thought that it was a dive, based on the way Cleary's legs suddenly stopped working. Replay shows Dom gets ball. Was there enough of a push? Live and on replay, I don't think so.
Not sure what VAR would have done because 🙃
#LFC

Dammit, I thought this was satire! 🤣
Marco Rubio orders US State Department to revert to Times New Roman font, calling Calibri adoption 'wasteful'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-10/us-state-department-reverts-times-new-roma…

Marco Rubio orders US State Department to revert to Times New Roman font, calling Calibri adoption 'wasteful'
In a leaked internal cable, Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls the department's decision to adopt Calibri in 2023 a "wasteful" diversity move.

60 years ago tonight, the velvet underground at summit high school in new jersey, opening for the myddle class, both acts' 1st proper shows. sometimes called the VU's debut, rob norris’s classic scene report, “i was a velveteen” (from kicks #1) mentions they’d just been fired from cafe wha?, so maybe there was one earlier, too? some great local coverage, too!

@… @… I thought that said MCP Level 2 and boy was I about to lose my shit.
Phew.

There's a thought leader (derogatory) who is the main character of linkedin today for claiming, and I quote, "Most designers won't make it past 35."
This guy's whole thesis is premised on one "insight": that orgs have more junior employees and fewer senior employees
#ux #UXDesign

Just realised my profile README has been broken since February 2025 due to some changes on the GitHub API. I thought it was working because of lowlighter/metrics.
Fixed it and modernized it a bit. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hilton: On Second Thought, Please Don't Bud-Light Us! (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/01/06/hilton-on-second-thought-lets-avoid-getting-bud-lighted-n3810537
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p77#a260106p77

As someone who has long toiled in the harsh fields of OSS user support mailing lists…
Do not try to be “helpful” to people seeking advice in an expert forum of any sort by feeding their plea into a digester & providing an answer from its excrement.
It insults the seeker, implying that they don’t know how to type their question into a LLM-infested search engine.
It insults the actual experts who put their time & thought into such fora as a way to give back value …

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
HOWER: You somehow overcame your peaceful conditioning. When you were a child the therapists said that you were at risk. I welcomed this possibility, because I needed, I thought, one man who could think aggressively like my enemies.
BERSHAR: I have not renounced the theory of peace. Servalan is more powerful than these people. Tomorrow or the next day they will go, and Servalan will be back with her battle fleet.

Oh dear lord, my husband offered me a taste of a new non-alcoholic beer with grapefruit — that was probably the worst thing I've tasted in a long, long time. All my facial features kind of gathered around the nose.
Beer and grape — that's a hard no. I've not had this much facial exercise in a long time! I was so surprised how every thought I had in my brain just fled, like they couldn't stand the taste either. What a monstrosity. The beer. The husband is nice.

Wildfires are polluting the air far more than thought #environment

Wildfires are polluting the air far more than thought
Scientists have discovered that wildfires release far more air-polluting gases than previously estimated. Many of these hidden emissions can transform into fine particles that are dangerous to breathe. The study shows wildfire pollution rivals human-made emissions in some parts of the world. This helps explain why wildfire smoke can linger and worsen air quality long after the flames are gone.

I watched Michael Brough’s (smestorp) vlog the other day and he mentioned The Secret Life of Games podcast! Apparaently they discuss all his games now and I thought to myself that this is exactly the kind of thing @… would love and… [touches earpiece]… Raigan is a guest of the introductory episode!
Brough-likes and Raigan are intertwined in my mind…

Good evening! Just a daily mountain photo for you ;-) I took it on my hike last weekend.
At this point I thought that it might have been beneficial if I would also have brought gaiters, then I would have walked a bit more into the snow.
But it was still a great day.
the #video of the hike is here:

If this morning you had asked me if I thought I would be working on a 20-year-old Mitsubishi pickup truck this evening, I would have looked at you like you had just sprouted a third head, because I don't own a 20-year-old Mitsubishi pickup truck, and I'm not employed as a mechanic. And yet, somehow, life brought me to such a junction anyway.
3 hours of work. Job done. Out of my life again. 🎉

The world is closer than thought to a
“point of no return”
after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.
Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points,
leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said.
This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate
far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach.
The climate would also be ver…

I thought of a new stupid t-shirt.
https://monad.teemill.com/product/the-ooops-decision-making-loop/

The OOOPS Decision Making Loop
The OODA loop is a decision-making model developed by United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd in the early 1970s. This is something is different.

