I have been waiting to see Aurora in person since I was eight years old.

'Where do you want to go?': Six words that helped her start again When Stacia was 21, she was struggling with severe depression. A stranger's simple question gave her safety during a time she needed it the most. Now, it's an example she's tried to follow ever since.

When Stacia was 21, she was struggling with severe depression. A stranger's simple question gave her safety during a time she needed it the most. Now, it's an example she's tried to follow ever since. n.pr/4r9RjUK

A polar bear lies on his back in a deep bed of brown kelp next to the blue water of Hudson Bay. He stretches his right arm up over its head.

A polar bear lies on his back in a deep bed of reddish kelp and smiles in the sunshine, showing off his canines.

A polar bear stretches out on his back in a deep bed of brown kelp in the sunshine.

Polar bears are experts in relaxing. Nothing like a good kelp bed in the sunshine. #Mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿

A bright red glow reaches up into the darkness, illuminating the silhouettes of tall slightly scraggly, spruce trees

Swirls of green and red light sweep down from the sky, lighting up the forest and contrasting against the Stark silhouettes of trees

Dramatic swirls of green and red light swirl down from the middle of the sky, starkly contrasting against the bear of Poplar, tall Spruce trees.

Still more dramatic curtains of light sweep down from above in sheets of green and red. The tall bear poplars and spruce spires our starkly silhouetted.

I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora

Hooting and hollering

Rubbing his head 😂😂😂

….a pity…so pretty and great for native birds

All that said it’s hard not to watch this without a sense of weary despair… we won’t save this world will we. Somehow the momentary needs and greed of vested interest will win out. A tiny self-absorbed few will do for the rest of us… they’ll blight the future to line their pockets. Sod ‘em.

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.

The Trillion Dollar Chart In 2020, one of the most important papers in the development of AI was published: , which came from a group at OpenAI. This paper showed with just ...

Listening to @edzitron.com's latest interview and it occurred to me that a big component of the wild energy consumption of generative machine learning is simply the belief that 'scale' gets you better results: and when it doesn't, just....scale more. Death loop

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We're going to lose the fking midterms. Voters literally flip seats because we told them we'll take care of healthcare cost increase, and now we betrayed them. You're going to see a large amount of people either voting for GOP again or not vote. All elected officials need to lose their healthcare.

I tried to whistle over a stray cat in my neighborhood and a woman walked by, who I worried thought I whistled at her. So I said “im whistling at the cat” but when I looked back down at it I realized it was just an old fast food bag

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

This is another reason why I don’t believe employees should be forced to smile at customers. Too many think it means something else.

THIS IS SO GOOD

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.

From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.

What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

From the AirQuality community on Reddit: An update on adverse health effects from exposure to PM2.5 (from2024) Posted by FyghtorFlyght - 1 vote and 0 comments

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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers

Meanwhile

That's a weirdly specific number, did they take a census or something?

France urges EU to investigate Shein for selling illegal items including child-like sex dolls PARIS (AP) — France is asking the European Union’s executive arm to launch an investigation into how the fast-fashion giant Shein was able to sell illegal items including child-like sex dolls and weapons on its sprawling online marketplace.

PARIS (AP) — France is asking the European Union’s executive arm to launch an investigation into how the fast-fashion giant Shein was able to sell illegal items including child-like sex dolls and weapons on its sprawling online marketplace.

No paywall

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published February)

Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela

"moves to seize control of the country’s oil fields," www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State: "We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

Burry’s Palantir trade is roughly an order of magnitude bigger—and more interesting imo—than the Nvidia puts.