Alex L

Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.

Selfie of me dropping off mail-in ballot at drop box.

Voted.

Selfie of me wearing a shark onesie, with a frontier-style white bonnet over my head.

I was a bonnethead shark for Halloween: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneth...

Come watch me and my classmates improvise an hour long play at Outside In Theatre (Los Angeles) on Fridays from Oct 25-Nov 21 at 7:30pm. It’s been an incredibly fun class taught by Monica Alquetz and Paul Hungerford, can’t wait for you to see it. Tix: outsideintheatre.vbotickets.com/event/class_...

Close up of tube anemone with long blue-ish white tentacles with a core of smaller green tentacles.

Close up of bat star with papulae sticking out.

Close up of juvenile Giant Pacific Octopus with eye near the center.

Black and white photo of Japanese sea nettles

I experienced my first Photographer’s Night at the @aquariumpacific.bsky.social over a week ago. I had a fantastic time, can’t wait for next year, and recommend it to other photographers. #AOPphoto25

Actual promotional photo of a stylized Chewbacca-skin rug that looks like a bearskin rug, with a small, smiling child sitting on on it and looking down towards Chewbacca's dead-eyed head

Listen, I know there have been a lot of Star Wars products over the years, but this feels very, very wrong.

I still own the Tauntaun sleeping bag.

Had the incredible pleasure to photograph the Jane Austen & Zombies Improvised show at Outside In Theatre in LA. Moody, dramatic, sweet, and incredibly fun. They have one more show left on Nov 1: outsideintheatre.vbotickets.com/event/jane_a...

Sadly no, to my knowledge.

It was dry.

If you’re in the LA area, I’m in a show tonight at the Glendale Room: www.eventbrite.com/e/monologues...

First time I’ve been at M.i’s Westside Comedy in almost a year. Not running tech, but supporting friends and live theater.

R.I.P. federal EV incentives, while the petroleum industry continues to be heavily subsidized.

“In our house, we have a strict ‘no hallucinatory parasocial relationships after 9 p.m.’ rule.” Shannon Curran, Systems Analyst

OpenAI Introduces Parental Controls
https://theonion.com/openai-introduces-parental-controls/

Image of a woman looking at the camera with orange glasses, a dress, and gold earrings. Text says: “Some of the best we see from AI is taken from some of the best of humanity, but without credit, without compensation, without consent, without control. ... It’s up to us to demand better. But how do you demand what you don’t know?” —Dr. Joy Buolamwini

Join the #SciFriBookClub today at 8:00 p.m. ET for a virtual discussion about this month's pick, "Unmasking AI," by Dr. Joy Buolamwini. Come chat with fellow science fans about AI, tech, digital equity, and more!

RSVP here: buff.ly/LojpsbT

I need to see people’s pores in those wide shots.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Colton has way more patience than me, and I would have been anxious and put on edge too. Excellent points by the judge and good judgement as always.

Yes! And one of fav podcasts when it was making new eps.

Teching The Incubator at Outside In Theatre tonight.

Metaflora Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Plant!

Discovered plant version, which harder because plants have weirder clades:

🌵 Plant #722 🍁
I figured it out in 16 guesses!
🟫🟫🟧🟧🟫🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 16

flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

A friend recently introduced me to #Metazooa. I’ve been waiting for this game for almost 25 years:

🐫 Animal #783 🦋
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟥🟧🟧🟨🟩
🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 8.8

metazooa.com
#metazooa

Teching Dinner with the Dixons tonight at Outside In Theatre. #improv

Selfie with left sleeve rolled up, showing bandage where I got my COVID shot.

Got my seasonal COVID shot (had my flu shot almost 2 weeks ago). Suck it, RFK Jr!

Star Wars LEGO set of Kelleran Beq and Grogu on speeder, 2 clone troopers, and a light post.

LEGO Grogu in his hover pram.

My latest Star Wars LEGO. Glad that’s Kelleran Beq’s brief but memorable appearance in the Mandalorian is immortalized in LEGO form. Includes random LEGO light post from the Jedi Temple, apparently also memorable for some reason.

Teching Weird Tuxedo tonight at Outside In Theatre.

Juvenile giant pacific octopus, red colors, on rock.

The @aquariumpacific.bsky.social has a new little Giant Pacific Octopus. Thank you previous octopus, you only live few years but I thank you for your survive in delighting and inspiring curiosity.

It’s a win when a musical improv show featured a lot about worms and the show ends, the first post-show song I played was TMBG’s “Doctor Worm.”

Admiral Ackbar action figure sitting on light bar on top of small freshwater planted aquarium.

I figured that the good admiral should be in command of something more aquatic.

Han Solo after spending the night in the Tauntaun.