The two major rivers in China are named "Yellow River" and "Long River". Shanghai means "On the Sea". Beijing means "North Capital".

horror Ewacui@ewacat.bsky.social · yesterday

if you ever struggle with names when worldbuilding just remember there's a whole massive mountain range called The Rockies

Given how much fighting there's been over a high school being moved to a brand new building 2.5 miles away and adding one poorer, browner elementary to the cluster, yes, there'd be actual blood in the streets here.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d ago

An edcuation policy soloution that would get you killed by angry parents but also fix like 60% of problems after a couple of generations is children being randomly assigned a public school within ten miles of their house. That is the school you attend and you cannot transfer.

Time for my favorite season!

Capital Weather@capitalweather.com · 2d ago

🚨 We’re calling it: Summer is over in DC. After 50 days of 90+ heat and one of our 10 hottest summers on record, the pattern has finally flipped. 70s today. 60s Tuesday and Wednesday. And no sustained heat in sight. Welcome, fall. 🍂 Link: www.capitalweather.com/we-declare-s...

I'm a combination of face blind and really bad memory for names and I'm bluffing all the time. People with good social memories have a super power as far as I'm concerned.

Foxes In Love@foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brought my toddler daughter to Jaleo. She was super well-behaved, sits happily in the booster seat. Servers set the table and she takes both hands and slides the plate right off the table and breaks it.

Professor Peter Matthews@urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 5d ago

The hubby and I are off to a posh restaurant (Michelin starred) for our wedding anniversary tonight. So, in the spirit of making BlueSky slightly more fun, what's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done in a posh restaurant?

shoutout to this king who discovered a new kind of cat and thought "i think bro need some top ramen'

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 6d ago

The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

Scorigami!!!

I was walking to class and a car was parked on the street, with its windows down, blasting the radio so we heard the news. When I got to the fiction about science class (not science fiction), my prof announced he had just won an Emmy and class was canceled. I saw the video in the student union.

Tethus can also get things wrong, so maybe double check his work if it's important to get right.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

would you let Tethus, Lord of the Lower Air, advise you on your relationship with your spouse? no, but he can sort your books (pdfs) for you.

would you let Tethus, Lord of the Lower Air, advise you on your relationship with your spouse? no, but he can sort your books (pdfs) for you.

my personal view is that you should treat AI as if you were a magician attempting to command a spirit that is inhuman, potentially useful, and invested in attempting to convince you it is something other than it is. you know, rationally.

Holding it together until the kids leave for college. Supporting them in their hobbies and activities, going to experiences with them as a family. After they leave, I fully expect to have my midlife crisis hit hard, but currently in a holding pattern.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2w ago

What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.

I use my phone for reminders, so I added a reminder to my calendar using voice recognition and it dutifully added an event called "Sign up for Marzipan Sale". Which is a wholly different, albeit more delicious event.

Michael Fan@michaelfan.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've shredded a bunch of papers. Now I'm not going to weed them again for another 3 years. Next up is getting some junk out of our house for the local marching band yard sale.

6 of them have "Chevy Chase" in their name: Chevy Chase, Chevy Chase View, North Chevy Chase, Chevy Chase Village, Village of Chevy Chase: Section 3, Village of Chevy Chase: Section 5. Add in Martin's Addition and over a third of the incorporated entities in MoCo are some flavor of Chevy Chase.

Michael Fan@michaelfan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

How many flavors of Chevy Chase are in those 19?

To all the political scientists at APSA: here’s the Emmy Blotnick Sephora bit that slayed me. youtube.com/shorts/OusLI...

I have elite status by accident. | Emmy Blotnick | Stand Up Comedy

YouTube video by Emmy Blotnick

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No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.

🍂 Ready for real fall weather? Not yet. The next 10 days still look pretty warm around DC. But forecast models signal a notable pattern change around Sept. 19-20. Here’s when fall may finally arrive: www.capitalweather.com/when-will-dc...

When will DC get its first real taste of fall? Models offer a clue

Summerlike warmth may hold on another 10 to 14 days before a pattern change delivers cooler Canadian air.

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"Juvenile European lobsters (Homarus gammarus) are pipetted into separate hatchery pods to prevent them from eating each other." 😀

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3w ago

Say hello to the next generation of lobsters — August’s best science images www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

this is perhaps the best piece of journalism i have ever been involved with

Nathan Alderman@nathanalderman.com · 3w ago

With their parents' permission, I interviewed Riley about their self-dubbed "master plan" to prank Harrow, and whether we should, in fact, be more frightened of children. (Riley says yes.)

I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:

I am "tilt my head to the side and get a really satisfying crack" old now.

Already tripped over the first one. "Ma-Ca-Bre"

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 3w ago

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

They used the Parks and Rec theme! Dang, they're good at this.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4w ago

Broken swing sets? Missing basketball nets? Have no fear, Renew Crew is here. Neighborhood parks are meant for recreation — not frustration. If it’s broken, this crew will fix it. If it’s run-down, they’ll renew it. Renew Crew: Coming soon to a park near you.

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

fuckin god damn! it worked!!! 🔭 no digital compositing just one tenaciously stupid asshole with an hour’s worth of four and a half minute timers and a large format camera

Notorious RBMK@comraderobot.bsky.social · 4w ago

im being very cool fyi

For your enjoyment

43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes.

It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.

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I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

Rachel Leggett@rleggos.bsky.social · 4w ago

When y'all see the shot I think I just got, you'd best believe it's not AI

like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"