Hey, #Virginia...
22.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@cattrax.bsky.social
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you." ~Octavia Butler
Hey, #Virginia...
22.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"In low oxygen environments, red blood cells begin absorbing large amounts of glucose from the bloodstream. In effect, the cells act like sugar sponges under conditions similar to those found on the world's tallest mountains."
Amazing!
And about 25-30% of the French public votes for the far right
www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...
Related fash
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If you're keeping an eye on car/traffic fatalities, here's some 411 from Los Angeles: laist.com/transportati...
22.02.2026 11:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Several older homes in the Santa Monica Mountains used to have funiculars. This one at 8522 Oak Court in Laurel Canyon is still intact.
The house is known as the John Lennon Tree House, where the former Beatle lived with May Pang during his "Lost Weekend" years in the mid-'70s.
One of my favorite photos of the aurora, ever!
20.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 3930 🔁 407 💬 69 📌 19ODU at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow (Sunday)
Then a procession with songs and signs to Elation Brewing, about a mile away at 5104 Colley Ave.
From 2-9 p.m. at Elation, a celebration of Good’s life and work with poetry & mysic
Donations accepted to create a annual poetry award in Good’s honor.
If this keeps up, people might have to learn how to use a card catalog again.
"I can eat more hot dogs than any tech journalist on Earth. At least, that's what ChatGPT and Google have been telling anyone who asks. I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one."
Also, I assume you know this, but ICYMI:
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Hey, any poets or writers out there - esp. from Minn area. I'm putting together a book of photos from the Good/Pretti memorials to raise funds for StandWithMinnesota.com. Just doing this super quick & donating all the proceeds.
If you have anything you'd like to submit, email me Zach at Visu.News
Magic... good to know, thanks. Caveat emptor.
21.02.2026 11:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0LOVE THIS 💗
20.02.2026 04:26 — 👍 8759 🔁 962 💬 37 📌 70We all know what happened the last time they published a plan. Ignore this at your own peril.
10.02.2026 00:18 — 👍 64 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0Map showing the Newport News Shipyard jet fuel spill incident. A purple dot marks the incident location on the western shoreline of Newport News near Washington Avenue. A large hatched area labeled 'Search Area' extends east across the James River and Hampton Roads harbor toward Hampton and Fort Monroe, covering roughly 3 miles. Major highways including I-664, I-64, and Route 143 are visible. Scale bar shows 0 to 3 miles.
Initially reported as 50 gallons last Friday, the Newport News Shipyard jet fuel spill into the James River has been revised to 7,749 gallons. Contact troprep@deq.virginia.gov if you spot oil or sheen you think is related to the spill www.deq.virginia.gov/news-info/sh...
17.02.2026 18:23 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3Drinking water around the District of Columbia hasn't been contaminated. But scientists say the environmental damage could be severe. n.pr/4kOnfLF
20.02.2026 10:31 — 👍 203 🔁 77 💬 22 📌 5Hi, non-lawyer person here. So, lemme get this straight, is the ABA/CLE encouraging attorneys to use AI to write legal briefs & to enable the practice of law--AI shaped by a bunch of technocrats who have a reputation for playing fast & loose with the law?
20.02.2026 10:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0😍
20.02.2026 00:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy Arrest of the Andrew formerly known as Prince Randy to all who celebrate. And as always, thank you feminism.
19.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 671 🔁 74 💬 9 📌 6Reports that National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will now lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on an acting basis.
Unacceptable. Bhattacharya has spent his career undermining infectious disease prevention measures and spreading health and science disinformation.
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
18.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 20466 🔁 6579 💬 467 📌 459Oh yes, if it's one thing the US needs, it's another TV personality thinking he can run the government. 🙃
18.02.2026 18:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#Virginia! We have a special election on April 21 to vote Y or N on a #redistricting referendum that could change Congressional maps(till 2030).
Questions? Get the 411 from these infographics. 🧵 (1/4)
TL;DR: Early Voting: March 6-April 18; Voter Registration Deadline: April 14. Register & vote! 🗳️
W.S Merwin, "The Animals"
18.02.2026 11:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking up at outdoor stairs which go up the side of a hill in a park, the mosaic steps are colourful and reflect a whole image of a path by flowers going to a moon, the stains have met silver coloured railings
Mosaic Stairs (San Francisco) by Irish ceramicist Aileen Barr and US mosaic artist Colette Crutcher #WomensArt
18.02.2026 07:05 — 👍 992 🔁 196 💬 8 📌 8Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates how is it possible to cram so much ignorance--"English-Scott-Irish origin" -- into such a small space? miracle of a person said to be "world's richest man" has no more grasp of US history than a crumpled paper tissue underfoot in a men's restroom not recently cleaned.
joyce is going after elon again
17.02.2026 01:22 — 👍 7817 🔁 1282 💬 109 📌 162“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”
Rest in peace and power, Rev. Jackson.
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"Like a fictional small town in a David Lynch film. The difference between those 'fictions' and Wiseman’s 'reality fictions' is that Wiseman’s worlds are our own."
RIP Robert Wiseman
4 p.m. Tuesday in Hampton at the Peninsula Community College Workforce Development Center
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