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Based on the vague posting I'm seeing on my TL I'm guessing the US isn't doing well against Belgium

Belgium’s MVP is the U.S. goalie

It's 2.57am. The nearly Third Quarter is appearing close to Saturn. Also Mars continues to appear close to Uranus. Look east. I've got clouds. 🔭 🧪

Campanula rotundifolia (Harebell). It’s such a simple flower, and one of my faves. It’s common this time of year in the mixed grass prairie area where I live #wildflowers #bloomscrolling

The clear "fuck you ref" from the stands is icing on the cake for this embarrassing performance.

This should be the Belgian victory song

dies arguing with the ref ever change outcomes?

He’s actually saying this with a straight face?

Even before the agentic revolution, prompting tricks stopped being very valuable, as our research has shown. The format isn't key, the best approach to AI right now is to clearly specify your goals, your output, what "good" & bad look like, how to test the results... (yes, this is just management)

I feel like POTUS intervention into the World Cup ⚽️ has spooked the US soccer team most of all; they seem like a shell of the exciting team from the group stages.

yall are FAST 😭

Male House Sparrow A little bit perplexed...

Kinda hard to watch this soggy mess after last night’s spectacular England/Mexico match.

lmao what a disaster this US team is today.

Wow well that was dumb

Somehow feels like the Fox announcers are also losing

I still have that dude from Maine’s name muted, but I can tell there’s more allegations because I suddenly see a raft of articles about misogyny in politics. Folks, it’s *also* not good that you only care sometimes.

No discourse, thank you; I’ll just be reading my book

If the bad ones got actual consequences for bad behavior we wouldn’t have to suspect every single guy we meet is going to be a bad one. It would really be a better situation for most guys, I promise.

For when you need to breathe...

My husband doesn't put super "political" stickers on his work laptop, but he just slapped a "Drop Gloves, Punch Nazis" sticker in the middle. Feeling great about it. 😂

This is not a fun game

In case anyone needs a timeline cleanse….here is Bucky.

Watching the match as the sports gods intended-- in a busy tavern with TVs, but tucked around the corner so streaming it for the table on a colleague's phone

I like Tolkien because I’m a sucker for anyone who writes about imaginary cities, forests, and rivers, especially if none of them exist any more even in the writer’s imaginary universe. A dream of a place within a place in a dream.

Fuzzy feelings of contentment...

every day the bar is on the literal fucking floor

Okay this would actually be a pretty funny setup for a movie

Immigrants score goals. Tell a friend.

I love seeing Tillman happy, he has a great smile.

It was also Daylily Day on Friday, it seemed their day to open. They were everywhere. Love their beautiful stamens. Little metallic green bee on the second shot. Have a beautiful new week everyone. 🌿🏵️

Inspired by the glizzies I ate in Scandinavia, local Olympia Provisions dogs with crispy fried shallots and Swedish style pickled cukes, aka pressgurka

This match against Belgium has me down the #ThingsTimHowardCouldSave memory lane... www.businessinsider.com/tim-howard-t...

USA not looking good

Scruffy bebe Steller's has the blue brows, still working on replacing all the gray bebe feathers on their body! Also still working on the "find the peanut" game (they are NOT hidden, trust me) #birds #becurious

Did the US team forget how to play or...

I don’t think we’re going to win this one…

They make great waffles & get first goals.

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (201.18199, 32.54028). 39 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

California, I just bought us 15 bubbles. Let's show the other states how its done.

Was photographing this white pelican when a great egret showed up and switched into ~ 𝘓 𝘖 𝘕 𝘎 ~ mode. #Birds

TAKE A BUBBLE, HELP THE WORLD. $10. you can do it.

Number 2, just took it from the fridge, after the whole pot was too warm in the morning! Extra cold milk due to the weather! Time to answer messages...

Not loving how the #ACL2026 keynote represents "philosophy" graphically here.

