Best full moon experience in awhile last moon, gonna be hard to beat it on March 3rd but I believe in myself.

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Some sad news to round out the night. Apparently Erie-LaSalle Body Shop sold to Gerber Collision & Glass, and with it, their iconic neon sign has left it's perch along Milwaukee Avenue. For the time being it's gone to Industrial Artifacts of DeKalb, IL. Photo from December 5th, 2025

But there's an even cooler application of guanine mirrors: in the eyes of scallops, the only bivalve capable of swimming. Like the James Webb Telescope, scallops have evolved a novel optical strategy: an array of ~200 guanine mirrored eyes focusing light on retinal surfaces.

I can tell I've been producing too many serious lectures for my climatology class, because I'm a little too pleased to end my database lecture on this final slide

We live in such crazy times that even Predator seems like a sitcom. cinephiliabeyond.org/predator-joh...

The disappearance of Larry Summers from public life cannot happen fast enough.

Really wish this bike was available in more places closer to me Long drive to Chicago or Montreal to my closest dealers But, I really like the idea of a folding basket for capacity when I need it and ease of travel when I don't

Defending his territory - male Anna's Hummingbird at Cypress Grove, Tomales Bay, CA #birds

The Quietus blog has a great piece on Shane today, looking back over twenty years and interviewing him about his previous records. Illuminating. Autechre Guitar is out on Friday! thequietus.com/interviews/s...

KIM: Keeping professional licensure and certification is mandatory MEANS: I do have a medical license right now. It's voluntarily placed on inactive status K: is yours up to date? M: I have a medical license that's unexpired right now K: Are you going to deprioritize having active licenses?

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

#OtD 25 Feb 1913 silk mill workers in Paterson, NJ went on strike demanding an 8-hour day and better conditions. It developed into a general strike of 25k mostly women & child workers organised by the @IWW stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9732...

Does anyone know what the eastern half of the Kings Co Hospital complex is used for these days? Basically the stretch from Albany to Utica along Clarkson.

We're less than a week from a lunar eclipse. Next Monday night/Tuesday morning, if you live in these zones, look at the moon! At the times it says! www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...

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It would be wise to not let them dump their toxic and often radioactive oil wastewater on your roads, on agricultural fields or in your rivers. This is the industry plan.

Happy birthday, George Harrison!

John "Hannibal" Smith Templeton Arthur "Faceman" Peck H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock Bosco Albert "B.A." Baracus

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Velociraptors are funny because people are like "They weren't actually that scary because in real life, they were about the size of a goose" and my friend, have you ever been AROUND a goose? That just makes it worse!

Diane 11:30 a.m. February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks

Coronal loops on the eastern limb--here is a Blue/White/Red color scaling of SDO AIA 171 Å showing intense plasma loops over the Sun's limb. The loops are boosting x-ray flux to above the C-class floor. The soures of these loops are active regions--we will see them soon. #heliophysics

NEW: US just sanctioned a network of exploit brokers trafficking in stolen US hacking tools First-ever use of #PIPA (Protecting American Intellectual Property Act) by Treasury. Here's the wild backstory of how Operation Zero got US-taxpayer funded exploits. 1/

My next set up on wrkc.kings.edu Hayley Williams - Glum Ski Team - Gentle Johnny Society - All That They Want you to See Damon Albarn. - Flags

On days when major albums are released, people use music streaming services on their smartphone 40% more, and U.S. traffic fatalities increase by 15% www.nber.org/papers/w3486...

Big news: The U.S. Supreme Court just REJECTED an emergency appeal attempting to block NJ’s landmark new affordable housing law — which requires every municipality to create its fair share of new affordable homes. Learn more in our press release: www.fairsharehousing.org/press-releas...

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illustration, login, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/logi...

Dorothy Porter was a librarian at Howard University where she took a small collection of donated materials by and about Black Americans and curated it for 40 years into the 180,000 item Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. #BlackHistoryMonth www.historians.org/perspectives...

All detectives on deck

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

NEW, by me: The number of people who had personal data (and Social Security numbers) stolen in the 2025 Conduent data breach continues to rise, now affecting at least 25 million. Conduent provides mailing and payment verification services for state programs, and benefits for staff at big companies.

No, there is not a "crime wave" driven by non-U.S. citizens Recent data show that just 3% of people jailed are non-citizens. And since most people detained in jail have not been convicted, it’s likely that only a fraction of that 3% have actually been found guilty of any crime.

FOLKS… this is very cool and I appreciate the thought and work that must’ve into this. 🙏🙏🙏

As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1: Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed: Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs

The Untamed Youth perform Go Go Ferrari on It's Happening! cable access show (1990) #MusicMonday youtu.be/dUbdp8CZ198?...

lunchtime browsing today: fairly convinced most microcars have load-bearing luggage racks, and that’s fine because this looks like a one-way ticket to the Miyazaki universe www.carandclassic.com/la/C2017708

The Channel 2 Mobile is sexier than a Tesla Cybertruck

Scenes from the Blizzard of '26. First, a Northern Cardinal braving the elements in Central Park's Loch. 15" of snow at 7 AM and counting! ❄️❤️❄️ #Cardinals #CentralPark #birding

For reference. Tron (1982): Sark, art by Jean "Moebius" Giraud

This is like the tenth research group using a totally new dataset to reach this same conclusion: building new market-rate housing helps low-income tenants. "These findings demonstrate that housing supply expansions benefit lower-income households through moving chains"

“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible...because that’s what the world is like.” - Chicago’s very own Edward Gorey, who was born on this day in 1925.

🚨🚨the Pocket Bunny GT-R kit is now for sale, this is not a drill🚨🚨 www.rocketbunnypandem.com/products/roc...

Insect and bird photography training

For perspective, these are instructions for the same manufacturers' drive train (1948) and the repowering kit (2026). WTF.. I'm beginning to think computer graphic design programs were a mistake.

i am prob. over by the dinosaur

This was an incredible treat: a visit to one of Diego Rivera's rarely seen murals, "The People's Demand for Better Health," located in a Mexico City public hospital and thus difficult to access. Completed in 1953, the mural is a sweeping visualization of forms of ancient & modern medicine (thread)

Everyone shut up, it's the disco theme to M*A*S*H www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_7W...

The Synthesis Machine ~ An Interview with Shane Parish acloserlisten.com/2026/02/22/t... via @acloserlisten.bsky.social