In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

So happy to learn about Piffaro! Had no idea it existed.

Goniatite fossils packed throughout this piece of shale. The shells of these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus must have littered the sea floor that covered this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland

Beautiful pics!

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing

IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

In just 33 years, the Shanghai Metro went from not existing to becoming twice the size of the NYC subway system, while NYC only added a few miles of track and 5 new stations.

In my latest Substack (linked below), I talk about how we can build a lot of subways quickly in the USA

(Urbanrail.net)

Number of new homes needed to return affordability to 1990s levels:

3-4 million.

(via Goldman) $XHB
@birdyword.bsky.social

Very sad that I never knew about or went to a Jane Goodall Institute camp 😭 but what an incredible story

George Hardy, Tuskegee Airman Who Fought in Three Wars, Dies at 100 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. Riding in a car with the windows down and the music turned up
2. Walking through crunchy fall leaves
3. Watching movies you loved when you were younger but had forgotten
4. Hot buttered bread
5. Unexpectedly coming across live music

💔

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.

Miles, gone 34 years ago this weekend.

“People talk about ‘cool,’” he said, “but for us it wasn’t about being cool — it was about trying to find a different sound. The critics called it ‘cool.’ We just called it music.”

#RIP

You know, when you really think about it, does all that driving and car dependency really make sense? @adamconover.net weighed in.

i'm 800 free subscribers away from a huge milestone for the handbasket. think we can do it?

www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) on this moment. Not just the transcript but the video of a floor speech yesterday. A rallying cry:

Hahahahahahaha! I love you

If not for the deployment of the military, this would be the biggest story right now. Or at least it should be...

"In recent weeks, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has doubled down on its sweeping bid to wrangle private voter data from states — including by threatening legal action."

Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $436.3 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $244.2 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $257.8 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.