May Helena Plumb

I read Sky Daddy by Kate Folk for a book club recently, and it was one of those books that is going to live in my brain for years

Anecdotally, my introduction to Discworld was Monstrous Regiment, and I think it's a really good option

Wow, a really unfortunate number of replies here from people who got 2/3 of the way through the name and decided OP was Hakeem Jefferies...

I present, the lenition hypercube

What if leech but also hammer head but also moray eel??

Yellow lichen growing on pink granite today 🌿

Yellow lichen growing on pink granite today 🌿

(Caveat that research articles on this are often positioned from deficit model / medical model of disability. Also this was me doing a quick literature scan, I'm not an expert on this side of linguistics!)

E.g., one of the articles mentions that individuals with ASD can have greater discrimination of pitch outside of a language context, while lower discrimination of tonal categories

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

For child language acquisition, it looks like researchers have found atypical patterns in both perception and production of tone. But (this is a bit of my own intuition) it's possible this is a manifestation of something broader about acquisition of phonology, not specific to tone...

A white poster on the wall of a blood donation center reminding donors of the next available day they can donate.

Your quarterly nag to share your delicious bio juices with strangers in a socially acceptable way!

I pre-ordered this so fast, didn't even check my book budget haha 😅 I'm so excited for this!!

ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...

It's a non-partisan health policy organization: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_...

Here's the original source of the chart, with more context on their analysis: www.kff.org/affordable-c...

A pack of paper napkins in a shop. They are black with metallic gold text, block capital letters reading "Were you about to rawdog my table?" The are made by Pretty Alright Goods

From a friend, seen in a Chicago gift shop...

ADS Word of the Year 2024 is alive and well in the wild #WOTY24

Omg your nails match the little heart crest on their head

The world is a lot right now so perhaps you also need an adorable tuxedo kitty with a tiny soul patch. In a tub. ❤️

Yes! Here's a GDrive link: drive.google.com/file/d/1KZVM...

This is gorgeous! I especially love the design of the asteroid belt

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

I think "likely" is modifying "race" there - acknowledging that the race data in their modeling is asleep estimated I guess? The wording is very awkward 😅

L2's methodology for Texas: Texas voters do not register by party. However, when those voters participate in a partisan primary, that ballot choice is recorded and reported on the state voter file. In the absence of stronger indications (e.g. partisan political contributions or identification due to the holding of partisan public office) the most recent even-year partisan primary ballot is used. Texas reports participation in presidential preference primaries in which large percentages vote, particularly in the Republican races. In the absence of any even-year partisan primary participation, the most recent odd-year local partisan primary is used. This information is supplemented through the use of modeling analytics. Likely race in major urban areas plays a major role in that modeling.

Yeah I have to assume that "Likely race in major urban areas plays a major role in that modeling." is doing a LOT of work in their methods (independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx). Primary turnout is low and usually twice as many Rs as Ds

I was floored just by the silhouette, but then THE DIVE!!

GLORIOUS PELICAN FOOTAGE OMG HOW IS THIS MY LIFE 😭😭🪶

Distracted Boyfriend meme: ME looking away from WRITING THE DISCUSSION SECTION to ogle MAKING NEW RESULTS FIGURES

I'm going to finish this manuscript by the end of the week, I told myself

BIG STICK

A family of mature and very wiry collared parachute mushrooms grow from a blackened bit of decayed stick, held between two fingers in a green summer forest. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

I am 30yo and my family used speed dial on our landline up through the end of my high school years. I'd be curious about the under 20s (based on my experience of when my friends' families stopped having landlines)

That looks so wrong to me when I see it, but also I've found a counter-example in my regular life. My transit app uses a clock like that. I got nothing!

Looking at this clock graphic, I'm interpreting it as a turning mechanism and thinking the down arrow will turn the dial from top to bottom, therefore showing me the number that is "above" the current one. Which, if it was a combination lock, would be a higher number.

9 -- and this is reinforced by the way every clock app & combination lock I've ever had has worked.

Although as I say that, I realize this is maybe also like the scroll-up scroll-down thing. So more specifically...

A closeup of a seal’s face. Its eyes are closed and its tongue is out.

Today’s best blep unsurprisingly came from a harbor seal 🦑🦊🌿