i feel so bad for escobar’s poor hippos, they’re all janky and inbred even tho they don’t want to be 😩😩 now they might get pawned off on india & have to adapt to a hotter, way more polluted environment www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...
Colombia's rogue hippos could find refuge in India
In Colombia, a plan to cull Pablo Escobar's invasive hippos is challenged by an Indian billionaire's offer to relocate dozens of the animals to India's wildlife reserve instead.
npr.org
Watching Brazil, South Korea and Hungary get rid of their authoritarians
I'd take legal action if a racoon moved under my house but if a bear moved in I'd just leave. That's his house now.
the effectiveness of violin techniques such as tremolo and glissando at instilling fear and unease in the human psyche suggests that at some point in the past, we were prey for some kind of stringed animal.
i saw the term “luxury surveillance” 3x today and managed to avoid knowing what it means but i fear it’s only a matter of time
binged the katrina doc yesterday bc apparently the real time american newsfeed wasn’t devastating enough for me and whew couple stray observations: brad pitt was always a villain hiding in plain sight terrifying preview of life as extreme weather events ramp up in frequency & magnitude
If I see a company branded cybertruck driving around, I’m going to avoid that business for the rest of my life.
2 hrs never flies by faster than when ur looking at super expensive furniture online theory - the more egregiously out of ur price range it is, the faster time passes
death is the only way i can break free from this timeline and how sure can we even be about that
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.Women shouldn’t hold office, says GOP woman now running for office
i tweet for the people who think often about how the morning show used waka flaka flame for the moment the network got hacked in the ransomware episode 😭😭the music supervisor was off leash for that one , truly feral choice
i don’t ever want a car again but i do wish i had a little tank i could cruise around LA in a military tank but make it fashion . would also settle for a fashionable bulldozer
unreal how much less cluttered this app is than twitter too - like a vacation for my eyes
this is so sweet and reminds me of when twitter was less nazi (which is ultimately the entire aim of bsky i suppose! well played)
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.Check out the colossal array of great Murphs in the replies.
