TIL about the HTML <details> element. How the heck did I not know about this?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/details

*bursting through my friend's door, 3 weeks after she mentioned to me that she'd used AI to generate stories to fall asleep to*

"AI SLOP FABLES!!!"

everything is life except life, which is a highway

There will be many "Schrödinger's dishes" jokes about dishes existing in a quantum superposition of clean and dirty until the dishwasher is opened thus collapsing the waveform and revealing one or the other, so many that at least one major social media site will crash under the strain

I estimate we're about 5-10 months from a major appliance maker saying they have a "quantum" dishwasher

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 💎🪨 Jane Lindholm from #Vermont Public Radio's But Why podcast explains how ordinary #rocks develop their crystal interiors through millions of years of geological processes involving trapped gases and mineral-rich #water.

Standing before an amethyst geode at the American Museum of Natural History, she also shares practical tips for finding these natural treasures in areas with volcanic ash, limestone, or riverbeds.

👉 Learn more: https://zurl.co/owcZD

#tksst #video #earth #science #geology #mineralogy #minerals #nyc #amnh

hey

Proof has been found that the actor Patrick Stewart canonically exists in the Star Trek universe
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/proof-that-patrick-stewart-exists-in-the-star-trek-universe/

@DebErupts @9Lukas5 as much as I’d like this to be true, it isn’t.

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/05/fact-check-harvard-free-online-courses-dictatorship-trump.html

hey

"Every time I come to Canada a little more of Canada seeps into my bloodstream — and from there straight to my heart” Oh that’s just maple syrup, your majesty

If you want to create a wiki, good for you, but please DON'T create it on Fandom, they're horribly exploitive, plaster ads and crosslinks to their other wikis on your site, and have some questionable ties. And if you decide to move it elsewhere later, you'll have to compete with your old site.

King Charles III #Canada throne speech: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/king-charles-delivers-throne-speech-1.7544242 -- all thoughts about monarchy aside, I keep thinking about how much more of an event this would be if he was there with Queen Diana.

https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/ by Benjamin Aster is incredible! Editable Minecraft-style world, entirely CSS and HTML, not a single line of JS

My notes on how it works here. It uses radio boxes for state, paused animations for controlling the viewport https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/css-minecraft/

if you ever come across someone who refers to themselves as a "free thinker" or "heterodox", it's time to buckle in and get ready to interact with the most boring motherfucker you've ever met

[Leeroy Jenkins voice] FITZWILLIAAAAM DAAAARCYYYY

@byttyrs Checks out.

communists LOVE hats