Good clouds this morning.

It might happen today.* *The other thing, yes, but also Pope Leo excommunicating JD Vance.

Train shonen drivers characters 🤝 calling out their attacks

V exciting calendar realization this AM: I am going to be in the Rio Grande valley near Bosque del Apache NWR for the Great Backyard Bird Count! Will I go birding? *shakes Manic 8-ball* YOU MAY RELY ON IT www.birdcount.org

There are a lot of half-formed notions of Renee Good circulating right now. This poem is the most accurate artifact of her we have access to; a piece of her soul that remains in the world. Read her words and become her for a moment; let her live in you. So long as men can breathe & eyes can see.

Good sunrises here! And sunsets too - I'm trying to think if there's another place in the US where you can see the sun arrive & depart over 2 different major bodies of salt water? The Aleutians??

[cx link] I was invited by the Future Observatory Journal of the Design Museum, London, to contribute to the ABUNDANCE issue. I wrote about energy and matter — about updating our understanding of which of these is abundant and which is scarce, and building our future. fojournal.org/essay/energy...

So many things are bad right now, but I interviewed @maggietokudahall.bsky.social about painting pigeons and small acts of survival. 📸 by @estefancy.bsky.social

Timeline cleanse: small dog keeping her human safe from iguanas.

The Bible: faith without works is dead Bros: No problem! we will simply have Christianity without either faith or works

Here's a photo I took of a v handsome brown pelican.

Manzanos are the perfect banana for toasted peanut butter & banana sammiches. #protip

Be the comic book panel you want to see in the world. ("Just doing what Superman told me to do, officer. You wouldn't want me to disobey Superman, would you?")

Good morning!

The neighbor a couple sites down just test-flew his new drone - a category I've never heard of (but in retrospect is obv): a bait-dropping fishing drone! store.swellpro.com/products/fis...

Pretty close to /Cladonota machinula/, but I don't remember what specific hopper the artist used as a model. www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Hemi...

You absolutely need to look at this gallery of insects with weird pronotal "hats" worthy of a Royal Ascot visit

Free workshops for chicago teens this month at different libraries!

If you work with high school students in NYC, I hope that you will bring them to the Black Zine Fair on May 9. We would love to have them.

Took a bike ride in search of teeny deer. Found 'em!

I took @karenho.bsky.social 's wise counsel and lay down for an afternoon nap. I'm much improved - a cold has been kicking my ass. Still not ready to dive into the news, though.

I know. I'm ignoring it for now, other than calling my rep and demanding articles of impeachment. Won't do any good short term, but I'll keep applying what pressure I can.

RTMI

I AM FULLY COMPLIANT. TIME TO MOVE TO NYC.

Gilbert and Sullivan, and in particular The Major-General's Song, is infinitely useful

I can't resist quote-posting with this delight that flew past my eyes yesterday. youtube.com/shorts/ctsGN...

Hi. I'm widowmaker infarction. You may also know me as near 100% occlusion of the left anterior descending. Honorable mention to measles. Yes, MEASLES. A week in an isolation room (it's contagious, doncha know) when I was in Infant's One (1st grade).

I'm old enough to remember* when CSAM was a big f*cking deal. Like staties or feds showing up at your house toot sweet. *anyone over the age of, say, 16, can remember it too

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

OK, big deal in my world! For the first time in approx 35 years there is no hair on my upper lip. I decided to shave the lip because: •(the tshirt is a hint) You need to shave a bit under your nose to get a decent seal with your mask. 🤿 It's a pita as far as I'm concerned - mow it all down. 1/?

Maisie has different barks for different purposes - just now she let loose with a furious "alert! alert! I need to go kick some ass!!" Behold the target of her ire:

Began the year with a nice morning ride. Visited the Jumping Bridge and the Burnt Bridge, saw brown pelicans, white ibis, an osprey, and a female kestrel.

Looking for small ducks just to teal something.

An earlier short convo with @hjm.bsky.social made me flash on a fave group of shrew-like critters*. But try as I might, I couldn't remember their name. Just now - 💡!!! If you don't know then already, allow me to introduce the rhinogradentians, aka the snouters. tetzoo.com/blog/2021/10...

The need for an independent hand analysis has been obvious for a while.

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

I've commented on this to a friend. The 70s sucked. But!! There was also more safety net money available and I'm convinced the /slightly/ less desperate conditions led to artistic exploration, which the Reaganites (🔥 in hell, fuckers) hated ofc.

Before Thatcherism ruined the benefits system, Britain produced some of the greatest bands of all time thanks partly to many making music in their spare time - while "unemployed." Could a Universal Basic Income also create unexpected culture for society?

Actually, trailering for laundry, but while I wait for the dryer cycle to finish, I thought I'd take a picture in bike-fishing mode. @librarian.bsky.social , that's one of your dad's rods. Thank you again - I'm hoping to catch one of my grail fish (dolphindoradomahi-mahi) on it while I'm down here.

Free horror novel/movie idea: The Work of Dorian Maga. The Picture of Dorain Grey but every time someone tunes their MAL face, a 35 yo male shit-blivet admin member looks 5 years older. Credit to the Golden Duke @talkingpointsmemo.com pod.

Good morning!

A perfect audio book for the start of the winter peregrination. Currently stopped for the night at a rest stop in VA.

*subscribes instantly*

Merry #Crustmas from my g'daughter's stuffed 🦞bug🦞.

dismasted man never entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will be still pricking him at times

Pre-dawn in chilly S Maine. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! And I'm watching the Cali storms (esp Bay area) with concern. Stay safe, w coast friends! 🎄🎅🎄

This is how “end demand” policies actually play out, for the record.

Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet

I cut our walk short this morning. Maisie was game, but her judgement is suspect. 🧊🌭🐶🧊

dragon, magic carpet golf, key west, florida, 1985