Wondering if someone can help me move accounts. Instructions say to create an alias on your new server. When doing this, the form says, **"**Specify the username@domain of the account you want to move from." So I did that, specifying "[email protected]" as the account I want to […]

Trying to log into mastodon.social on chrome: Error page ("Something has gone wrong on our end.") But I can log in with other browsers. I have no idea why but it is thwarting my plan to transfer my account there. #fediverse

I have a mastodon.social account from like 2018 I never used and I was going to migrate this account (server is shuttering) to that one but when I logged onto mastodon.social I got this so I guess I won't.

This is absolutely wild. Rick Perry (THAT Rick Perry) is now championing studies of ibogaine for treatment of addiction. Ibogaine is a weird drug derived from a West African shrub. I spent quite a bit of time developing a book about it; it's being used in an unregulated fashion in Mexico, Costa […]

Rights in the US are supposed to be like the laws of physics - they apply everywhere all the time. Not anymore, thanks to SCOTUS. Someone born to non citizens, in say, Arkansas, may not be a US citizen but if they're born in California they are a citizen. That's the kind of thing this ruling […]

A day with a dip in the ocean is better than one without. Also, this rock says hello.

Every time I open my Scrabble app it asks me if I want to start a game with Beth, who died in Dec. 2023. I'd thought with the amount of work her brother and I have done to remove her profiles, accounts, etc, this would stop happening some day but I guess the digital afterlife is forever. Also […]

I see people getting pre-angry at Democrats for what they won't do when they are back in power. Sure, let's have some fantasy anxieties because there aren't enough real ones. @USpol

Meerkattin' #cats

In NBA circles, there's talk of a player having long covid. He recently missed time with an unspecified illness and was just traded from Boston to Atlanta. I sure hope he doesn't, but if he does, willful societal blindness to the often permanent (or very long term) nature of long covid could […]

Evergreen #hawaii tourism discourse: - We must diversify away from tourism! - But no astronomy. - And only traditional agriculture. - Oh god there are fewer tourists nooooooooooo. https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-travel-visitors-summer-decline-20383620.php

Filed an insurance claim with USPS which means...nothing. I will get nothing. (If they actually honor the claim I will eat this post.)

If I disappear it's because my instance closed and I didn't bother making a new account. Probably not dead.

Some gluten-free bread is getting so good that I am very suspicious. OTOH if I inadvertently eat wheat I start to itch everywhere in 30 seconds so I will continue to rely on the bioassay.

Is it because they're dumb? Or is that just my neighbor's dog? https://theconversation.com/when-dogs-bark-are-they-using-words-to-communicate-153345

You know what I'd like to see journalists do? When the admin ignores their Qs and sends propaganda-laden statements, WRITE THAT. Say, "The CDC did not answer our questions but instead sent us an anonymous statement that contained falsehoods, so the Post is not printing it." But they won't […]

Got a press release from #meaction today saying the only #LongCovid clinic in North Carolina, at UNC, is closing. The clinic has seen 3500 people, 70% women, and 43% had stopped working. Dire.

Box report: Still boxin'.

"The latest cancellations – including battery, electric vehicle and solar panel factories in West Virginia, New York, Alabama, Arizona and Washington – mean $15.5 billion in new factories and electricity projects have been cancelled since January 1." $15.5B, 12,000 new jobs -- wiped out. For what?

Cancer experts told @BBCNews's "Panorama" that anti-medicine conspiracy theories are becoming more mainstream in their field, and this could be endangering lives. The show focuses on 23-year-old Paloma Shemirani, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer, and told she had a […]

If I disappear it's because my instance closed and I didn't bother making a new account. Probably not dead.

Is it wrong that I call Timm from Andor "Timmmeeeeee"?

Boring ass Hawaii weather.

This is like her 12th day in this box, she's never loved a box so much. Thanks Bezos, you deserve a trillion dollars. #cats

Just a reminder that one lesson of JAWS is that you should listen to scientists when they warn you about a danger www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Voggy on Kona side of Big Island today. Recent lava fountains of 1000+ feet.

