I thought his answer in this weekend's New York Times interview was elegant. I'd like to, he deserves it, but I'm going to follow the law as to whether I can. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m...

An aged catalpa tree, it has marvelous textures 🌱🌿

on our new form of airborne toxic event: heatmap.news/daily/worryi...

One reason this fire went from 30 acres to 3000 in 6 hours is because the rangelands it's in have been heavily degraded by cheatgrass and another is that the sagebrush is too thick on it. The combo means there's a ton of real dry fuel despite some unseasonable rain.

Hubble image of Arp 274, also known as NGC 5679. NGC 5679 is a system of three interacting galaxies, the two large, overlapping spiral galaxies at center, and a smaller companion galaxy to the far left. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Hubble Heritage Team Source

I really appreciate it when towns make the effort to make walking a pleasant experience. The road is just off to my left here, separate from the footpath/cycling path by a line of trees.

Allium sometimes forget to 💯 spherify their blossoms ...

My purple columbine is blooming madly - I thought it had died because there was no visibile plant last year 💜

Heads up Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. I have been watching this all week and it is trying to get its act together. My Sunday update www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Trump’s Dept of Energy deleted >1,600 pages from its website, removing public resources on conserving energy & lowering utility bills. It wiped out consumer advice on how to save money & energy during heat waves, from replacing power-hungry lightbulbs to keeping thermostats at ideal temperatures.

#MajorJasonWatson #DOOR Date: 17 July 2026 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS 11TH WING (AFDW) JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING, DC MEMORANDUM FOR MAJOR JASON WATSON SUBJECT: Rescission of Restriction to Base Order

To be clear to everyone: #MajorJasonWatson is still being investigated by the USAF under multiple Articles of the UCMJ & is very likely to face a court martial. This order only rescinded some movement restrictions. If he violates the order copied here re-read #3 above. No threat, all promise.

WSMV: “Agriculture Commissioner Andy Holt accused of pressuring Farm Bureau to back Marsha Blackburn for governor… In a lawsuit ex Farm Bureau insurance agent Bryan Rhodes alleged Holt had been pressuring the org to publicly endorse Blackburn.” www.wsmv.com/2026/07/18/t...

The two easiest calls for any politician who can see past the immediate haze are to scream about the war in Iran and Trump and Vance's disastrous adventure in making Iran a superpower. And to call out the billionaires who are inflating the AI bubble.

Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social 🦗🐒 Watch a pygmy marmoset completely fascinated by an insect in this clip from "Tiny World".

“A superintendent misspent public funds in Ohio for years. Indicted on multiple felony counts of theft, she permanently lost her educator license in the state. Then she moved to Florida, changed her name and opened a private school.” www.propublica.org/article/priv...

"Yeah, I didn't know that I couldn't knit either"

*watching The Odyssey, becoming disappointed* Me: I was in Greece last year and there were lots of cats. There are no cats in this movie

I have a #FlowersonSunday post as well with some echinacea. Which shows that night flower shots 📸 are still worth taking.

Here is a nice mushroom

The FDA said a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by ‌Taylor Farms that is not part of the current recall tested positive for the parasitic illness

sign with monarch butterflies marking the spot where ICE took a neighbor in south minneapolis on january 21, 2026 “we miss you. we love you. we fight for your freedom.”

It's easier to identify vehicles by any distinguishing marks or combination of them than by having to read the registration which may not be possible in traffic for instance. What else anyone does with the information once gathered is where the problem starts.

If Flock cameras are only used for catching criminals, why are they tracking what stickers you have on your cars? Imagine searching a database to find all individuals with stickers indicating "left-wing tendencies". This is an actual Flock display.

Got an email from Google, they say that now android backups apply toward their 15gb of storage, they say they're asserting the right of prima noctis, they say they're pretty sure only human flesh can satiate their hunger Normal Google email

My first reaction to this is more or less holy shit that can’t be true, can it? Except it seems definitely to be.

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social at @heatmap.news points out that the smoke days we're experiencing were not foreseen by climate models & so nobody has reckoned on their cost in lives, health, & economic disruption—which appear to be MORE than EVERY OTHER climate impact PUT TOGETHER.

old.reddit.com/r/drawing/co... Look at this majestically chonky honse drawing

NHTSA is taking an undeserved road safety victory lap. US crash deaths were higher in 2025 than in any year during the 2010s. On a per capita basis, Americans are 2-5x more likely to die in a collision than a Canadian or European. NHTSA refuses to admit it approach has failed.

Ukraine's emergency responders worked through the night after Russia fired more than 40 missiles at Kyiv in under an hour. Firefighters rescued residents and extinguished fires across the capital. One person was killed and at least 16 were injured. 📹Ukraine’s State Emergency Service

I cannot recommend n95 and kn95 masks enough. I've covered enormous wildfires multiple times throughout my career (southern california reporter) and they have saved my ass time and again. Remember, burning houses also means burning household chemicals

Starts with asking Claude if it’s a “moral patient” and goes downhill from there.

Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said they struck 176 vessels and watercraft from July 6–19: 106 tankers, 40 bulk carriers, 14 tugboats, 7 ferries, 5 gas carriers and 4 other craft. The operation reduced the Kerch ferry crossing’s capacity by 75%. #Ukraine

夜　赤崁楼近く 39 #art #photo #photography #nightphotography #alley #LightAndShadow #Tainan #restaurant #architecture #windows #ECK ©️skinskin

Pension? We can't even get hired now.

Not since 1941 has Moscow been humiliated like this.

💥 Russian air defense striking a major Wildberries distribution hub in Russia. Tambov region. Wildberries is a Russian Amazon knockoff.

It’s not like Russians were going to get their packages delivered without fuel anyway.🔥🔥🔥

Calling this a ceasefire is like calling “we should totally hang out sometime” a marriage proposal. Charming energy. Not a contract. Not even close.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-reeses-cups-and-canadian-wildfires

When Provenance Becomes Evidence of Risk: Reassessing the André Lagneau-Linked Antiquities art-crime.blogspot.com/2026/07/when...

Absolutely textbook illustration of extreme wealth being used to (attempt to) subvert the democratic system. Thing is: whatever you read in the news, voters aren't fools. Certainly not for something like this.

Nothing says “I should be taxed more“ more than using $82 million to argue that you should not, in fact, be taxed more.

www.liberalism.org/p/liberal-ne... Apropos of some of the conversations coming out of #LibCon2026

The 1902 film THE BOYS THINK THEY HAVE ONE ON FOXY GRANDPA BUT HE FOOLS THEM was adapted from the popular Foxy Grandpa comic strip. Movies based on comics and comedy records were popular and contributed to the creation of the multimedia pop culture landscape we now know.

(This is the original) The bright ones are hour and minute hands. The big dark meteor comes from the direction the current day would be at on the circumference of a ring with 365 increments. That’s the one that blows up the planet lol

I...worked on this story for a decade...and...he just...he put it in an SEC filing www.sec.gov/Archives/edg....

For students, AI is a de-skilling issue. As someone else noted, for faculty, it’s uncompensated additional labor with little guidance from Admin.

🇪🇸 Spain or 🇦🇷 Argentina? Our final Pitchside previews the final, hands out our predictions and looks back at the tournament that changed football reut.rs/4b1mfQv

💥 Satellite images of the Wildberries hub in the city of Kotovsk, Tambov region, - Radio Liberty

Making the notion of `computational intractability’ accessible is more important now than ever, because promises that AI systems can scale are false and misleading. This is not difficult to understand if one thinks soundly and from 1st principles. Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...