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Death Valley National Park isn't the only place to catch this year's rare botanical phenomenon. Here are five other sites worth visiting.

Today, NYT celebrates their successes from the past year, but we are witnessing a major failure of leadership: @nytimes.com mgmt is denying one of our members, Rich Quan, permission to continue working remote, even as a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

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@empty-visions.bsky.social @nwnoggin.bsky.social interesting thread here about music, philosophy and cognition…

I just got an email from "Scouting America" the latest name for what used to be called the BSA. They announce that they've agreed with the "Dept of War" aka the DOD that they will add a merit badge about Military Service and _remove_ the Citizenship in Society merit badge...

Horrific story, especially the horrible teacher

I had mumps at age 12, luckily it only affected my head and not my other parts. I would not wish it on anyone, period. For my kids to get the MMR was personal, measles was already uncommon when I was a kid but mumps and rubella were both common...

Pray you once more, Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear? Know man from man? Dispute his own estate? Lies he not bed-rid? And again does nothing But what he did being childish?

Potomac, the Pacific Ocean, James and Chesapeake Bay, SF Bay, and now the Columbia

My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river. Mine is the Patuxent.

We flew from San Juan island to Seattle in a small plane, as we were boarding the PA called for Stockard Channing to board too. The really cool thing was that the pilot sat my 10 year old in the copilot’s seat because “he’s the only one who can’t reach the controls!”

I have my dad’s copies of the 2 issues of MF&SF that serialized The Pale Brown Thing, need to read “Our Lady of Darkness” to see where he went with it!

I can’t reply to the original post, but when I was an undergrad working for a physics lab that studied cosmic rays we cleared out an old store room… found some panels that had a grid of wire across them, only the wire had been torn open…

NEW: When she worked at NASA’s JPL, Amy Mainzer used to rack up high scores on the 1979 Atari game ASTEROIDS. Very apt, now she’s in charge of a space mission that will save the world from killer asteroids. Planet Protector, my new feature for @science.org, is live. www.science.org/content/arti...

Nola said it best: We are the Northern Mariana Islands We need your help to stop deep sea mining near the Mariana Trench Drop a 🦈 in the comments if you support us Please sign and share our petition Si yu'use ma'ase

I have to share this with my wife’s sister who farms the most amazing squash! Her delicatta squash is yummy!

Chinese Myths, a book for those who are new to China's amazing pantheons and supernatural bestiaries, want to find out more or get a broad overview. Also fun to dip into if you want to read about things you've come across in Cdramas, movies and games. #culture 3/

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

increasingly of the opinion that stealing Big Famous Jewels from big famous institutions is kiiiiiind of a victimless crime, guys

Big No Kings protest in Astoria OR on Marine Dr, most drivers were supportive/neutral, a few people flipped us off or revved their engines… and one older blonde woman in a light blue Jeep was driving down the edge of the lane swerving towards the crowd… multiple calls received by Astoia PD… FAFO?

Hey friends, we had a big jump in signatures last night. Thanks so much for sharing our petition to protect our marine national monuments. Please keep sharing it until the deadline on Tuesday forms.gle/jSauarKKXim5...

RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are preparing to do exactly what many of us feared they would. Next week, they are planning to present data that have been misused or manipulated to make it *appear* that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children.

no one has ever been more furious

Start your day off with the unfettered pleasures of Pieter Bruegel's marvelous Children's Games of 1560: an entire town taken over by children at play. Today is Bruegel's day.

DC today

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

My coworkers in India were already telling me they don’t want to come to the US for work visits, this is going to reinforce that sentiment big time

@moudhy.bsky.social Between Two Rivers arrived today in Coastal Oregon! Will read it next to my window that views the Columbia river 🌊⛵️🌊

Grok spread dangerous misinformation during the tsunami last night. It confidently and persistently argued that there were no tsunami warnings in effect for various areas when such warnings were in effect. Many were using Grok for updates since the ability to locate reliable data on X is degraded.

I love today's xkcd: A straightforward summary of the most popular iNaturalist entries for each state (plant and animal): xkcd.com/3118/

AP News: Death and destruction overtake Texas Hill Country in the wake of severe flash flooding apnews.com/article/thun...

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This video shared on reddit shows the tail-end of PF getting run out of Springfield, MO today by community members. Note the dork who is so scared he even falls trying to get into the truck. This is the energy everyone needs to meet nazis marching in their cities with.

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Everyone watching Pierre Poilievre eat absolute shit in Carleton and respecting Canada's bilingual culture.

Among cuts at HHS: most of the workers at NIOSH, incl Pittsburgh national lab that approves and ensures continued quality of respirators - N95s + breathing devices for firefighters, miners, people working w chemicals, construction dust. “Nothing is happening to make sure they continue to be safe”

Info from NC State Board of Elections on what to do: www.ncsbe.gov/news/press-r...

This is an important win.

Looking to get more involved with weather and climatology? The NWS is looking for help with CoCoRaHS! Check out the site for more details! As always, stay up to date on our happenings via our website and social media pages! #tcmetsoc #mnwx #cocorahs

Now they come for the Smithsonian. Targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture as well as The American Women’s History Museum. We cannot let these tyrants erase history and science. This is not normal. This is not ok. #ImpeachTrump www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

The update about the deaths of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa is still sad, but at least it seems it was not self inflicted. 💔https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/07/gene-hackman-death-investigation

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

So happy that the time that Woz zoomed out in front of my car on his Segway as I was turning the corner by the Tech Museum I was able to stop without hitting him! (I know for sure it was him since he was touring the Tech Museum and we encountered him several times)

A natalist conference featuring eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the man behind a race-science influencer account, and the founder of a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos, will be held at a hotel and conference venue operated by UT Austin.