You don't really comprehend exactly how much infrastructure American car culture and two world wars took out until you compare the historic rail maps to now. Pretty incredible.

I offered this goober my bowl of mixed vegetables to show her that the chicken dumplings were gone and she promptly stole a green bean and devoured it.

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Hands down, Los Angeles LAX has the worst ground transportation of any airport I have ever transitted, and that includes South Asia, Africa and Central America. I'm an architectural engineer and I couldn't design a worse system if I set about doing it intentionally. #worstairport #LAX

I'm all the way in Australia, but had to pause to note my blue phlox seeds came up back home! #bloomscroll #zone6b #zone7a #nativeplants

Greetings from Fiji!

Gone to Australia, brb!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

Fucking REI board. Held another sham election this year!

It is super crazy to me that someone has successfully managed to argue in favor of "my right to influence how someone else presents themselves" over "my right to present myself as I please" as free speech. That's just bonkers.

"The People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions -- everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal

Cori Lee Marvin (Canadian Artist, born 1980) "Singers", 2013. Watercolor on Paper, 14 × 14 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

My folks gave me the best present, new Wellies! Runner-up goes to the farm for producing these beautiful bloodroots, bluebells and cherry blossoms.

Climate has almost disappeared from our conversation. But it remains the most pressing challenge of our times. Last week the WMO said the planet is “more out of balance than at any time in observed history.” Energy security and climate security are not competing priorities.

The daffodils are getting out of hand. Seriously, look at these monsters! not #nativeplants 😤

Anyone recognize this sweet calico cat from #NoMa #DC? No microchip so possibly a neighborhood cat...

There sure are a lot of Nat Guard standing around doing nothing in CoHi metro all of a sudden... did someone decide the Union Station McD's was sufficiently protected and tell them to disburse or something?

"Tough times never last but strong people do." Ladysmith Black Mambazo was wonderful live - such a cool thing to have a multi-generational family making such beautiful music and sharing it around the world.

The funny thing about incels is most of them are perfectly ordinary to attractive looking young men (particularly the influencers, because internet) which tells you that contrary to their premise re: women being shallow and vapid, it reeeeally is just an insufferable personality problem.

Been thinking about how "Capital always encloses the commons" in regards to the internet a lot over the past decade.

Apparently my natural formal writing style includes a number of AI "tells" and I gotta say, I'm kind of insulted?

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

Author @tkingfisher.com is hilarious and engaging in person - if you ever get the chance to catch one of her book signings, do it! My only regret is that we didn't solicit the audience for likeminded D&D players. Anyway, now Zac and I have to go learn about giraffe sex.

"There’s a surplus of performative outrage and handwringing over the logical outcome of the war without opposing the war causing the war crimes in question."

Methane leaks account for 25% of global warming and are easy, low hanging fruit to fix. Many are in the US, and the failure to address them is unconscionable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In the NJ case where the AUSA got tossed out of the courtroom: Bahahahaha!

I interviewed with this company before accepting my current job. They offered me a higher salary and a higher sign-on bonus, but at the end of the day I just couldn't bring myself to do prison work.

They did not mention the apocalypse would be ushered in by catastrophic allergies.

Rapidly descending into misanthropy here y'all.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

#Plantsky, little native plants I expected to ship in April unexpectedly arrived yesterday. Do I coax them along inside or risk planting them? I don't normally plant anything in our zone 7a woods in March but everything in question is semi evergreen or breaks dormancy early... 😬

“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union. This could have tremendous implications for voting:

In super cute news, our baby elephant is doing ok despite a rocky start (mom not very interested in mom-ing)! Elephant social structures are amazing. nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news...

In light of the shitbag 4th Circuit ruling allowing bans on gender-affirming care, let me remind you: trans brains are not male or female, they are trans - physically, biologically, really. If you care about them, let them be themselves. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-t...

If I should disappear under mysterious circumstances, my cedar allergies have murdered me and hidden my corpse.

Union carpenters shape this city every single day, laying the foundations, framing the walls, and building the spaces where our communities come alive. And now they’re helping build the future we deserve.

*snort* I'm reviewing the building site survey videos my junior engineer recorded, and the silly AI auto-transcript of his comments is going on about 36x36" ducks and macaroons (mech rooms). Clearly ready for primetime here...

The frogs have spoken! From the pond we're hearing wood frogs, spring peepers, and upland chorus frogs, and from the seep Eastern spadefoot. Spring time! 🐸

Friendly reminder: calling a grown-ass woman a girl is diminutive at best and sexist at worst. If you wouldn't call a man in the same context a boy, don't do it to a lady -- we're all adults here. Thanks, ~The Management

I want you all to know i have cat-like reflexes (want to sleep all day in the sun)

A small group of Democratic lawmakers have just proposed legislation to bar members of Congress from profiting off prediction markets, citing elected officials' possession of "material nonpublic information."

It is absolutely blowing my mind how many people are circulating a quotation by Eisenhower re: the dangers of the military industrial complex. Do folks not know Eisenhower was responsible for the coup that overthrew the one and only democratically elected government of Iran that brought about this?

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I generally avoid "War is Hell" stories, and this one by @hironennes.bsky.social was uncomfortably close to home, but the setting, characters and satire were so fascinating I read well past bedtime. Read if you like China Mieville style Weird Lit and alchemical cyberpunk dystopias. #booksky

If you ever find yourself thinking "I'm tired, I'm busy, I can't be bothered to vote this time around" -- no you're not. EVERY vote matters.

Architect and owner's rep are discussing elevator design and someone said "if it's not a huge lift, can you do X" and it took every ounce of restraint I had not to point out the pun...