The world is very bad, but I found a squirrel that looks like Napoleon

AI model links consumer ratings to white wines’ chemical profiles Machine learning offers insight into how chemical markers influence perceptions of wine quality

The researchers trained a machine-learning model using mass and infra-red spectra for more than 80 white wines, gleaning volatile organic compounds, as well as things like ethanol concentration.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/ai-mode...

comic of a cat surrounded by plushies "Somebody once told me I could be anything. So I became financially unstable."

You too can be anything 😌 #art #comic

Kneecap and Bob Vylan comments at Glastonbury investigated by police Officers reviewing footage of comments made by bands during performances on West Holts Stage

The story is the complicity of Western governments in a genocide #SaoirseDonPhalaistín
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Into the weekend like...

X-Men vs. Sentinel
By Matias Villalba

#xmen

We're back!

Because every #bluesky timeline needs a yawning otter... 😅

Sound on... 😊

A colorful heron with a long neck stretched vertically, showing a striking mix of blue, maroon, and white, perched among green foliage in a dense forest.

Agami Heron looking for a nice stick at Agami Island this afternoon.

#birds #nature #herons #costarica

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Picture of two white orchid flowers set against a blurred greenish background

Picture of the back of an orchid leaf which shows purple streaks and fine white hairs. This leaf was from a non flowering plant

Eriochilus glareosus - Scarp Bunny Orchid

Our Bunny orchid season is nearly over but we managed to spot this Scarp Bunny still in flower today. A later flowering species, this one is differentiated by a hairy and often purple backed leaf
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist

A small brown bunny sits upright on a gray surface, covering its face with tiny paws.

¿Que?

Chinese researchers charged with smuggling plant pathogen into the US Fungus described by government as 'agroterrorism weapon' was allegedly brought into the US for study at a University of Michigan lab

Two Chinese postdocs at the University of Michigan have been charged with smuggling a plant pathogen into the US. The justice department claims it was a 'potential agroterrorism weapon' - experts aren't so sure

www.chemistryworld.com/news/chinese...

U.S. college is first to decline federal science grants because of new DEI language Williams College says NSF and NIH requirement related to discrimination “undermines” academic freedom

Leadership in science by a liberal arts college. Will others follow suit? 🧪https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-college-first-decline-federal-science-grants-because-new-dei-language

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

😬 Trump to Putin according to Kremlin:

"Vladimir, you can pick up the phone at any time. I will be happy to answer, I will be happy to talk to you."

CO2 emissions from China are down 1.6% for Q1 2025 and 1% for the past 12 months. The most recent peak in CO2 emissions from China was back in March 2024. Emissions are dropping because despite continuing to build out fossil fuels, renewable capacity and generation has increased in China and many sectors of their economy now have emissions that are flat or dropping.

CO2 emissions from China are down 1.6% for Q1 2025 and 1% for the past 12 months. The greater deployment of renewables relative to fossil fuels appears to be starting to cut into emissions. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

Tracking older LGBTQ+ people’s health: ‘I hear their voices and their stories’ Undeterred by US funding cuts, behavioural-health researcher Jason Flatt studies how dementia affects people from sexual and gender minorities.

Undeterred by US funding cuts, behavioural-health researcher Jason Flatt studies how dementia affects people from sexual and gender minorities. Read the latest article in Nature’s Changemakers series. 🧪

Everytime I this video of surface rupture/offset from the recent Myanmar #earthquake it’s 🤯 and now a peek athe rupture up close from thr otber side if the fence - so cool! 🧪⚒️

Link to original video: youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

Amazing example of the power of federally-funded research in the U.S. 🧪

"[it] began decades ago with federal funding for basic research on bacterial immune systems. That led eventually, with more federal support, to the discovery of CRISPR...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

The account that had a famous thread alerting people that grok was randomly inserting S African white genocide into tweets has mysteriously been deleted

Fuck elon

I think the real question is why the fuck this many people ask Grok shit to begin with, it’s like the poor man’s Bing add-in

Last night I posted on X asking grok if there was something wrong with Elon's penis and today that post is gone. No answer, no notification. So obviously the answer is yes.

Grok is yet another child that hates Elon. :)

Shouldn't the answer be fewer employees?

My new favorite book

Trump’s ‘skinny budget’ has plans to cut science and research to the bone White House budget blueprint would slash funding for NSF and NIH by 55% and 40%, respectively, prompting dire warnings

Representatives of the scientific community have condemned the cuts, calling them ‘misguided’ and saying their effects on US research, productivity, job creation and innovation in industries that build on that research would be ‘catastrophic’.