I would like you all to see this very stylish crab in its algae outfit.

Can you find the tiny octopus? 😍 It's arm span is only about 20 mm, with a pea-sized body.

** Baby sea urchin doot doot doot ** The test (shell) of this one is only about 2-3 mm across, giving it an apparent size of about 5 mm across (lego bump size) with a halo of tube feet around

I'm in San Diego collecting cool sea creatures. This one is a *white spotted sea goddess* (Doriopsilla albopunctata), a type of nudibranch.

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order "safety" is risky. 1/

Happy Pride month to the whole LGBTQNJ+ rainbow!

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

This is another one of those things where the students won’t realize what they’ve lost until it is too late.

sometimes the internet is very, very good

Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.

It's important that you always shoot your shot, because you'll never know unless you try. Like my friend in our "bimonthly crafternoons" group chat just asked if anybody wants to go stand in a river and count glass eels next month and her problem now is actually that too many of us want to go

in honor of the 55th anniversary of the creation of the famous 555 timer chip, here's a preview of my newest creation.

Local library book sale, never change.

Do what it takes to get through this. Don't give up. We will make things better. It's going to take time. It's going to take work. It's going to take every last bit of solidarity and bull-headed persistence we've got. But it will go easier if you're there beside us.

Happy Perfect Date Day, everyone

Evil Mad Scientist Labs was printing in sucrose before Prusa was printing in PLA, before @adrianbowyer.bsky.social himself was printing in ABS

Super excited to announce my #PenPplotter #art work will be on display in the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware during the month of May 2026! Titled "Programmable Ink: Pen Plotter Art," the show will feature works from a variety of series I've created over the past 10 years.

I feel like we're not addressing the most concerning news from Mythos

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

Now I’m finished up work and today we got a delivery for a project to keep me busy for a little while.

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

What’s up with apple’s 1 hour delay to turn off face id? I would like to be able to disable that instantly, any time.

Since the vast majority — if not all — consumer routers are manufactured outside the United States, the vast majority of future consumer routers are now banned.

FCC just banned the import of all new foreign-made routers... here’s what you can do about it 📡🚫 blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/24/f...

I know everything’s terrible, but Oregon’s going to buy a nearby waterfall, so we’ve got that going for us. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/03/05/o...

Something different for #TrilobiteTuesday This is an X-ray of a Chotecops trilobite from the Devonian Hunsruck slate near Bundenbach, Germany. The soft tissues were replaced with pyrite or fool's gold and are denser than the rock. The X-ray shows the denser material including legs and gills.

Art supply resale store score: Digital PDP-11 merch compact slide rule

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

Frustrating software experience: I use a paid version of a tiny indie software utility. It just auto-updated to a new version that is a _paid upgrade_ and knocked me back into a trial version. Support indie software and all, and I'm not going to name and shame, but hey: Don't do that.

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default “I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

What a time to be alive

1. kill khamenei and bomb everyone 2. ????? 3. liberation and peace for everyone forever and ever great glad we’ve got that all figured out

The cool thing is that the US seeking regime change in the middle east is something that has worked out every time with no blowback or unintended consequences ever.

Is it #FossilFriday yet again? Fine. Meet the glass sponges. With a fossil record going back to the Ediacaran, bizarre multinucleate cells strung across a latticework of razor-sharp siliceous spicules, and the current record for longevity among the metazoa, hexactinellids be WEIRD. 🧪⚒️🧵

welcome to the resistance, *checks notes* claude code

A curse on Microsoft for not letting me set up a user account for someone on a computer without making up a birthday and security questions.

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

We need more “person finds cool rock” stories. (Also, I ❤️ crinoids.)

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Rest in Paradise, Boo Radley!

I think… I think I may have done something really bad

Perhaps dangerously, I've discovered there's an audience for grapolites on here. Thus: graptolite structural models made by E. S. Parkington and by (or inspired by) W. J. Sollas. The perfect dinner party centrepiece. In the @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social collections #FossilFriday

awww yisssss

Apparently whales from space are a bigger problem than I had previously realized.

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.