Seventh Supplemental Interrogatory Responses

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Took a gorgeous fall walk yesterday at Aspen Park and found some orange polypores and the non-mating males of the elk herd. #Aurantiporuscroceus #fungifriends #mushroomsofmichigan #nature #GaylordMichigan #northernmichigan #fallcolors #elk

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

This is TOO TRUE. I ABSOLUTELY HATE games that stop the game with a giant pop-up and require you to push a button to continue. But it seems that today you HAVE TO do that, because nobody will read anything if you don't. #gamedesign #gamedevelopment #ui #ux

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

sherman, for the love of god!

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old. There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

A female Purple Finch from one of our evening photo sessions last spring. #FridayFinch Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada May 2025 📷 #birds #PUFI #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z6iii #Nikkor800pf

This is hilarious

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it? Chiitan forever

Scene from #wartornPortland yesterday. As you can see, things have gotten so dire that even our babies are being trained in amphibious operations.

Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds - ABC News 🦑🧪🌎

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner. www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

I swatted a fly and looked to see where it had landed, only to see it had fallen into the web of what looks to me like a juvie black widow. I'm not sure how I feel about playing Uber Eats to a spider.

A poem for this afternoon. I wrote it several years ago, and come back to it often.

The judge said: "You're a lawyer!"

To attract as many seabirds as possible on my #pelagic birding tour in the #BayofFundy last month, we tossed bits of chopped up fish behind the boat. Here a Great Shearwater is diving for a piece of this chum. Bay of Fundy, #NewBrunswick, Canada September 2025 #birds #GRSH #marinelife #photography

Ancient Roman trying a banh mi: "ah yes, this is tasty and recognizable" Ancient Roman trying eggplant parmesan: "what the fuck"

So, I've been brewing Spiders Georg (Ygra Spiders) and I think I might actually be on to something here. There's, like, a surprising amount of synergy here and I really didn't expect it. moxfield.com/decks/19fy_v...

And 2. The Fascism Barometer, a podcast and host of other resources about understanding and tracking the advances of fascism: www.fascismbarometer.org

California has now banned algorithmic price fixing. The state has outlawed the practice of landlords colluding to raise prices using rental software and AI. This is a huge victory for renters in the biggest state in the country.

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at. And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Nayib Bukele purged the El Salvadoran courts, replaced judges with allies, and made the judiciary legally subservient to him. Elon Musk says we need to the same here, ending ~250 years of an independent judiciary. Stop treating his involvement in US politics as innocent and normal.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Trying to read a paper this morning and am distracted by the incessant squonking of a dog with a squeaky behind me. (Still better than trying to read a paper in the office through someone else's Teams meeting! Dog only squonks for a few minutes, Teams can be hours.)

My dog often sniffs my mouth and nose and then he gently, politely, belches. Is this just common courtesy in Dog? "Thank you for allowing me to smell what you've been eating. Here, let me return the favor."

'In a year dominated by headlines of federal rollbacks, high electricity and gasoline prices, and general disarray, climate champions in the California Legislature kept their heads down and churned out a staggering suite of game-changing policies.' Love to see it! blog.ucs.org/daniel-... #climate

Reptil Ethan with 10,000 reptiles is an outlier and should not be counted

We had some lovely early morning light on my recent #pelagic birding tour near Grand Manan Island in the #BayofFundy. (Sadly, it didn't last and ended up raining (hard!) later in the day.) Grey Seal Bay of Fundy, #NewBrunswick, Canada September 2025 #mammals #seal #marinelife #nature #photography

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch. I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

This is some of the best journalism news I've heard since forever. Radley is absolutely indispensable for pulling back the curtain to show how the carceral state works.

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

@skpawlicki.bsky.social was, until the Trump administration canceled the program, working as a Mellon fellow for the National Parks Service. She created the most incredible women's history programming, and now, she's recreated it entirely separately: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

My nephew who is 13 pushed back against one of his uncles saying this to him. He said “why aren’t you angrier and fighting for the world to be fairer then?” And you know what, he is absolutely right.

Work from home benefits: my laptop and I have relocated to the lab on the floor.

The finished Dead Marshes piece! Just in time for my next event. #tolkien #lotr #watercolor #traditionalart

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

This is on RFK Jr. and everyone who elevated him.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Mahmoud Darwish trans. by Mohammed Shaheen

logging on to AO3

It is wild that a federal judge listening to people, regular people, makes me want to weep.