When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I feel the need, given the news, to post a calming photo that I processed very differently than my norm. This was a daytime photo before I over-processed it, but I like the way it looks. (Why yes, I do like abstract art…)

A number of pages and sites removed recently from .gov sites now have archives viewable at govarchive.us - just substitute "govarchive.us" for "gov" in the URL that doesn't seem to work any more, and see what you find! https://govarchive.us/ #c4l26

Friday we went to the Philadelphia Flower Show and immersed ourselves in the smells and sights. #bloomscrolling

@futurebird Now I'm imagining an "Ooops, all infrastructure" version of Stardew. You move into a crumbling town, and instead of farming, you spend all your time fixing issues with transit, water, power, and the library. You could even follow the classic farm arc, where you start out repairing […]

Stardew valley is a popular game with people in my generation. Like most video games it's a power fantasy. In this case about growing food, having a functional "third space" in your community and fixing public transit. Pure escapism. Also there are magic forest spirits and dungeons with […]

me too, medical clinic sign me too

What good can you do today? What trouble can you cause? What suffering can you ease? What needs to exist, and can you help build it?

Woke up this morning to strong odiferous evidence that the local skunk is back

There was an amazing sunset behind the mountains and the glacier, while horses were walking through the water towards a small island. This was the view from Viking Café near Vestrahorn. Iceland, September 2019. #iceland #vestrahorn #photography […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I saw an older man fall on a busy road today. I did a u-turn to help him and 3 other people joined. Two of us helped get him back on his feet while another took down his information. He was shaking from the impact and a bit scraped and bloody. He asked for help to the bus stop, instead he was […]

[uspol, US aggression] 2026 has been a very long year https://mastodon.ie/@devxvda/116150286255135307

Thank you for your attention to the previous circle earlier, citizens. Your regular programming now resumes, with a couple of seaglass AmperSands from Cockenzie, earlier today. The collection continues to grow! […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Sending peace, but staying angry and ready to channel my anger into productive actions on a moment's notice.

Hi, I would like to go maybe, like, a few months in which I don't have to contact my any of my student to make sure their friends and families are okay. Please.

I'm also very curious if any cis people got the letter by mistake. It seems likely. Nearly all of the people who have been harassed in public over restrooms rules tend to be cis women who look a little butch or like a bowtie or something. This isn't a flaw it's a feature. Because part of the […]

Don't get it twisted this attack on trans people in Kansas (how did they identify the people they sent those letters to? They have a list, the monsters.) is a trial, a test. Let them get away with it they will move on to the next smallest group they feel they could target without public backlash […]

#tgif #Bloomscrolling #flowers #freitag Moin!

intimate #bloomscrolling #photography #macro #flowers #blumen

Academic publisher: Your textbook now has a podcast! Me (a professor): It's AI, isn't it. Publisher: No no, it's a *podcast!* It's a *resource* to help your students! And it's *free!* (until we "bundle" it in a premium tier while the regular tier mysteriously disappears) Me: … Publisher […]

#thisissostupidbutitmademelaugh the meme apocalypse predicted https://www.instagram.com/p/DUic_RYE5Kg/

stay safe, kansas

Just in case you didn't quite buy into my previous discussion of the Capital as Power perspective, and/or the University component of that analysis. Here's an article from inside higher ed: Virginia State Univ. terminates a whole dept after asking them to sign an absolutely impossible buyout […]

You know what? HyperCard was a glorious moment in time that I dearly miss: an army of non-experts were bashing together and sharing weird and wonderful stacks that were part 'zine, part adventure game and part database. Instead of laughing at vibe-coders, maybe we should ask ourselves why the […]

That inability to simply be alone is very real and very human. When you talk to a chatbot you are talking to a rubber duck, a volleyball, yourself. But it isn't a self help exercise. It is a prescribed job requirement. It is a solution looking for a problem. The "AI" SF story would not have […]

Worth repeating: Claims of "AI" democratizing anything (coding, creative endeavors, etc) are always BS. The thing locking out people from doing that is not having the time/resources. You want to democratize coding/art/creativity? Give people paid time off to do it and access to infrastructure […]

it’s a better stop snowing. I don’t want to the trap at work. That’s a different kind of snow day.

#Bloomscrolling #flowers #Vorfrühling Moin!

We usually save the unpopped popcorn kernels from the popcorn maker, to re-pop them later. My wife labeled this container. 😂 [In the US, an old-timey way of referring to the unpopped popcorn kernels in a bowl is "old maids"]

Old barn, roof and siding #texturetuesday #mobilephotography #rural

I needed a laugh, and @actualham's travel thread delivered. The Narnia bus loo was just the start 😂 https://social.coop/@actualham/116126432866148688

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Chris gets a little snarky when someone suggests professionals should work for free... #notevengigeconomy #fairness #taxtheoligarchs

1 week left to submit your abstracts! If you have used arts, music, creative writing, or any humanities-related ideas and topics to teach chemistry, please consider submitting an abstract to our symposium!! #BCCE2026

Your infrequent reminder that I spent twenty minutes dead a few years ago, and without constant CPR and a correctly-used defibrillator when paramedics arrived I would still be dead. LEARN CPR. LEARN TO USE A DEFIBRILLATOR.

The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to modify an industrial safety regulation covering the activities of some 11,000 chemical-related manufacturing, warehouse, and storage facilities.

Authoritarians test to see how much evil they can get away with, how outrageous are the edicts we're willing to obey. Thus I'm reposting my essay “Challenging Students...and How to Have More of Them” on how teachers can help kids to become reflective rebels […]

New sign, erected seven years after Howard Scott talked of a survey of North America and formation of energy units, which had widespread vogue in the early years of depression. Josephine County, Oregon #HowardScott #NorthAmerica #JosephineCounty […] [Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]

"Black Start" Power Plant, Belgium - Part 2: Control room Though officially closed around 2010, the control room remained eerily pristine when I visited a few years ago. The computer terminals were still live, and the lights remained on. Since its closure, the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Get ready. Angry Sightless Scribbles post incoming. Yesterday a fucking Tech Bro just came into an independent bookstore, where everybody was happily reading, drinking hot chocolate or tea, and this dick hole just decided to come in to try to promote his stupid shitty AR but he called it an AI […]

#silentsunday #iceland #travel #birthdaytrip

So GothPanda is working on a kind of revival of the Yahoo Directory concept, called "Neato!" I'm signed on as a guide, and am trying to help build up its links (it's only got four so far!). If you'd like t help, go to https://neato.directory/ and use the Add link in the upper-right corner!