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But only from terrible no-good evil criminals, convicted of things like running a red light or three.
Just as Niven prophesied.

“Autodoc” is just how they pronounced “medbed” when _Ringworld_ was published in 1970.

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Banner held by Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

for DECADES!
Larry Niven’s _Ringworld_ was published in 1970.

Oooh! Oooh! Yeah! So amazing!
I read about these!

… in Larry Niven’s _Ringworld_ books

Future Space Communism: TNG was certainly a formative experience!

HFS the berry load you’ve got down there in Portlandia!
Seattle madronas do not look like that.

Must be because of the war zone — all that watering by the blood of patriots?

Mountain ash = existential threat, obvs

🤣 Funniest so far

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An edited iNaturalist project page for ctenophore day 10/04/2025. In the about it says Celebrate ctenophore day by going out and finding ctenophores on October 4th, 2025! Can we get to 1004+ new ctenophore observations to celebrate? Are you ready for the Cteno Day Bioblitz? Join today! inaturalist.org.projects/ctenophore-day-2025

It’s almost Ctenophore Day! I set up a BioBlitz on @inaturalist.bsky.social to celebrate. Spread the word, and let’s see how many people we can get out looking for ctenos!

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Worse. It’s a complete waste of their time & strategic planning (first develop a solid thesis topic) & thoughtful work writing good applications.
The rug was pulled out from under them.

Too many of them will be too underfunded or too disillusioned to stay in science.
A shameful waste of talent.

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Wait, you can read???
That’s what’s unthinkable,
to whoever is mandating the training.

Even though you seem to have a Y chromosome?!??! 🤯

Southie! 😂

I’ve been asking that question for 10 years now …

My partner made me actually *watch* the video.
I hate watching videos.

This one was so worth it. Esp when the crab adjusted the camera angle.

Banger fzzzzzz-PFT

Came here to immediately pile on to whoever had already posted this.

It’s discouraging that a lot of the audience can’t tell a good scientific presentation from a snake-oil pitch.

And this snake oil is deadly.

Banger indeed.

Ooops I should have piled on to this post - credit is due - instead of cluttering up the place with another dead-end one-reply thread.
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Somebody remind me - did we have randomized controlled trials of parachutes?

What would the “problem” shark be getting out of going specifically after humans?
They don’t get much of a reward!

As I understand it, most of the damaging or deadly shark bites don’t take substantial pieces out. The first bite is to incapacitate, so the big dangerous prey item doesn’t fight back.

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!

There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆

Thank you for tracking this down! 🙌 🥹🤯
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Hoverflies so cute!!!
Outstanding photo.

Mamie Till-Mobley’s strength and courage in insisting on the open coffin and having everyone SEE the brutal evil that was done to her child, changed the country.
Heroic.