"The pilot is due to be rolled out in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Washington." From non paywalled article describing this pilot program: www.the-independent.com/news/world/a... -So now I get to be in this little scheme.
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"The pilot is due to be rolled out in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Washington." From non paywalled article describing this pilot program: www.the-independent.com/news/world/a... -So now I get to be in this little scheme.
paywalled -- can you list the six states the article mentions ?
So this is interesting and SCARY
Lovely! I was watching a seal perambulate around at low tide the other day—looked similar but smaller.
Big bunch of salmon. Hoping one would ho in my little boaty
Ok, there is gonna be one or more folks falling off of a helicopter lifting off of the beach or something. Hopefully with fat ankles or wierd ducklips or something.
Ahh, sorry you lost that place, that must ache a bit. Fire remediation stuff is a big part of my life these days living in the PNW. Up here is a little bit of clueless-ness, coming from California, Im err, concerned. So much fuel.
Lassen park is amazing, and nice trail up to the top now. Did you go to Bumpass Hell ? Quite the story about that place. Hey, other readers, Bumpass Hell is a real name !
Norwegian home invasion.
In our family we love the swokowski calculus textbooks. I became a math student in my early thirties and loved calculus. After algebra finally get new ideas including sort of dividing by zero!!!!
Well when shit starts going down, Imma arm myself with baloney and pickle sammies and WATCH OUT !
Hmm, that is problematic. Flip it over so I can determine if you are compounding the error by taking a female ! ( Err, umm, what bait did you use ? How long did you soak? )
Nice Crab ! Is it a legal size ?
Look at this crocheted crab pouch our lab tech made me ahhhh! 🦀🦑
Massive reading of sf made me eventually decide I wanted to get thru a '100 Great' list. Which was both fun and a bit Dreary. (Dreary: yeah Hardy Im looking at you ) but thru that got to Patrick O'Brian! Which if it hits you is some of the bestiest! Also, just gotta add: Terry Pratchett!
And reading for pleasure develops reading skills - which are thinking skills. For me,sibs, kids, and now on to another generation! You get so you can take in ideas ( information - data- knowledge - wisdom ) faster and faster!
Motherfucking wind farms…
Ok, now I watched this and it is making me laugh.
I have watched this multiple times and it keeps getting funnier
Christian Ferko, Hassaan Saleem and I went to Sam Gregson's Bad Boy of Science propaganda to talk about string theory, geometric unity and Sabine Hossenfelder's bizarre attempts to equate the two youtu.be/213qm_KTJkQ?... ⚛️🧪
I too have been to the la museum of Jurassic technology. My wife says to read Mr Wilson’s cabinet of wonder before hand but I didn’t
what is the most unique museum u have visited for me possibly the ramen museum
With a lead pipe? Seems like you could get in trouble for that! It’s an impeachable offense!
Hmm. I’m dealing with some leaf curl but have a TON of green tomatoes. So far north here, so no surprise. In the past when I had tomatoes that grew to the tops trellis I put pool noodles at the top to cushion. It helped
Update on the tomatoe greenhouse jungle. Way overgrown, have to crawl to get to the back bits
I can only keep five
It’s time.
I make crab cakes that end up looking like this, and my Spanish inlaws make 'croquettes' out of ham (jamon) and also crab when they are here.
Groovy !
I woke up this morning with a map thought in my head, and here it is:
The other day I drew a subway-style map for The Hobbit, and it was very well received. Some of you asked if I could do one for LoTR, so I have! Forgive the eel watermark; I'm working on making these something you can buy, if you like.
Super good!
Also Count Chocula, who I think existed in the same breakfast cereal universe.
I am eating Potato Chips with a SPOON, as one does. "Bottom of the bag ? "- my wife asked who knows me.
Choco. Wait is that a thing? Maybe I just invented ChocoBerries!
We did this a few years ago. One issue we have is the meta data of the photos is useless so all the photo services are kinda busted. We do have cool old photos online now. Also did the same with a bunch of super 8 mm ‘movies’
So this is interesting -- an experiment that claims to catch a single photon being in two places at once. Sorta breaking the 'multiverse' view of quantum physics. arxiv.org/html/2505.00...
I want to make one more quick point about the NY Times execrable coverage of Mamdani's campaign, Mamdani as a person, etc. This ties in to their being horrible on a number of other major matters over the years. We all have "her emails!!! 😱" seared into our consciousness, as well as Biden is old. 1/
I think I am developing a very strong case of "Fascist Derangement Syndrome" .
Tiny garden flowers are pretty
There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
Don't share! youtu.be/8eEz_oVNhak?...
I'm attending Pramila for Congress's event, “Pramila Jayapal's Resistance Lab: JUNE Virtual Organizing Training 2.0” - sign up now to join m www.mobilize.us/pramilaforco...
This was the Sherman WWII tank. Poor thing was straining to find a Tiger.
My oson who lives in Boston was teasing me about our cute little march that had almost a hundred k! He marched in Boston with a million of his little pals. And damn, Boston is about the same size as Seattle, and the greater metro regions are also about the same size. West coast gotta up our game.
