Thomas Pollet

Timeline cleanse:
Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches.

If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo.

But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.

Jason Alexander playing GameCube on some enormous console presentable at a 00s in store demonstration. He looks like a cryptid

how your emails are finding me

Experimental participants to us

The 'Anything Counter', showing simulated in real time based on sourced data "The Hidden Price of Digital Life". Happy Thursday! anythingconverter.com/anythingcoun...

Female #kakapo are utterly focussed on their chicks. Stella came back to the nest while I was checking her very young chicks two nights ago. Apparently unconcerned by me being there, she jumped in and started brooding them in front of me. #conservation #parrots #birds #kakapo2026

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What I thought was a joke is real: you can now bet on German train delays. bahn.bet

Data

Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead. A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

Um pequeno pássaro pousado em um galho, com a cabeça preta salpicada de branco, corpo cinza e uma faixa de penas cor de ferrugem na parte superior das costas. Suas asas exibem listras pretas e brancas, e ele está olhando para baixo, com suas garras azuis agarradas ao galho texturizado. O fundo é composto por galhos e folhas em tons de verde e marrom. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Zidedê-de-asa-cinza
🌎Euchrepomis spodioptila
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

O zidedê-de-asa-cinza é uma ave da ordem Passeriformes, da família Thamnophilidae.

📷 Hector Bottai

look how they massacred my boy

Get around the table and talk! Raiding pensions is completely unacceptable! Support Northumbria UCU in this fight. If they get away with it here it will happen everywhere

New global review out now!
We mapped 100+ Open Research resources (2012–2025) to understand how OR, Open Science, and Responsible Researcher Assessment are evolving. www.ukrn.org/2026/03/04/n...

Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt” LLMs are an epistemic nightmare

LLMs are an epistemic nightmare.

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Northumbria University staff announce 10 more days of strikes in pensions row UCU members at Northumbria University have confirmed that they will take another 10 days of strike action, as a dispute over an alleged 'pension grab' continues

PLEASE SHARE! @ucu.org.uk As it says @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are always happy to talk - our door is open to management @northumbriauni.bsky.social . But members will never, ever accept pay and pension injustice! www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Northumbria University staff announce 10 more days of strikes in pensions row UCU members at Northumbria University have confirmed that they will take another 10 days of strike action, as a dispute over an alleged 'pension grab' continues

As @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social say in this article - we don't want to be on strike and our door is open to talk to management @northumbriauni.bsky.social. But our members (and any right-thinking people) will never accept pay and pension injustice! www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

More @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picketers on strike for fair pay and pensions @northumbriauni.bsky.social today, pic courtesy of @ucu.org.uk comrades from @teessideuni.bsky.social!

Are women bourgeois?

This is what happens when oligarchs control the *news*

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

The next time someone says, "Oh, I'm just going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, what's the big deal?" you should show them this

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Human Arm Hanging Limply Out Of Food Delivery Robot

Human Arm Hanging Limply Out Of Food Delivery Robot

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A small white betta fish staring at the camera.

Lil miss sassy

Clarity in communications

"rising housing costs since 1990 are responsible for 13 million (11%) children not being born, 51% of decrease in fertility from the 2000s to the 2010s, and a 7pp decrease in the share of 20-29 year olds that have started families"

via @arpitrage.bsky.social
drive.google.com/file/d/1BK6j...

Ellie the opossum crawling on a fence. she is 10 months old currently

Ellie the opossum at 3 months old last year

happy to report that Cincinnati zoo has an orphaned opossum named Ellie as an animal ambassador and she is adorable

These numbers are insane.

Black-and-white photo of a beautiful medium haired white cat, who seems to be standing with its front paws inside of a toilet bowl with the high legs up on the seat. It is looking towards the photographer as if caught in the act.

Toilet detective. Photo from my collection, ca. 1960s.