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Published: June 19, 2026 19:27

Mars bees! (Not really Mars bees.) (Probably.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 19, 2026 15:42

We are social creatures, hard-wired to give attention to people when we’re in conversation with them. If the person isn’t present, we use some of our mental energy putting ourselves in their place. Doing this while driving is about as bad for attentiveness…

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Published: June 19, 2026 15:37

I realize driving can get boring and we all want to use our time effectively but talking on the phone (hands-free or not) while driving is way more dangerous than you think.…

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Published: June 18, 2026 22:23

As a physicist I find this hilarious. The angle of the photo is so shallow that it’s almost impossible to see the color of the water; at that angle, in that lighting, the water almost 100% just reflects the sky. So congrats to Dept of Interior for…

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Published: June 16, 2026 13:00

How good is it when you get that perfect intellectual impedance match with someone and conversation feels like a mind-meld? I swear I could chase that feeling like it’s a solar eclipse.

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Published: June 15, 2026 21:53

Love getting an e-mail out of the blue from a restaurant I visited once 8 years ago like they’re an ex who’s just gone through a breakup

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Published: June 14, 2026 17:52

It’s absolutely standard in American entertainment to reject the authentic chirpy whistle of a bald eagle and sub in the red-tailed hawk’s robust commie scream [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 14, 2026 12:18

I am on a train heading into Toronto and I brought my laptop to get some work done en route without quite remembering that this is a train in North America and therefore the smoothness of the ride is about on par with that of a horse and buggy traversing…

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Published: June 12, 2026 16:46

My top three space movies, chosen 0% based on scientific accuracy: 1) Contact 2) Jupiter Ascending 3) Sunshine [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2026 15:42

As a fan of Star Trek & other science fiction, I don’t mind if science is fudged for dramatic effect. But when the scientific process & scientists themselves are misrepresented, inserting secrecy & efforts at social control, it contributes to distrust in…

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Published: June 11, 2026 14:18

Obviously this is a terrible idea but also I think we need an immediate moratorium on LLMs using bi flag colors as they are not worthy of the aesthetic [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 11, 2026 01:27

Don’t fight in my mentions; I will block you both

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Published: June 10, 2026 22:07

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.