I would definitely do an interview with Mr. Chotiner on how awesome dogs are in general, and what an excellent pupper Maisie is. Other topics? I'll pass.

"Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides." - Chotiner, giving the intvu equivalent of the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique

"If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain" is an instant hall-of-famer.

Every day after sunset during summer + fall hundreds of thousands of bats leave the their roost near Sacramento, CA to feed A family of Swainson's hawks waits for them for their own dinner. Due to the light they're hard to photograph. Last night one caught a bat less than 30 feet in front of me 🪶

New hive feeding routine, visualized. Wake up, make coffee, put kettle back on, make quart of syrup, sashay out in my pjs and swap jars.

Agreed - a freaking fabulous book.

The Kabbalistic Tree of Baking Whereby divine Volume emanates to the lower vessels & is differentiated into units

Babe the Voyageur, loaded with approx 25lbs of groceries. Musical accompaniment (back in the day - and maybe now? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - this style of front pannier was called a low rider): youtu.be/BsrqKE1iqqo?...

Spending my early Sunday morning falling down an El Arenal-1 pre-Columbian chickens rabbiit-hole.

About halfway done with the tweaks, aaand EV* OPPY's name is official. *exploration vessel, after the EV Nautilus

I'm partial to his Mattel Agent Zero M era. youtu.be/wurUGGBE2h4?...

The news can get pretty ruff. Post a photo of you and your dog to cleanse your timeline.

Today, in the cactus garden.

WotD: stygofauna 🧵👇

Morning routine: -awake at 5 a.m. to write in my gratitude journal -500 Burpees by 6 a.m. -moult backwards and eat the remains of my husk for breakfast in a chia smoothie - Check Bluesky to obtain a deep sinking feeling of doom just as I am borne anew

there is already a way to extend life and youth indefinitely 1. Be a stored-grain dermestid beetle larva (say, Trogoderma) 2. Every time food gets scarce, moult backwards into a previous instar 3. Proceed to grow as usual 4. Repeat step 2

Going to add a name decal to the new minivelo (see yesterday's? skeet for deets).

Bum Bill Bee took a couple hits for the team.

A pleasant surprise = walked over to the Berwick Public Lib to return a book and what was on top of the New Books display? @nnedi.bsky.social 's Death of the Author! Yoink!!

xkcd: Bee Orchid xkcd.com/1259/

me: the romance in 3 days of the condor is entirely unconvincing 5 seconds later: actually, it is a young robert redford so probably that gets you 90% of the way there

ezra klein recorded his podcast with ben shapiro *before* charlie kirk was killed which somehow makes it worse because he wasn’t just trying to cynically capitalize on a moment but genuinely wanted to chit chat with a horrible person.

Welp

One of my faves. The other has almost no dialog and was directed by a nutjob. youtu.be/8sKGGJVcsbo

#roadfinds from this morning's walk with Maisie: Photo 1 - mine Photo 2 - Maisie's I kept my find. Maisie, not so much.

Via my ex in LA (not on bluesky) and MyModernMet, a pop-up in Seoul that hits 3 major pleasure points for me: dachshunds, robots and smells. Link to Met post to follow. www.instagram.com/reel/DODGdZU...

1) Maisie the dachshund 2) first of the season MacIntosh apples 3) early fall bicycling 4) collecting cardinalflower seeds 5) planning the winter peregrinations/adventures

Two weeks of feeding the hive is having the desired effect.

Somehow I screwed up the time zones on this and it launched at 9:00 Pacific instead of Eastern. C’est la Guy Doing This Half-Assed Thing On His Own. Anyway. Enjoy. This one was fun.

Post bike ride lunch: Mac, cheddar, pretend festbier.

Dawn, feat. Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon.

Pour one out for a true legend

Fugu zeitgeist!

Mom and dad are so proud!

This mornings random body-mod headline: "Is Ear Seeding the Solution to Cortisol Face?" Even less intelligible to me than the Ozempic genitals one; I may read enough to learn what this combination of words mean.

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: peach tied with cherry Best ice cream: Salt&Straw's Pear & Blue Cheese Best donut: cinnamon sugar cider donut stuck in a bowl of maple creemee Best bar: @debcha.bsky.social 's Nanaimo bar Best cake: carrot Best other: strawbs🍓 dipped in sour cream, then brown sugar

The mini-velo collection is getting an addition this week: Oppy. Current owner put mid rise BMX bars on it - 1st order of business is to swap in a Velo Orange Utility flat bar (black). And bag the bar ofc.

Watched ep 1 of Alien Earth last night. I'll give it another go - ep 2 - tonight, but the narrative better make a bee line away from the USCSS Maginot. Or do a better job convincing me that a spacecraft the size of a city block could crash into a metro area with no warning.

🚨🍎FIRST MACINTOSH OF THE 2025 APPLE SEASON KLAXON🍎🚨 Verdict: yum!

Great thread Basically, Kirk was Gregor Strasser

probably not a really bad and terrifying thing that each shooter leaves little haha memes and phrases for the next one to build on and top

One of the many joys of water gardens are the visitors.

Groyper who got caught no thanks to Patel's toady-fied FBI? Hoodathunkit.

The lotus is going out with a bang!

Also totally my jam. & spurs me to look for a question I asked myself y'day: how long does it take for a hive to declare nectar location info "stale". Some bees found an open syrup jar while I was swapping things and foragers kept coming back to the same spot for hours, even though the jar was gone.

Totally my jam. Shades of Dr. Pepperberg*'s Interpet Explorer - something I blogged way way back but can't find. #bitrot alumni.media.mit.edu/~benres/parr... *as in Alex the African Grey

Benefits of a slow start: Communing with plants. Refilling the syrup jar for the bees toot sweet.

Tourism to Hakodate is promoted by videos of the city being attacked by an alien squid called IkaR Seijin.

I am not in the crystal ball business so I really try to seek out courses of action that will be nourishing & useful whether the escalation of violent bullshit where I live is fast, medium or slow

Well, at least Forbes used the correct word. File under: subtweets re headlines I would not have been able to imagine yesterday* *that have nothing to do afaik with dead fascists