Science is quite the opposite of common sense. Our egregiously limited senses, combined with our deeply flawed psychologies, beset as they are by deep cognitive biases, reveal a hugely skewed and plainly wrong view of reality. We invented science to bypass these very human errors

After taking over #proudboys (thanks, George Takei !) can we do QueerAnon? -#QAnon maybe?

Read this all through, watch all the molecular animations, and shiver with admiration for the science of the age in which you are privileged to live. nyti.ms/3jNMGfZ

I keep reading about how "incompetent" this government is. They are not incompetent, they intended to set up a kleptocracy and that is what has happened. They intended to take money from the poor and give it to their supporters and that is what has happened.

This thread is making me rethink my opinion of Laura Kuenssberg 😮

Thanks for the screenshot. Owen Jones is right: 'corporate media has failed us'. Given that the Guardian *is* corporate media, he's presumably handed in his notice to launch this media venture. Wait, he's staying on at the Guardian? So the corporate media hasn't failed him then

America Just Replaced One Monster With Another

Every word of this

"Guardian columnist" The hypocrisy is right there.

Calling @hiwearespiders, my cute little friends

A few thoughts about #competition. 1. Competition could be seen as the defining value of our times. It is the touchstone of conservative/radical right politics. Even formerly left parties now treat it as a holy virtue. But ... Thread/

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Khomus (mouth/jaw harp), the most distinctive Yakut musical instrument, was described by the 18th C Russian travelers to Siberia as Yakuts' "one and only favorite musical instrument which is put between their teeth". Alisa Dolgunova, khomus performer

Formaldehyde is only needed for preserving fancy things. For anything else, use casualdehyde.

*Likes long walks on the ocean floor* 🐙 Some biologists refer to octopuses as having six “arms” and two “legs”, because the two rear appendages are generally used to walk on the seafloor. #SealifeSaturday 🌊

This!

"Maybe it's hyberbolic to call this place a failed state but there is a feeling that corruption is simply legal now- no one will be punished/face political consequences, and unless you go to great pains to search for it, no one will encounter a single critical voice in our press"