Whit

I literally use this feature daily. (The LLM thing. I couldn't win a chess game against a broken cinderblock.)

Just did a retailers' thing for that, because someone used my email for their account and I was trying to break the link. 10 times I placed the puzzle piece.

A 1912 news article ominously forecasted the catastrophic effects of fossil fuels on climate change A short news clip from a New Zealand paper published in 1912 has gone viral as an example of an early news story to make the connection between burning fossil fuels and climate change. It wasn’t, howe...

Regrettably, I cannot relocate the NYTimes article. But I could find this example from the era that I remember seeing it from.

tech.yahoo.com/science/arti...

The first mention of greenhouse gases in the @nytimes.com is from the first decade of the 1900s. Remarkable. (Also, there's the whole arable land thing.)

Usually a house finch in that location :)

well there goes my world view entirely

today, I saw a ruby-throated hummingbird nip little pieces of fluff from a cinnamon fern's central stalk and I will never be the same man again

It is durably fascinating how little attention was paid to branding around the Disney stable of characters. Who is Mickey? What does he stand for? What my expect of him? Never clear.

comicking

This is true. But they also define the area nearby -- in many cases, a mimic's song serves as a proxy mechanism of demonstrating its "worldly" genetic fitness and diversity. Kinda how some humans find foreign accents hawt.

I can recommend the nonfic Mozart's Starling without reserve.

The ‘Great Moose Migration’ Livestream Captivates Sweden (Gift Article) Moose fans are following the weekslong moose migration, which airs live on the national broadcaster. “This is reality TV at its finest,” a moderator of a zealous Facebook group said.

Dear Heaven, there's a moose migration in Sweden and one can watch. #moose

For #fossilfriday, my favorite crinoid, which is on a larger crinoid. The larger is about a cm across so the smaller is a few mm. From Mineral Wells Fossil Park in Texas, where one can collect fossils for non-commercial purposes for free.

Barry Levinson was 25.

Possibly a mollusc trail from 200 mya for fossil friday. Fell off the outcrop. #fossilfriday #ichnology

there's just more things to look at now

keeps changing

I'm on #7 unpublished. Wish me winged words

Bone eating “Osedax worms” variation and spread geographically New occurrences of the bone-eating worm Osedax from Late Cretaceous marine reptiles and implications for its biogeography and diversification  By: Sarah Jamison-Todd, Philip D. Mannion, Adrian G. G…

Who ate these plesiosaur & mosasaur bones? WORMS. And we know because of their traces.

Yasamin Taqwai on TimeScavengers

timescavengers.org/2025/03/20/b...

Photo of a light brown rock sitting among sand and gravel. It's about a meter by half a meter, showing above ground.

Closeup of the stromatolite surface. It looks a bit like dense coral.

Another view of the stromatolite surface. You can see the wavy ridges that make it feel like an oyster shell.

Stromatolite! Just a big brown rock but when you touch it it feels EXACTLY like oyster shell! Fossilized microbial mats from 1.2 BILLION years ago, among the earliest life forms known! JUST SITTING IN THE DESERT BY AN OLD ROAD.

OK not sure if this was #TenMinMerlin or #mimicsgohard. Many of these I heard, including the chickadee, the titmouse, the sparrow and the grackle. I also heard the mockingbird and the wren. However, the killdeer was also the mockingbird. And the hawk was the blue jay. #merlinpwned

I feel like we need a kickstarter so there can be shorter swords for rabbits

I have tabs for novels. And tabs for things that I put in tabs so I can discard them guilt-free. Like my recipe box.

l'accent grave

is this also true of n-dashes

push technology

I am hoping to break some rocks in a river this weekend.

Maybe they will try to sell you a random forest

the seeds don't care about yer silly bougie planz

it's his own fault if he can't afford child care.