James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

This is the #government I want.

In 1988, the federal government banned metal-tipped lawn darts because a single child died from one.

Sometimes I read these alternative history novels with the premise of “What if the USA lost the American Revolution?”

The plot is always super dystopian.

Meanwhile, I’m thinking, “I know what would happen if the USA lost the American Revolution: they’d be Canada.”

Todays sunrise from Glastonbury Tor. A very peaceful and magical start to the day.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #somersetlevels #sunrise #sunrisephotography #goldenhour #goldenhourphotography

4 YEAR OLD: I can't sleep, Daddy. I'm afraid of Frankenstein.
ME: Don't you mean Frankenstein's monster?
4 YEAR OLD: I do not. Personally, I find unethical and irresponsible scientific practice far more terrifying than any monster and so should you.

Stunning photo of early morning clouds over Jezero Crater taken by the Mars Perseverance Rover's NavCams a few hours ago on Sol 738.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

https://flic.kr/p/2onS6xJ

#Mars #MarsPerseverance #Space #Science

N = Someone
O = Doesn’t
P = Understand
E = Acronyms

A letter from a former slave to his "owner".

Backstory: the owner wanted the freed slave to return to him.

This reply, by the former slave, is genius.

It was published in the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper on August 7, 1865. #BlackMastodon https://www.good.is/Culture/jordan-andersons-legendary-clapback-rp

Philip Batterham
This video is misleading, possibly deliberately so. There are people born with Y chromosomes who are female and it is not that rare. To say so is not leftist. You just need an education in genetics. Further, there are people born intersex, and it's genetic.

Reply (some dude):
You look like a nice guy Philip, but she is a Pediatrician

Reply (Philip Batterham):
And I am the President of the International Genetics
Federation.

So, how can you be anti-woke when you can't define what woke means?

TikTok: Look! I discovered hot water melts frozen food faster!

Twitter: Look at this TikTok video showing how to defrost your food faster!

Yahoo news: Millions of Twitter users view TikTok video showing new life hack for melting frozen food!

Mastodon: Please read my academic white paper describing the impacts of public school system underfunding

Libertarians are the antivaxxers of economic regulation: having never lived in a world without it, they've deluded themselves into thinking stability is naturally occurring.

"OK, DAMMIT. GETTING IN THAT BOX WAS A MISTAKE_

How I feel when I have to scroll down to the year I was born:

What kind of biologist should you be?

I adore this charming - and pretty accurate - chart by @rosemarymosco to help make the decision.

Also, fungi wins 🍄 #art #science