Thought I saw the #feral #cat coming for some scritches but no, that’s no cat

Interview du créateur du poison neurotoxique russe le novichok
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/helped-create-novichok-never-thought-putin-use-4096102

I think that one thing that kicked "being an AI thought leader" into higher gear than what happened with "the cloud" or whatnot is that to be an "AI expert" you literally don't have to know or be capable of anything.

@… @… food for thought:
https://www.reddit.co…

They see an SUV. “Is it ICE??” They see a car slow down. “I bet it’s ICE!” They see tinted windows. “I saw ICE!!”
ICE is the boogeyman to little kids now. Just in case anyone out there is in ICE is starting to wonder, “Are we the baddies?,” well, you are literally terrifying the children.
And in case you’re in it for the racism and relishing the thought of little Black and brown children being scared — no, you are the boogeyman to •all• the kids. They’re not afraid of drug dealers now. They’re afraid of you.
2/2

Opposing Forces
#poetry #poetrycommunity Yet another morning poem that started as a half-waking image. I thought of burning ice cream.If it exists, I do not know.If it does, perhaps it is brandyOn smooth vanilla cream thatThe waiter ignites with a wand.Or is it our country, in fie…

What is #auth? It's more complicated than you probably thought, even though #software #developers sling the word around all the time.
🎅 Since it's the holiday season, give yourself an eas…

Security Lingo Explained: Auth
Learn and understand the key difference between Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ)

Random thought: I'm so glad that the VR headset from valve is not based on fucking android.

Growing up in the 80s, my mom was a board member of a 2nd-wave feminist bookshop in Atlanta, so I thought all bookstores were queer-friendly, feminist spaces
As the funny fad of the Internet started to take off, I naturally assumed — for literally months, in the early 90s — that "Amazon" was an online lesbian separatist bookstore in the vein of the Whole Earth Catalog.
In retrospect, my imagined reality was SO MUCH BETTER than what we wound up with

"‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than we thought. Can a 150-metre wall stop it flooding Earth?"
#Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange

Why scientists want to build a wall along the ‘Doomsday Glacier’
The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ already contributes four per cent of annual sea level rise, but can the consequences of climate change be barricaded off?

Philip Rivers thought 'ship had sailed' on NFL return before Colts called: 'Another opportunity to play' https://www.nfl.com/news/philip-rivers-ship-had-sailed-nfl-return-colts-riley-leonard-2025

@… @… @… understandably! But oth they put a lot of thought (read: more than simi…

Short but powerful. Doug K. captures the thought.
forthright.net/blog/never-meant/
#Bible #study

One of my New Year's resolution is about watching (and reviewing) a bit more movies this year. So I thought I might as well share (some of) those reviews here:
https://letterboxd.com/njamster/film/late-shift-2025/
This (fictional) film follows the protagonist throu…

A ★★★★★ review of Late Shift (2025)
Pretty much what I expected after watching the trailer: A very stressful, yet extremely well-made movie with an important message. Guess this won't be for everyone (and especially: not every mood), but for what it [i]wants[/i] to be, it's absolutely perfect! At first, I was a bit worried about it being too black-and-white when absolutely everybody seemed angry, hostile and impatient. But in the end, the script turned out a lot more nuanced than I thought (most evident in the "lost watch" subplo…

CFP> International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture, "Buddhism and Literature”
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Icy or rocky? Convective or stable? New interior models of #Uranus and Neptune: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/12/aa56911-25/aa56911-25.html -> Uranus and Neptune Might Be Rock Giants: https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2025/Uranus-Neptune.html - the composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two outer most planets, might be more rocky and less icy than previously thought.

I went to a web site and it said "It's free! Just sign in with Google." and first though "Hell No!" and then I thought "That's not free..."

