Flowering weed: henbit deadnettle, Lamium amplexicaule... I had seen a few of these already, but there's suddenly enough to color patches of the grass purple

Flowering weed: Dandelion, Taraxacum... I've been told not to try to narrow it down much beyond that, Taraxacum is a bit of a mess ( :

Flowering weed : we've got a good patch of common chickweed across the lake as of today...

Flowering weed -- lotta bittercress out today! Always hard to get a picture of this guy

finally, a streamlined social media experience

My kiddo declares that the little odd scrap bits of nugget parts in the dino nuggets are "nugget coprolites"... I can't argue with this!

I woke up w a headache so I called in for the morning and took the dog for a longer stroll. It's a lovely day out... even getting a little warm now #ncwx

More crocus posting?

Current status

You can't see me!

Accurate depiction of cat with a little salami

"Going on a stupid little walk for my stupid little mental health"

... why is 10:30 the time my dog gets riled up and wants to play either tug or fetch, and thinks jumping up on me or Mrs. @cpgrouchy.bsky.social carrying her toy will convince us? ...

Today in #critterspotting I thought I saw a pickerel frog when I took the doggo down to the creek before work. This evening I definitely hear them! And the toads, and the spring peepers... Also: saucer magnolia must be near its peak, daffodils loving life, buckeye leaves starting

The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of a…

Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

TRUMP CONFISCATES RAIN ON PLAIN. FILM AT 11

... sitting here at 6:00 running Jira jql queries for stuff to stuff into a report, and cussing liberally at it bc it keeps trying to autocorrect my query

Oho... *popcorn dot GIF*

It's 4:00 and I'm waiting on a colleague for a project and I'm getting hungry Can somebody email me a taco or something

Kristi, you're doing a heck of a job

... wasn't Dolan the one the MAGA guys wanted to be Pope?... Self-proclaimed über-Catholic Vance is picking a fight with the guy his own people liked best? After Timothy Cardinal Dolan offered him a face saving kindness...? Maaaan. These guys are just exhausting

#ux problems: why *do* we make everybody wait however many seconds and click thru stupid captcha tests to see (eg) a menu...

Anyway, this is a good reminder if an LLM-generated text has these strikingly novel insights, it is almost certain that they come from a book that your academic library has lying around in an external warehouse somewhere and no one has requested it in decades.

Iran has choked off 90% of the world's chili reserves by closing the Straights of Hormel

How your email finds me

*opens Threads* *sees somebody with a question they could have googled... but a linguistic question, not tech help* Detailed helpful answers... obvious jokes, some funny... and a sub-thread of "you're obviously American" *closes Threads*

... he made Washington into Bill Maher, but with eyebrows

Uhhhmmm don’t love a Bluesky dev publicly calling the entire user base conspiracy brained. If Bluesky users are prone to conspiracies @alex.bsky.team it’s because y’all place no value on communicating and don’t give people enough information, forcing them to come to their own conclusions.

Wisdom. xD

ok, look: if you're proud of your product and you're advertising a freebie that's great; if you want me to take a survey before you give me anything that's... probably fine; but by the time I'm answering set-up questions like a compliance training, I'm gonna close the tab and never look at you again

since it's gonna be topical here AGAIN... a college-friend of mine hates DST. ... no, not @knittingdaddy.bsky.social , though he does too. MP on DST: marypatcampbell.substack.com/p/here-comes...

None a' these!

Post a tree you have photographed.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

One of my grandfathers was a security question, the other was applying for a bank account...

what do you mean “frolicking” isn’t a deliverable. are you super sure

Archaean post

I have absolutely let people on bsky drop a book directly into my brain before. Including at least one commenting on this...

... hang on. Instead of giving their moderation acct the privileged access it needs, @bsky.app threatens users who block it? Is this true...? Surely it can't be true

Definitely annoyed at the decreasing amount that Microsoft thinks somebody might interact with a clock, as their OS marches forward Signed, there's an app I have to find and pin to the taskbar now, but it doesn't show seconds /clocks aren't just for meeting invites

More crocus posting

Oop, there's another flowering weed... American field pansy, Viola bicolor That's always an early spring one

That’s a 29 point swing. In Arkansas.

More crocusposting, bc your TL needs it

Had hoped the Welsh were up to something remarkable ( :

DAVE WASSERMAN: I've seen enough. Alien defeats Predator

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

New YouGov poll finds that for the first time, a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump *strongly.* His overall approval is down to 38%, a new second-term low. When is the last time a majority has disapproved strongly of a president?

...politically I am very okay with weed being legal Socially, yeah, no problem with people who smoke some and I don't feel like they need to hide it I do wish it didn't result in the whole world smelling like people smoking again... it's a different smoke than 1985 was, but lately it's everywhere