Here's a few more of the Great Blue Heron from Friday. Left profile, right profile, and a right profile with his wings up a little bit. #birds #GreatBlueHeron

Mushroom art...

I'm not gonna be able to handle all the bad Platner apologist arguments so I'm stepping away for a while

Willet working the beach as the kelp rolls in. 🪶

Mr Habronattus ocala, one of the reasons we make regular trips to central Florida 🖤 #EmotionalSupportSpood

I saw a pair of familiar Sandhill Cranes lounging in the shade. First time I have seen them this year.They seemed like they had recently come off a failed nesting attempt, no colts. But, they seemed just fine.The female looked exhausted & the male was sitting on his ankles resting. #birds #Sandhills

Update: the landed gentry have found yesterday's video (youtu.be/BVRRcQjKcPM?...)

Got my first good look at an Eastern Kingbird on Friday! FOY. #birds #EasternKingbird

leftist populist men 29 days later: why did those terrible women fail to get us to listen

Here is a citronella ant, one of the most aromatic of all insects. I really love these things. New photo from western New York.

I asked a friend who worked in electoral politics about this. “Is everyone in politics awful? Does politics make you awful? Or can a skilled opponent make anyone look awful?” Their reply? Yes.

I have not even been able to make the bed ( thank god everything else is done ). When I already have messages to check... well sorry, after that coffee a certain baby is requesting time, so I am taking 15 min to hug him and tell him how beautiful he is.

People are being polite, but what's happened is a flood of people from neighboring fields starting to perceive ACL venues as the highest-value place to publish their interdisciplinary work. As part of a similar wave of immigration 10 years ago, I totally understand. But it's also a problem.

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To be as happy as Jeremy eating his salad. 🐢 #Goalz

"More like Lich McConnell!" Is that something?

LET'S GO CALIFORNIA!!!!!

Alright I gotta go run a potentially soggy moth night Do me a kindness and close some states while I'm out talking urban biodiversity with my fellow Philadelphians 🥺 $10 to fill a bubble. Fill this map in: givebutter.com/USS2026

Thoughts I’m currently chewing on: what if HR ladies are not the biggest problem facing the country?

Memory prices are pushing up the cost of computers and game consoles — and that’s forcing some people to get experimental. @papapishu.bsky.social joined @parismarx.com to talk about how people are using e-waste and maintaining tech to avoid high prices. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/335_...

Senator Mitch "Schrödinger" McConnell's situation brings to my (often twisty) mind the oft refreshed preservation of Ho Chi Minh's body after his death, even though he wanted to be cremated Ho Chi Minh <https://www.vietmarkdmc.com/articles/hanoi/how-ho-chi-minh-s-body-is-kept-preserved

Mitch McConnell made life much more precarious for the vast majority of Americans, all so a tiny number of already very rich people could amass even more wealth. He was a parasite on this country, a terrible person, and I hope he is remembered as the ghoul he was. (Is he dead? Who the fuck cares).

And I know that Mika takes this as read, but I’m saying it out loud anyway: find out who in your neighborhood is gonna need help the second after the shaking stops. You can actually be a hero if you’re prepared.

The prices of computers and games consoles are soaring — and the memory companies are making off like bandits. @papapishu.bsky.social joined @parismarx.com to discuss the madness of the RAM crisis and how data centers are driving it. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/335_...

This morning I read an article about consciousness in LLMs, by a person who dropped out of college two years ago and now runs a nonprofit that looks for consciousness in LLMs, citing findings from an AI company that looks for consciousness in LLMs, in a publication funded by groups studying

I've seen defenses of Platner you people wouldn't believe. Responding to forcibly locking his girlfriend in a room with “no one minds when you do it to kids.” That voters clamor to defeat HR ladies. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time for his campaign to die.

First one... Jezzz I have still a lot of stuff to do and I can just sit to drink the espresso I just took from the fridge. Cheers! P.S. it has brandy btw!

