Multipurpose Goddess

I found a place that’s only one bridge away from me that a review says has hand pulled “like biang biang noodles”, so that’s probably my first stop

It’s a tasty treat

Same! Hope the sock puppets have not been successful

I love to see it

Just finished @annaleen.bsky.social ‘s Automatic Noodle. It had me at robots making noodles. What’s not to like? But these bots have plausible and relatable inner lives, and are struggling to make a living like all of us, of course I love them. And would really like to try biang biang noodles!

Hopefully they’ll be chowing down and keeping you from getting bit tomorrow

Spiders can rebuild webs pretty dang fast when they have to

Annalee Newitz in Conversation With Arielle Duhaime-Ross The Legendary Independent Bookstore

Portland!! I have now eaten a spicy katsu sando from Tanaka and I'm getting ready for an Automatic Noodle event at @powells.bsky.social tonight at 7pm. I have the proper spicy feeling on my tongue! Let's gooooooooo! www.powells.com/events/annal...

"Russign culture and Russian history is sort of baked into Alaska," said Brandon Boylan, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who has researched Alaska's role in U.S.-Russia relations. "There's a lot of remnants of the Russian American legacy."

The faculty have been waiting decades to get this quote into the Times.

Author Event at Lake Forest Park Third Place books. Annalee Newitz in conversation with Ryan Calo. Automatic Noodle! Mon, 8/11 at 7pm. Register in advance at thirdplacebooks.com (event is free)

Seattle area friends! Tomorrow, 8/11, I'll be at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park @ 7pm, talking about Automatic Noodle with robot law prof Ryan Calo (sadly he's not a robot; he just studies how the law applies to robots). Please come! www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/annale... #booksky #seattle

Tactical Ballgowns and Genre Turduckens: A Conversation with Fran Wilde by Arley Sorg Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

This is tactical ballgowns, but close clarkesworldmagazine.com/wilde_interv...

Yes, please!

Right. This is also going to be a big property grab. A lot of people made a lot of money taking property owned by the interned Japanese.

A Windf*cker perches atop a small branch at the top of a tree with a blue sky backdrop.

I was today-years-old when I learned that Kestrels were called Windf*ckers in Medieval times, and therefore that will be the name I whisper henceforth whenever I see one of these majestic, mini, murder birds.

SFF friends: this is a good 75% of my energy/climate work right now. Dealing with the power demands of incipient data centers on the electric grid, and how those demands are resulting in more expensive and dirtier electricity for everyone.

RFK Jr is doing to the US what he did to Samoa:
“In the small island country of Samoa, lives have been forever altered by an outbreak of the disease in 2019 that caused at least 83 deaths & 1,867 hospitalisations, mostly of babies & young children. Thousands more fell sick” bsky.app/profile/aust...

What is a cheesesteak without tofu? Tofu is grand

EDGAR ALLAN POE: these pancakes are delicious

EDGAR ALLAN POE’S MOM: would you like some more

RAVEN: *looks up from reading newspaper*

EDGAR ALLAN POE: n-no thanks

😍😍😍

Hey folks,

Below is a place to submit your photos of Park signs.

Supposedly they’ll be whitewashed by September 17.

So now is a good time to start taking photos.

This is interesting, I want to think about it more

got off at the next station and raced to the airport and dealt with checking bags and stood in the long security line all that goes with that and eventually got packed into a very full plane (including cliche but real crying babies) and that was fast but unpleasant

Last time I took a long train trip we were stopped for over 24 hours because of wind storms. Which was not a terrible ordeal, you could get off the train and walk to town, they gave us free meals, not bad at all as getting stuck on transportation goes. I was under time pressure so

Good point. It’s kinda close to Bertie - whatever you ask you get a garbled mishmash of a half-remembered quotation in response

Maybe? I thought Geoffrey was part of what seemed familiar but that might not be true

Why do I feel like the name Sir Geoffrey Mandeville should mean something to me? I don’t think it’s because of the eels…

A vessel in the form of a potato with lovingly detailed eyes.

First of all, please admire this SUPERB potato vessel!

So this is just flat-out theft.

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ “I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.

I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does:

we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space

Resistance is futile

Actually, probably not for you personally, but it seemed like a good response in general