🔬🦠🧫🧪 #MicroSky This is the most fantatic video I've ever seen: a Tardigrade strolling on a Volvox by Penny Fenton #NikonSmallWorld #DarkField www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

10-3 marks the anniversary of the recording session for Chronic Town at Mitch Easter’s Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem. Tracks recorded “1,000,000,” “Ages Of You,” “Gardening At Night,” “Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars),” “Stumble,” “Shaking Through,” “White Tornado,””9-9” (attempted but abandoned).

beautiful potato jamelle!

As always, my fave Arlington street sign: corner of Vermont, Vermont (?) & Vernon

imagine your HOA seeing one of these magnificent beauties on your front lawn

chotiner: u always order "...and fries for the table" me: sometimes people's meals do not come with fries chotiner: does your meal always come with fries me: ...yes chotiner: is there anyone else at the table me: chotiner: we can revisit this later

You have my sword 🗡️🪻 #kidlitart #cuteart #redpanda

"did u finish that workslop yet"

We only rate dogs. This is very clearly a red panda. We've had just about enough of your tomfoolery. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (IG: __joyjoa)

My general opinion here is unless you are providing a food crop you should not receive a bail out.

The Schrader valve was granted a patent in April of 1893

Quite a formative image for the young me, this

It is 2025 and I am taking jeans recommendations from William Gibson. The future we all expected.

who up refluxin’ they acid

Blue iguana climbs back from the brink. Grand Cayman’s blue iguana, once down to fewer than 25 individuals, now numbers more than 1,000 in the wild. Captive breeding, habitat restoration and community engagement reversed what was nearly a Caribbean extinction. CNN buff.ly/GKiJpcz #ShareGoodNewsToo

"grate a pear" is the new "go fuck yourself, nerd"

*I Blame Science Fiction Dystopias

I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.

The witch walks the woods for wonder. Walks as listening to the land. She moves towards mystery. Moves towards green communion. Her footsteps are an artefact of magical intent. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

"The ex Wondery CEO is destroying the podcasting industry on purpose" story makes sense when you consider how many podcasts she probably had pitched to her/had to listen to. I'd blow it up, too. Make it impossible for anyone to give a shit about anything said in the medium, ever again. Goodbye.

Just left the Henrico Courthouse where self-described J6 advocate Ally Rose Becker was on the docket for the charge of class 3 misdemeanor of Ring With Intent to Annoy against J6er Dominic Box. Neither of them showed and the case is continued. It's so silly that I am posting a rare smile.

*Prof. Peter Denning. I've always been impressed by this guy's sense of civilized decency. Life must be a trial for him nowadays denninginstitute.com/pjd/PUBS/CAC...

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

A new crop of Chinese startups racing to build their own GPUs. Meet the “Nvidia wannabes” https://restofworld.org/2025/china-chip-startups-nvidia-us-export/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1756975020

goooood morning it is cool and bright - setting the stage for a happy jaunt around the neighborhood so you know it: Lucy Loved That Walk

*I used to warn people that weblog platforms would become dead media some day, like 8-track tapes or mimeo machines, and they were like: "How could that be? Everybody knows that the Internet is Forever" everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08...

*Back when there was a Fourth Estate press, there was often something like "news." Nowadays, by contrast, there's highly-significant stuff that's Not Allowed to Be News, along with Vast Fake-Newsy Rumors which command public attention but are as insubstantial as meme-stocks. #TwentyTwenties

*That yarn of ours is a space-opera, and I'm inclined to think that you never read one like it

Actually learning stuff vs "I asked ChatGPT"

We’re in the news!!! #columbiapike

This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.

the fact of the matter is that a lot of violent crime is the purview of a small number of individuals in specific, geographically bounded communities. the only way to get those people off the streets is with the trust of the community itself.

Arlington County Fair 2025 inside exhibits

#sff Where you can get digital issues of new science fiction magazines if you like. Eg the new Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (with a new story by me), & Asimov's Magazine, & Analog... And yes you will be able to get the print ones too--coming soon. asimovs.com/store/digita...

If AI is radically reducing the cost of software development, why are we seeing no decrease in vendors’ bids for government software projects? In fact, they’ve increased in the past few years. Private sector folks, are you seeing price drops?

*This must be the most 2025-AD remark that I've heard during the year 2025 *It works so well when taken out of context. It could be global warming, the Republican Party, AI, crypto, a global oligarchic power-grab, the Ukraine war, Israeli massacres, you could name it really *The Chinese Belt&Road

My niece has been to four (4) MLB games. She has seen a walk-off World Series grand slam and Shohei Ohtani hit into a triple play.

My favourite genre is “books I bought five years ago and still haven’t read.”

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading

William Henry Harrison took one look at it and decided death was preferable.

The ‘Tangpingist Manifesto’, Bob Black’s The Abolition of Work, David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs, and Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet #Chinesehippies #dropouts #refuseniks #anarchy #celibacy #weird madeinchinajournal.com/2025/08/05/o...

no one ever comes back

I actually do think things like "Who's removing the dead animals for us" and thus greatly enjoyed this read. Be sure to show gratitude for your public workers!

Sorry, I’ll never be ready to rumble. Go ahead and rumble without me

There’s a bonded pair of coyotes that live in Central Park and cause they like to hang out at the Delacorte Theater when it’s not in use they’re called Romeo and Juliet

*He made a blockbuster FX movie for a "mere" $80 million and his secret is that he was shooting an actual movie, more or less

Found resting amongst the bamboo in my tiny N. London garden yesterday evening -- this rather splendid male Southern Hawker dragonfly.