Getting radicalized by local city building regulations.

This is so cool! The future is biology+compute theconversation.com/a-man-used-a...

Let's be clear: When Trump threatens to "obliterate" all the power plants in Iran, he is really threatening to murder 92 million people by taking away their water supply. He knows this. You should too.

I don’t know why but Liquid Glass makes me vaguely uncomfortable to look at. It‘s not “uncanny valley” because there’s nothing at all human about it. But the feeling is similar. Bleh.

Welp, it is no longer a mystery. It’s Influenza B 🫠

Everyone is focusing on his bad grammar. But he just casually threatened to murder 92 million people out of pure spite. I rather think that should be the focus right now.

We are now well into Week 3 of having >=1 more sick kids. First, Alfred had Strep. Then, he had Mystery Virus 1. Then, Mystery Virus 2. (with some likely overlap between them). Aurora had #1 for a couple days in there. Now Ada Sofia has #2 and Alfred seems to have relapsed with #1.

Putin and Bibi playing rock paper scissors for who gets to control Trump for the month

Studying biochemistry feels a bit like studying Japanese or Chinese. But, instead of learning characters composed of radicals, I‘m learning molecules composed of groups. Anyway, it has me back in my happy place 🤓 (Wish me luck on my upcoming midterm!)

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Escorts don’t help tankers with mines. They help with attacks. But, the problem is not that tankers are actively attacked, it’s the mines, right? So, *actually* securing the Straight would require 24/7 blanket patrolling to prevent more mining. (Or, you know, peace) Or am I missing something?

The world right now.

Sick day cuddles

I can't decide if it was one of my best ideas or worst to buy the ingredients and supplies for making vanilla matcha lattes at home. (I am drinking *a lot* of vanilla matcha lattes at home right now)

War is bad. We should not do the wars. I am a no on the wars.

I'm home with a sick kiddo today. Anyway, "My Neighbour Totoro" is still the best kids movie ever made. (With the possible exception of "Kiki's Delivery Service".)

On the upside, this ::waves wildly:: will accelerate the push toward renewables and nuclear. Right?

I wish this was the worst thing I heard about today. It’s not, of course. But, TIL there are “ant-trafficking networks.” For some reason, that made me smile. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wearing a coat in the office because it is too cold, even with your wool sweater 🥶

Question: If they wanted, could the Saudis just start selling oil in, for instance, Yuan? Make it the petroyuan instead of the petrodollar? Or petrorial? Or are there reasons why they *must* sell oil in USD?

It’s worse than nukes if they decide to decimate the desalination infrastructure. MILLIONS of people will die. It will trigger the Armageddon these monsters are horny for. Call your reps and DEMAND they ensure somehow that no more desalination plants are targete. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

Make It Sh*tty! Amazing PSA about enshittification by the Norwegian Consumer Rights Bureau. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

In lighter news, Aurora (7) saw a t-shirt and got curious about RHCP. So, I gave her a little tour on YouTube. Anyway, she correctly thinks Scar tissue is better than Californication. Though, she was confused why they were all injured in the video 🥰 youtu.be/mzJj5-lubeM?...

www.newsweek.com/diabetic-wom... JFC she is lucky she isn’t dead.

Alfred and I had a lot of fun today making this! The girls helped too ☺️

My current enemies are not in Iran, they’re in the Epstein Files.

My magical Ophaya pen-notebook package just arrived and I am so excited. 🤓 Is there a smart-notebook-Sky? I need some other nerds to be excited with me.

I’ve been a China-phile since I was a teenager. Even so, I never much liked their state controlled media. So when you turn to Chinese state TV for honest journalism, that is when you know your own media ecosystem is completely broken and unreliable.

I just realised the Venn diagram of people: -Who deny climate change and want to (drill baby drill) and -Who believe in the rapture and want more blood for oil …Is a ⭕️ And it ain’t a coinincidence. (This idea has doubtless been articulated better elsewhere, I’m just not up on Things.)

Alfred’s temperature hit 41.0 today 😳 Never had a kiddo go over 40 before, it’s been terrifying. Anyway, thank God for modern medicine. Without it, I guess he would be dead or in a coma, at best. (It’s strep and he is now on antibiotics)

What if we had an Ecosystem Restoration Complex, instead of a Military Industrial one? ForestMaxxing instead of “LethalityMaxxing”. I just think this sounds like a better way to spend our time and money, but what do I know.

Today I learned about biomining... I was immediately obsessed. I think figuring out how to use microbes to recycle e-waste is my calling?!

If you must declare your war then declare it and let civs evacuate long before the first bombs drop. What the actual fuck is this bullshit. You're telling me Israel couldsend a missle into the side of an apartment building and only hit its target, but we somehow precision-bombed a school full o kids

When one or more VERY expensive US aircraft carrier ships get blasted to smithereens by Iran’s hypersonic missile in the next day or so, and hundreds of US sailors and soldiers die, I will say “I told you so.” But, I won’t take any pleasure in it.

Hear me out: A draft, but for community service and ecosystem restoration, instead of the military service (which I suppose would be just one of the options). 2 years of this after high school, with job training integrated for various roles, would be transformative for the US.

On the train this morning, I saw a woman with a puppy in her jacket. The zipper was half open and it’s little head peeping out. I didn’t want to be weird and take a picture. So, you will just have to believe me when I say it was the absolutely cutest possible way to start the day. 🥰

She just got all of the millenial votes in her district with this.

Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫

After reading about the BAFTA incident, I was reminded of that time a techbro at my old job convinced HR that he had a special form of tourettes. This manifested in him drawing giant dicks on whiteboards in most of the meeting rooms. But he claimed it was Tourettes so he could not help it...

I am not suicidal.

Biomaterials x Space!!! #nerdgasm

The girls helped make the perfect birthday cake for my favourite guy 🥰 Happy birthday @matiasholte.bsky.social !!! 🥳🎂

✅Machine learning for analysis, science and robotics that can improve the world? Yes please ❌Theft-bot AI for generating images, video, and text, f all the way off. 🤷‍♀️ LLMs for summarising and explaining, ok, but only if it’s easy. If it burns too much electricity or costs too much, not worth it.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Why do people decline events when you can just not respond? It‘s easier to do nothing than passive aggressively slap the organiser in the face.

Just cut the cord finally and deleted my account in the Bad Place. I stayed so long because there was a lot of news there that I could not get elsewhere. This feels less true now than before. Though I suspect that is because of increased censorship there rather than less elsewhere. 1/2

There’s still a lot of joy in the world. Let’s focus on it today.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

Looks like we found out who the camps (and medical incinerators) are really for 🫠 theintercept.com/2026/02/12/p...