A gentle reminder: “It is unlawful to sell, keep or offer for sale, expose for sale, possess, use, explode or have exploded any fireworks, aerial luminary devices or pyrotechnics within the City of Portland.” www.portland.gov/311/report-f...

If you are a gamer, Happy Amazon Web Service's Christmas Eve Outage to you and your family.

Cautiously optimistic about this adaptation. Casting choices, dim lights and muddy audio mix aside, this could be my movie of the year, 2026. youtu.be/Mzw2ttJD2qQ

The only version of this infernal song that I can tolerate at this point: youtu.be/NhwfdC9Zqyk

Rainy and cold day. Warm blanket. Hot tea. A soft and snoring derpy dog nestled behind my knee. This is a soundtrack and it’s exquisite: youtu.be/p3m3mcGnq3A

Portland Japanese Garden tracks fall colors progress in its garden: japanesegarden.org/fall-colors-...

Doing bicep push-up while balancing upside down on my friend’s feet is how I spend my weekends.

Had someone told me a decade ago that this is how I’ll be spending my free time, I would’ve laughed.

Today’s find at my favorite yarn and books store. Needle tatting instructions and a set of different-sized needles.

Looking forward to attending this event.

Holy heck. I just discovered that there's a brand-new graphic novel version of A Wizard of Earthsea by @ursulakleguin.com, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham. It's due out on March 11. Here's the link on @bookshop-org.bsky.social ... 📚 #SFF bookshop.org/p/books/a-wi...

Describe your in-person social skills with a gif.

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

And there's a comet! So this week we've had at least two aurora shows, and now a comet! What stellar portents! 😄 This is comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS). It's not new, but the last time it swung through the inner solar system was ~ 80,000 years ago. So go have a look for it, if there's no clouds

Yesterday's adventure into some high country was full of color for Fall, amid small lakes and tall sub alpine firs. #fall #leaves #lakes #hiking #photography #landscape #Pacificnorthwest #alpine

The Subprime AI Crisis “Generative AI must seem kind of magical when your entire life is either being in a meeting or reading an email.” www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

“Tiktok is the British museum of the internet” is my insult of the year.

It's about to get hot. Imma post something cool.

Asymmetrical balances make me swoon.

I found the ice gnome kingdom!

This is what it looks like against my chest.

A beautiful piece of wearable art from a blacksmith friend - a piece of Damascus steel fashioned into a pendant.

Just a reminder, we'll be starting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1831 edition) (also known as #HotFrankSummer) on May 15th. Schedule: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Cross-posting for the last time, don't worry! Add your handle below if you'd like to join us. 🛖 🔩 🐋

I got to chat to the WONDERFUL Donna Preston about her cameo as Despair in Dead Boy Detectives! @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/donna-p...

One of my friends sketched me and Gabby and it is giving me the best kind of giggles.

Finally got a chance to see Wim Wenders’s film Perfect Days, and it was worth the wait. A succession of small beautiful moments balanced on a knife’s edge between joy and sorrow. An exaltation of seeing and being. And that long final shot: absolutely transcendent. What a gift.

20 Minutes of Charles Schulz Drawing Peanuts Comics https://youtu.be/JTjBHRgpaEQ

My Maxillaria tenuifolia (Coconut orchid) bloomed yesterday.

I've told this story before, but when my paternal grandmother passed, her daughters fought for DAYS over who would get her precious ever-guarded recipe book, finally agreed they would share it, opened it to copy down the recipes and found it had only 1 entry which said "Book I pretend has recipes"

Category is: Bearskin Rug First Time at a Ball 💃🏽

Mosier Twin Tunnels Hike is easy, paved and fantastic for both a walk with your dog and a leisurely bike ride. https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Mosier_Twin_Tunnels_Hike

Saddle Mountain hike. One of the best to start a hiking season.

Gabby on her current visit to Astoria.

No comment. IYKYK

Molotov Moomin sticker spotted in Portland, Oregon

I am thrilled that Audra Mcdonald has won a much-deserved Audie audiobook award, for her virtuosic performance of my Iliad translation. It's not easy to maintain that level of intensity for over 20 hours, but she nailed it. www.audible.com/blog/article...

Tonight: Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier at Polaris Hall and this is the first stop on her 2024 North American tour in support of Rooting for Love. youtu.be/ENZD88Ktp9M

By they way, my #1 piece of advice about ALT text is to listen to people with visual impairments! Not random online people. I have seen a ton of well intentioned but terrible advice from sighted people about ALT text. Here is a clear guide: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

I’m excited about these stamps: www.stampinformation.com/2024/stamps/...

Speaking of which: I am fully geeked out to discover that there's a brand-new edition of The Language of the Night due out in May. This is one of Ursula K. Le Guin's very best essay collections (a pretty high bar) and I'm thrilled that there will finally be an ebook version available in the US.

Colorado Acro Fest 2024 was a lot of fun.

While I wait for some vehicle work to be completed, I thought I'd treat those of you following to one of my passions, night sky photography! ✨ This is part of the Summer Milky Way, featuring the stars of The Summer Triangle, nebulousity around Cygnus, and some core-ward star clouds! Enjoy!

Me, when I’m slacklining. Sound on. Profanities galore. G_d-tier captioning. www.tumblr.com/pookiestheon...

Perfect Days, new Wim Wenders movie that we got to see tonight, had me in its grip for the entirety of its running time of one hundred and twenty three minutes and I can’t stop thinking about it. https://youtu.be/HTgWYojq-z8

The value of Bluesky as a news conveyance multiplied overnight with @npr.org auto-posting their stories. Highly recommended add.

I hope you find your weirdo, even if that weirdo is yourself

Relatively new lightbulb above me in my office flickering, reminding me of this @tomscocca.bsky.social classic

I hear it's Superb Owl Sunday, so here's my woodcut Owl originally created for ARCANUM BESTIARUM by Robert Fitzgerald. The edition is long sold out and I'm not offering anything bearing it currently, but I should fix that. It's a personal favorite.

1/2 The renewed volcanic eruption near Grindavik, on the Reykjanes peninsula of Iceland, in a cloudless Copernicus Sentinel 2A satellite image from mid-8 February. Combined natural colour + SWIR.