Then you'll pay another model to explain the oracular pronouncement in human language. It tells you that "A lot of this is necessarily untranslatable, but one thing is certain: if you fumble the peel-step, you will destroy a mighty empire."

Just had a weird email convo with Uber. They sent me a message saying a driver complained I damaged their car. The first I have heard of it. I’ve caught three Ubers since being here and all I did was get in and out of the backseat with a backpack and that’s really it. I put the window down once.

Easy, breezy, beautiful, coverbirb. #Photography #Birds

This year I'm using procreate to fill the bubbles instead of canva and I tell you hwhat, that is way better.

We're getting tantalizingly close to 10k, which will mean 40% of the bubbles have been filled!! We have a handful of states that only have a couple bubbles left, then it'll be down to the big boys (California, New York, Florida, PA, Jersey, and the Midwest heavy hitters). givebutter.com/USS2026

Gonna start calling it Tic Tac from now on. (derogatory)

In light of recent news, Graham Platner offered a Cabinet position in the Trump administration. Ok, this is fake news (to the best of my knowledge), but did you think it was real?

A Green Heron goes into maximum neck mode to grab a tadpole and then resets into minimum neck mode after the snack was acquired.

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.018 (lookback time 257.3 million years) with coordinates (201.82020, 32.03071). 45 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

Is it alive? Our #PictureOfTheWeek is the SpudCell. Image Credit and Caption: 1. A SpudCell. The DNA of the genome and the synthetic cell membrane are stained with fluorescent dyes. Credit: Orion Venero, Adamala Lab

Call me bananas but I have the strangest feeling that if he were conscious, they would feel comfortable confirming that.

When Platner drops out, is it technically possible for Maine to run the rank-choice numbers again to identify the next candidate, or is this going to be another case of The Party Picks The Candidate? Because that... doesn't seem like a strategy that will win.

If you live in Austin and have a favorite public tree, you have until July 24th to nominate it for the Tree of the Year award. www.austintreeoftheyearawards.org

Speaking from experience in a current role I'm occupying: for every two you know there are more like ten.

I don't really have any thoughts on the Platner stuff other than ugh it's bad

I've been doing sexual harassment and assault research and advocacy work since 2012. If there's one thing people need to understand is that everything, literally everything, is stacked against the victim. Every one who comes forward risks their reputation, identity, safety, and more. 1/2

Stay tuned for our new podcast, Lingcholia, which is melancholic about linguistics

Eastern Bluebird A moment of bird zen...

Thank you @science.org for this great article about our open letter calling for better disclosure policies in philosophy (letter linked below, please sign and share) www.science.org/content/arti...

Just in from Mitch McConnell's office

White-breasted Nuthatches will nynank-nynank-nynank as they walk down a tree - they also make cute little iip iip sounds while watching me - I enjoy everything they do! 🪶

Oh wow!!!! This is stunning! This year marks the 200th anniversary of James Dunlop's discovery of Centaurus A, not far from my house in Parramatta (Sydney) -- see his Fig. 20. It's a favourite for us amateur astrophotographers to catch as well (my images on the right) This JWST view is awesome!

Need some distraction? May I offer: CATBIRD BABY WHO JUST EMERGED FROM ITS NEST! #birds 🌿

Obviously this is wrongity wrongo mcwongerson, but! John Trump was deployed to figure out what was in a mysterious box Nikola Tesla once used to weasel out of a hotel bill, claiming it was an object of great death-ray-type power. Trump found it was just a box of junk and Tesla was a grifter.

Deader than a doornail

Soft secrets...

*looks at timeline* TIME TO BREAK INTO THE EMERGENCY CUTE ARCHIVE (Young raccoon in the wetlands) #mammals 🌿

I don't think it's a moral failure to want to believe the best in people. There are folks on this here Bluesky who took Platner at his word and believed him when he said he changed and you absolutely do not need to show up in their mentions to be an asshole. Go stare at the sea.

It's been a busy night! Up next I'm talking to @astropotamus.com.