Today’s “catch” while snorkeling:

I half-expected to find a glittering chest behind the hill.

Californians, here's something you can do to protect trans people in our state. Help make some good news!

Hey pals. What’s the difference between a dirty bus stop and a lobster with breast implants? One is a crusty bus station and the other is a busty crustacean TGIF amirite

This is the real color in an unfiltered photo!!

Way ahead of y’all there (but I suppose all the Celiacs and folks whose bodies react to food are).

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Thread of the fish I saw this morning snorkeling!

Watching The White Lotus at a resort — albeit a small and locally owned one — in Fiji comes highly recommended.

This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*. Yes: free. If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

Never forget!!!

Surprise table-top roleplay gaming (esque) find in Nadi, Fiji! Pacific Islander TTRPGers, I’d love to see a module of this. Might be best-suited for Coyote & Crow, but Pathfinder‘s Golarion has a fitting setting too.

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

Yesterday after a lesson in Fijian we went on a mountain walk and ate tamarind off the ground. Apparently you can find several variants in the same ecosystem; we saw two of the major three. This is the elongated flat tamarind:

US Bluesky talking about war-ravaged Portland? We should! SO MANY DEDICATED GLUTEN-FREE RESTAURANTS there; it's utter heaven <3. Just 3 of my favorites: - New Cascadia (gf bread that tastes'n feels like bread) - Schilling Cider House (delicious pub fare) - Groundbreaker Brewing (beer and food, yum)

You know that you are the new Boomers when it comes to music when in a resort in Fiji, the guitar player lays on a — compelling — rendition of Chasing Cars.

Sis and me chilling. Also doubles as a Where’s Waldo? image regarding said sister.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Unironically need to force more loved ones in my life to play Pathfinder with me. 😅

Wow. iOS26 has SO MANY quality of life and accessibility features for neurodivergent folks. Call screening. One button “Delete and Stop” text messages. On hold call notification. And glass icons seem to really tone down my distraction level. Very cool stuff. 1/2

Well don't I feel stupid

I finished The Necromancer's Tale last night and really enjoyed it. Story- and character-driven indie games are always good, but they're better when you can raise the dead!

I recently re-read the Lioness Rampant quartet! Still satisfactory.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

It won’t decrease the furry skeets being pushed into my timeline, alas. Here’s my first public drawing of everyone’s favorite ball of anxiety, Anchor Root: a smol fellow student, an ant kholo @ the #Magaambya ancient university in #Pathfinder2e ‘s outstanding #StrengthofThousands Adventure Path.

Wife and I are sneakily trying to get ourselves invited to a watch party of this particular Twelfth Night, coming up on PBS this November…for people who, uh, have a live television.

In case you want to rent a goatherd -- I got the contact number right here.

Not falling for this again

An antidote to despair and cynicism -- academics studying countries facing autocratic takeovers document that more than half of these episodes lead to "U-turns" and more than 90% result in strengthened democracies. Up to us to make it so! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

i would never recommend such a thing

On the plus side, one of my favorite people is coming to visit the Bay this weekend — @zoesie.bsky.social and I will be propagating shenanigans, as we usually do online.

5/10 stars PROs: not flavored, no disgusting aftertaste; not to be blamed for being something mankind is not meant to chug 1 l of. CONs: Exactly the kind of product pushed by the profiteering enterprises that mushroom like cancerous growths inside the US health care system

Walking into the hospital for the CT scan of my unruly guts like

Since folks often ask for examples of how I politely push back when doctors don't understand the clinical significance of "shit that should be taken more seriously in people with a specific condition", I'll share the reply I wrote:

when a penis scientist makes a discovery, they say "urethra!"

Public transit and science fiction!! You know you want it! Check out this incredible FREE event tomorrow, 9/16, in San Francisco. The good news is that this event will be livestreamed, so you can sign up to watch remotely at the link!

I would really love to see TTRPGs also released as an epub so I can read it on my phone in dark mode when I'm curled up from a migraine. Most TTRPG pdfs aren't easily viewed on phones, and it's an accessibility issue rarely discussed. And there are more applications for epubs than my migraine days.

Die FAZ ist halt immer gerne Steigbügelhalter.

Apparently there is a point where your car is so dirty that your friend who likes cars washes it for you because he is so embarrassed on your behalf…

Any of you artists able to link me to a good explanation of the Vanishing Point in Still Life drawing?

Found my wife's Bluesky account.

It's National Celiac Disease Awareness Day in the US on 13 September. Here's to a future of more people taking food-related conditions seriously and implementing more SYSTEMIC protections.

We've known these patterns since 1945, and the media -- beyond social -- must call out bad-faith posturing for what it is: "The anti‐Semite has chosen hate because hate is a faith; at the outset he has chosen to devaluate words and reasons. How entirely at ease he feels as a result." 1/4

ReadiMask are great! I've used them for plane rides since 2021, and I've never gotten as much as the sniffles on those trips.

I'm sure @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social is all over this, but just in case. @mariagallucci.bsky.social tells us "putting panels over 8K miles of federally owned canals and aqueducts could generate over 25 GW of renewable energy — enough to power nearly 20M homes" 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Not to go all Uphill Both Ways! on you, but yesterday I sat in the bus to art class and overheard two college freshmen. STUDENT 1: …and they stated it was 36 Celsius. STUDENT 2: What’s Celsius? STUDENT 1: *pause* It’s degrees. Like Fahrenheit.

@sylwen-ardent344.bsky.social made this for me, and now has this new Bluesky account so I can give him a shout-out.

Fuck Newsom!

Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.