I thought designer dog breeds were bad when I heard about "goldendoodles".
But snickerdoodles are a new low. A Snickers bar and a poodle? How does that even work?

Unicorn. Not as mythical as thought.

Caliban Speaks: International Conference on Recentering Indigenous Thought in the Age of Decolonialism and Technology
https://ift.tt/mFOgcfZ
updated: Monday, January 12, 2026 - 3:16pmfull name / name of organization: International Islamic…
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Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013714 "revealing a universal high-dimensional spectrum of visual information that emerges despite individual differenc…

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex
Author summary The human cerebral cortex is thought to encode sensory information in population activity patterns, but the statistical structure of these population codes has yet to be characterized. By examining large-scale neuroimaging recordings of human vision using a spectral approach more common in physics than neuroscience, we reveal the universal scale-free structure of population codes in visual cortex, which is found in all subjects and at multiple stages of visual processing. Moreove…

Washington state overestimates climate law's emission reductions by a long shot #Washington

Washington state overestimates climate law's emission reductions by a long shot
Projects funded by Washington's Climate Commitment Act have not been nearly as effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions as previously thought, state officials acknowledged this week.

"Just write a quick note to specify something from your last article." he tought. "It'll be quick and you can be in bed early." he thought.
He's a dumbass. That's what he is. Well, here's "Personal computing"
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-c

Personal computing
When computers entered the homes it was often as toys or toy-like artifacts: These machines, usually called “home computers“, were often used like gaming consoles with magazines giving you code to type in to have simple games on them. Their use was limited to people who wanted to play arcade games without losing all your […]

Never thought I'd ever be on Team Netflix for anything ever but here we are.
Stop watching CBS/Paramount.
▶️ Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory” - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-po…

Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”
Larry Ellison pledged $40B, but "he didn’t raise the price," Warner chair says.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Westside Cowboy:
🎵 I've Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You)
#WestsideCowboy
https://westsidecowboy.bandcamp.com/track/i-ve-never-met-anyone-i-thought-i-could-really-love-until-i-met-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/1h2hL1RTrCERqapaEDz4mR

I got a new (used) laptop a few months ago. As is now standard, they've removed the physical mouse buttons and made the touchpad wider. "No problem," I thought, "I've been practicing with tap-to-click!"
After a little while the phantom clicks started driving me nuts. Part of it is due to the wideness, part of it due to sensitivity (moving my finger onto the pad sometimes triggers a click). So tap-to-click is now disabled.. [1/2]

"7 hopeful wildlife sightings that researchers celebrated in 2025"
#Environment #Nature #Wildlife

7 hopeful wildlife sightings that researchers celebrated in 2025
Once in a while, an animal shows up where it’s least expected, including places from where it was thought to have gone extinct. These rare sightings bring hope — but also fresh concerns. These are some of the wildlife sightings Mongabay reported on in 2025. Colossal squid recorded for the first time in its deep-sea […]

I've never watched a half-time show before, so I thought Green Day was going to be the opening band and then Bad Bunny would be the headliner.
I guess the Super Bowl doesn't work the way most shows I've been to work. 🤷🏻‍♀️

For a vibes-based cult of personality, it’s the kiss of death for a thought like “Trump killed Epstein” to become a mainstream refrain.
It’s an exit ramp from Trumpism.
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The moral of the story is: Never Wash Halloween Costumes!
There was a pair of pants in the dirty laundry that I'd been avoiding because it had black bubbles (boba) attached to the legs. Earlier today I thought, "Hmm.. maybe I'll finally wash it, and someone could use it next year!" I examined the boba closely; it looked like it had been glued on. Obviously I didn't try to pull it off or damage it. So I figured it was okay, as our heat pump dryer doesn't get th…

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The chatter in my TL suggests that we are inching closer to the point where “Trump killed Epstein” becomes a thinkable thought in the mainstream, scrawled on toilet stalls and dumpsters across the USA as a routine rallying cry.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116042831659060168
Oh my god, I thought I was losing my mind. I read this toot and saw what I assumed was a typo, smirked, re-read it, and the typo was gone. Turns out it was edited and phanpy just refreshed it instantl…