Jester

Writer | Sometimes cyber enthusiast | Shameless weeb | Fire Emblem aficionado

All opinions sponsored by my last two brain cells

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

It should be a much bigger deal that @WIRED fails to mention that its own former Editor-in-Chief Nick Thompson (Jonah Lehrer’s former editor at the @NewYorker) is listed in this group of members/attendees of Peter Thiel’s secret society, Dialog.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

It should be a much bigger deal that legacy media journalists like Ezra Klein, Bret Stephens & @newyorker writer Atul Gawande are members of or attended Peter Thiel’s secret society, Dialog.

[桜木れお @mmocc123]

お昼寝💤

[Charly 🎨☀️ @TadaCharly]

Applin and Sprigatito 🍎💚

#art #pokemon

[Charly 🎨☀️ @TadaCharly]

Dratini 💙

#pokemon

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know…

It has not “peeked” your interest.
Nor has it “peaked” your interest.

…It has piqued your interest.

You are not “phased” by something.
You are fazed by it.

If you’ve had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.

It is “due course”, not “do course”.
“Per se”, not “per say”.

And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost.

Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping.

This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

There's an invasive tree growing across America, and it's rolling out the welcome mat for the worst new bug on the continent.

It's called tree of heaven, and the name is a lie. It came over from China in the 1780s, and now it's everywhere: fast, scrappy, growing up through pavement, poisoning the soil around it so natives can't compete. One female makes over 300,000 winged seeds a year. Crush a leaf and it smells like rancid peanut butter.

And it's the favorite food of the spotted lanternfly, the invasive planthopper now chewing through grapes, orchards, and hardwoods across the East. An invading tree, feeding an invading bug. Kill the tree, starve the bug.

Here's the part that trips everyone up. Do not just cut it down. Cutting it, even cutting and painting the stump, makes it panic and shoot up dozens of root suckers. One tree becomes a thicket.

The move that works: treat the standing tree. Hack a ring of cuts into the bark and apply triclopyr in late summer, and it carries the poison down into its own roots.

Never advice I love to give, but it's the best way to end this invasion, one tree at a time.

[Mayank Vora @aiwithmayank]

William Zinsser taught writing at Yale, then wrote the book that has fixed more bad writing than every English class combined.

Here are 10 cuts from "On Writing Well" that instantly make your writing twice as strong.

1) Delete every word doing no work

[rice @siciyuanbianmu]

唉我不知道！

[桜木れお @mmocc123]

シャンデラ一族

[TIPPA @PaulTippa]

Barn Owl

[Toni Infante ✦ @toni_infante]

"What a grim place Asgard would be without me.”
My first card for #MTGxMarvel! Loki, Lord of Misrule 😈 It’s time to make an army of Vivis!

AD: Taylor Ingvarsson

[햇살 @hat_babo]

the chill when i heard the tune ...

[Xeno ⏳ @Xeno_TG]

‼️Oh that's a cool phoenix skin, now she looks more comic accur- WAIT WAIT WAIT!!!

[elf 𖥔 ݁ @81194elf]

getting a 2nd job to buy that special limited edition of the ocarina of time switch 2 that will be announced soon hell yeah

[SLO @SLOplays]

These mfs gonna put people into cardiac arrest when they drop with the realistic designs 😭

[Nintendo of America @NintendoAmerica]

In the capital of the Dagdan Empire, powerful fighters gather to participate in the Heroic Games, where the winner is granted one wish.

Which of the four unique heroes will you choose?
👦 Cai
🗡️ Dietrich
👑 Theodora
🎶 Leda

#FireEmblem Fortune’s Weave comes exclusively to Nintendo Switch 2 on Sept 17. #NintendoDirect

[XANDER GEOGRAPHIC 🏕️ @actionxander]

To all my new followers, you missed out on these Eastern screech owls I posted a few weeks ago. No worries, I got you guys!

Most people rarely get to see Eastern screech owlets, much less THREE of them at once! My only regret is that my telephoto lens isn't all that great in low light so ISO grains were terrible to deal with under the shaded canopy of this Cypress dome during nightfall. I managed to get dad too who happened to be a red morph!