Thanks to my volunteer work at the Carnivore Preservation Trust (now the Carolina Tiger Rescue) in Chatham County NC AGES ago, I can say I have pet the following: Ocelot Caracal Baby Snow Leopard Baby Tiger They were all very soft.

All weather services currently say snow is not happening here at this time. And yet:

Sorry if it’s bright, but unless you say anything the window stays open the entire time on flights to or from Alaska

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

A few minutes before we headed out for our afternoon walk, there was a giant gust of wind and the snow started swirling all around. But by the time we arrived back home 45 minutes later, everything was quiet and calm. Things can change so quickly.✨

Last night was special

Whilst adding that Radio Communications (Booster) limitation to our ttrpg group's MEGS website, I got the fidgets. Now removing the default "-spell" ending from urls of all our Power articles. It is not honest work, but it removes 1 tiny annoyance. Example: www.worldanvil.com/w/tales-of-j...

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Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "So, normally, they would’ve tried to buy my maps or just hire me to carry them." Dark Device of the Great Chasm, by C. B. Ash

The latest on the major winter storm and extreme cold expected later this week.

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Hey, these folks are great, this game is great, and launching KS in these times is indeed a bear, so I'm signal boosting. Do not let all your joy be stolen.

Low-latitudes in Europe are reporting aurora! Breathtaking seeing the Alps GLOWING red during this intense solar storm. Check out this current view from St. Anton, Austria. Some nearby webcams are available on my site: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

Over at the #MindPalate site: quick and easy brownies first made for a houseguest (and really often thereafter...) mind-palate.com/dave-gemmell...

"Will I get scolded if I say I love this album? I haven’t background checked this musican" Like bitch you're not his babysitter, fucking relax. This approach to things is totally unreasonable

Swede George Creek #swedegeorgecreek #swedegeorgebridge #helenmarkttrail #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #mmwd #marinwater #landscapephotography

The #Leverage team always has an exit plan. Watch #Leverage on #ElectricNOW. electricnow.tv/devices

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

One of my favorite quotes...

THE HUMAN BRAIN: so we’re going to need between seven and nine hours of sleep every night in order to function HUMANS: okay THE HUMAN BRAIN: and I’m gonna do everything in my power to make sure we never, ever get it.

✨✨✨GLITTER CANNON DEPLOYED✨✨✨ S1 E1 is now live on @theincomparable.com! with special guest @premeemohamed.com 🪲 Listen now! Or bookmark this for later! Whenever you need a hit of joy, we've got you covered! Transcript: sgwong.com/blog/episode... Subscribe/Follow the show! Share the joy ✨

Just a reminder that NOAA releases monthly desktop screens with calendars featuring deep-sea animals and its reminder right now that at least some in government are still wholesome oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/c...

Meanwhile: I have to say that this casual shot (caught at our friend wortvogel.de’s post-wedding celebration, 10+ years back) is one of the best pics of @peter.petermorwood.com ever. #GNUPeterMorwood

This week, we’re going Back to the Beginning with #Leverage as we celebrate 25 years of Electric Entertainment. Enjoy a first-season marathon and revisit the episodes that started it all.

Here are my top 10 dogs and their grandparents!

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.

Wonder Woman did this in the 1940s as well… #iceout #BeGood

Had just come in from a grocery run / small aurora spotting; was boiling some water, refrigerated food still on the counter, when I got an alert of a geomagnetic storm incoming. I dropped everything. Here's video I shot running through my neighborhood to the coast. #northernlights #aurora #iceland

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Courtesy of the Aurora Borealis Observatory in Norway 🇳🇴 🌌😲 #awestruck #beauty

The Aurora Borealis Observatory in Senja, Norway is one of the best aurora borealis locations in the world. If you're looking for a Northern Lights Holiday, it delivers some very pretty auroral imagery... auroraborealisobservatory.com #loveart #thattick #photography #auroraborealis

"In fact, for all of Trump’s paeans to ​'beautiful, clean coal' and to natural gas, it’s clean energy that has once again led the way this year. Through November, 92% of new power capacity added to the [US] grid in 2025 came in the form of solar, wind, or storage..." #goodnews #cleanenergy

Severe thunderstorms and heavy to excessive rainfall is forecast today from the Lower Mississippi River Valley to the Tennessee Valley. Damaging winds, a few tornadoes, and areas of flooding are possible. Check out the latest at weather.gov, and remember: Turn Around, Don't Drown.

A little good news today. For the first time since December 2000, the entire state of California is no longer either entering or recovering from a drought! That's 25 years of drought conditions. www.drought.gov/states/calif...

Our #AO3 Policy & Abuse committee has shared an update about the types of harassment messages bots are now leaving. Read the full post on Tumblr at ao3-news.org/yckz5jjy

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After a relatively quiet period, storminess is expected to return to the Southeastern U.S. late this week. By Friday, a storm system is likely to bring a surge of heavy rainfall and severe weather to the region. Follow you local NWS office for details. weather.gov/socialmedia

Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.

AARP also has a database you can search: createthegood.aarp.org/volunteer-se...

Don't let this Jan 6th point get lost: Jack Smith testified to Congress he had "proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election." In other words, he could prove in court that Trump attempted a coup.

It is no longer my birthday! But it IS something almost even better, extending the celebration by another full twenty-four hours! Today is my BOOK day!

Dolly Parton (left) and a cat

Yesterday morning's view of the Wye Valley. #TinyJoys

It is a three coffee Monday

Snow under the moon

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

OMG 😭 Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure." LIFE SAVING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

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