Me, a hundred or more episodes into @hotgpod.bsky.social

Finally taking the 2 Line to the Eastside directly from Capitol Hill. Earlier I was covering the opening...this is just for me.

Amelia said #NoKings

*gasps* That. From John Waters. I would spontaneously combust if he said that about me.

Saturday. The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #blue any bird with blue in its coloring. Here is a Eastern Bluebird in #Ontario #Canada #birding #birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography @alan678.bsky.social

i’m taking my mom to her very first protest today. pretty, pretty cool

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Pennsylvania, let’s make it impossible for this poor excuse for a senator to miss the true meaning of #NoKings today.

There are a whole bunch of reasons to turn out for #nokings tomorrow but here are maybe the top two: 1) huge turnout is a signal to republicans edging away from Trump and puts steel in Dem spines. 2) least we can do to honor bravery of Minnesotans who turned the tide

everyone congratulate her

Currently in the phase of my THE AMERICANS rewatch in which I’m trying to guess the denomination of Paige’s church. Mainline Protestant, in greater DC, anti-nuclear to the point the pastor gets arrested at a protest but no other clear indicators it’s a Historic Peace Church …

heh

How about no

One of my favorite early-learning-German discoveries was that potatoes in the form of French fries, and only in that form, are "Pommes" (I assume because they were introduced as pommes frites?)

An amazing map of all German regional names for “potato”—hurray for everyone except for those who chose Nudel

☘️New paper!☘️ Very excited that my 3rd and final data chapter of my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social is now published in JEB! We manipulated precipitation and herbivory at field sites in Ontario and Louisiana to test their effects on white clover HCN chemical defense phenotypes

Our union has negotiated for 12-14 weeks paid leave for birthing parents and 6 weeks paid leave for non-birthing parents. For each, 6 weeks can be converted to 12 weeks at 50% effort. How does this compare to your university??? I wanted more but considering we had ZERO until now it feels …ok?

AI can't pay my grad students or postdocs. AI can't do our experiments, collect really any of our data, make our lab reagents, fix our broken machines as they age. I'm just so, so tired of this.

Abstracts are due April 15 for current and recent PhD students to be considered for the Hamilton Award Symposium at virtual #Evol2026 on May 20-22! Learn more about how to apply during meeting registration: shorturl.at/qDIP4

Shout-out to the student asleep in the entry-lounge down the hall from my office who BROUGHT A SLEEP MASK to campus and who is also snoring loud enough I can hear them at my desk, I am honestly a bit jealous

This is super interesting — and helps also answer my question about why ICBM missile control bunkers were always this sea foam green:

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No!!!!! No this is not what the extreme event attribution work on Katrina says!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!

There are MANY bitter regrets baked into the FOR ALL MANKIND season 5 introductory alt-history montage but Hurricane Katrina getting downgraded to a tropical depression (because we solved climate change almost by accident thanks to space tech) has to be pretty high on the list

that dude is still alive wtf

Yoshi gets some pizza: a story in four parts

Booked lottery-access wilderness camping permits for four days on the North Loop in Mount Rainier National Park, so that's a reason to make it to July

The year is 2030. I now own a home in every walkable US neighborhood, which I've paid for by selling rubber stamps that say "refused to release the Epstein files"

Cloudy day eagle, Rock River this week: #birds #eagle #nature

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My unasked-for nuanced take as a person of Publicly Gay Experience is (a) if you build a political career on virulent anti-queerness, your own orientation IS fair game but (b) that's a conversation for us queers NOT straight-presenting "allies" and (c) even so the vibes from that critique are RANCID

"There’s no time for purity testing or posturing, 'The Pitt' suggests, when you’re trying to prevent the premature death of working-class people." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-radical-cringe-of-the-pitt/

remember how Biden wouldn't put his name on covid relief checks

Me emailing an entire college of PhD-holding faculty: Okay so for [thing] we still need volunteers to cover either 10 to 11:30am or 12:30 to 3pm. INEVITABLY AT LEAST ONE REPLY: Oh I'd love to help, I have availability all day except for 10am to 1pm.

“On irony poisoning and the importance of being earnest.” www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...

one thing a whole lot of us struggle with at times is feeling isolated and depressed and like not enough people care about what’s going on and I really cannot emphasize enough that going to a no kings protest helps this feeling a lot there are so! many! people! who hate all of this shit

Also we made a really intense website with a LOT of information on it for folks, including a reading list, a huge timeline of events, an some additional explainers. www.tested-podcast.com/learn/ www.tested-podcast.com/timeline/

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

Okay, challenge accepted lol. The City in the Middle of the Night- Charlie Jame Anders Light from Uncommon Stars- Ryka Aoki Confluence: A Person-shaped Story- Nyri Bakkalian The Iron Below Remembers- Sharamg Biswas Water Into Wine- Joyce Chng The Mistress of Lies- KM Enright

Do I feel lucky enough to try to slip through the absolutely cavernous loophole I've just spotted in these application instructions

Nithya's housing platform is so good. Hard to overstate how rare it is to get the exact right person up for the exact right job at the exact right time. She actually knows what she's doing, which is something that we haven't experienced in the mayor's office in AWHILE

Holy shit

This is possibly the worst thing I have ever seen

I can’t decide whether (1) this is the most Seattle-brained thing I’ve read all month or (2) it makes sense or also (3) it makes sense because I’m getting to be Seattle-brained

If LoTR: SHADOW OF THE PAST ever does come out, gay Halloween parties are gonna be lit that year. Bear Bombadils! Drag Goldberrys! Old Man Willows and their stepsons! (Yellow)boots the house (barrow-)down!

Cybertrucks have a polar opposite and this is it.

speaking from minnesota, weird to see anyone asking about where are student protests in the wake of the most effective protest movements of my lifetime, one that included so so so many college students but not as /college/ protests.

Well, I have a new go-to example of how not to title a paper