Dr. Stephanie

A baby Fiona the hippo, floating serenely underwater. This picture is from about eight and a half years ago

fiona the hippo just turned nine (9). truly, time is fleeting

A multi device hub that looks like a a classic Mac and slides over a Mac mini, and it also takes an extra hard drive in it while also adding ports

Pictures of it playing little widgets and screensavers on its wee little screen

Another pic of this thing front and back. TBH it’s probably garbage

A picture in the back showing how you can slap a little memory in its head

Look at this adorable little thing. It just plops down right over a Mac mini

The drama and infighting is so think on here tonight that I just caught myself wishing I had tabs to keep track of it all.

And THAT is the sign that I’ve had more than enough internet for tonight.

*unhinged laughter*

I have now listened to it, and still… oh my god what

I’m pretty sure the first time they’d ever been within arms’ reach of a cow was *after* they bought their toy farm.

….oh my god what

There’s so many options, though!

The Hunt for Red October

Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...

Link from People because they got the most pants-on-head wtf statement ever from the husband:

“Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact.”

I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried.

DON’T DRINK RAW MILK!

A snowy egret flying above the water. The water has a reflection of the egret. The water is uniformly blue.

Snowy egret and friend, Colorado.

#BirdOfTheDay #Reflections #EastCoastKin #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #snowyegret

I don’t even want to *google* that.

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign.

(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Look, for all we know, Zeus was a black swan.

today both the Bad Writer Man and one of the all-time worst anti-abortion movement leaders both were hyping their Substacks and I am not sure what else y'all need to know to get the fuck off that platform

Religious nuttery, the desire to eat things that weren’t potato or polenta, and, quite literally, anti-fascism.

A century of hair clippings show lead exposure rates have plummeted There’s no safe level of exposure to lead—but a small, strange study shows we’ve made incredible progress in recent decades

There’s no safe level of exposure to lead—but a small, strange study shows we’ve made incredible progress in recent decades

PLANTS.

PLAAAAAAAANTS.

(seriously, their genomes are what? howmanyploid? and that’s… normal?)

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like

margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum

define term “eplungulate”
- lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

I was going to do stuff, but J *and* Curie have somehow connived to *both* fall asleep in my lap. There’s synchronized snoring.

…book it is.

Yeah, I figure it must be - there’s no way they can realistically keep supporting a system they just sold off the entire IP for. People who have one had better buy whatever reagents PacBio has in stock, and once those expire…. enjoy their expensive new paperweight?

the way I “fuck no”-ed so hard I almost physically flung my phone….

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA fuck no

More money than that is like… anonymous philanthropy to established orgs. Trying to find out who I was, invite me to anything, or interview me for anything would be an immediate no-contact.

I think about this a lot too. There is a level of rich - I don’t know what it is, but it’s much less than billionaire - at which I would quietly vanish to a beach house somewhere to spend the rest of my life sunning myself like a lizard and noodling around on my guitar, never to be heard from again.

Everything from Aptome plus other things from Omniome - it sounds like it’s the entire tech base for the Onso system. Article says PacBio plans to continue supporting Onso, but I’m sure the system’s days will be numbered.

Exclusive | Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? indeed.

Huh. At what point does an 800-pound gorilla officially become a monopoly?

The decrease in the price of the assets is interesting too - $60M cheaper than PacBio bought them. Tech that didn’t prove out? Or just a reflection on the market? 🦍🧪

Absolutely wild: massive variation can arise in just a single person in just a single year.

This is one reason long-term infections - and all those sub-clinical infections people ignore - are so concerning. Monitoring these infections, through wastewater surveillance or otherwise, is necessary. 🧪