An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.
🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪
It was raining and there was low clouds in the Laker Merritt neighborhood of Oakland when I heard a passenger airplane fly above me. #photography
25.02.2026 04:03 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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the amazing @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy has created a full listing of where to find online archived copies of the CIA World Factbook onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/seria...
06.02.2026 18:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0internet archive has a lot of them archive.org/search?query...
05.02.2026 01:11 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01981-2017 digitized from libraries catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00053...
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A two panel shot of Bart sleepily watching a computer with a Warriors logo on it, and then Bart closing the computer with a sad look on his face
04.02.2026 05:17 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
M 4.3 - 4 km ESE of San Ramon, CA
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earthquake
02.02.2026 15:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The NBA has postponed today’s Warriors-Wolves game in Minneapolis.
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US ska & new wave vets The UpTones have just unearthed their final recordings, from 1987, and here's your first listen:
www.brooklynvegan.com/berkeley-ska...
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14.01.2026 14:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
World-First Ice #Archive to Guard Secrets of Melting #Glaciers (via @france24.com / @en.afp.com) www.france24.com/en/live-news... #climate #environment
14.01.2026 14:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
giant lego model of Enterprise 1701D (& crew)
07.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
😓"NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts---Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
31.12.2025 20:53 — 👍 14 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1The archive that was at Berkeley moved to UC Riverside awhile back library.ucr.edu/collections/...
30.12.2025 02:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0thanks for reporting on it
30.12.2025 01:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chart of Berkeley's total rain in 2024 (25.28 inches) and 2025 YTD (19.77 inches)
Chart of Berkeley rain levels the last 24 hours showing over .5 inches at 3AM
Over 2.5% of Berkeley's 2025 total rainfall occurred at 3AM last night
25.12.2025 20:30 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.” www.wired.com/story/chrome...
19.12.2025 10:05 — 👍 441 🔁 122 💬 10 📌 30
La comète interstellaire 3I Atlas depuis la station spatiale internationale, avec des aurores en avant-plan!
La comète interstellaire 3I Atlas depuis la station spatiale internationale, avec des aurores en avant-plan!
19.12.2025 17:52 — 👍 266 🔁 46 💬 7 📌 3
America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision flip.it/Cj85mg
18.12.2025 15:28 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Our newest blog breaks down why this first-of-its-kind privacy tool matters, how it works, and what Californians can expect next year.
Learn how DROP will help you take control of the personal information data brokers hold about you. Read the blog privacy.ca.gov/2025/12/janu...
🕒 This is the 5th felt #earthquake in San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. in the last 13 hours.
08.12.2025 23:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Earthquake?
08.12.2025 22:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
See from above, water covers an off-ramp of highway 101 and a parking lot next to the highway and bikepath.
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
04.12.2025 22:25 — 👍 318 🔁 113 💬 19 📌 40Thank you for reporting on this
04.12.2025 02:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was from here - it doesn’t look like they have it any more (though lots of other good things) www.etsy.com/shop/CuteRiot
28.11.2025 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mug of black coffee with a cute skunk that says Capitalism is a Death Cult
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