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from the "best typo ever" department: encountered yesterday while filling out screening questionnaires for various depression research studies

Join me in our new era of rage and incivility.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/10/06/not-incivil-enough/

Ever wonder where the word jinx comes from? This is an Eurasian Wryneck, also known as a Jynx Bird.

It was once thought to have magical properties, because of its weird neck movements, but more likely it is mimicking a snake! #nature #science #birds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ga59IPAJCUQ

"Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45753455

something something All Hail The New Queen

where's the anonymous workplace messaging app for evicting the CTO's damn dog who keeps barking in the office

It'd look something... like this!

Voter registration deadlines are coming up rather quickly. If you think you're already registered to vote, double-check & make sure, because voter registration purges are actually happening.

If your response is, "If voting actually changed anything, they'd make it illegal," then everything every state has done since Shelby County v. Holder (gutting the VRA) should assure you: It does, & they are.

Or don't vote, young people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0e9guhV35o

I discovered this when a program I was trying to build tried to fetch its source tarball, geez
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Heads up: bzip dot org is no longer the official bzip2 homepage. https://lwn.net/Articles/762264/
https://twitter.com/mistydemeo/status/1045839393796177920

lb 'We need to recognize, however, that our ability to predict is limited by our previous experiences and how often those experiences have entered our awareness.'

This is why STEM needs to be more diverse ffs

We all know Han shot first, but I'm curious as to who - in all the lore and extended universe and canon that Disney says isn't canon - of Star Wars, was the very first person to have fired a weapon.

Don't put all your eggs in one omelette

Happy 25th to this game

convincing my local DSA chapter to host a free TB screening clinic, because there's no ethical consumption under capitalism

Ha! Memes are easy!

"I have read your report. Did all this really happen?"
"No," the Time Police officer said, "none of it did."
"Well done!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

‪I just watched a YouTube video that said real velociraptors were about as bright as the seagulls from Finding Nemo, and now I just imagine the raptors in Jurassic Park going ‘mine mine mine!’ as they eat everyone.‬

‪I’m not sure if this makes them more funny or more horrifying.‬

Paleontologist have identified the strange fossil, Dickinsonia, as the earliest known member of the animal kingdom, 558 million years ago. It was a mystery exactly what Dickinsonia was, but new study found cholesterol in the rock surrounding it, meaning it's an animal.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/health/oldest-known-animal-fossil-intl/index.html

Every time a statistician says "long tail" a furry's ears perk up

running npm install to own the libs