This is not just "NCAR boosterism," folks. There are multiple empirical measures by which this is correct--and also, if you took a random sampling of atmospheric & Earth scientists from around the world, I'd bet that a substantial majority of them would agree. NCAR is truly irreplaceable.

This comes into focus even more when you consider the ways the US has historically treated Latin America the way Russia treats Eastern Europe, then look at the admin’s current Venezuela imbroglio.

on the one hand I was thinking “ehh, the recorder, really?” and on the other “oh, Bylsma on cello and Leonhardt on harpsichord” and I’m glad I went for it, banger album

This is a powerful image.

RIP anyone who paid the 2025 equivalent of $100 for Legend of the Golf of Babylon

Bluesky doesn’t have a left or liberal bias, but the people who make this place grim do have a name or a style.

the detective is camera, not an iceberg. the 'iceberg' character, with a rich past, interpersonal dysfunctions, and so forth is sometimes useful in a detective story, but it doesn't inherently need to be.

Dick Van Dyke is 100! 🤯 My eternal Bert, because even though Mary Poppins came out 16 years before I was born, it's probably the movie I watched the most during my childhood. He had notably dabbled in sci-fi with a Twilight Zone parody in The Dick Van Dyke Show: It May Look Like a Walnut (1963).

ignition interlock discourse reminding me I need to get caught up on pluribus

It is, but it’s really warm in the theater which, combined with the fact that I’m in Los Angeles, is making the 19th c. Christmas vibe a but weird

Got the third-to-last seat to La Bohème so I’m guessing its good

Fried squid stand in Little Tokyo called “Squidward” advertising”Hot Little Squid”

So I guess quantum computing scams have finally arrived

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I never noticed this before but there's a magazine sitting on a table when the damaged Enterprise limps into the Starbase in Star Trek III. Google's AI says it's called "Starbase 12 Monthly" but NO delusional computer, it's Flight International--June 1980. Also seems like an ashtray next to it!

loo did not expect Admiral Piett to be the titular killer in Aki Kurismäki’s I Hired a Contract Killer (he’s really good in the role!)

You can trust me to make the hard choices

Some of us try to be Wilburs but end up Aldos

Fellas, is it neoliberal to cum in the gas tank?

For some reason it’s blowing my mind that Zardoz takes place in the same calendar year as the first act of Star Trek: Generations.

[chiming in with right wingers] we gotta …. we gotta bring back completely regular homosociality. [doing a different voice] yeah just normal fellas stuff.

they gotta change the Kansas City NFL team’s name and whole deal

We'll Always Have Paris: A Casablanca Tale

Just watching Angel’s Egg made my socks feel wet and chilly. I’m glad I saw it in California.

Got to see The Castle of Cagliostro in the theater earlier this year, now seeing its sequel (Angel’s Egg)

“wading through the souls of the damned” aka “announcing for the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs”

Please enjoy the Harry Carey statue as he wades through the wailing souls of the damned.

If one’s in LA and has the opportunity I highly recommend visiting Gemini G.E.L. on Melrose: actual good art and it has some a nice little early-deconstruction Gehry bits too. You get a sense of what he was trying to do with space in a subtle way. www.laconservancy.org/learn/histor...

bandcamp Friday purchases

People on this site seriously are depressed, aren’t they?

People (apparently?) hate Sideways on here because it’s an accurate picture of guys at 38.

Love this edition of God Emperor of Dune

“That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.” Get wrecked, Olivia

I don't think cis people should learn to code. I think when they do it they're reinforcing gentrification.

For the first time other saw another well-dressed man on the flight (wearing a similar sport coat as me)

Glad I made it home for Thanksgiving (and that I’m traveling back in the week)

I had this really strange feeling in one of the early Narkina V scenes, almost sort of micro-existential-crisis, that not only would Trek never truly be able to measure up to Wars again but, wow, this is cleverer than anything they did with Terok Nor and oh no I spent my life on the wrong franchise?

Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?

Covers both Boston, where I was literally born, and a fictional version of the sort of town I actually lived in

Also means I will not be following along and finally understanding(?) all the Steelers-derived memes on my feed

Was looking forward (or “looking forward”) to watching Bears game with my dad only to find it’s not showing in this market because local CBS affiliate does not want to bother competing with the Packers and decided to show Friends reruns instead

Imagining Tony Judt meeting Paul Dooley’s character from Breaking Away

I’m confident that muting the word “humanities” on here will make life much more pleasant

Thinking of the Coffee 2 post in my parents’ cold house, as they have a good enough thermos for me to still be drinking Coffee 1 in the afternoon.

Arriving in Milwaukee, looking out my window, and seeing a guy jet skiing on the Menomonee River in 45F weather. This is a great city.

Man, I hope this email finds you so back, rather than so over

Taking an escalator down to board an elevated train just messes with my intuition.

I used to be very good at low-grade slight masculine jerkiness and I need to get back in the swing of it.