the flydubai flight diverted to Baku, but AHY1091, you’re getting too dizzy to get to Jeddah

70° F and no wind. What is the sorcery in San Francisco right now? #WestCoast #BestCoast

a pre-emptive strike, also known as a "strike"

Feels a little truer now

post-emptive

new term “post facto strike”, as in a strike you always wanted to do and find a justification for it after you’ve decided

We’re gonna need you to get more specific, Tyler.

nope

The Wall Street Journal says the U.S. “participated in the attack and was also carrying out strikes” against Iran.

For context, Politico reported Wednesday that the Trump regime thought it would be better optics if Israel bombed Iran first so that America could just appear to be helping an ally rather than starting a new war

"If current trends continue, modeling indicates average bicarbonate levels could approach the upper limit of today's accepted healthy range within 50 years," A/Prof Larcombe said. "Calcium and phosphorus levels could also reach the lower end of their healthy ranges later this century."

Interesting. ""What we're seeing is a gradual shift in blood chemistry that mirrors the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide which is driving climate change," A/Prof Larcombe said."

<me, sowing> “I love the cult of personality. Hahaha, yes, this rules!” <me reaping> “what the fuck. my stocks.”

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

Mannnnn it’s never this warm at night in SF and it’s FEBRUARY

Hey, you, watch this; its fun:

Look, if everyone is going to be 12, this is how you have to do it. 🤣

“Méliès made more than 500 films but never progressed beyond his early technical achievements. The film world passed him by. In World War I, the negatives for most of his films were melted down for silver and celluloid, and he burned more himself after the war”

[McFarland’s] great-grandfather, William Frisbee, had been a potato farmer & schoolteacher in western Pennsylvania by day, but by night he was a traveling showman. He drove his horse & buggy from town to town to dazzle the locals with a projector and some of the world’s first moving pictures

“'Gugusse and the Automaton,' a long-lost film by the iconic French filmmaker George Méliès at his Star Film company. The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot." "It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century."

it took a month to paint these and we are so lucky she did

valencia oranges, painted by amanda almira newton, 1914

Oh yeah, that show came on right after

The government illegally took your money. They won’t give it back.

So: - WH succeeds in engineering a monopolistic friendly media merger - DoD declares war on Anthropic, Cub Scouts and top-tier universities - Trump contemplates an EO to take over the elections with input from Q conspiracy theorists - RFK says to eat tripe

remember how much time we spent as kids worrying about dying in quicksand…in urban Baltimore

You must have a passport to register to vote! We’re going to make it impossible for you to get a passport! How Soviet can we get?

“The Brooklyn Public Library ended its passport application services on Friday after being ordered to do so by the federal government.”

Outside of the obvious, I may have no more murderous levels of rage than at the UX designers at Apple who decided to make things like sharing a screenshot go from two steps to seven

The impact of these sorts of temperatures in February on flora & fauna should not be understated. There are many species that are imperiled by increased atmospheric heating. This coming summer is going to be brutal.

About a million years ago, Mapzen (RIP) banned the Trump administration from using our services. At the time it felt hypothetical, a preemptive ban on "what if" questions. I never imagined it would play out for real with today’s most prominent tech company. www.mapzen.com/blog/mapzen-...

I miss shame.

NINE DAYS UNTIL SPRING FORWARD IT IS HAPPENING SOON WE WILL BE IN THE LIGHT

Well done, driver of the Subaru with an “I bought this before Elon went crazy” bumper sticker

71 in Feb, totally normal

Here's a chart showing who funds basic research in the US. It's easy to tell that private funding cannot make up for significant cuts to government funding.

I come not to praise Claude or whatever but giving unaccountable robot decisionmaking to thundering dipshits who just shot down their own drone with a laser does seem like wrong side of history business

Dear business owners, Please, we're begging you: Stop with the artsy bike racks. We don't want them. They don't work. Thanks but not thanks. Just get those basic, city-issued, blue staple racks from PBOT and we'll love you and spend more money at your store. 🙏🏻 - Your bike riding customers.

Scattered showers & thunderstorms will likely occur in this remarkably warm/humid/conditionally unstable airmass this wknd across NorCal. Best odds in Sierra, northern foothills, and northern Sac Valley. But isolated showers/t-storms possible as far south as SF/Sac as well! #CAwx

In fact, this may be one of the most conspicuously humid airmasses in recent memory across the Sacramento & San Joaquin Valley--with air temperatures in the 70s and dewpoints into the mid 60s! 70s are not record-breaking, but mid-60s dewpoints are remarkable for Feb. #CAwx

Exceptionally warm-to-hot late winter conditions expected across the Southwest through the weekend, peaking Fri and Sat. Numerous daily record highs (and record warm overnight minimums) will be set, along with some Feb monthly records possible. [Thread] #CAwx #AZwx #NVwx

I love e-bikes. But class 3 e-bikes and e-motos are really just electric motorcycles and I see too many kids riding these things without helmets or other protective gear because they conned their parents into buying them the more powerful "bikes" It's what I would have done as a kid.

Roberts: Let’s bring in the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. He joins us now.

LLMs can't even get days of the week right consistently, they are not going to protect anyone from a bunch of ICBMs. Some dummy in the Pentagon thinks they are deploying Skynet when they are actually giving the nuclear codes to Clippy.

The Lancet also shares some responsibility here: It published Andrew Wakefield's bullshit study about vaccines and autism in 1998 that it would later have to retract. Kennedy (and Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey and Oprah) just ran with it. Wakefield would lose his license for it.

This guy is worth 25 Stephen Millers and that might be a low estimate

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside Norway comes for the #TechBros www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

Gaze Upon a Nation Marsha Koersvelt c. 2025