This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying.

corgi down

This is Lorna. She had us at hello. Literally. 12/10

One nice way to feel better about yourself is to imagine what Steve Irwin would say about you if you were a little snake he found in the desert

Please stop DMing us asking us to "wake up Mount Rainier just a lil" to clear space in the queue for Taylor Swift tickets. We have a strict standing policy of not taunting the volcanoes.

man the future is weird as hell

If SBF ends up destroying crypto maybe he was an effective altruist after all

#OTD in 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the U.S. Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. The TV segment is classic.

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This is River. She loves watching the sunrise. Knows that no matter how dark the night gets, the sun will always be there in the morning. 13/10

Mary Shelley did try to warn us about hubristic STEM bros who make strange, impulsive experiments and then watch helplessly as their creation destroys itself at the expense of ordinary people.

Just doin' my daily rounds with Debirdify. Every day my timeline here gets quieter and my timeline over there gets more interesting. https://t.co/fPkZaZaGId

I never more feel how backwards the US is than when I go to a European grocery store and see that the cashiers get to sit down

[brooding] we should not have kept saying “I can’t believe this website is free”

Avg. rent in the city is 2500/month, which is 30K/year. Avg. CUPE Ed worker salary is 39K/year. Remember who to be mad at if schools are closed due to a strike: blame falls squarely on the man denying early childhood educators and custodians the right to basic decent living.

Take whatever energy you have about twitter to the polls next Tuesday, please. It's a big country, and only some of it is this website.