I went down to Seattle for the protest, but even here on Lopez Island there was 350+ protesting which is like 10% of the community. Rural too. Looking at the G Elliot spreadsheet that is counting the turnout is ignoring lots of small places.
Big day in seattle -- #nokings #seattle
Pleasant Pheasant - out for a stroll.
My kids taught themselves to read with Calvin and Hobbes.-- :)
Have to second the Tiffany Aching books in Discworld. They are so beautifully aimed at kids with that layering good for adults. Plus they lead into that entire Pratchett world which is pretty damn rich.
The Once and Future King. - At least the first bit, which the Disney Sword in the Stone does a good job of. There is a discussion in it that describes 'how to tell who is wrong in a war' that is super excellent. Also, Watership Down. And a bunch of Dumas is pretty good too.
So bad its good.
Ours is at least 30 years old and still works nearly the same, except the little plastic footies are long gone. Hope yours is made as robust.
we have one of those ladders, it works pretty well. Just have to be careful of finger pinches when adjusting it.
Im really far north, so challenging!
Pretty sweet. I have created what I hope is my first GREENHOUSE tomato jungle
So the muskmelon is all "I'm the Leopard and I'm going to EAT YOUR FACE! " and the orangeturd is like "No NO IM the LEOPARD and IM GOING TO EAT YOUR Face"
Good one and very succinct. I think being consumed by apex predator is a pretty rare desire, and now i find myself not unique. I guess my answer good have been 'shark shit'
this is actually an excellent question and I pose it to y'all have you ever thought about how you want to be buried? tell me in the comments or quote posts
I have been trying to get my wife to help me out with this plan for years -- her part would be handing me knives for each hand, chumming the waters till sharks show, and then helping me jump overboard. She has not committed to this scheme (YET).
My small few remains under a gravestone that details my gruesome demise: "Eaten by a great white shark, while battling it". My gravestone will be a very popular one at the cemetery.
Guardian does have the best headline writers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The writers of that article had quite an a-bee-lity to slip a Bee-g bunch of puns in that article
Oh come ON, Florida! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
So now there is some alligator(s) that have consumed a bunch of meth soaked man flesh ? This movie writes itself "Cocaine Bear vs Meth Gator"
Elon Musk isn’t just launching rockets—he’s rewriting the rules of governance. From Starbase to Starlink, infrastructure is becoming authority. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/launchpads...
This is kinda wacky yet fascinating !
You never acknowledge my smoke signals.
This is an awful take. I will take note that you wrote this, and calibrate your further writings accordingly.
GOOD NEWS! Moderna’s combination COVID/influenza vaccine candidate mRNA-1083 has OUTPERFORMED the current standalone vaccines for BOTH viruses in a large (8000+) Phase III trial. A combination vaccine would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID and influenza at the same time. 🧪🧵⬇️
Has his voice gotten a couple octaves lower ? Is he wearing a black turtleneck? Enquiring minds must know !!
As I was busy at my lonely isolated Canadian border observation station I learned about these pretty little legumes “common vetch”
the "this fucking guy" theory of history is extremely compelling!!
The other morning a Pileated wood pecker was HAMMERING the steel roof! Sounded like a machine gun. I actually kinda liked it , very enthusiastic.
Lovely birdies, where I am now all the birds are in their springtime busy glory -
We are watching The Matrix. Portia has never seen it. Has no idea what it's about. She thinks the red pill/blue pill thing might be choose your own adventure.
oh man, made me laugh.
Anybody got any pics from Seattle protests today?
I know a lot of people who hate trump but still mostly criticize Dems. Apparently Only Dems have agency.
I grew up in Redwood City, Menlo Park, Palo Alto then. The culture then was affected by the Brain Drain from Europe that the Stanford/UC system did -- lots of my high school peers had parents that came from Europe and were profs at schools. Nice Bohemian Artistic feel to, that I miss so much.
Household credit card debt is at an all time hight www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomi...
Seattle
In high school, if someone had pot but no papers or pipe (gummies weren’t a thing then, kids), I was MacGyver. “I need a potato & vegetable peeler.” “Anyone got a tampon?” “A carrot & drill bit?” “I need a cardboard tube from the TP roll & piece of tinfoil.” What’s your hidden talent?
Love this. I made bongs out of bic ball point stems and bike tire tube caps and plastic bottles. Now I find it hard to believe how responsible I am. (Maybe except for chainsaws and rock climbing and stuff)
Lemme also just shout out ol buddy from Atlantic for not selling the Signal Group Chat for a book deal and waiting two years to reveal what was in it
What Trump is doing has me reading about the Zhong He Treasure Fleet, and then the Hajin edict - which so isolated and eventually weakened China. A terrible turning inward.
Pig War II
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
It’s like having one of those cop business cards you can show an officer when you get stopped for speeding.
Back in December I found this Dungeness crab that was all black. I also put it back to go make babies, which the Fish and Game biologists wish I had kept it.
every single republican in office is a fucking oathbreaker who is selling out the constitution and our democratic birthright
From this site: acasignups.net/25/01/29/how...
