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One year my family grew a bunch of pale vegetables, and I stabbed toothpicks into them because of bunnicula. Turns out it wasn't as endearing as I had hoped

There kinda is, provided you're 'Strayan:

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down to frown?

Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement A moral reckoning.

For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.

A grey and black striped bee on tiny yellow flowers, I believe genus Megachile

A metallic green bee on a large yellow aster-type flower, I believe a 'sweat bee' (they apparently like to drink human sweat?) Genus Agapostemon

Opposite ends of the native bee spectrum

A large patch of showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa), which NO FUN NATIVE INSECTS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF

I swear I'm going to start emailing this to my local butterflies, I mean come on now

A photo of a dog with visible fangs, a thumb next to one of the teeth for comparison. The teeth seem rather large

This could fix me

yeah i love waymo, way mo immigrants coming to my city

A yellow Gazania with a black ring at the the base of the petals surrounding the center of the flower

The same yellow Gazania as before, but in ultraviolet you see multiple black and "yellow" concentric rings

A solid orange Gazania. Rather boring really, to our eyes just another orange flower

The same orange Gazania, but in ultraviolet the petals nicely fade to black near the center, the absolute center looks almost sparkling

Aster family is pretty reliable for interesting ultraviolet photos, Gazania hybrids

Penstemon palmeri in full color, the flowers are pale purple and the leaves are waxy in comparison to the plants next to it

Penstemon palmeri in ultraviolet; most of the photo is black and white except for the flowers which are purple for some reason I don't fully understand. The waxy leaves of the penstemon are glowing white compared to the leaves of other plants

Palmer's penstemon in visible light and ultraviolet, notice how the waxy coating reflects the uv so well. No clue what's going on with the colors in the uv photo, in theory it should all be greyscale

A double-flowered blue poppy has crinkled, crepey petals and fuzzy stems and leaves.

Another view of the blue Meconopsis poppy in brighter light.

Some other poppies in a different spot by a Japanese maple.

My friend in Spokane is having some success growing the botanical holy grail: blue poppies from the genus Meconopsis. They are so stunning in person. He even has a double-flowered blossom on one of them! 🌱

Student detained by ICE to voluntarily deport Alireza Doroudi, the UA doctoral student detained by ICE in March, requested in court Thursday that he be able to self-deport back to Iran. He was granted voluntary departure.  Doroudi told his attorn...

Alireza Doroudi, a PhD student at the University of Alabama, was jailed for 40+ days and forced to self-deport despite DHS planning to drop charges. His only “crime”? Being born in the Islamic Republic. thecrimsonwhite.com/121310/news/...

An oddly colored photo of a dandelion plant in ultraviolet; the camera interprets the foliage as having a purple sheen and the dandelion flower as yellow with a large black center

Dandelion in uv, the dark center is presumably to attract bees. No clue what wavelength is getting interpreted as yellow by the camera, the center shows it's not visible light leaking in

You actually miss 0% of the shots you don't take. If you're counting 'shots not taken' as 'missed,' then missed shots immediately become a singularity. We are all constantly in a state not taking shots. No one likes a tryhard, Steve.

The funniest folk etymology is for Macau, said to be "what the f*" (mat1 gau1 乜尻) in Cantonese.
The Portuguese asked a local "what place is this?"
The local went: "Nei 5 ngap1 mat1 gau1" 你噏乜尻？ ("wtf are you saying?"),
so the Portuguese thought Mat1 gau1 was the name 🤣 1/2

Wiki entry: The match had many bizarre incidents Karpov's team included noted Soviet psychologist and hypnotherapist Vladimir Petrovich Zukhar [rul, while Korchnoi enlisted the help of two American Ananda Marga yoga specialists who had recently been convicted of attempted murder and released on bail.(1]/2] There was more controversy off the board, with histrionics ranging from X-raying of chairs, protests about the flags used on the board and Korchnoi's complaints that Zukhar, sitting in the front row, attempted to hypnotise him.[3l When Karpov's team sent him a blueberry yogurt during a game without any request for one by Karpov, the Korchnoi team protested, claiming it could be some kind of code. They later said this was intended as a parody of earlier protests, but it was taken seriously at the time.!4]

Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1978

Cat? Bird tasting them? There's a certain chewed on quality

Pronouncing the first G in gigantic like the G in GIF

Horse-Drawn Carriage

PSA: ‘Big Wellness’ makes more money than ‘Big Pharma’ with none of the regulatory constraints to ‘innovation’. It’s pseudoscience and quackery and is dangerous. It kills - remember Steve Jobs? Thinking he could ‘Wellness’ his way out of pancreatic cancer? Don’t believe the ableist hype…

An oddly colored photo of a seemingly gray petunia flower, with bright lines leading to the center. This is what a bee would see when looking at the flower, which to a human are solid white

This firefly petunia looks solid white to you and me, but a bee sees bright UV lines point to the pollen and nectar. This took some effort to take, most lenses are abysmal at UV

No mention of the bug where you could tap your opponent's mana, giving them mana burn each round?

Wife: No, I don't want to go to a Star Wars themed sex party. Ew

Me: First off it's Star TREK and secondly it's called a Borgy

me: so as far as abnormal results go, these are pretty mid?

doc: excuse me?

me: they'd get ratioed hard by funnier results

doc: I'm saying you're dying

me: like respawning or deleting my acct?

I don't have any friends. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me impossible to be friends with.

Heartbreak and the History of Distress in Ancient Mesopotamia - The Ancient Near East Today The concept of “heartbreak” appears multiple times in cuneiform texts as a metaphor to describe both mental and physical conditions. How should we interpret this phrase? And is it anything like heartb...

Last year, I wrote a brief article about how the heart “breaks” in ancient Mesopotamia. What could a broken heart have meant 3,000 years ago, and how did people express mental distress?

To me, how they made emotional pain make sense is really moving anetoday.org/al-rashid-he...

If you play The Grinch backward, his heart shrinks after interacting with people and that’s a lot more accurate.

Happening now at Washington Square Park: A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition, including people who intentionally and unintentionally dressed the part.

I bet when squirrel teens fight with their parents, they’re like “YOU’RE THE REASON DAD RAN IN THAT ROAD”