Corbett the whim-worshipping muscle-mystic(he/him)

@YouTube also I have never in a million years ever wanted to see @GavinNewsom's shitty fucking podcast.

@YouTube I can't say enough how irritating it is that I can't stop which adverts I see. Not even getting rid of all of them, I just don't want to see some bullshit Americans for prosperity AstroTurf commercial every 30 seconds. The Koch brothers can suck shit in hell together

@Timodc @samstein @BillKristol I'm frustrated that you always refer to "the border crisis" but never actually say what you mean. It's usually followed up by a call to "strengthen the border", but from what? I'd appreciate it if you clarified literally once even.

4th of July pod with an emergency @samstein appearance. What it’s like editing @BillKristol, RACO in the House, denying Ukraine weapons, ICE funding > Israel’s entire military, Jefferson’s letter to Weightman, & a failed attempt at tears. Enjoy. 🇺🇸 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

@grok who is mechahitler?

I'm deleting X or whatever. Maybe I'll be back, but in the meantime I won't get any notifications. Have fun on this Musky app without me!

I know we're not supposed to post links to *other* social media apps on here, but I present to you: a bespoke, mom-and-pop, Doctor Who themed microblogging platform, with no adverts: Hypercube! (I built it. It's mine. Go check it out!) hypercube-1a2173e39a52.herokuapp.com

@JasonKPargin This is called Tuesday night, Jason

The rich weirdo thought experiment:

@hankgreen I had heart surgery 10 YA and one of the best gifts I got was a high-end fruit basket. Ya gotta get the GI tract going after a surgery. Also it was delicious and heartfelt. Books, understanding, and space. I wasn't always nice to be around, but my friends understood that.

Folks who have had big health thing come uninvited into your life...what did people in your life do for you / get for you that you appreciated?? I've had a couple quite nice things, but it's a tricky thing.

Happy Summer Solstice! bit.ly/3CIwhEu

Library Drops Dewey Decimal System By Organizing All Titles Under ‘B’ For Books bit.ly/46cDv1a

@gunsnrosesgirl3 @sladeofyaupon Like Lady And The Tramp but with deer eating a snake

Deer are herbivores and classified as ruminants because of their rumen, which helps them digest tough plant matter like cellulose. But if food is scarce or they lack minerals such as calcium and phosphorus, they may eat meat Watch this one eat a snake twitter.com/blabla112345/s…

IT’S HAPPENING

Tomorrow is chemo day 2. Not excited. Send cats.

@hankgreen Idk if you ever saw the old show Dinosaurs, but it features some oddly specific Marxism jokes: youtu.be/0jO0Fp_BHLs

What a lovely list of media that was created for me!! open.substack.com/pub/valerieett…

@jeffvandermeer I'm visiting San Diego from Phoenix, AZ, where we don't have raccoons. I am in love

Walking around like a boss, in broad daylight, by the front door. #VanderWild

@EricYoungArt @JaredHWood @hankgreen Nah, horseshoe crabs are weirder. Their blood uses copper instead of iron to transport oxygen, which is why it's blue instead of red, and we harvest their blood to make cancer treatments and medical diagnostics.

@JaredHWood @corbettbw @hankgreen I think the fact that we can discuss that as a real possible future at all is enough evidence that humans are the strangest animal to evolve thus far.

I feel like we don't really get how truly weird humans are.

@JaredHWood @EricYoungArt @hankgreen I agree! We are, afaik, the only species to have developed space travel, which is pretty cool. I wonder how many mars-like planets we'd have to colonize such that our biomass would be number 1

@corbettbw @EricYoungArt @hankgreen If we become multiplanetary we would have to be contending for "most successful complex organism". (Us and all the animal species we take with us)

@JaredHWood @EricYoungArt @hankgreen So yeah, rapidly shifting climate, out-competition for resources, and a willingness to fuck anything that moved, including other, non-sapiens humans, gave us the edge in a time where the environment could only support 200,000 humans. We just happened to be the best-adapted

@JaredHWood @EricYoungArt @hankgreen ie: if we're trying to calculate evolutionary success, modern humans would have to exist for another 300,000 years AND evolve into another species in order to be as successful as heidelbergensis. It was close; research shows a bottleneck where pop dropped as low as 200k sapiens