Surround yourself with the kind of people who are proud to have a library card.
@frogprints.bsky.social
At the office they say $h1t rolls down hill. Turns out a few colleagues are willing to sling it, too.
Really interesting article laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.
laurenleek.substack.com
convincing people that computers are smart was a huge mistake. computers are exactly as stupid now as they were in 1975, they're just much faster at stupid.
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't caaaaaaaaare!
Slop purveyor: my machine lets me produce 6,000 gallons of hot dogshit per day. How do you think you can possibly compete with that? Literally any creative person: by not producing 6,000 gallons a day of hot dogshit, mostly
We seem to have returned, after a century’s interval, to a world in which great powers are prepared to wage war in pursuit of national interest.
The End of the United Nations
To its most powerful member, it is worth more alive than dead.
foreignpolicy.com
What remains one of the best life hacks I’ve ever learned: at any chain that has a phone number-based rewards system needed for discounts (CVS, Duane Reade, etc.), simply put in the local area code followed by 867-5309. There is always already an account. You will always get the discount.
He flunked French in high school and thinks that everything there is set up to make him look dumb.
EVs = they’re going to crash the grid!! Data centers = “let’s build 3,000 of them!”
Kenya's wildlife trade has expanded sharply over the past decade, with a tenfold rise in the number of captive-bred reptiles exported as exotic pets, World Animal Protection report says. Although the trade is legal, 77% of traded species have seen populations decline in the wild u.afp.com/SRPh
There's no basement at the Alamo!
I must steal back the X-1 before the Soviets find the hidden microfilm inside.
The biggest conservation win ever for the endangered Palm Cockatoo! On the back of 18 years of my research on this difficult species, People for Wildlife and Indigenous rangers and I were able to make an install an artificial hollow that was immediately used! 💥 capeyorkweekly.com.au/artificial-h...
Artificial habitat delivers world-first win for endangered palm cockatoo | Cape York Weekly
For a bird species relying on centuries-old trees and well-timed cyclones, nesting habitats are hard to come by, but an…
capeyorkweekly.com.au
For what is apparently the 10,001st post on Skepchick (and my own 3,000th), it's a HAPPY STORY of how scientists have shown that Dolly Parton is substantially improving literacy rates around the world through her Imagination Library 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/02/stud...
Study: Dolly Parton is the Greatest
Everything is terrible, obviously, and I have been getting particularly fed up with the general state of literacy I’m seeing in the world. And considering that for some reason my video about the Fo…
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Fascinating study. One thing I’ve said a lot is that in a post-skinnerian field we are finding cognitive complexity wherever we look in the animal kingdom and this study starts by saying that where sentience can’t be confidently stated it’s in cephalopod species that haven’t been studied much.
Insect Welfare Research Society@insectwrs.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis open access paper in Biological Reviews offers an up-to-date synthesis of the scientific evidence on cephalopod sentience 🐙🦑 It considers 120+ studies using an 8-criterion framework: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @zoophilosophy.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
Headline should read, UN in danger of collapse because of unpaid United States dues. “Make no mistake, this is a rupture.” U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...
U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues
nytimes.com
Danish newspaper @politiken.dk opens ENGLISH LANGUAGE section of its coverage of Greenland. Resource to understand local coverage, analysis, politics, and public opinion ⬇️ politiken.dk/tag/main/gre...
Greenland
Get the latest news about the tensions between United States, Denmark and Greenland from Politiken Edition. US President Donald Trump is causing tremors with his statements about Greenland. He calls...
politiken.dk
The eagerly awaited follow-up to @aptshadow.bsky.social's bestselling Children of Time series, Children of Strife follows our MC as she tries to determine what has happened to her crewmates who left the ship to explore an interstellar ark. Signed preorder: www.waterstones.com/book/childre... 💙📚🪐
UN hits out at global "apathy" over widespread suffering as it launches its 2026 appeal for humanitarian aid u.afp.com/S7qs
As my teacher Donella Meadows said, when systems science & wisdom traditions point the same way, when the analytical & the intuitive line up, pay attention. I'm grateful for all the systems teachers and all the contemplative teachers - may we heed them now in this critical moment for life on earth.
Brother Spirit 🌀(Phap Linh)@brspirit.bsky.social · 9mo agoSo grateful to @bethsawin.bsky.social for (re) posting this beautiful thought, which i first encountered on Twitter (before you know what) and which I’ve been quoting ever since Such a clear expression of the connection between the false idea of our separateness and systemic suffering and injustice