okay but have we considered that maybe this is also a representation of thousand-armed guanyin—

I went and volunteered at a city tree nursery! I had enormous anxiety! It was fine and lovely! I learned things and met nice people!

Took younger daughter (who wants to be a paleontologist) to a lake near Peterborough last night. We found these Jurassic microfossils-teeny ammonites & crinoid ‘ossicles’-these little rock stars were part of the stems of crinoids/sea lilies-animals with 5 axes of symmetry related to sea urchins 🐚

Gently annoying broody hens is a good way to get them to leave the next and get their hormones back to normal levels. It's also a good instrument.

"Is plastic surgery feminist?" boring/shallow/narrow "How do we get to a world with radical body autonomy? " wayyy more useful

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

this is my fernussy (a homunculus designed to go have an orgy under a damp cliff)

facts: I probably am one of the few trans people to ever have resigned a 7+ figure annual comp job over ethics. it's possible some of the Netflix employees did too, but yeah, it's a pretty small club. AND ALSO that was my choice to make and I've never begrudged anyone who stayed.

oh, you're trying to misgender me by calling me a man? nice try, but i just used ally switch to swap places with one of my transmasc mutuals and now you're a trans ally, get wrecked

English-speakers treat the German spelling of compounds as single words as something really alien and bizarre, but it means you never have to waste time thinking about "video game" vs "videogame", "health care" vs "healthcare", let alone figuring out the hyphen in a three- or four-word compound

Turtle Hat stays winning

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Maybe the exit of smoking from our collective consciousness is why nobody understands how goddamn inside air circulation works

[having an unsatisfactory experience at a store run entirely by small-to-medium-sized often brightly colored Passerine birds] I’d like to speak to the tanager

~20 years ago a salesperson posted on the Davis Square LiveJournal community asking if we'd be excited to be chosen as the new location for a men's-only sports-themed barber shop with hooters-like female stylists. that day was GREAT fun dunking on this person who clearly had not done their research.

Meanwhile Armenia is going to issue a new passport that has a page dedicated to bread. Armenia stays winning.

@brainmage.bsky.social you may appreciate this joke that is good, actually, and here is the reason why

The shit you can get away with in nutrition research is egregious. Even 24 hour food recall diaries are notoriously unreliable, but asking people what they ate in *the past year* is a joke. You can't track a 10% drop in UPF consumption if your input data is off by 80%!

It’s alive! Welcome to the age of solar canals. 💧☀️🔌💡

you know what might be fun? golf, but it's just throwing. take a tennis ball to a park, pick a far away tree, and see how many throws it takes you to bonk the tree

Presenting: THE COOLEST DOORFRAME IN THE WORLD. Art Deco? It’s Spanish Baroque, friend.

Apartments have tenants, religions have tenets

Every single developer I've organised with or spoken to has echoed this sentiment: people want to be proud of the things they work on and they want the company they work at to keep going. This farcical image of union members wanting to bring their workplace down is ridiculous

She is very lonely

While we encourage writers to leave Substack, we also need to be aware that it’s engaging in yet another form of unethical behavior: punishing those who leave by continuing to charge subscribers, who then make a claim which they don’t realize will incur big fees on the writer who left Substack.

Now, bar at the john is a friend of mine, but I drink he put drugs in my think. My piano keeps moving, and I'm just here grooving while the walls turn a nice shade of pink.

@quailtea.bsky.social your Etsy link says you've closed that store - are you currently selling your stuff on any other website, or...?

Every time I haven't used my sketchbook in a while...

Doodling on the back of the thank you cards I put in your orders has become one of my favourite things to do 😌💕 #art #doodle #birds #sketch #artist #Smallbusiness #pigeonSky

Burdock is absolutely everywhere right now and getting so big and beautiful that I just had to paint a few studies, as well as some of butterbur leaves~ 🌿 Painted in my gorgeous custom sketchbook by @syystuuli.bsky.social 💚 #TraditionalArt #Painting #Nature #Green

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Anyone else frequently dream about bathrooms that are Wrong?

This morning's dream #1 was about a demon lodged in a church? (large rehearsal space?) and we had to get rid of it by collecting everyone who had ever been in a choir and singing masses really loudly. That part was nice. I had Duruflé's requiem stuck in my head all through dream #2

I should really write down my weird dreams, especially the ones with strange MIT / Camberville geography, because those exhibit interesting consistency over time

I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about Kathryn Paige Harden's new book, an attempt to popularize the eugenics of criminality. I read it as a gambit to build liberal support for the project animating far right politics today, inspired by Replacement theory.

ANALYSIS: son of a bitch

Okay, I reread and there's another bit I take great offense to. 'a majority of fan fiction is slop because that's just kind of how the production of community writing works.' No. Fuck you. You could have said that the majority of fanfic is not well written, and I would agree with that! Ao3 has

This may sound cruel and fucked up, but this piece readily demonstrates why war leaves people susceptible to fascist ideology. Post-war, you either feed that demon, or you fight it every day. My last deployment was 16 years ago. The fight never ends, but it gets easier and you can use it to grow.

for day 5 of #InverteFest I'm channeling my inner @beetlemoses.bsky.social and attempting an animal comic. poorly. (I was gonna do a horsefly joke instead, but that one might be too niche and only for my Dipteran people)

lately what i think is that a person can be wrong in the same way that an LLM is wrong, but an LLM cannot be right in the same way that a person is right

As somebody on here put it the other day, everything that people think HR is supposed to do, in terms of being an employee representative and advocate, is not HR's job but is the actual job of your union rep

People will roll their eyes at this because Googlers tend to make a lot of money but I will argue that increasing class-consciousness and work towards unionization is positive especially for tech folks

something sort of insane is that we have non-trivial evidence that posting is the top of all possible hierarchies of needs. some of the richest men in the world who could be on their mega-yachts choose to not only post, but orient their lives around posting related things

Ooh, "Mango Headache" would actually work pretty well

Megatron, hunter of minnows, destroyer of food pellets, absolute drama queen, is 144 grams today. 42 days until she is released back to her native waters in the Chesapeake Bay.

I’m thinking about a dialectic between ‘slop’ and ‘care’ as two opposing orientations toward the manner in which we do things (like work, tasks, creative acts, interacting, etc); and how different ways and uses of automation can be influenced by, evince, or further drive a sloppy or caring attitude.

Illustrating the #pokemon legendary birds in a kinda vintage scientific illustration kinda style, our second entry is #zapdos which given the beak and the apparently nesting on a large man made structure made me think it could be stork adjacent? #pokemonart

the Disco Demolition Night episode of You're Wrong About continues to be one of my favorite soothing little stories 🪩❤️