Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today. #dascdmx

Black skimmers begin nesting on our beaches in the spring and we get to watch them grow from little baby puff balls to adolescents to adults over the summer. This bowl, with its rounded bottom so that it can rock and spin on a flat surface, almost functions […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

For me, the most pressing issue of these times is how to avoid nihilism, build community, love people. I know it sounds woo woo but I’m frankly out of other ideas.

I’m the world’s slowest dot matrix printer

#Fensterfreitag #dailyvenice #venice #venezia

If you live in the US and want to buy yarn or knitting needles or embroidery kits from my silly little shop, I finally have my online store set up and you can do that here!! https://the-dropped-stitch.square.site

A tooter who quooted a toot Tried to tutor two tooters to quoot He was in their replies Over thirty-two times But the two had the tooter on mute

Satan calls a web developer: [Accept Satan] [Not Today, Satan]

Have you noticed that schools rationalize opening the AI floodgates by promising they'll teach kids to use chatbots "responsibly," whereas the response to kids' cell phones is simply to ban them?

Enshittified textbooks drive me bananas, and situations like this one just add to my skepticism of textbook publishers & ed tech companies https://gamemaking.social/@SpindleyQ/115257061437319288

[US Pol: Who' Afraid of The Big Bad Left?] Because these are the kind of young men the right are raising. Men with very few robust emotional tools to cope with their expectations not being met. Men (and yeah yeah some women) who are more likely to turn to violence. I'm talking more about men […]

[US Pol: Who' Afraid of The Big Bad Left?] But maybe we need to say the names more often. We need to raise the question of the puzzle of self-inflicted violence on the right more often. What is going on with this political movement that it keeps turning on itself in such destructive ways? […]

Ugh. Once again the headline is "Walking and Biking Tips That Could Save Your Life" when it should be "Drive Safer So You Don't Kill Pedestrians and Cyclists" or even better, we could have protected bike lanes and fewer cars

I usually doomscroll until I see something positive to remind me to put down the screen, but there was nothing positive showing up in my feed tonight, so I’m posting this for anyone else who needs a visual cue to stop the doomscroll #bloomscrolling #remembertosleep

I've had occasion tonight to learn that Never Gonna Give You Up, by Rick Astley, can be danced as a polka. Do with this information what you will.

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

I am SO excited for this! Please join us on Friday eve when my Level 20 Elf kicks some evil butt! A list of the rewards that impact the game: $25 - In-Game Advantage $50 - Random Potion $75 - Natural 20 $100 - Random Magic Item $200 - Summon an NPC $300 - The […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Happy #bisexualvisibilityday for all my bi friends. And as always some reminders for those who aren't in the LGBT community; Bisexual isn't anti-nonbinary. It's long been accepted that Bi simply means your own and at least one other gender. Sure, there are enbyphobic bi people, but that's not […]

[Autism Teacher Observations] I've been teaching for a long time and I'm pretty good at it, not to brag or anything. Over my career I have watched autism and learning disabilities (which aren't the same thing) become more discussed, in some cases better addressed and in other cases become more […]

#tilingtuesday again, huh?

My study of old #folklore gets more and more relevant to current-day affairs. Example: All of these narratives about "Things That Cause #autism " are basically recycled folk tales about #changelings . Right now, we are at the: "The child is WRONG somehow - the mother must have been careless!" […]

Shadows #texturetuesday #nature #photography

Really missing the trenchant voice of @stevesilberman, who wrote a definitive history of #autism called "Neurotribes." He'd had some choice vituperative words for the Regime today.

l'shana tova my friends. may the new year bring more beauty and hope than seems reasonable to expect right now

Just realized I forgot to post my annual advice to college students before the school year started – but well, it's never too late to start: - GOING THE FUCK TO CLASS - GOING THE FUCK TO BED - DOING YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK THIS IS THE MAGICAL TRINITY OF NOT HATING YOURSELF OR FEELING YOU'VE […]

I detest the lab modules for the online class I'm teaching. The kits aren't bad (when they arrive without missing or busted stuff) and the ideas behind the experiments are decent, but the questions are largely tedious and some of the answer keys are flat out wrong (looking at you "boiling breaks […]

I'm honestly disappointed to know that you can buy a Cabinet official for $50k shit if that's all it takes let's Go Fund Me some political reforms

Dahlias at The Public Gardens are at their peak right now. #dahlias #bloomscrolling

Coming soon... #sciart

Not just one but a bunch of sectors (nonprofit, ed, ag, hospitality, manufacturing) are sounding alarm bells. And you don't fire the labor stats person when things are going well.

The last gasps of summer #bloomscrolling

#silentsunday #dailyvenice #venezia #venice

'Fireflies and Lighted House' - Kobayashi Kiyochika, ca. 1930s. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

Which brings me to my final point, because any time I talk about this stuff there are folks in my replies stressing out because the resiliency work I talk about seems out of reach: No one is ever "prepared." The work is not being "prepped," the work is becoming resilient and resourceful.

Not wanting a giant AI data center in your backyard doesn't make you a NIMBY because it's possible to believe that nobody should build a giant AI data center anywhere.

It's a whole mistake train, all aboard, choo choo as always, the caboose of any good mistake train is asking reddit what to do

"Look out, Mittens is powering up!" #caturday #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

not one of your #antifascist faves could ever be like la Grande Dame Josephine Baker. in November of 2021 Emmanuel Macron inducted Madame Baker into France’s mausoleum of heroes, the Pantheon ❝ Josephine Baker is inducted into the French Pantheon : NPR - […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Specifically over the next six months I will spend $500 on "better media" I will focus on individuals and give more to those with the least reach. I have $500 because I stopped using amazon and canceled all my streaming services. It's my entertainment budget (not counting books, we will NOT […]

When ICE floods a neighborhood with tear gas, it is flooding that neighborhood with a known abortifacient. In a just world, that sort of behavior would be a ticket to the Hague.

We found the perfect ball of moss #mosstodon

I hate this change to Libby so, so much. The old behavior was that you would place an item on hold and, if you weren't ready when it was your turn to borrow it, you'd extend the hold for a period of time (I think 1-30 days). Now you have to suspend a hold if […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #photography #ticino

[US Politics, Charlie Kirk] So there are now two teachers at my daughter's school who are on leave and will likely be fired for things they said about the death of Charlie Kirk. Mainly, they said all deaths are tragic, gun violence is a serious issue, and that Charlie Kirk was maybe not a great […]

US #travel pro-tip: you can decline the TSA facial recognition bullshit. Don't just fall in line, now more than ever. #anarchistcalisthenics

“since when does it matter where I save things to???” My daughter enters college and discovers the file system for the first time.

time sensitive: the Pacific Crest Trail (and indeed, all our national parks and wild lands) needs your help. There's proposed rulemaking at the US Forest Service that could introduce roads and development into currently roadless areas, making wild lands less wild and irrevocably changing the […]