Lara Williams

Telling people that swans can break your arm.

Opinion | The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle

If anyone needs a little mood boost: Baby giggles! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Meet ‘Coalie,’ the Lethal Mascot for Dirty Energy To the extent American children have a relationship with coal, it’s usually a negative one. Every kid knows the worst thing you can get on Christmas morning is a lump of the bituminous stuff as harsh ...

"Pregnant women, the elderly, and children younger than 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Coalie. Do not taunt Coalie."

That's why it's best to leave Coalies where you find them: in the ground

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Meet ‘Coalie,’ the Lethal Mascot for Dirty Energy To the extent American children have a relationship with coal, it’s usually a negative one. Every kid knows the worst thing you can get on Christmas morning is a lump of the bituminous stuff as harsh ...

Coalie, the Trump administration's effort to make coal adorable, will probably be a failure. We should kill it (though not with fire!) anyway.

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the more i listen to these christmas carols the more insane i feel

incredible

Why the government is trying to make coal cute Trump said that coal needed better public relations. Then Coalie, the mascot of an obscure federal office, showed up.

Don't burn Coalie! Coalie deserves LIFE, protect Coalie from being burnt at all costs! grist.org/culture/trum...

Emissions Are Still Rising. That Doesn’t Mean We’re Failing When 196 nations adopted the momentous Paris climate accord, the UK prime minister at the time, David Cameron, wrote on Twitter: “Our grandchildren will see we did our duty.”

“Paris is only a disappointment if you had inappropriately high expectations in the first place.” @cameronhepburn.bsky.social  @bloomberglp.bsky.social 

Ok I hate to be that asshole but even though Janna Levin and I clearly have some enormous political disagreements, she’s not a crank and what she’s doing here is writing in very floral language about black body radiation and the future of the sun.

Nobody in Britain is going to see the new Melania movie – I've crunched the data to prove it I really don't care, do u?

NEW: Nobody in Britain is going to see the new Melania movie – I've crunched the data to prove it (FREE TO READ)

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On 27 May 2017, Goodwin predicted that the Labour Party would not reach 38 per cent of the vote in the 2017 United Kingdom general election and said he would eat his book if they did.[62] As the party won 40.0% of the popular vote, Goodwin chewed one page out of his book, live on Sky News, on 10 June 2017.

Reminder that Matt Goodwin still has 273 more pages to eat

The "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" meme. The Facebook post is from 27th January 2020

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China."

Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth

Lenny from the Simpsons after being insulted by Ned Flanders saying “hey, I’ve only been here a few minutes. What’s going on?”

Iceland at Davos

#Davos

a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls . ALT: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls .

The government of Iceland listening to this speech

It's happening Jim.

BBC viewers can access Mark Rutte's inner monologue by pressing the red button.

a cold and poorly located piece of ice

-- me when I drop an ice cube on the floor

Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.

It’s pretty clear by now that animal intelligence far surpasses that of humans.

seems aggressively fine

Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow Osuna-Mascaró and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.

I also love Witgar, Veronika's owner, as seen in the video abstract www.cell.com/current-biol...

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

I love Veronika 🐄https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence

I’ve got a very rare Charizard Pokemon card if anyone wants to trade for a Nobel Peace Prize.

typical ai use case

Sebastian Raichon reaches the wall, becoming the 2026 winter Montane Spine Race winner! 🏆
268 miles & 39,000 feet of climb in awful conditions. An incredible achievement & an example of grit & determination. He confirmed it was indeed,brutal!

Huge congratulations Sebastian! 🙌🏻

#SpineRace

Please watch and share.

The President's remarks yesterday - the lies that he told - were among the most disgraceful moments in his rancid time in the Oval Office.

Snow-hit Aberdeenshire village experiencing ‘worst winter in 25 years’ The local Co-Op was photographed on Tuesday evening with piles of snow reaching almost to the roof.

as is Scotland's snow-drenched villages www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...