I just got a call from Brittany Pettersen's office (presumably to ask me if I'm going to caucus and if I will caucus for her) and they started with "you're a strong Democrat and we want to know how you feel" and I just unloaded.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

Squidling’s had a tummy bug this weekend (no grownups have come down sick yet, knock on wood), so I’m making a veggie and wild rice soup for dinner, with peasant levain bread on the side.

Happy Year of the Fire Horse! 🔥 Fire zebra, whatever, close enough… I know, late to the party, but party on anyway! (Knight of Wands, oil on canvas)

Pins not your thing? How about a really cool sci-fi/fantasy coloring book featuring 56 pages and iirc 45 artists! I'm dropping the price to $25 for today :D #BSNM #ColoringBook #Scifi #Fantasy

Concept art for SLEEPING BEAUTY (1957) by Eyvind Earle. #wardsmorguefile

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

And in her honor, this is one of my favs. It gives me literal goosebumps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Z4...

Whoops. My grandpa worked on and drove the Kalakala… much before this happened, thank goodness. 😅

begging everyone to read the excellent book “31 Days,” about the interval between Nixon’s resignation and the pardon, because Ford also knew this and that’s why he didn’t want to do it. the pressure on him to cave and say yes was so diabolical

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.

You can’t tell from this picture, but when the Squidling and I visited on Thursday morning this octopus (I think her name is Violet?) was playing with some mega blocks that had food hidden in them. I think she looks very pleased.

Creatures from the deepest sea

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

This is so logically pleasing and yet absurdly like a science fiction story

Oh heavens, please let this be true. And then get that shot launched ASAP!

Truck is full of gas, I am full of cheeseburger. A raven landed nearby so I tweeted the whistle I bought from @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and tossed it a French fry. I will train every corvid in Susanville to come to the sound of community defense whistles.

Will be releasing a batch of originals on Sunday, Feb 22, at 9:30AM EST. Previews can be seen here! www.koyamori.ca

On this day in space, February 20th, 1986, the first (core) module of the Mir space station launched into orbit. Over the next decade, it grew into the first permanently inhabited space station! 📸 NASA 🔭🧪

ETC Blog post: Whether you’re in-house, freelance, or somewhere in the margins, this roundup of books by @choicewordsedit.bsky.social spills the tea on how editors have shaped publishing across the last century—messy desks, brilliant instincts, and all! www.editorsteaclub.org/blog-posts/s...

The Squidling fell asleep on the couch. I should use this time to get some work done, but if I get up he’s likely to wake up and get upset that I’ve vanished. If I make lunch that might wake him, too… It’s a full-on flashback to when he was tiny.

Literally everyone with any sense reacting to this bullshit:

Ooo fun!!

my dad suggested curling so here we are

Truly the hero we need. H.B. Reese is waging a one-man war on Hershey’s for ruining his grandfather’s legacy (and his Peanut Butter Eggs) 🍫 share.inquirer.com/xYjxA3

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

He wants to build something and will not. I pointed out all his building toys. Not having it. He is also mad because the ‘big kid’ question in bedtime math is beyond him, because he thought he was a big kid. My attempts to explain that six is bigger than five but smaller than seven is not okay.

Cool Runnings (repeatedly, over many years) The Sound of Music (choir) The Power of One The Mighty Ducks

It’s the last weekday of mid-winter break, and things are going about as well as one could expect. By which I mean Squidling is mad about a book I gave away when he was an infant, and insisting that I help him with a Lego project (indeterminate) that he refuses to start until I help him. 🙃

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

The news won’t tell you, but there are lots of good people out there doing good things. There’s still kindness in the world. Be part of that. Love, like fighting fascism, is punk as fuck.

Two years ago, the successful union drive at this plant was expected to spark victories throughout the South. But now, as members vote to make their contract official, momentum has fizzled. n.pr/4kJYa4h

Ramadan began as Mardi Gras turned to Ash Wednesday and Lent. We even celebrated the Lunar New Year, all in the past couple of days. Each tradition calls on its observers to reflect and care for each other. May this season inspire all of us to be our best selves.

To anyone who has posted the video of RFK Jr. in the sauna or whatever (even to mock it): I now hate you forever because you've made me unwillingly see that jackass shirtless. Must go now wash my brain with bleach, and possibly call the local Catholic church to see if they do preventive exorcisms.

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First chick of the kākāpō breeding season has successfully hatched!!!! Look at this grumpy little puff of feathers!! www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...

Check out all the things! 😆

As a general rule, because deep-sea assets are often loud and clunky, creating noise and dropping light on otherwise pitch black regions, we have categorically undersampled large, mobile fauna from the deep sea. There are monsters in the abyss yet to be glimpsed.

Seattle folks, we have our own creative reuse store with two locations, in Greenwood and in Georgetown, and you need to check them out if you haven't already! www.seattlerecreative.org

Baltimore crafters, if you don't know about Scrap, you absolutely need to, especially if you have stuff from five craft obsessions ago that could find a new home! (👋) baltimore.scrapcreativereuse.org

The Bill Reid Gallery proudly presents 'Blossoming'. A new solo exhibition by Kwakwakaʼwakw artist Jamie Gentry. 🔴 Opening Reception I February 28th, 12–3 pm I Free Admission 🔴 👉 Learn more: www.billreidgallery.ca/blogs/exhibi... #IndigenousArtists #ArtGallery #Vancouver #YVR

FYI, this grant program is open to anyone communicating science. It does not require that you went to school for science. You could be a Ph.D. student, an artist, a community organizer, a teacher, or any other profession. As long as you are communicating science IRL in the US, you're eligible.

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

It’s great that the Squidling is a voracious reader at 6. It’s great that he reads at a 5th grade level. I’m very, very proud and pleased by this. I’m less pleased that I sent him upstairs to get dressed and he’s reading a book instead. I mean, yay, reading!!! Also, though, maybe get dressed? 😅

Nope. 👎 No thank you. Uh-uh. Never.

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

I am going to sleep, and you should too, but if you're not quite ready and would like a little joy to help you toggle between The Living Nightmare and Sweet Dreams, I cannot possibly recommend this video highly enough:

I just got my annual Public Lending Right cheque for Because Internet from the Canada Council for the Arts, so permit me a thread about what the public lending right is and why you should request books you love from public libraries!

"America is not like a blanket—one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt—many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread." -Jesse Jackson, 1941–2026.

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/