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I don't have a charger for my sonicare but I do have a wireless charging pad lol

random person: *does something*

world: meh

famous person: *does same exact thing*

world: oooh

Deep in Florida, an ‘ecological disaster’ has been reversed—and wildlife is thriving.

20 years and $1 billion dollars later much of Florida’s Kissimmee River has been restored to its natural state. 40 square miles of wetlands have been reestablished and rehydrated. A milestone worth celebrating.

#SomeGoodNews

nationalgeographic.com/environ

It turns out that the fabric seat cover, and/or the gas suspension creates such a strong electrostatic discharge (ESD) that my screen shuts off for a short time.

The solution? No idea yet, but it seems that insulating the chair with copper foil and connecting it to a socket (ground) might help. 🤦‍♂️

Welcome to 2023 - Your Ikea "MARKUS" chair is not compatible with your screen 👏

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We need a tournament where all the writers who want to finish Game of Thrones after Martin croaks settle matters in the Thunderdome

Turns out Medusa doesn't need a blind GF just an autistic one cause I cant make eye contact for shit.

"You laugh when we possums 'play dead' but it is you who pretend at being alive."

Hi. It's me. The Oatmeal guy.

I coded a word-guessing game.

Here’s how it works:
- Every day for the next month, I’m going to upload a word. Your job is to guess what it is.

- You can ask for clues, but they cost points. Try to use as few of them as possible.

- After thirty days, the game will end.

- The game starts right now. Share your scores in the comments.

theoatmeal.com/wordy

-The Oatmeal

P.S. I recommend starting with the “visual clue.” It’s usually a funny drawing.

Following Elsevier's decision to raise the article processing charge for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. chief editors) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately.

I am joining this action and have also resigned.

Full announcement: imaging-neuroscience.org/Annou

If you're seeing all these #BandcampFriday posts and thinking, "Eh, why bother?" let me point out that the $15 you spend on Spotify this month goes almost entirely to guys with "executive" in their job title/description, with the remainder going almost entirely to already hugely successful artists who, frankly, do not need more money. No one cares you spent the money.

That same $15 on Bandcamp today, if spent on an indie artist? About $14.50 goes to the artist, and you might make their week.

Wise words from a wise woman....

Portrait of Ursula K Le Guin with text:

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."

Is everyone aware of the sea-level rise we are causing now? 1 meter will be catastrophic for many coastal cities and regions.
At 2 °C warming we comit the world to a long-term rise by 8-13 meters until the ice sheets come to a new equilibrium. Source: ipcc.ch

People don't fake depression, they fake being okay. Remember that and be kind.

I was gifted an ink pen over the holiday, sketched this with it today. Yes, I tapped the paper trying to undo because I’ve been drawing digitally too much lol

Von Newmann’s wife, incidentally, went on to establish the field of computer programmer, developing the first meteorological forecast on ENIAC. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%

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Senior Twitter employees admit under oath that Twitter made exceptions to its racism policies to accomodate racist tweets by Trump, even going so far as to change their polices to avoid having to enforce them on Trump's tweets.

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