the City of Boise's increasingly aggressive campaign against the state's repeated attempt to ban pride flags flown by cities is extremely funny

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 5d ago

i have never seen a higher density of pride flags than in Boise

What we really need is more people who want to get involved with beetle taxonomy, truly the greatest gift of all

oh and this specific diagram

the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

"This was not an attempt to find a ‘patient zero,’ but to gain a greater understanding of the outbreak from the perspective of the communities where it first began.” Excellent piece by @kakape.bsky.social on new WHO study that refreshingly doesn't focus on patient zero and zoonotic origin stories.

Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ebola may have been spreading for months in the DRC before anyone recognized it. A new reconstruction suggests the outbreak was already widespread in the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu by January. It wasn’t officially declared until 15 May. Why did no-one raise the alarm? My story for @science.org 🧪

Die Zugchefin bietet direkt morgens um 7 Uhr mal einen Gin Tonic an, für die, die es nach diesem Start in den Tag brauchen 😂

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

It's my thesis that the Habsburg/Hapsburg lip/jaw was noticed as a family trait only in the mid-C19 (so sez ngram viewer), but I can't find any decent historiography of the issue, despite it being so notorious. There's loads of medical speculation, but that's not what I'm after. Any ideas? Pls RT

Those cords were optimized for standing up to the handset being dragged into a different room and having the door closed on it while speaking to the cute person you had a crush on via the communal wall phone in the kitchen.

Jameskii@jameskii.pizza · last wk.

i remember landline phones having cords so strong you could stretch them across the entire great wall of china and they would still work, meanwhile modern usb cords rip if you look at them wrong

Web Design trends in 1995 – Apple – Adobe – Pizza Hut – Netscape #WebDesignHistory

I say this with nothing but love in my heart for the fatherland but can you imagine any other country looking at wildfires and thinking "quick, get a philosopher on the line"

Strong reporting, painting a picture of banal Trumpist corruption: •FDA & CDC try to carry on, but are subordinate to WH, and Taylor Farms knows this •Contact tracing connects cases to Taylor-Farms-supplied Taco Bell locations, so WH helps out Trump-ally by fudging agency message to blame Taco Bell

Jessica Nix@jessicanix.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NYT surfaces an old photo of Troy Jackson. Caption: "Mr. Jackson, center in a Chicago Bulls hat, got his start in politics in the 1990s by organizing fellow loggers in Maine’s northern tip." #MEpolitics

I admit that it was only this year that I realized Crate & Barrel and The Container Store are two different stores.

You missed the obvious explanation: an art student.

shout out to The Strand bookstore staffer who did this

„Wir wollen den Ticketkauf für unsere Fahrgäste einfacher, digitaler und komfortabler machen.“ Künftig werden Fahrscheine „schnell, papierlos und intuitiv“ erworben. #BVG #Berlin #VBB @igeb.bsky.social @vdv.bsky.social @matthias-gastel.de www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/digi...

Berlin schafft Fahrscheinautomaten ab: Diese Geräte sollen sie bei der BVG ersetzen

Verkehrssenatorin kündigt Revolution im Nahverkehr an.  Berliner Fahrgastverband warnt: Papiertickets und Bargeldzahlung sollen verschwinden.

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this is not an unusual story yet I'm always moved when I see an example of it

My review of Evolution. The BBC series, not the concept. But to be fair, I'm a big fan of both. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c6c0...

Why new BBC series Evolution is a giant leap forward for science on TV

Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it

ft.com

It’s amazing how you can be the quintessential jie jie with off-the-charts jie jie energy but the moment you are with someone else who not only has jie jie energy but is actually older than you, you immediately transform into a little mei mei like in a fantasy movie where the hero loses their powers

A useful case study in Cheyenne, Wyoming with a Meta data center that discharged water into the city's reclaimed water system that tested positive for an opportunistic pathogen, Cupriavidus gilardii. Let's explore how data centers can DIRECTLY harm human health.

BHoswell [Money doesn't change men. It unmasks them.]@benhoswell.bsky.social · last mo.

From a 'closed loop' system. Lying fucks.

My mom's friend apparently grew up in her dad's paper goods factory which featured a Slitter and a Slotter; he used to answer the phone with "United Dividers, united we stand, dividers we sell!" Imagine this level of job satisfaction

☀️@stel.energy · last mo.

manufacturing probably feels so good if youre a factory

wake uppe chat, newe schism just droppid

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

This example is absurd, but it's also Really Very Bad. Springer Nature apparently has bots withdrawing papers from its immense catalog, with no human oversight. They are abdicating their responsibility to preserve the historic record. (2/4)

As this video shows, police water cannons can be used in more humane ways than direct blasts. The Berlin police this summer is using them to create mist to cool down tourists. In winter 2020 the Sprühnebel mode was used on anti-Covid-lockdown protesters to gently encourage them to go home.

Berlin police using water cannons to cool crowds in the heat

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via @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social, Springer Nature "retracted" two essays by Max Planck in the journal Die Naturwissenschaften from 1940 and 1942 and have tried to remove them from the historical record. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

science.org

I especially love this diagram.

So has anyone else noticed this insane series Law360 is running? www.law360.com/articles/173...