Me at home: *never gets poisoned* Me packing to cross North America in 1804: Every guy on this expedition will get poisoned 35-40 times.

My politics have changed a lot over my adult life, so I'm generally not overly confident in my political opinions. I'm likely still naive and wrong about a lot of things! But I've never wavered on this. I know to the depths of my soul that I'm right. The death penalty is a stain on our society.

Hannah Bowman@hannahnpbowman.com · 3d ago

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

Being a cyclist has really shifted my mindset about speed when I'm driving. Cycling, I often see the same cars at several lights in a row, so I know cars are going through the city about as fast as a bicycle. When I'm driving, I relax bc I know I'm getting through the city at 10-15 mph regardless.

Padraig2112@isomorphism.net · 4d ago

Every day someone passes me on the left (I'll note, well within the required-by-law 3 ft) in order to stop at a red light where I pass them, and then they pass me on the left again

Low-stakes spousal disagreement: we have some lights/ceiling fans that can be turned on and off using either switches on the wall (separate switches for light and fan) or pull chains. Does it make more sense to use the switches or the pull chains?

MEET Evelyn Lamb! 🥰 youtu.be/LScIDabdOAQ (Alt text: this is an image of Evelyn Lamb holding the Meet a Mathematician sign)

MEET a Mathematician! - Evelyn Lamb

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Resolving ambiguity in order of operations is easy: simply enumerate all possible parsings of a given expression, compute each value, and then average. E.g., for 9-3-3÷3, ((9−3)−3)÷3 = 1 (9−(3−3))÷3 = 3 (9−3)−(3÷3) = 5 9−(3−(3÷3)) = 7 9−((3−3)÷3) = 9 so 9-3-3÷3 = (1+3+5+7+9)/5 = 5. Voilà! 🧮

I have a rental car right now and I'm not connecting it to my phone. I got an alert sound and popup from the car while I was driving saying I needed to do something to connect my phone. Please, just leave me alone, I'm driving!

Evelyn Lamb@evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I find it pretty depressing that we just totally gave up on even pretending to care about distracted driving. There should not be pop-up text notifications in your car! 🙃

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I find it pretty depressing that we just totally gave up on even pretending to care about distracted driving. There should not be pop-up text notifications in your car! 🙃

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As we mentioned in our episode with @ianloader.bsky.social, just the fact that Apple CarPlay shows your text messages with the little red number circle practically instructing your brain to tap on it should be regulated out of existence. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/r...

next Greek epic for hollywood treatment needs to be Euclid's Elements. overdue

It's so funny to me that I worry about using acrylic paints in my paintings, and there's a petrochemical giant that's like "tell you what, lets dump our whole inventory into a river"

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICYMI: plastics giant Dow Chemical, not content with the quantity of microplastics in the air, water and soil, wants to make it legal to dump plastic nurdles directly into water sources in the US.

Degenerate neckpinch: technical term in mathematics or devastatingly accurate insult for Tuvok? (This skeet brought to you by Simon Brendle’s lovely talk about Ricci flow at #ICM2026)

King Arthur when his court wizard snubs Guinevere

It’s cheesy, but I feel really proud and happy that there are 18 more books in my local library (where I’ve lived for less than a year!) because I asked for them. The authors got sales, I got to read them, and now other members of my community can stumble on them on the shelves!

Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you want to read a book and your library doesn’t have it, it is truly a massive favor to an author to request that the library acquire it. It really and truly is

“I am a perfect baby and my feet are RIDICULOUS”

How do you make these your spelling bee letters and not accept caryatid???

The Berenstains, Ann M. Martin (Babysitter's Club) and Gertrude Chandler Warner (Boxcar Children) might be the only ones. I loved Oz, but Baum only wrote 14 Oz books. I loved Cam Jansen, but it looks like the 20th book wasn't published until 1999, and I was past the target age by then.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

alright, authors you've read at least *20* books by, living or dead Patrick O'Brian Dan Abnett Isaac Asimov Michael Moorcock Ursula K. Le Guin

Finally did really well in Anthropeum! Anthropeum.com · Jul 9 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟦🟦🟩🟩🟩🟦🟩 84,555 · top 3% of players today!

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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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A Green Heron goes into maximum neck mode to grab a tadpole and then resets into minimum neck mode after the snack was acquired.

I saw Ragtime at the Lincoln Center yesterday and strangely today I think my computer is broken: it's only opening Joshua Henry youtube videos, not the things I'm supposed to be working on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qNP...

"Wheels of a Dream" - The Broadway Production of "Ragtime" feat. Joshua Henry & Nichelle Lewis

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Guy who has only encountered a list of firmly-held principles one other time in his life: "This sign is giving major Nicene Creed vibes"

The axioms of Euclidean geometry are such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Vance: People hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say, "in this house we believe blah blah blah blah blah. You know, love is love, science is science, whatever. No person is illegal." That sign is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed

Composition A XXI, by László Moholy-Nagy, 1925, 📸 by Eakin Howard

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Landscape and Time by the King's Singers

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Name your fav album to hear start to finish, no skips.

What do mathematicians do? How do they make new mathematical discoveries? Why does that matter for K-12 math education? If you are a math teacher and you are curious about these questions, join in on "21st century mathematics" in July! Free, online, and flexible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UIx...

"21st century mathematics" returns in July 2026!

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I keep coming back to this violation. My work was used, without my permission or any compensation, to train these models. I know a lot of people who have been using these things more, and say they the quality is much improved now, but it's still built on theft of my (and many others') work.

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When you ask chat or Claude or Gemini, I don't want you to think about WHAT you are using. I want you to think about WHO. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/who-you-ar...

A vaccine against cancer still sounds so futuristic to me. It happened when I was already an adult! Now in places where the vaccine is available and encouraged, almost no one will have to suffer and possibly die of this cancer! Isn't it amazing what we can do??

Mike Sowden@mikeachim.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Zero. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They love the free market until it produces less racism!

Evelyn Lamb@evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I remember a friend's stepdad complaining that his bank had a "press 2 for Spanish" option on its customer service line. I don't know what to tell you, dude, you live in Texas, there are lots of Spanish speakers, this company chooses to provide a service their potential customers will want?

I love how one of the factors is "rising consumer demand." How dare businesses respond to consumer demand by nefariously...providing a product consumers want?? In a capitalist society????

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

HALAL FOOD: Delicious, or Economic Warfare?