I'm glad I bought an EV last year because gas in Hawaii is going to cost $20 a gallon.

A fundamentalist Christian state attacking fundamentalist Shiites at the behest of fundamentalist Jews. 👍

Starting a USPS claim for some artwork they damaged and all uploaded files must be smaller than 2 mb because it's still 2004 or something.

I first wrote about early trials of stem cells for type 1 diabetes in....2007. Medical research is so freaking slow and requires constant large investments for real progress. But this is good news. #medicine […]

Got a message from Amazon saying there's a service outage so I can't turn on my lightbulb. The future is awesome.

Wendy Benchley, widow of novelist Peter, is big into ocean and shark conservation, as Peter was before his death in 2006. I once had the pleasure of attending a book launch party at Wendy's DC home for my colleague Julie Eilperin's book "Demon Fish," about shark conservation. The Benchleys […]

Listening to Stephen King's afterword of his latest book, "Never Flinch," and he talks about how during the winter of '23-'24 he thought it was terrible and that he'd never finish it. Yep, that Stephen King is just like every other writer that way.

The only South American team in the North American soccer federation, Suriname, is holding its own against Mexico. I don't know why Suriname is in CONCACAF but maybe S. America was too strong for this tiny little jungle country. #soccer #futbol #sports #goldcup

I had the great honor of writing Sally Ride's obituary at WaPo but I would've done a better job if we had gotten the news before 3pm that day. Daily journalism is about doing what you can before the clock strikes doom. Anyway this documentary looks good […]

Airplane ears as an airplane flies over the house. Imitation? #cats

Saw a story about Fox News juicing the crowd noise during the sad loser birthday parade. Happens during sportsball too. On a flight I once sat next to a Fox NFL technical producer and he confirmed that anytime something interesting or exciting happens on the field, he's cranking up the canned […]

My personality flaw is being unreasonably annoyed at social media posts talking about local things that provide no information about where they're happening.

An editor I knew after Science magazine was killed when a huge military truck backed over her during some summit in DC during the Bush years. Tons of military hardware in downtown DC then to provide security. Sure. Made me very angry. And now more military hardware unnecessarily brought into […]

Canada 4-0 over Honduras in the Gold Cup. I'm still a USMNT fan despite everything wrong with the country and the team but wouldn't mind a Canadian tournament trophy. #futbol #soccer #goldcup

OMG, em dashes are not a sign of AI writing! I kept hoping this myth would burn itself out, but no — the idea that em dashes are a sign of AI writing just keeps spreading. I finally couldn't take it anymore, so I crashed a segment in to the latest Grammar Girl […] [Original post on zirk.us]

Oh look, a WaPo headline that doesn't try to downplay it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/17/vance-boelter-minnesota-shooting-christianity/ #minnesota

My friend who can afford to pay a concierge doc a lot of money each month just got fired by that doc. She has a lot of health issues and it's like a bad lovers' breakup where my fro me is like, Tell me whyyyyyy and the doc is all, It's just not working out. Damn...concierge medicine is a crazy […]

Way back in okcupid times I matched with "symbiontgirl," who was a woman studying Wolbachia bacteria. Her lab was involved with early development of this anti-mosquito tech, in which said bacteria infecting male mosquitoes renders their offspring non-viable. Now it's being deployed in Hawaii to […]

Watched Soderbergh's "Black Bag" and in an era of film bloat it was a refreshing 93 minutes, in which six UK intel agents try to outspook one another. It was fun and engaging and there wasn't a wasted moment. More tight 90 films like this, please. Unless you're adapting The Lord of the Rings I […]

She's mad because I said this was her new profile pic. #cats

Tourist almost falls into a lava lake after he wandered off trail at night with no light. A tree saved his dumb ass. https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/app/2025/06/14/kilauea-visitor-almost-falls-into-lava-filled-caldera/

I'm so annoyed Hawaii legislators refuse to legalize recreational pot. My choices are shady stores that sell the unregulated stuff or paying an asshole failed MD $250 for a sham exam for a medical card. #medical #cannabis