RIP Sid Krofft. I loved HR Pufnstuf.

There’s going to be a lot of unfortunate FAFO if FDA abdicates its responsibility to ensure that drugs are safe and effective. (Remember, insulin is a peptide and it’s natural. It’s a critical therapeutic, and can be deadly if used wrong).

Hot take: The NBA has a big problem. If winning games isn’t important enough for your best players to play, either there are too many games or the incentives are perverse.

This is a great analysis of the incoherence of the administration’s institutional mind.

Do YOU Have Republican reps? Call 202-224-3121 "Hi, I'm [name with spelling]. I'm a constituent from [city & ZIP]. Today, I'm calling to demand that [name] supports the war powers authorization. The president is acting unlawfully. He's making people less safe [etc]." Say if you want a call back.

Biological sex: it is so much more complicated than the average TERF thinks: phys.org/news/2026-04...

A police union that disdains civilian control (“it is sad that council members believe that they are more verse in police matters than those who actually do the job”; quoted in an @houstonchronicle.com article I couldn’t get to load) is a problem.

Time to get rid of that water guzzling front lawn, no matter where you live. The birds and bees will thank you and your water bill will go down.

Even if you write science fiction like I do you still can’t say “The pee trickles by like glowing gems in the vacuum of space.”

Who exactly has the registration code for a $15 grill brush they bought in 2015?

TLDR; No.

#LiquidSky truly is the weirdest movie I have ever seen.

Despite its government, Texas has a few great things going for it. H-E-B is one.

To be clear—maps don’t change anybody’s flood risk.

This is unquestionably the most Pittsburgh thing ever:

Headlines that make you go, huh.

Guardian of the threshold.

Ah, spring, when a young anole’s fancy turns to…making more anoles.

The kind of query that only Bluesky can answer: is the old Jefferson Airplane song Lather sampled on Gold Dust Woman?

The Inner Light

Listening to Grace Jones on the radio this morning and remembering when I first realized that “Pull Up to the Bumper Baby” was not instructions for parking your car.

Coyote howls wake up sleeping bald eagle

At some point you have to follow the data and accept that medical marijuana is alas not the panacea we all wanted it to be.

Cattle egret in the bluebonnets.

Spring is in the air.

Marilyn Monroe’s costumes don’t look as good without her in them.

I have just had the disconcerting realization that every airport is my least favorite airport.

Also remember the difference between a watch and a warning bsky.app/profile/most...

No junk reading on this plane!

Something I will never understand about airline travel is how you can have a traffic delay at an airport due to “too many planes arriving at the same time” when all the flights were scheduled to land at that time.

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

@cnn.com let’s fix this headline: you meant “the GOP’s increasing anti-Muslim bigotry.”

Happy 5th birthday to these two little goofs.

Would’ve been surprising if it had been a walker

“Legacy of the imbeciles”: how a big Texas city is reliving the script of Tank Girl.

Despite everything, you gotta love it.

Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... 🧪

TLDR; wearables and surveillance. I hope someone is developing consumer spoofables in parallel.

The LANCET cover, March 2026, says it all... RFK Jr’s “radical transparency”: comments scrapped, advisers & whistleblower gone, data buried, junk science elevated, states rejecting CDC guidance. Trust: 83% → 63% Every congress member who enabled this bears generational blame for U.S. health.

This community will be in a real pickle.

Good opportunity to compare the US healthcare system with universal healthcare.

Y'all, this book is so good.

Sure, let’s spew toxic mercury compounds into the air while refusing childhood vaccines due to non-toxic thimerosol that they don’t contain.

The megadrought doesn’t care whether anyone believes in it or not

I reread “Ash Wednesday” most Ash Wednesdays. While I still don’t have patience with the religiosity, I’m beginning to find the poem “there to be experienced” as Richard Wilbur said. Reading it out loud helps.

Outside of Texas most people aren’t aware of the environmental destruction SpaceX is causing to irreplaceable wetlands.

There should be an Olympic pact that no one can skate to Hallelujah or Carmina Burana ever again.

Things that make you go, huh.

Do I need to call a plumber on this #Caturday?