please don't threaten me with a great time

I'm seeing reports that "rude" is one of the labels that defaults not just to "warn" but to "hide", which is bonkers. Be sure to go through the immediately visible labels, the ones where you have to click the "Bluesky moderation" labeler, _and_ the special "adult content" checkbox.

Stock videos of people eating in reverse

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Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa

Painting in progress for upcoming Waking Wonder show at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco. #terryribera #modernedengallery #sanfrancisisco #wakingwonder #sandiegotattooartist #remingtontattoo

I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.

Under Over Over - West Hampstead So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains. The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

If your protest privacy/security advice does not start with a discussion of threat models, it is probably not good advice.

I experience Soviet speculative fiction as dryly whimsical and refreshingly free from irrational optimism.

Researchers in Taiwan have added a brand-new biochemical cycle to plants, allowing them to absorb & use carbon dioxide more efficiently than photosynthesis alone. Test plants carrying the “McG cycle” grew up to 3x larger, with bigger leaves & far more seeds and fats buff.ly/FIUA8Ca #ShareGoodNewsToo

"Enceladus ticks all the boxes to be a habitable environment that could support life: the presence of liquid water, a source of energy, a specific set of chemical elements and complex organic molecules." 🧪🪐🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Mental health tip in these trying times: Ignore emotionally charged content based on a screenshot, photo, or video unless it is accompanied by a link to a reputable, dated source that you verify. Even that isn't a guarantee of quality, but it will filter out most of the crap. 1/2

Actually y'know, fuck my doomerism.

Timeline cleanser 🐈

We took the coastal road into town after dark, headlights cutting through the mist and clarifying nothing in the haze but movement. The sea, close and unseen, whispered secrets.

highway may not be the infrastructure analogy you were looking for.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

If you like selkie stories (and who doesn't?), I hope you'll enjoy my new story, "I Would Breathe Water," in Club Chicxulub vol. 4, "Limbo." clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxul...

Now more than ever we need The Middleman!!

If you've been wanting to read a chapter from "San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries," now's your chance. "Historians aren’t certain how many graves remain at City Cemetery. Researcher Alex Ryder believes it’s at least 10,000 but is probably closer to 20,000 or more."

Certainty is halfway round the world before curiosity has got its boots on

It has been suggested to me that these sound like band names.

Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics

🎵 it's the i of the tiger, with a g to the right Risin' up to the challenge of a vowel And the last two letters are an e and an r And a t is in the front of the iiiiii of the tiger🎵

Been reading Wodehouse's corpus start to finish and this is the first truly great short story. Read to the end, would you? www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/10/at-g...

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Alright, you all have to stop and appreciate this stunning little dude. The blue eyes, fuzzy sideburns, and cute little bee feet. These longhorn bees are typically energetic and skittish, but Mr. Handsome must've been napping. A great opportunity for a nice portrait. (Melissodes denticulatus) PA

Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.

SOMEbody deployed to production on a holiday weekend

When the asteroid struck, much of the world died. Burnt wood, bone, and ash scattered under darkened skies. Fungus spread over the decay, lives that also fed surviving ants. Ants who began to farm the fungus, inventing agriculture long before we did. I’ll tell you more at Smithsonian. #InvertFest

If old sysadmins are known for keeping a loaded gun ready to shoot the printer if it ever makes an unexpected noise, perhaps you can imagine how we feel about "agentic" "AI" controlling the web browser.

Timeline cleanse (wash car later)

In the coming few months I'm going to be talking a lot about the way we treat indigent and unclaimed people at the end of life and in death. Here's a video I made about Colma's Sunset View Cemetery, where markers were removed and people played golf on the graves for 20 years:

I miss the time when AI was a weird, kinda esoteric research subject that I mostly learned about from goofy Janelle Shane blog posts, rather than a venture-capitalist nightmare of misinformation, phony science, illusory relationships, layoffs, cultishness and resource depletion

We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.

I recommend this delicious hopepunk novella ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

check out my new piece, "Endoplanetary Ecologies" video of slime mold created via analog glitch video microscopy, presented in a custom designed + 3D printed housing wrapped in gold leaf

Weavings by Marilou Schulz (Diné) on view in “Once within a Time” at SITE Santa Fe.

unironically, marketing psychology is the real life version of the necronomicon. everyone who studies it should be sworn to secrecy unto death and their sole role in society should be to recognize if someone else is about to discover it and stop them

A blue bee! This is the blue carpenter bee, Xylocopa tumida. I was SO excited to find this animal just before dawn at Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo. So full of beauty.

My amygdala kindly requests that all existential threats queue neatly and wait their turn so they can be processed efficiently. Thank you.