Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr). facebook.com/43794949621875…

What if every city had “Bike Buses” for kids going to school & daycare? What if safe, protected bike infrastructure made them easy? From Nijmegen NL, a #BikeBus developed in partnership with an after-school childcare. HT to great folks at Dutch Cycling Embassy

Reuters: Twitter removed a feature in the past few days that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, according to 2 people familiar with the matter who said it was ordered by Elon Musk. reuters.com/technology/elo…

People say that part of what's good about Mastodon is that it doesn't much matter what server you choose, but I was bummed to learn that in practice, replies from non-followed people will often be missing unless you're on a large instance: reddit.com/r/Mastodon/com…

Do you understand why this is bad? You perform experiments with some of the most vulnerable people and are casually explaining that you did this without their consent?

Not only does this article by The New York Times describe how ASL has evolved over time, but the design aspects of this piece are extremely innovative. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

if you ever wanted a reason to be bullish on ireland’s long term prospects look at this a huge homecoming parade for the winners of a national schools science competition (the same one Patrick Collison won) incredible.

Say it loud, Say it clear, refugees are welcome here - says #clondalkin today with a roar 🙂

Ivory is excellent and even before Ivory made using Mastodon nicer, Mastodon has displaced a lot of my Twitter usage

This grim prediction on the future of AI and newsrooms from Ryan Broderick seems.... awfully likely.

Is my “For You” page meant to be 14 Elon Musk tweets in a row only broken by one ad? That’s the kind of bland experience that’d actually make me leave

An unbearably touching image of Najin, one of two remaining northern white rhinos, resting beside her caretaker on the Kenyan plains. Since the death of Sudan, the last male, in March 2018, Najin's species has been functionally extinct. Only she and her daughter, Fatu, remain.

maybe selling an $8 megaphone to anyone in the public square and offering them direct monetary incentive for impressions during hyper-sensitive geopolitical events isn’t all that beneficial to society or the health of the public conversation

🤗 Unusual opportunity for product leadership role at Intercom! I'm now hiring for a Sr. Group Product Manager for our Platform Group. The remit is a challenging one, as you’ll be working across a broad set of our product, including the customer data platform, apps &

This tweet, from a racist, encapsulates the distorted sense of Irish nationalism that fueled awful events yesterday. Cited deaths of Ashling, Michael and Aidan as examples of foreign savagery and failed diversity. Let's look at names he didn't mention and why they matter. /1

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was. We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from

One of the dumbest tweets I've seen this week. The comments underneath it are somehow even dumber. I would suggest restaurant guy do some basic research, before talking utter nonsense, but I doubt he would risk talking sense. A few facts to try counter this shite. /1

Declan Flynn was a 31-year-old working at Dublin Airport for Aer Rianta. Were he living in 21st Century Dublin you might see him as just another good looking young gay lad smiling in a selfie on Facebook or maybe bopping on the dancefloor of The George with his mates of a