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[cole @macoleey]

@_samantha_joy To my friends who ask I say that it’s like you die and you’re reborn a mom and you have to discover who you are again - which definitely reminds me of puberty so see where you’re going with this

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

For context on the air conditioning debate between the US and Europe...one must consult the ancient texts:

1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things.

-- Douglas Adams

[cole @macoleey]

@JMDucksworth My mom didn’t teach me, how am I supposed to store the soup and the casserole?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The rock that wiped out the dinosaurs was about six miles across, taller than Mount Everest, moving at 45,000 miles an hour. It hit shallow sea off what is now Mexico at 60 degrees, which a 2020 Imperial College London study found was close to the deadliest angle possible.

The steep angle mattered more than the size. Coming in at 60 degrees threw the most rock and gas high into the sky, where wind could spread it around the world. And the target was the worst it could have picked, shallow seafloor made of sulfur-rich rock. The impact turned that rock to vapor and threw billions of tons of sulfur into the air.

The blast, equal to billions of Hiroshima bombs, was only the start. As the debris thrown into space fell back to Earth, friction turned each piece into a glowing hot pellet. For up to an hour, the sky over much of the planet glowed like the inside of an oven set to broil. Anything caught in the open cooked. The only land animals with a real chance were the ones that could hide underground or underwater.

At a site in North Dakota, nearly 2,000 miles from the crater, scientists found fish buried with tiny beads of impact glass still stuck in their gills. Those fish died within an hour of the strike, killed by a wave that sloshed out of an inland sea when the ground heaved.

What finished the dinosaurs came slower. The sulfur and dust wrapped around the whole planet and blocked out the sun, and with the light gone the warmth went too, dropping global temperatures by several degrees and keeping them down for years, in some models more than a decade. Plants need sunlight to make food, so in the dark they died. The plant-eaters starved. Then the animals that hunted them starved as well, and the loss climbed up the food chain until about three quarters of every species on Earth was gone.

Here is the part the joke gets right. Birds are dinosaurs. They split off from small meat-eating dinosaurs more than 150 million years ago and lived alongside the giant ones for over 100 million years. Most birds died in the disaster too, including every last one that still had teeth. The ones that made it were small, ground-living birds with beaks that could crack open seeds, and seeds can sit buried in the soil for years, waiting out a disaster.

Those few survivors became every bird alive today, more than 10,000 species. The pigeon outside your window is a dinosaur whose family lived through the single worst day this planet has ever had.

[cole @macoleey]

@DanFriedman81 We have a substantial DVD library, and lots that are quite old or well loved. We rip them to a hard drive, but also I’ve never had a single one stop working thus far? Also have a large retro game collection stretching back to Atari and having very little degradation issues there.

[cole @macoleey]

@MadelaineLucyH who tf do you all keep marrying?

[cole @macoleey]

@EphraimToZion @selovelenaa I have fought Lyme’s and its complications for 6 years now. I got the initial infection into remission, but the residual effects are still devastating and I’m unable to work. Thankfully many do recover quickly and fully, but not all.

[cole @macoleey]

@OKMagazine As someone who fought Lyme’s + its comorbidities for years - nothing seems unusual about her posts to me?
Lyme’s destroyed years of my life. I still fight remnants and flare ups. It’s very disruptive, isolating, misunderstood. Celebrities often share things to draw awareness.

[cole @macoleey]

@valawakened I was just thinking back the other day about various female friends I had in my twenties + I realized for the first time that the majority of them hated me, were actively trying to sabotage me + I was blissfully unaware. Thankful for my close few who are wonderful and genuine.

[cole @macoleey]

@Romy_Holland Thanks for this it gives me hope 🙏

[cole @macoleey]

@Romy_Holland I think both. She used to fall asleep anywhere but lately she’ll freak out until she’s back home in a dark room, in the rocking chair with the sound machine on 😝 other times I don’t think it’s a nap issue, but more overwhelm/overstimulated. Hard to predict n commit to plans atm.

[cole @macoleey]

@AncestralHealtz This checks out, I’m extremely chronically ill and I’m dreading summer

[cole @macoleey]

@noknowsgoes We are all doing this, right?

[cole @macoleey]

POV: you’re trying to summon @pinkpantheress2

[cole @macoleey]

@BritniDWrites Crystal clear Bass isn’t right for the job given the fruit of her term. I’m not an Angeleno anymore (cause it’s a depressing shithole and I couldn’t take it), but I really do hope Spencer gets in and that he can make good on the things he saying. Would love see LA thrive again.

[cole @macoleey]

The girl camp has claimed too many boy names. The boy camp needs to take some names back. Like Chelsea—that should just go back to being a boy name. Loren too. Blake. The girls should’ve never taken Blake away.

[LJ 🦧 @crotchner2]

ive noticed all the “gender neutral” baby names are just boys names. miller, james, blake, noah. call me when there’s a boy jessica thanks.

[cole @macoleey]

@goatz88800 @grok Grok giveth and Grok taketh away

[cole @macoleey]

when you visualize letters and numbers, how do you see them? Are they black and white or colored? In a certain font?

[cole @macoleey]

@sondheimite I didn’t realize so many people had a personal and up close relationship with Chevy Chase until this post