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She/Her, 少し日本語, probably nerding out about ecology, tokusatsu, or robots right now.

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Long elections waste immense amounts of money. they harass potential voters into apathy. They play into the horse-race, scandal-fed view of politics that feeds deeply unserious media coverage. They NOT INCIDENTALLY make it difficult/impossible for campaigns to deal with last-minute surprises.

note how long it took the French from calling the election to holding not 1 but 2 votes? and organizing the shit out of the second one? LESS THAN ONE MONTH A national election does not have to be a painful 1.5-2 year process! the US election campaign should quite honestly not even have started yet!!

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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

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熱中症に注意

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WERNER HERZOG: cast into the wilderness by an uncaring mother, the child must choose a companion, a beast of unnatural capabilities through which to channel his will. they will not rest until every gymnasium lies in ruin. ASH: where's professor oak HERZOG: this lizard is on fire

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Pole Vault xkcd.com/2955

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petition to make it alcohol and drug abuse lake again so people know where is a good place to go to abuse alcohol and drugs

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake Village Lake, previously named Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake, is a reservoir in Richland County, South Carolina, United States en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol...

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Okay, this is fun… https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/taylor-swifts-dublin-gig-attendees-29477201

Taylor Swift's Dublin gig attendees asked to help seismometer expertswww.dublinlive.ie Taylor Swift fans are being asked to help seismometer experts to find out what the audience was doing during certain moments of her Aviva Stadium concerts in Dublin

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Take this, it’s dangerous to go alone.

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If your area got a new Labour MP then it is your duty to email them and say that you are happy the Tories are out but that transphobia should have no place in the party. Make Starmer gently walk back his support for Rowling's position!

Emailed my local Labour candidate. We're a swing seat. Let's at least let them hear from us.

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Saw an AI fireworks show and a guy lost all 7 fingers on one hand.

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politics is back baby and it's good again, awooooooo

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This photo is pure 2024.

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Larry the cat now holds the record for Prime Ministers a single Chief Mouser to the Treasury has tolerated. 6 PMs: Larry (2011-present) 5 PMs: Peter III (1947-1964) and Peter (1929-1946) 4 PMs: Wilberforce (1973-1987) 3 PMs: Humphrey (1989-1997) and Peta (1964-1976)

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can we have a cat president? If we can have dog mayors surely we can have a cat president

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Now CNN is on it. Yeah, slow news day indeed. Nothing going on but trotting hippos. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/04/s... I'm chuckling. It's probably the simplest study I've ever done, but I'm glad people like it. I do, too.

Our new paper in PeerJ: we show with basic video footage that hippos essentially only trot even at near-maximal speeds, and at those speeds they do get airborne with all four feet. Which, to our knowledge, is new to science -- and cool! peerj.com/articles/176... 🧵: twitter.com/JohnRHutchin...

Footfall patterns and stride parameters of Common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) on landpeerj.com Common hippopotamuses (hippos) are among the largest extant land mammals. They thus offer potential further insight into how giant body size on land influences locomotor patterns and abilities. Furthe...

High-speed hippos can get airborne, says new study | CNNedition.cnn.com Hippos can get airborne when moving at high speeds over land, according to a new study.

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🥒😮🥒

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It's a banger

Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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Happy 4th of July! In the wise words of Ben Franklin: The Bald Eagle is a Bird of bad moral Character. Too lazy to fish for himself. The Turkey is a more respectable Bird, though vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would attack a Brit who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.

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This made me laugh (again) 🥬

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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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More trains please.

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Bracket Symbols xkcd.com/2954

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Imagine them running around on the forest floor Aquilops americanus was a tiny basal cratopsian that lived during the Early Cretaceous in North America. This amazing animal would have shared its habitat with other dinosaurs like the huge Acrocanthosaurus. 🐡 🎨 🧪 #dinosaurs #paleontology

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If you are going to be protesting anywhere near the Republican National Convention, write the NLG number on your stomach in Sharpie (not your arm: cops use that as "evidence of premeditation"). They are fucking superheroes. Give them money to keep being superheroes: www.nlg.org/donate/

Donate - National Lawyers Guildwww.nlg.org

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We Stan a legend www.wired.com/story/oklaho...

The Genius Behind @OKWildlifeDept's Most Viral Tweets Is Signing Offwww.wired.com Sarah Southerland used the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's social media feeds to warn you about mountain lions and Halloween candy, leaving behind one of the internet’s great legacies.

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Well, I know what *I'm* making this weekend.

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Things I've spontaneously said to animals. Mailing list: buttondown.email/rosemarymosco Patreon: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

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Just a funny comic for pals to read!!

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This is predictable but so important: Pasteurizing milk kills the H5N1 bird flu virus that is circulating widely in dairy cattle. It's easy to take a 150-year-old technique that has saved countless lives for granted, but don't fool around with unpasteurized dairy products. 🧪

Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu Virus in Milk, New Studies Confirmwww.scientificamerican.com Flash pasteurization destroyed H5N1 viral particles that were highly concentrated in raw milk, confirming that standard techniques can keep dairy products safe from bird flu