Heard a roaring in the distance. Horns beeping. What is that? ITS DYKES ON BIKES I am overcome. I am in religious rapture. I love dykes on bikes.

Olympia oysters (Ostrea lurida) are our native oyster in estuaries on the West coast of North America. They are marvels of evolution, able to survive extreme swings in salinity and turbidity often seen in their native environment. As another adaptation to their […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

Jimmy Cliff just came on the radio and my 5yo in the back sits up and goes WHAT IS THIS?! Amazing how he can feel just in his little instincts the power of the music.

someone’s having a good time adjusting their Trinitron convergence. #sfpride #sanfrancisco

more progress on my uniform population projection maps. have fixed the holes in the previous ones this is showing population density as experienced by people - every square is approx 150k people, and the colour of that square tells you the density they live at […] [Original post on masto.ai]

[California politics] California treats its billionaires like a nepobaby treats their controlling dad who keeps threatening to cut them off

Equal pay for equal egg!

Wait are we finally talking about the unpaid labor of women(geese?)

I’m so curious if the rest of the internet is losing its mind over this goose or if it’s just us. What happens if I go to work tomorrow and say eggs do not lay eggs?

Went to my brothers house so all the cousins could hang. My youngest nephew kept crying and anytime he did my younger son would yell “[older cousins name]! Your BROTHER is CRYING!” Like, go help your brother! Do your job! It was adorable and made me real proud.

No but actually why tf is no one in sf politics talking about a second homes tax

There’s an orange cat in my neighborhood. He is extremely friendly and will come loll around for pets and scratches. He has no collar and everyone who meets him wants to save him. He has been captured and attempted to return to his owner multiple times. He does not accept this state of being. He […]

Beginning next week, most Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries As the cost of clean energy keeps plummeting, it gets more and more obvious how much money we waste, and how much financial risk we incur […]

Great way to end the session with a shout-out to Brian May, who started his PhD, took a decades-long break to be a rock star, then finished his PhD, on zodiacal dust

I’m really glad to hear jackie fielder is back and feeling restored. Her voice was missed.

I keep getting emails from Temu telling me I’ve been picked and it’s terrifying each time.

The Football: The Amazing Mathematics of the World's Most Watched Object by Étienne Ghys #books #literature #dedication

If I die never having figured out how to make a soft “d” sound I’m going to be really disappointed in myself.

[Climate pessimism] Climate pessimists: Europe is only going to get hotter! Me, even more pessimistic, eyeing the cold blob: well…..

A beautiful summer evening in San Francisco! Time to bust out the puffy coat.

Hey girl! Drinking a gallon of milk on the train! Big move.

Oh man my local library is going a summer book club for kids of His Dark Materials. This is the first time I’ve wished my 5yo was 10.

I wonder if LLMs will start surge pricing

Ladybug ladybug fly away home / /Panic as I remember the actual lyrics to this song/ Everything is totally fine and cool no worries/ You’re kids just wanna hang

I am be-fucking-wildered

I think it is unfair that I am forced to be heterosexual but also I cannot sit in a chair like a human

After dinner: 5yo: can I have a marshmallow?? 3yo: can I have a shrimp?!? I love my little umami fiend #parenting

My 5yo is currently mocking me by pretending to be me going “I need some quiet time! I need some quiet time!” This is the most brutal take down I’ve ever faced. Also dear god I need some quiet time.

Oh nice I have leftover spicy noodles Oh no my entire being is on fire

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

Oh hey hum interesting. The back of my iPhone seems to have exploded? I think it overheated. It is somehow still working. It appears to be held together by its case. This can’t be good.

We took the kids by the MLK memorial in sf today and came upon this quote, which I hadn’t seen before

My most American trait is not being able to tell by their names which of the Canadian and British political parties are on the left or right

“At the height of the #GildedAge, around 1910, the 4 largest #American #fortunes owned wealth equivalent to 4% of US GDP. Today, that same tiny fraction of the population, the top 0.00001% … could buy 14% of everything produced in a given year in #America.” open.substack.com/pub/gzucman/...

Evidence keeps coming in that it's not an either/or of solar development or wildlife habitat. We can have both. #solarpunk https://phys.org/news/2026-06-solar-panels-rewetted-peatland-climate.html

instance admins are the real heroes of the fediverse and open social web. they turn our software into real communities. so let's not forget them, and everything they do for us. pay them, thank them, remember them. they are the glue of this whole network.

cover of 9 to 5, but in a minor key, to emphasize that it’s been 40 years and the man is still out to get you

No. Yall I absolutely can’t. THIS IS THE GUY THEY PAID A GAJILLION DOLLARS TO DO THE REFLECTING POOL. I was reading the article and I assumed this was just a picture for an ad about someone who like tries to catch bugs bunny in a mafia version of space jam??? How is this real.

Hey #bookstodon! Any of you beautiful ppl read The Leopard? I’m curious to hear ppls thoughts on the main character? Sympathetic? Complex? Asshole? Where do yall land? My bookclub has wildly divergent views on this.

Me and the other woman in my work book club have established a snarky side chat. It is a thing of beauty.

Now comes the time of day when I realize that, yes, I must also bike home from work.

Ok I’m sure there is a good reason for this, but I can’t think what it is: Why do the buses on market street pick up by the road and not on the islands where the f picks up? It creates a really dangerous situation for the bicyclists. #sfba #muni #BikeTooter

16ish year old kid on the bus has an amoeba tote. This gives me hope.

Just sitting at a table of my coworkers. Each of them sad so much of their time is stolen by work. Bemoaning that any efficiency gains just get eaten by their employer. What is the answer? Glad you asked friends. UNIONS.

Some mornings I go to a coffee shop in the Marina and it’s a pickup point for the Silicon Valley shuttle that takes tech workers to the Peninsula and South Bay. It feels like the perfect encapsulation of failed transit, urban planning and other policies. There isn’t enough housing near where […]

[Fond memory of a lost pet] My 3yo took a piece of American cheese out of the fridge. As I watched him do it I wondered if I’ll ever be able to look at American cheese and not think about my dog. He used to always tear off a little bit for her, she loved it so much. He looked at the cheese and […]

In the get people Fedi-hired category, my university department has an opening for a senior (research-side) sysadmin where you'll get to do fun things in a dynamic group that's doing stuff at the crossover of chemistry, robotics, and computing. It's sadly not open to remote people, so Toronto […]

I have learned so much about screen readers from being on mastodon and that makes me so unbelievably happy

Today my 5yo told me he doesn’t want to have kids cause he doesn’t want anyone to boss him around. Nothing has ever made me question my parenting more #parenting