Imma askSKOL

Inappropriately impulsive at best — oddly maudlin the rest of the time.

[Imma askSKOL @PirateAngelGirl]

When autocorrect judges you…

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨THIS IS INSANE!!!

A daughter drove HUNDREDS of miles to check on her sick 75-year-old father... only to find the locks changed and a Ring camera on his door.

When she climbed through a window to reach her own dad, SHE got arrested for trespassing.

Then she was told, THROUGH THE DOORBELL, that he was no longer alive and that the NURSE who "took care of him" actually now OWNED HER DAD'S HOUSE.

This happened in Conway, South Carolina, and it will make your blood boil.

Her name is Nora Rowland.

Her dad was Robert Rowland, 75 years old and a vulnerable man living with Parkinson's and a brain injury.

Nora and her father were incredibly close. A "daddy's girl," she said. They FaceTimed every single week.

Then, in early 2024, a nurse named Sarah Smalls started caring for Robert through a home care company.

And that's when Nora says her dad started to disappear.

The weekly calls slowed. Then stopped. Something was wrong.

So on Father's Day, when she didn't hear from him, she got in her car and drove from Baltimore all the way to South Carolina to check on the man she loved.

When she got there, his front door had been replaced. A Ring camera was watching her. She couldn't get into her own father's home.

So she climbed through a window. And police arrested her and her partner for TRESPASSING... at her own dad's house.

And then, over that Ring doorbell, she was told her father had died.

Nora says that in the weeks before her father died, that nurse had the DEED to his house signed over to herself.

...and the family wasn't told until he was already gone.

To be clear... man with Parkinson's and a BRAIN INJURY, who was classified as a vulnerable adult was allowed to SIGN HIS HOME AWAY.

In Nora's own words: "He would never think that someone could do this to him. I really can't emphasize enough how many other people could easily get taken advantage of like this."

Her trespassing charges were dismissed, s now she's fighting in court to get her father's house back.

The nurse refused to comment. The care company claimed they knew nothing, but Nora says she has subpoenaed documents proving otherwise.

Police are still investigating.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have created a sugar-coated nanoparticle that blocks COVID-19 from infecting cells with 99% effectiveness in lab tests.

This isn't a vaccine. It's a decoy.

And it could change how we fight viruses forever.

Here’s how it works.🧵

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

macabre = “muh-KAHB”

Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer”

omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt”

reticent = “RET-uh-sunt”

epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee”

myriad = "MEER-ee-ud"

Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word.

It means they learned it by reading.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

The time Dolly Parton and Kermit jammed to Sly and the Family Stone.

This is always how I will remember her.

[Imma askSKOL @PirateAngelGirl]

And I live with people who purposely let my asthmatic cat outside and act like they are greatly inconvenienced when I ask them not to. Now they hide and lie about it when he is outside. Sick.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

A dog got loose on my street in North Carolina.

A woman burst out of her house, screen door slamming, and yelled: "BISCUIT! BISCUIT, NO!"

A golden retriever was running down the center of the road at a speed I did not know this breed possessed.

Within thirty seconds, four people were outside. One man was barefoot. One was holding a spatula. A woman across the street swung her car door open as a barricade and yelled, "CUT HIM OFF AT THE MAILBOX!"

I put my groceries down. I removed my jacket. Nobody asked me to join. Nobody needed to.

The spatula man held position at a driveway. A teenager on a bicycle became a forward scout, yelling "HE'S BY THE FIRE HYDRANT" at full volume. The barefoot man was closing from the south. I crouched between two hedges to block the retreat.

Six strangers. No plan. A perfect pincer movement that not one of them knew they were executing.

The dog reversed course. He came straight at me. Full speed. Tongue out. Tail going. This animal was not fleeing. He was having the single greatest day of his life.

Both paws hit my chest. I went down. My bag of rice split open across the sidewalk.

The barefoot man grabbed the collar. "Got him."

The owner ran over, crying and laughing at the same time. She looked at me on the ground, covered in rice, and said, "Oh my God I'm so sorry. He does this."

He does this. A repeat offender. And the neighborhood still deploys.

She tried to pay for the rice. I refused. She said, "At least let me bring you banana bread."

It arrived the next morning, still warm. A note on top: "From Biscuit's mom. He says sorry."

He does not say sorry. He will do this again. Everyone on this street knows it. They will come outside again. Barefoot. Holding spatulas. Blocking mailboxes. Nobody will be asked.

Total deployment: four minutes. Total planning: zero. Total hesitation: none.

America does not have a system for a loose dog. It has something better. It has neighbors who are already outside before you finish yelling the name.

[Hollywood Horror Museum @horrormuseum]

In 2010, THE SIMPSONS asked the mysterious political artist Banksy to create the opening.

Fox hated it so much they were going to cancel the episode. Creator Matt Groening insisted they air it without one cut.

It's really dark!

[BuffaloWeather @weather_buffalo]

The latest HRRR shows the worse smoke day across WNY tomorrow, but this looks like a long duration smoke event lasting well into next week with a continued NW flow.

[MN Air Quality Index @mpca_aqi]

Here are the latest updates to the air quality alert, with expansions and upgrades further into southern Minnesota, still valid through 11am Friday. See https://t.co/mPQ31ZmvRg for more details. #mnwx #aqi

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

Let's do a reading experiment.
https://t.co/59xjFRzew0

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

In the days of horse-drawn carriages, horses’ hooves often DASHED mud onto passengers in wet weather.

To block the mud, people installed wooden BOARDS up front.

They called them ‘dashboards.’

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Scientists across the country are expressing alarm as the Trump administration dismantles another tool for understanding how the planet is changing.

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina, and Greenland.

Researchers say these are critical ocean observation tools.

William Brangham (@WmBrangham) explains.

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Whoever said ‘out of sight, out of mind’ never had a spider disappear inside their tent.

[BuffaloWeather @weather_buffalo]

NOAA SWPC is predicting a KP7 on a scale of 0-9 tomorrow night!

[BuffaloWeather @weather_buffalo]

A G3 (Strong) Geomagnetic Storm Watch has been issued for June 4–5 due to a trio of recent M-class and X-class solar flares! Get those cameras ready for tomorrow night!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Scott Pelley told the truth. So CBS News fired him.

[David Penn @profpennpodcast]

Doctors in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin are seeing a sharp rise in alpha-gal syndrome, a rare tick-borne allergy that can cause severe reactions to red meat, dairy, and some animal-based products. One Minnesota DNR worker spent years dealing with unexplained stomach illness before finally learning a tick bite had triggered the condition after he went into anaphylactic shock.
Researchers once believed only lone star ticks caused the allergy, but providers in the Upper Midwest now suspect local deer ticks may also play a role. Cases around Duluth have increased significantly in recent years, raising concerns that the condition may be more common than previously thought.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I first met Clark Reynolds when he was just three years old at our Black History Month reception at the White House.

Over the last ten years, it's been wonderful getting updates about his life through his letters. Check out how he’s doing now:

[Imma askSKOL @PirateAngelGirl]

😳 HOLEY MOLEY!!! 🫪

[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service @USFWS]

You ever just look at a star-nosed mole and think…
this should not be real, and yet it is?

[Jure Atanackov @JAtanackov]

One look at a Great Comet and you can pretty reliably say if it is a Kreutz sungrazer.