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[Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social @k_eagar]

Australians voting with their feet. Our future is not as a junior sidekick to America. Our future is in SE Asia and Pacific. Australians understand this even if most of our politicians don’t seem to

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DolphinMossad]

1995: oh cool you can buy books online now

2026: the company that owns Whole Foods and Lord of the Rings is experiencing setbacks with its space program

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Willing. She recently learned that sitting gets her a treat and now follows her human around popping a squat every few feet. Can't blame her for being an overachiever. 12/10

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

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[Conspiratorial Templates @mynamehear]

The only thing I don't like about the term "trickle-down stupidity" is that I didn't think of it first

[Deion | SeeReax @SeeReax]

it’s like when Scar took over pride rock

[The Ummah Awakens @Islamic_2_0_2_2]

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[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Oscar Meyer Lansky @MediumReginald]

Stuff like this is a great reminder that we can fix things, to some degree.

[jezz @JezziiB]

Well well well, look who actually has a biological clock... 🤡🤡

[Steph 🌒🌕🌘 @StephanieGailW]

HAHAH OMFG this reminds me of the grown man who asked why I didn't "just hold it" when I bled through my jeans. WHY IS THIS SUCH A COMMON THING WITH MEN IN THE USA HELP 😭😭😭

[uzzi @uzzi0011]

full support to Spain in the World Cup Final.

[goma @soigomaa]

She joined Japan's Self-Defence Forces after watching soldiers help survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. She wanted to defend her country.
Instead her colleagues assaulted her daily for over a year. In 2021 three of them pinned her down in front of dozens of watching laughing colleagues. She reported it up the chain of command. Two investigations launched. Both dropped for lack of evidence. Every male colleague who had watched refused to testify. TV stations ignored her. So she posted her story on YouTube.
The video went viral. 100,000 people signed her petition. The Ministry of Defence issued a public apology. Five soldiers dishonourably dismissed. An investigation uncovered over 1,000 other harassment complaints across the entire military. Three soldiers convicted in December 2023. Japanese government settled her civil lawsuit in January 2026.
She was named on the BBC's 100 most influential women in the world. Time magazine put her on their Next 100 list.
Her name is Rina Gonoi. She was 24 years old when she brought Japan's military to its knees.

[Alex (Sasha) Krainer @NakedHedgie]

These are war preparations. Prosperous people with good career prospects aren't keen on dying in trenches. You first have to immiserate them, create very high youth unemployment. You steal their future, then tell them who's to blame.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Some Latin American World Cup fans have reignited conversations about race and colonialism in Latin America.

[Big Choctaw @Derekalexander_]

As an adult, missing trash day is one of the biggest L’s you can take

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

This man trusted his life to physics. He was ejected at 80 km/h from a truck that was traveling at 80 km/h.

[Wyatt-Andrews-Workshop @wa_workshop]

“The orangutan could talk, but preferred not to- lest he be compelled to labour..”

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Good morning. Is there any update on the soiled mattresses and baby high chairs found in the tunnel beneath the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn, where orthodox jews violently attacked police to prevent them from uncovering it?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Ho ho, ha ha, watch out ladies you’re gonna get raped by US soldiers like untold millions of other women, ha ha, wocka wocka, comedy laugh laugh.