😬 #DontLookUp in real life. 🥵

Nein, nicht Spanien oder Griechenland. Die A44 bei Kassel.

The stunning colors of the Anna's hummingbird are iridescence caused by light scattering from nanoscale structures within their feathers.

obsessed with the kids who made the finals of the USA Mullet Championships and their absolutely fucked up names

Well, there it is. The picture that will go around the world.

The full interviews with DaVinci, Ada, Babbage, and Curie are on my blog, along with bonus content. If you draw any of these, use the hashtags #botober or #botober2022 so I can see how they come out! Excited to see humans doing AI drawing prompts again. aiweirdness.com/botober-2022-d…

Jim Pickard 🐋 Churchill wrote this memo while the Battle of Britain raged in the skies

If you watch anything to today. Let it be this. The opening sequence of Beth Rigby interview with Prime Minister Liz Truss. Beth demonstrating the courage we would all wish for, if ever faced with Truss. Nonetheless, truly one of the most cutting interview openings in years.

With most AI-generated images, the longer you look at them the more unsettling they get. This set seems to get exponentially more unsettling.

Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels. I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow. Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’ Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path. Strap in. It’s a 🧵 1/so many

I’ve never seen scenes like it at the entrance to a voting lobby. Tories on open warfare. Jostling and Rees Mogg shouting at his colleagues. Whips screaming at Tories. They are done and should call a general election. Two Tory whips dragging people in. Shocking.

As the Conservative party begins the process of electing another leader – and therefore, a de facto election of the Prime Minister – here’s a summation of our application for judicial review on the way it elects its leader. 🧵⬇️

It's finally out: the origin story of the Stasi's Romeo project, where East German spies were trained to seduce women in Bonn and steal their secrets. Most of the files were destroyed after 1989, but then the historian Gunnar Take found the blueprints. thetimes.co.uk/article/the-st…

Another view of #maunaloa erupting this morning taken by our Paradise team #hawaii #volcano

Olaf Scholz has suggested that Europe should go back to its pre-war “peace order” with Russia and resolve “all questions of common security” after the war in Ukraine if President Putin is willing to renounce aggression against his neighbours thetimes.co.uk/article/olaf-s…

The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not in a dinghy.

Have you ever been to Berlin?

This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications. If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.