Seriously. This game is some of the best hockey I've watched in a long while and I watch a lot of games.

“Now seeds,” said Toad, “start growing.” Toad walked up and down a few times. The seeds did not start to grow.

JoAnn made me gwumpki! (Yes, I know that's not the proper Polish spelling, but it's a US keyboard and that's how it's pronounced...) I frickin love these! (Picture is before cooking with tomato paste/etc)

Okay, I will fully admit we got lucky there, but hell yeah!! Hellebuyck!

6am hockey and I come down just in time for a US goal!

Sunsets here in Utah do not suck!

How has this not been bigger news? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

After the Utah Supreme Court’s rejection, the 2026 election will proceed — barring a last-minute intervention by the federal courts or other unforeseen events — with the map selected by 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson.

My Trans Bill of Rights protects the freedom for all trans people to live as their full, authentic selves. It’s time to get this passed!

Photogenic doggo

There are a lot of "Greg Brown"s in music, but I feel this loss tonight. The news stirs up some old memories: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/a... RIP

Doggos belong on beds... Or so Copper assures me, anyway....

Uhhh.... apnews.com/article/faa-...

Pretty sure one was consulted, definitely was for the album news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Bad Bunny saying that God should bless all the countries in the Americas. There are so many, not just the United States. It was a great show but that was the most powerful. Conservatives will get mad, but just let them

Ring commercial about helping lost dogs got me. That's effective advertising. Bo isn't going anywhere right now because there's carnitas.... And we just said "treat". Thank you ring for making me spoil my dog....

I guess infrastructure week isn't coming?

It's was pretty neat to see the Olympic flame lit while walking the dog today!

It's shocking to me how little news there's been of this. Kudos to the Tribune of course, but I'm surprised I hadn't heard about it until now. Because, you know, the GOP in Utah didn't have enough power already, and those of us in SLC clearly shouldn't have any say in politics...

I have two slightly different views on this joke

Picnic today. Can't have a picnic without a dog begging, of course...

This makes me think of something I saw on here once from a sociologist talking about how her students were arguing that obviously quantitative data is superior to qualitative data, and she told them quantitative data is just qualitative data that someone else has already turned into a number.

As Utah's lawmakers move to ban gender-affirming care for transgender kids, they've avoided discussing a report they commissioned on the issue that says care helps kids.

Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift. It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.

That matches my memory of growing up in middle TN. We fairly frequently saw negative temps in the 80's and 90's. I moved away for grad school in the early 2000's, but even in college in East TN in the late 90's early 00's I don't remember it happening much.

For context, before 1980, #Nashville temperatures hit 0°F an average of once per winter. Because of #GlobalWarming, what used to be an annual event has only happened 4 times in the last 30 years. Similarly, before 1980 we got 12" of snow in an average winter. Since 2000, it's around 4".

I've been out of cell phone service for most of the day. Come back to find all this and it's a lot. I'm more than furious. But for anyone else who needs a cup pup picture, here's copper being skeptical about winter:

We can all see with our own eyes what ICE is doing to our neighbors. It’s time for the Senate to step up and do the right thing. Stop this violence.

Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple? WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?

Huh. New York Times snow forecast graphic from yesterday vs. today.

If you’re picking colors with a tool that has precise control over hue, chroma, and lightness it’s possible to abruptly shift hue while maintaining even steps in lightness. This creates an unmistakeable transition that’s still monotonic!

“The Lake” filmmaker Abby Ellis was asked what she hopes audiences will take away from her documentary. “I hope people realize we have power. A lot of our problems are caused by us, so we’re the solution.”

Just felt this in SLC! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Friends, I’d like to show @ucalgary.bsky.social that @bsky.app is where the cool kids hang out and that they should start posting here more and less/none at TheBadPlace™️. Show them some love by reskeeting this 100000000x. 🧪

This is long, but well with reading in full. The evisceration of core federal agencies continues to be a major issue and one that sadly won't recover easily after the current administration is gone. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (gift link)

Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

What a career! Geodesy is the science of determining the shape of the earth. Precise Orbit Determination requires an accurate geoid model of the gravitational field of the 🌍 . (Can be shape or density fluctuations.) Dr West pioneered both POD & active radar measurements of ocean heights from space

Drunk Bears Fan Grating Ram

A thing I realized very early growing up in the South was that the South never stopped fighting the Civil War.

Current frustration: "I didn't understand your two-sentence reply with a link to technical docs. So I fed it into Gemini and here's this 4 page summary, isn't that so much better?" The summary is longer than the original content and full of made-up scientific terms and factual inaccuracies...

Intimidating journalists for source information undermines the fundamental principle that the press should be free to hold the government accountable. A free country requires a free press.

This hasn't gotten much attention with everything else going on. Apparently it's now okay to search reporters houses and seize their devices to identify sources?! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Weekend trip to get out of the inversion and out in the west desert. Rhyolite always weathers beautifully. (Okay, this is a dacite, but whatever.)

Note that if you're a Wasatch co-op member, you're a business owner on 900 and can sign the petition as such with the co-op's address. Though if you are, you've probably gotten that email too :)

So, public health is officially not considered in environmental rules now? Only cost to business to implement environmental restrictions? WTF? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

I have a turkey leg in my purse.

Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...

It's well worth reading this thread for any of us in geoscience, either on the academic or industry side.