As I mentioned after this post, $5.4 billion for a high-speed rail section in Oregon will probably be what OR will be on the hook for - just for half a bridge (Interstate Bridge Replacement Program). Now we raid the general fund, and the Climate Commitment Act for highways. bsky.app/profile/type...

MAD KING: Hey, who's the best at everything? SIMPERING COURT: You! You! Sir, you are! Behold, our king! The best at everything! MK: Ha ha, right? Hey, I'm really good at being a jester, too. SC: N ONE is better!!! Hooray for King Jester! MK: So - am I so good you think I should stop being king?

uff da also, a good reason to share the best album out of Canada in the entire decade of the '90s www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGe9...

There is a whole subreddit dedicated to deGoogling your life. Worth visiting!

“Why am I the only one doing this?” Someone raised that girl right. I am so sorry that the adults at the school are quite happy to go on record as complete flakes

So once upon a time, I got savaged on Twitter for saying that all a man in the games industry had to do to end a woman’s employment at the same company was sexually harass her. As soon as it happened, the timer began counting down. (Thread)

You mightn't be able to see it, but I stuck the innards and bones from a dozen smelts in a jar with some salt... This shall be a Journey

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how huge SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in our cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by #NotJustBikes. Then please share it as much as you can.

our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol

Columbus neighbors who complain about loud street racing and Columbus neighbors who loudly street race have put aside their differences to come together and say FUCK ICE 📣

I love Vicia gigantea (a.k.a Vicia nigricans ssp. gigantea). It's a lush, robust, and fantastic plant 🌱 Vicia nigricans, gigantea, and menziesii form a clade of giant, clambering vines. V. nigricans grows on the temperate coast of South America; V. gigantea on temperate coast of North America...

Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation

1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.

A Santa Monica councilmember ran and won on a pro-housing platform, but is now being told by state regulators that he's not allowed to vote on housing issues because he works for a pro-housing advocacy organization. Plainly not the intent of conflict of interest law. www.smdp.com/state-regula...

Neurologic effects of COVID? Perhaps we need society-wide mass psilocybin treatment

📣 A remarkable new study shows that a single high-equivalent dose of #psilocybin in mice can rapidly increase neuroplasticity by repairing and creating new neural connections in the #brain. Researchers observed structural remodeling of #dendritic spines in the medial #frontalcortex... 1/3

"You know what would be really interesting is if Cameron and George Lucas wrote a script together." ded

Warning: Intensely wholesome

Seattle city planners hired a consultant to analyze feasibility of downtown housing typologies & given the sky high fees to build, hard costs & parking costs, every model was rated “infeasible” Highrise Res: $605k/unit Mixed use: $710k/unit Mass timber: $605k/unit Office to Res: $640k/unit

She blessed us with her life.

Folks following the ramblings of Nobody Nursery may know of a recent project I took on, which was to cross-reference roughly 1500 relationships between Washington's native flora and the caterpillars of almost 700 species of butterfly and moth. As I roll this info out . . .

Seattle City Council Approves Eight-Unit Apartment Buildings Everywhere The changes are part of the city's long-delayed comprehensive plan, which still isn't finished—giving the new mayor and councilmembers an opportunity to add urbanist improvements. publicola.com/2025/12/18/c...

They really had to reach to make this decision, as there was no "material" conflict of interest. CA YIMBY et al., it would be a shame if the FPPC complaint form was also a weapon to prevent landlords from voting against housing production. www.fppc.ca.gov/enforcement/...

This is completely ridiculous. The state legislature is *full* of landlords and yet they’re apparently allowed to vote on tenant protection bills all the time.

More #MothMonday madness May the sedge witch watch over you!

the sedge

#MothMonday education

Winter begins before sunrise tomorrow, so time is ticking to start seeds that require a period of damp, cold conditions to break out of dormancy. Whether you're starting seed in the ground or in baggies in the fridge, Nobody Nursery has you covered, and in the online store I've broken down . . .

Time to recreate my old "how to" thread on pomegranates to share the Yalda joy of the Persianate world tonight. Steps: 1) cut a hat 2) remove hat 3) find the wings of the membrane's star 4) cut vertically and shallowy along those 5) split

I knew something was wrong when 60 Minutes started airing Swan Lake

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

Trust in Fenrir, but always tie your horse

I think this is my major issue for AI as it is being pitched in librarianship. Shop for books for me? Bitch, i became a librarian so i could shop for books with other people's money. Automate emails and PR? Well, I call that community outreach. But I notice it won't plan my budget for me

From the horse's mouth

Mining! It has impacts! Mining green energy minerals *is a fraction of a rounding error* compared to the (spatial, environmental, etc.) impacts of fossil fuel extraction, processing, storage, and burning.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Collapse of empire shit right here

Lots of bad things are happening right now but Jake Paul and Andrew Tate being laid out in the same weekend is pretty ok

Just four of the titles in a smashing article over at ComicsBeat – “The Beat’s Best Kids Comics of 2025”, a feature suggested by and including suggestions from @deansimons.bsky.social: www.comicsbeat.com/best-kids-co... (see alt text for more info)

I have joined the ranks of the shitoposters

They are trying to cover it up.

permanently closed toilet lid crew stays winning

Prayin for some

I cannot let go of this racist exploitative shameless baby-killing eugenicist racist (yes, again) murderous horror show There are too many names, now, to recite.

RFK, JR. SHAMELESSLY HARMING AFRICAN CHILDREN Funding University of Southern Denmark to conduct a single-blind clinical trial of the hepatitis B vaccine in newborns in Guinea-Bissau, a country in West Africa with high rates of where nearly one in five people are infected with the hepatitis B .

Coincidence that it’s down to a white South African dude and a German dude who grew up in South Africa and then in a Nazi community in South West Africa (now Namibia)?

Did you know BikeLoud started a mini-grant program last year? Our first two awards were to fund Spanish language translation of BikeBus materials AND warm gloves and other cold weather walk/bike to school essentials for a Title 1 School in North Portland.