Melonie

One of my fav artists ever

Incredible 🥇

I'm not competing with Gene here (cause I'd lose - look at the detailed paneling, the carpeting, the brick: I know a masterpiece when I see one). But if we're sharing pictures of action figures, here's something my wife and I cooked up more than a decade ago: "Away Team in a Manger."

Linda Hamilton and Bryan Cranston in the bluest outfits and most 80's hair from the episode "Menace, Anyone?"

Folks...this picture of Linda Hamilton and Bryan Cranston from an episode of MURDER SHE WROTE. I didn't think it was possible for two people to look this 1986.

Tuck and turn, or bend and twist? How falling cats land on their feet. Falling cats in the study also seemed to show a marked preference for turning to the right.

Tuck and turn, or bend and twist? How falling cats land on their feet. Falling cats in the study also seemed to show a marked preference for turning to the right. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

this is an actual book you can buy written by none other than my mother in 1986 that goes on ebay for > $50 and on amazon for > $150

The product broke. You had to replace it. I don't think you actually want my review, but in any case, you already have it! 🤦‍♀️

I recently wrote to complain about a shoddy product that broke, it was dealt with pretty quickly and I moved on, and then I started getting "please review our customer service" and then, I sh*t you not, "please review the product"

Also it looks like he is affiliated with Cato Institute? This is like an AI-generated piece. "Please create an academic nightmare"

Thesis acceptance certificate signed by Steven Pinker, Leah Somerville, Randy Buckner, Michael Bailey, and Kenneth Zucker.

Pack up. I’ve found the most cursed thesis committee ever to exist.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Related - bsky.app/profile/luke...

Side note, when news outlets use expressions like "violence erupted", "clashes", and "the unfolding chaos" they're making it sound like the "chaos" came from nowhere, or from "both sides" (when often as in this case, it's pretty clear where it came from)

Almost 90 people being cut.

Canadian historian Adam Chapnick, a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada:

“I don’t know how you justify this decision if you have any sort of commitment to history."

Why can't we just have a functioning train system??

Jolyon Maugham KC @jolyon.goodlawproject.org The NHS has now stopped all medication - puberty blockers and hormones - for trans minors. For most, unless they get drugs from other sources, this means a lifetime, in an increasingly violent and transphobic society, unable to pass. Under Wes Streeting NHS policy is harm and death for trans people. Jolyon Maugham KC @jolyon.goodlawpro... • 16h Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones. Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

Jolyon is literally doing the lords work with GLP so this isn’t a call out of him at all as in individual.

I really should say, I’m not keen on this messaging

1. It’s not true that “most” trans people don’t pass if they do so over 18, in fact it couldn’t be further from it

"Many of these individuals we identified hold positions of public trust, such as teachers, lawyers, health professionals, and military personnel."

YouTube video by Dima T Country Joe & the Fish - VietNam Song - Live Woodstock 1969 - Full HD Video

R-I-P Country Joe www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0v...

“International Women’s Day” ending up on the only 23 hour day of the year.

Black & white photo of a concrete side of a somewhat dilapidated building that has graffiti written with spray paint. The graffiti reads “Time doesn’t exist Clicks exist.”

"So, what the DWP seems to be arguing, is that claimants reading this might be tempted to fake end-stage kidney disease along with heart disease in order to get benefits."

The kind of appalling logic the DWP uses to deny help to people with disabilities.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-arg...

Oh really? I wouldn’t know, having been born and raised in India, where daily wage workers choose between having their children vaccinated and a days food.
I wouldn’t know this at all.
Even knowing all this, I still do not believe shaming and abusing people is a viable public health comms strategy

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.

If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

I really resent losing an hour of my day on a weekend. 😒

A graph of the weight of two kākāpō chicks. Credit: Andrew Digby

Two fortnight old kākāpō chicks in a nest. Credit: Andrew Digby

One of the main measures we use to assess the health of #kakapo chicks is their weight. Tiwhiri-A3 and Tiwhiri-A4 are well above the mean expected for their age, so mother Tiwhiri is doing a great job feeding two chicks. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

*gnashes teeth*

crayon napkin drawing of USS MOTHER Fucker (enterprise d) BoLDLy Fucking your Shit up

idk where i found this or what the context is but i like it

Yes! Talk about nailing it in 2 sentences!

I just saw this and your post also reminded me of it - bsky.app/profile/kend...