OK. But The Real Question Here Is This: Why, Oh, Why Are You So Cynical? 

One must imagine that things could, in fact, be good. Are you willing to put forth the energy to construct heaven?

people don't change as much as you think they do. they mostly become what they already were.

“On the use of the phrase ‘on the’ and the colon-delimited subtitle in academic papers: A meta-analysis”

I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".

It's still so strange to me how apparently taboo it is to like a post on someone's Instagram from a month ago when there are posts still circulating on Tumblr from 1550 BCE

staging changes to my post.

commiting my post.

pushing my post to the remote repository.

2 mutuals approve my changes.

my post is merged into the main branch.

4 issues immediately created.

Hate speech isn't real. Please stop making stuff up and go touch grass

I was today years old when I learned that there were two cities named Thebes (one in Greece and one in Egypt)

Nature

Radiative cooling and indoor light management enabled by a transparent and self-cleaning polymer-based metamaterial - Nature Communications

Transparent roofs offer a solution for harnessing natural light in sustainable buildings. Here, authors demonstrate a polymer-based metamate

New material lets through 95% of visible light (compared to 91% for ordinary glass), but still blocks infrared (so has a strong cooling effect) and is opaque:

It's also superhydrophobic so is essentially self-cleaning.