Alan Dreams of Deep Quiet Snows

A Christmas tree 🎄

Santa toilet decoration

🎶 On the third day of Christmas we braved deep drifting snow for a tree 🎵(also the silliest tradition I have is this toilet decoration I got with my friend Tom)

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

No survivors
By Jack Ohman

"RLBF have RBF, not they fault" is my favorite

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that. @yaboyni Take a moment And and realize the moment You took has already passed Thank you See you next time

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

the gall to claim you are fighting pediatric cancer after destroying most of the research on cures for it and cutting the medicaid children’s hospitals depend on

So much botched plastic surgery.

Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection As of September 15, 2024, the COVID-19 pandemic had resulted in more than 776 million confirmed cases and seven million deaths worldwide [1]. While most patients recovered from the acute phase of COVI...

I'm seeing a lot of discussion of this study, and so far everything I have seen goes well beyond what the data of this study allow us to conclude. Let's look at this together.

A thread 🧵

As called by Paul Keels on Ohio State radio:

This has been me basically all day

Nutty wind gusts across the high country earlier today. Fortunately the worst of this is long over, but it’ll stay windy in the high country into tomorrow.

#COwx

A man looks horrified

It is all of us. We escaped but are not A-OK.

The pack-a-day smoker lady rushing up to you with incredible gossip: "omaygod omaygod omaygod... wow... wow... "

For once I don't look fat enough 😂

Grateful that my kids know this to be false.

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.

This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

I can’t resist posting another photo of Aseroe rubra (Anemone Stinkhorn). This was the largest specimen I found and nicely shows the remains of the ‘egg’ it emerged from. Surrey 4/12/25 #fungi #FungiFriends

That blood vessel was so hard to paint omg

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

a screenshot of a playlist called Worst Christmas with an illustration of a Christmas tree on fire

My holiday gift to you: three hours of the worst Christmas music known to humanity. Apple Music and Spotify links can be found at shitm.as

Holy crap that is THAT Christopher Lee.

fucking assholes

Hot wings
Rufous Backed Kingfisher
Native to maritime SE Asia

Screenshot of a post on X from Retsef Levi (@RetsefL). The post reads: “ACIP’s recommendations re Hep B vaccine reflect strong objection to vaccine mandates that prevent access to school & even clinical care from children not up to date with the vaccine schedule (including Hep B). Children should have undeniable constitutional right to education! Should the constitution be amended accordingly?” The post tags @SecKennedy and @AaronSiriSG.

So to be clear: ACIP didn’t vote to remove the hepatitis B birth dose because of new safety concerns. They did it to make a political point about mandates. Thank you for saying so explicitly.

Found 'em!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5 is the time I played chicken with a crane; this one actually only turned at the last moment and clipped me with a wing upon landing 😂🪶📷

OMG it just took out one of the distant cameras!!

Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯

USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

A bison looks left covered in snow and frost on a cold winter morning at Elk Island National Park.

Bison on a frosty winter morning. #ArtAdventCalendar

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?