I'd really hoped to never encounter Richard "500, ok maybe 5,000, covid deaths in the US" Epstein in public discourse again. 🤦‍♂️

I'm heartened by how much the Internet has been talking about this story. Which is why it's worth noting that despite various requests for comment: Robert Pera, Ubiquiti, the Memphis Grizzlies, the NBA, and Adam Silver have all said absolutely nothing.

Would def use a Bondi mugshot as a dating app profile pic.

Reposting because that reconstruction is so sweet! (I'm old enough to remember upside down Hallucigenia.)

More morning manatee. Sadly, I'm pretty sure that white line is a scar from a prop strike.

I am not even talking about the state of poor white people -- I mean even the elite white people. I'm white* and grew up in relatively elite circles and you don't know what you're missing when you grow up in a racist elite. But you ARE missing out. Your life IS worse than is should be.

The marker remains, but the surroundings have changed. You'd be hard pressed to duplicate this shot: when I walked by on a weekday morning a couple weeks ago, the line to take pix with this as a backdrop was 30+ people long and the backgound was full of folks. sic transit gloria Buffet

This, from @joshtpm.bsky.social makes the same point (gift link, I hope): talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/remem...

Morning manatees.

With the recent surge in accounts there's a lot of new troll networks out there. Block early, block often. Engagement - even critical - introduces them to your carefully built network. It gives them a route in, and more people to work on.

SO SAY WE ALL

“Governors should immediately deploy the National Guard with orders to ensure state laws and the Constitution are followed with hair-splitting rigor.”

Shameless plug for a downloadable/customizable “teach-in” workshop I created for folks who want to advocate for the USPS in their communities and help fight against its privatization 💌 usps-teach-in.carrd.co

I got an early start on the ☕️ coffee ride, and, once again, the Oly PEN did a bang-up low light job.

I was thinking about this during this morning's coffee ride. Assuming it's not just a catch-22 (it's just a catch-22) it'll be interesting to see if active ICE presence is indicated on any of the safe-to-fly apps. I'm going to be in NOLA in a couple weeks - going to keep an eye on AutoPylot.

Mating flight of the Frontera Great White Look-down /Tars panopticus/.

Unsteadi-cam footage of a Green Heron.

Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?

The picture of Liam Ramos... What kind of person could participate in such a thing? (I know what kind, but to see them terrorizing children?)

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

Listen to me... all the people we have been warned not to trust The Horny The Poor The rebellious The agitator The unusual The Punk The disenfranchised embody prophetic urgency in the earth realm

Solar collector.

Doing a Reddit AMA!!! Aaaaaaaa!

Someone found this radium watch in their grandfather's belongings and brought it to us. What a treasure! The brown "burn marks" are caused by the radiation damage from the alpha particles stopping in the glass. Next step: activity determination. #nukesky

Victory.

Remember the corruption around the Qatari 747? I do.

Putting this out there for use when it does happen. www.myinstants.com/en/instant/p...

Nicole says that iPhones should blare an alert when It Happens like an amber alert but the alert sound should be the sound of Pac-Man when he dies

Sunset over the mangroves.

Cold front just came screaming through:

Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

Watching the Pats on the Canadian sports channel is sublime. Same Aikman/Buck broadcast team, but the commercials! - a fraction of the gambling bullshit - hockey! - most important - the Canadians know what's up. Lots of "made in Canada". Lots of self-reliance.

I saw this in a friend's insty stories - a balm for me and hopefully and, more importantly, a balm for Minnesotans.

reposting because it really was a good start to the day

Meshtastic, ahoy!

The "Harper's Signatory" labeler ftmfw. (Moyn, not @thelincoln.bsky.social )

Good morning! Greetings from dawn patrol to/coffee outside at the Jumping Bridge. The no-see-ums say "Hi!" too. 🦟☕️

Pulling out of a reply thread: if you don't know this speech, give it a read. "Sometimes, the grievances of people are more -- extend more -- to more than just the law, extend to a whole mode of arbitrary power, a whole mode of arbitrary exercise of arbitrary power."

Rub-a-dob-dob, a small silver pod, yay Tibet. [wash day for the Hyperpod, thank all the small gods]

Full tropicale for b'fast: ube mochi pancake with chunks of manzano bananas.

Good morning, with waning crescent moon. gotta say, I like the job my old Olympus PEN mirrorless camera does with low light in contrast to my cell, which tries to enhance when no enhancement is needed

The extent of Renfrew Christie’s heroism, and what it accomplished, is astonishing!

Year 3 for this sticker. It's been obvious for a while.

Rode my bike to catch sunrise at the Burnt Bridge (also took a dip).

“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

Extremely productive farmer's market/coffee shop bike ride this morning! [orange peels, tamarind & chili tamarind], [3yo gouda & a bleu triple crème], [2 knives sharpened], [rambutan, lychee & manzano 🍌], [2 kinds of empenadas], and, at Baby's, a mocha and a cheese Danish. Yay, me!!

stop scrolling, post two characters who bring you happiness [same as it ever was]

re: last reskeeet, let's bring back epithets (sensu stricto*) "ICE and BP, the Republican's paramilitary death squads" credit: @ndrew.bsky.social "X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter" credit Fin Times "the corrupt US Supreme Court" credit @joshtpm.bsky.social

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms