The 12yo has declared Venus Girdle Awareness Day! The largest of all ctenophores they look like transparent, bioluminescent, ribbons with iridescent edge, swimming through tropical and subtropical oceans. (I had to explain the Girdle of Venus atmospheric phenomenon & mythical fashion accessories)

I've requested it at www.calgarylibrary.ca/contact-us (scroll down to "Is there a title we should purchase?") but additional requests show demand for the title.

My book Courtroom Science and Trans Youth is out TODAY, just in time for Trans Day of Visibility! It’s about how courts treat science and scientific expertise in family law cases involving trans children, and how we need to do better and stop medicalizing and gatekeeping them.

Additional alt text: one side is tastefully embroidered with "Fuck Around" and the other side is embroidered with "Find Out"

Amber Sandy’s (Chippewas of Nawash First Nation) The Jane Birkin Bag, inspired by the Hermès Birkin Bag. | (birch bark, home-tanned deer hide, dyed porcupine quills, seed beads, cotton lining and artificial sinew.)

The plants are waking up! Some Plantainleaf sedge(?) and Hepatica, just off the hiking trail.

Maybe I need to go blonde to highlight all the details here...

[getting rejected at the bar] that's fine. actually my boys and i were thinking of diminishing and going into the west

portland commute

But in addition to the ko-fi goal...i have art for sale in my shop at www.ko-fi.com/johnniejae/s...

I also have my tee and goodies shop where you can find some one of a kind tees, hoodies, and even shower curtains! Http://johnniejaedesigns.store

I will vouch for both AJ and the coolness of this project!

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

"My cloaca!"

Same goes for literally anyone in absolutely any creative profession.

New Cambrian mystery keychains just dropped! 🦐 shop.fossilforager.art #sciart

I love all of them but Christina's crew speech is when I extra started feeling feelings

I keep thinking about Jay’s thread from months ago. It’s about comics but it could be about any industry

The Human Record Scratch

Brompton Group Ride: Friday, April 17. Meet on the south side of the George C. King Bridge in East Village at 6:15 p.m. Wheels roll at 6:30 p.m. Destination: Bowness Park. Bring a snack/refreshment. While oriented to folding bike enthusiasts, all types of bikes and their owners welcome.

In case anyone in Sunnyside is looking for inspiration for their garage door mural.

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important. #ArtemisII

If anyone would like to be "taught how Japan works," I am now accepting students.

I made five batches, for a total of 23.8 L of syrup (plus another 0.3 L of unfiltered "dirty syrup" I'll use for cooking). Here they are, earliest to left and latest to right. You can see the colour deepening through the season.

NYC(-area) folks -- two events coming up!! 1) The first ever LIVE taping of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, April 30 bsky.app/profile/alex... >>

Serious flashbacks to August 2000: I’d wait for the inevitable followup that this is yet another nonviable hipster vanity project that distinguished itself only by “using AI,” but I suspect the editor/producer who okayed this story would rather die than admit they were bamboozled.

This would have been my local library branch. Walkable and bikeable. And while I am sad about its disappearance, I had fun digging into this bit of local Calgary history! #yycbike #yyccc

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Here's a picture of Christina Koch using hardware I designed the electronics for and wrote the firmware of

As a trans engineer who left the space industry in order to feel safe enough to transition: oof.

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

Amazing digestive constitution on those astronauts. 🫡 Between sudden reaquaintance with gravity and ocean roll I would be down to dry heaves as they slung me under the helicopter.

Went cow cuddling last week.

All moon missions are successful compared to when Georges Méliès crashed his rocket right into its fucking eye.

Hard not to be jealous of anyone bobbing gently the Pacific with three friends and no signal right now.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

Sir Timiny of Cricket is having his first patio-while-on-harness adventure in the great outdoors. Sister Cinna observes from her outdoor cat tent.

"please can we just hold off on the apocalypse until I've finally finished something" - artists

The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍 The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

NEW: A court has issued a stay in any certification of petition results or making referral to the Justice Minister until the court has ruled on applications by ACFN/Blackfoot nations. Decision does not impact the continued collection of signatures for the sovereignty petition

This deep sea creature is as sharp & clear as broken class, & can grow as long as your hand. This giant amphipod, (Cystisoma) only has two colored body parts: the dense orange stomach/egg pouch, & two MASSIVE eyes, which are a glittering holographic orange layer completely covering its head. 📽️ MBARI

The Night Gallery offers for your approval this multidimensional, multimedia art installation entitled "Canned Response."

how much money does the marine corps lose

Share your input for Calgary’s next four-year budget. We’re inviting Calgarians to share what matters most to you as we develop the 2027-2030 budget. Your input will help inform planning and Council’s decision making this November. Open until April 15 Take the survey at calgary.ca/budgetinput

people say they're cute, but those people haven't seen wasps

trees are the pandas of plant conservation

just in time for pride month, happy to announce I designed the Hot Dog flag

“…the most pointed lesson in the book is that art draws its power from the resistance of its medium and the traces of creative labor left behind. It’s why you would use an oscillator that can’t maintain pitch rather than a digital filter that pretends it can’t.” @oaklandreviewofbooks.org is so good