Fuck you, Google Maps. Fuck you, Apple Maps. Fuck you, Waze. You utter craven cowards. Making the switch.

You should've seen my prof's face the first time I tired to pronounce "spodumene."

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 2d 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.

It's andalusite's year. I can feel it.

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · 2d ago

Who do you think will win #MinCup26? Drop in a practice vote to make your predictions (and help us spot bugs in the backend before Mineral Cup begins!): www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

We’re not changing it.

The wrong 80-year-olds keep dying.

The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 7d ago

There has been a truly horrific flood in Nepal this morning (you can go search for videos). Let's be careful not to jump to conclusions about the trigger until we have visual confirmation. This is unlikely to have been a glacial lake outburst flood. 🧪⚒️

A New Color (1/5🧵)

They ate all kinds of stuff. But heck, if you were a pill-bug roomba scooting through a seafood buffet, wouldn't you "try a 'lil bite" of everything? 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2023...

We finally know for sure what a trilobite ate

Tens of thousands of fossils later, we've found a trilobite with a full stomach.

arstechnica.com

Did she axolotl questions?

What’s he trying to do? It’s a conundrum.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Engineering Geologist: That's a portable sinkhole. Don't build on it.

Chris Rowan@allochthonous.bsky.social · 2w ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Geologist: the water in the cup is a geopetal structure which allows us to tell you that the glass is right way up.

Snot is thicker than blood. 🤝

ceej@ceej.online · 2w ago

snot pact

I finally watched Skinamarink, because I've heard a lot of hype about it. I didn't find it scary. If the point of the movie is the dread of being a small child alone in the dark, then I get it. But I've had severe hypnagogia my whole life, so the dread I should have felt was more like annoyance.

One wonders if these end-times plagues are a side effect of the administration's negligence or actually the point.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever

Flood the zone

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4w ago

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Either these are all the same AI-generated man or these 60+ gay men have a very specific type.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · last mo.

I can't be sure, but...I think this is advertising a chance for a five-way with elderly quadruplets?

on behalf of the bluesky team i am excited to announce our newest feature! Now in addition to replies and quotes, we have the "don't reply" here's how it works: 1. you see a post that does not mention you 2. you "don't reply" to it 3. the app shows you more posts

See also: people who berate others who speak anything other than English in public

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · last mo.

Imagine going through life expecting that everything should be geared to your personal knowledge base. I think everyone I follow here occasionally says something I don't understand or makes a reference I don't get. That's how you learn!

They moved on from lindsey graham's death so quickly you'd think he died in a school shooting.

“I have a message for everyone who was upset about diversity in The Odyssey. If you want to see a film with a cast of all white people who are cursed by the gods, the Melania movie is currently streaming.” —Colman Domingo

This classic.

space ghost@luxenoir.blacksky.app · last mo.

Post a meme you have NEVER gotten to use

"I have no idea how to get around this other than maybe feed it prose I already edited that's technically mine?" Editing someone else's prose does not make it "technically" yours, you fucking hack.

Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · last mo.

“I have no idea how to get around chat gpt’s refusal to let me rip off other authors other than to actually write prose myself”

There is a type of low-flow hotel toilet with a little baja shelf whereupon your shit will lounge, above the water line, loudly advertising its piquant perfume while refusing to be washed down into the plumbing abyss by the anemic trickle of a flush.

Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...

Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.

cnbc.com

The guy who narrates the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland.

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · last mo.

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

Think of all those studies with null results, never published, lost to time like the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · last mo.

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

I liked this plot better in the 2005 movie The Island.

the hype@thehyyyype.bsky.social · last mo.

There's no way Bryan Johnson could possibly get any creepier than he already- hang on, I'm getting a note

This takes "the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence" and gives it idiot rabies.

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m sorry what

Eating in America is like Choose Your Own Adventure.

Stone Cold Jane Austen@abbyhiggs.bsky.social · last mo.

New contamination just dropped