whenever someone says “my AI” you know their brain has fully turned to soup

old dog denied the opportunity to destroy stuffed decorative gingerbread man. police have been called and are approaching the scene now

hair ice!!

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t by Eiffel 65, Aqua, Vengaboys, or Rednex

I swear I’ve been hearing about rich people fleeing the tyranny in California my entire adult life

*staring into the vastness of creation* you got any games on this?

one of my 2026 projects is gonna be rebuilding my music library, with actual MP3s and FLACs and such

Have a good one, News Eaglets.

really feeling the Pineros’ card from 1933

Evolutionary Psychology fails as a discipline because it assumes we're at the end of history; the better Darwinian hypothesis is that the human mind is a long-term maladaptive mistake and the true effect of natural selection will be to eliminate it and return our inheritors to the status of beasts.

it would be so cool to live in a country where we could conceive of communities smaller than 1M people having nice things, without requiring Christmas/movie magic

gender reveal strategy: release fifty geese of the same sex the baby will be. good luck, party guests!

minor Christmas season pet peeve: people thinking my normal sweaters are Christmas sweaters. I just like wearing wool!

getting together with family but nobody is building a nest in a tree hole or regurgitating insects for their young, it’s garbage, Christmas is garbage

anyway happy solstice, here's to the big beautiful fusion reactor in the sky that gives us all the energy we use to live

Plants are obsolete. We have cows. Anything that can be done by a plant can be done by a cow.

baseball is cool and all but the REAL American pastime is making up a guy on the bus to be afraid of

there have got to be local artists making wreaths and such out of PNW native plants, right? this whole holly and ivy business feels just plain wrong here

you love to see it

New research finds that car touchscreens are so distracting that they induce "significant performance degradation" among drivers. Meanwhile, in-vehicle touchscreens remain completely unregulated in the US. doi.org/10.1145/3746...

we’ll be seeing some absolutely incredible work from democrats killing all their free political momentum in the coming years

a proper social safety net which frees up people to start and operate businesses with less capital would do so much to “restart the world’s idea machine”

oh dear

field trip for turkeys during a dry spell

they should get rid of speed limits entirely. for freedom

“Retrofitting something as seemingly mundane as a culvert can have vast ecological & cultural ramifications.” @seattlebryn.bsky.social speaking my language! Also note improved fish passage preventing wildlife collisions. Better culverts work for all. #roadecology magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...

“The Cambridge-based startup PuMo claims they’ve finally developed the science to make a perpetual motion machine. Given the potential upsides, does it make any sense to bet against them?”

1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.

wow he really is relatable

evacuations happening for real in the lower valley

It's been truly remarkable to see the grand jury system actually act as a real line of defense. Especially since--as I bet most non-lawyers don't know--the only legal person in the GJ room is the prosecutor: no defense, no judge. There is NO place more favorable to the state. And they keep losing.

geez our rain gauge says we’ve already gotten two inches of rain since yesterday evening

Latest Skagit River forecasts are just shocking. The NOAA model now has the river cresting 4-5 FEET over RECORD flood stages there at Monroe and Concrete. A minor saving grace is it seems the river is running a little behind the forecast curve but still :O #wawx

Widespread significant river flooding has already developed across western Washington as a series of extremely warm & moist #AtmosphericRivers move slowly across the region. This flooding will further worsen tomorrow as strongest part of AR moves ashore. #WAwx [1/3]

forecast peak is up to 41.5’ now… the record is 37.4’…..

Full credit to @flaroh.bsky.social for inspiring this attempt at picking my own colors of the year for 2026 (go see her version, she named her colors way better than I did!)🧡

found a delightful wikipedia list: look at how many ways we’ve invented to cook corn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

watching the gauge, woohoo water.noaa.gov/gauges/mvew1

oh sweet they upped the flood forecast for the Skagit to a high of 36’

meteorological terms as a form of mandela effect but the alternate reality is one where nobody knows anything about how the weather works, apparently

rejecting New Atheism (Dawkins etc) and embracing Old Atheism (a nameless ape in a forest who believes only in the power of earth and stone)

Innovation is best when it holds me in a headlock going "shh, shh, shhhh" as I slowly pass out.

let's all think of our moral model this time of year

We're off to see the boss class 🎶

here’s my impression of watching Holiday Inn: oh god, I forgot about this scene