My passionfruit brings all the butterflies to the yard. Soon it’s full of caterpillars. Then the wasps come for the caterpillars. I spend every autumn with defoliated plants and a yard full of fucken wasps. Wtf nature

In case you don't follow APHIS regulatory releases: aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom… ✨🌱🌟🌱 Congrats Keith & Light Bio! These glowing petunias are so damn cool. They will inspire a new generation of genetic engineers. Should be in every classroom! Sign up! light.bio

Elon Musk secretly ordered SpaceX engineers to switch off the Starlink satellite communications network near the coast of occupied Crimea in order to thwart a Ukrainian surprise attack on Russia’s naval fleet, according to a report. trib.al/BANcbw2

Oppenheimer and 5000 physicists in a secret research base in the mountains of New Mexico couldn’t create anything that could annoy me like that publishing glam results in Nature thread

We don't have these in America because of antiblackness. Just letting you know.

Domestication of dry-cured meat Penicillium fungi via horizontal gene transfers! #starships doi.org/10.1111/eva.13…

You will never be this cool

The real story here is that electric 2&3 wheelers (e-bikes!) are displacing 4x the amount of oil as electric cars It’s about time they become a part of our national transportation dialogue (read- US ebike subsidy!)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Most fast food workers in California would get a $20 minimum wage next year — a nearly $5 per hour raise — under a deal announced Monday between labor unions and the industry kcra.com/amp/article/ca…

this summer I got obsessed with how strange beach access laws are legally, beaches are supposed to be (in part) public resources—but in practice, keeping them open to all has become a sisyphean task my latest for The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

NEWS: Mayor Brandon Johnson has started a group to explore the possibility of a municipally owned grocery store in Chicago, a city with vast stretches on South and West Side without good shopping options.

Can’t eat an uncooked skateboard

Note that the US is the only rich nation seeing a spike in pedestrian deaths. So for smartphones to be the cause, the US must be the only nation where most people have one. Last I checked, smartphones are quite popular in Canada, Europe, and Japan.

BREAKING: The UAW will strike at the Big 3 automakers tonight for 1st time in US History. To start, they will strike one plant each at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.

New policy brief from UC Davis finds that most e-bike rebate recipients in Northern California regularly used their e-bike to replace car trips. escholarship.org/uc/item/0bk6b8…

Next Friday 22 September is the 20th anniversary of the release of Mesquite, a program/system for phylogenetic data and analyses developed by David R. Maddison and me, and currently in version 3.8. Some thoughts & a party! — a 🧵. mesquiteproject.org

World record onion broken!!

Dear Mr. President Joe Biden, I petition that, with Sepp “GC” Kuss’s victory in the 2023 Vuelta a España, September 13th (his birthday and when he clinched the Vuelta) be forever celebrated as a National #GCKUSS holiday. Feel free to include the subtext “WTF is a kilometer.”

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