Chitinous Exoskeleton

The 2029 dimes will be a trans flag with Sherman's face

The little buddy doesn't currently belong to a neighbor but one of them offered to take her in!!

Some days I walk around the hardware store like "getting some real @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social vibes here"

People on tiktok are deranged on this issue. The idea that you'd want to drink at a *wedding* is controversial over there

During Iowa House floor debate on March 5, 2026, Democratic State Representative Aime Wichtendahl spoke against a bill that would prohibit local governments from adopting civil rights ordinances that ... TikTok video by laurarbelin

Iowa's only trans state legislator made an excellent floor speech to the same effect: the state simply cannot afford to be driving people out www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh35AND9/

Can't believe oil is over $100 per... Brazilian butt lift?

I love it when a museum has an exhibit that's just a lil guy

He's not of least concern to me......

Some of us were gonna gather around the bromeliad pool at midnight and have a chirping session if you wanna swing by

I recently witnessed a conversation between an Orthodox and a Muslim classmate about how they were "both fasting right now" and as a cradle Catholic I had no idea the Greeks were kicking our asses on this one

They let the special effects prosthetics team go nuts for this one

Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator

As a kid I collected like $300 worth of dimes in a huge jar and when I find one now I still feel like I ought to save it and put it in a jar

The dime is such a perfect coin and they want to take even this from us

It's a kitten 🥺 left it some wet food, going to figure out tomorrow if it belongs to a neighbor

Does it taste like sugar maple syrup?

man I am so ready to work for the new reconstruction government you have no idea

So what's the most interesting, or weirdest, application of hidden markov models (HMMs) that you've seen? I once built an HMM for sage grouse mating behavior, fit to data collected by a robotic grouse (pictured doi.org/10.1086/703518).

Looking for other examples for a new lecture on HMMs.

Disinterested fire. Completely impartial fire

Well, they're certainly less casual, I'll give them that

Yes, and also strictly indoors

Telling whoever keeps letting their cats out around here that it sounds like they're just feeding cats to the rat poison that the Department of Public Works leaves in the alley every week

There is definitely a new alley cat in the neighborhood sending my own cats into hysterics at ungodly hours of night

To take the heat off Jon for a sec, I think I misinterpreted "your community" as the literal jurisdictions in question, and was trying to point out that this is a local control issue where these municipalities did have measures in place. If he's replying to my post in the same manner that's my bad

Gonna be a looong year

Née Dan, I presume

Frances wants to help me fold laundry but she isn't very good at it

Iowa's motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain"

This bill spits on it, the spirit of civil rights law to be expansive and flips limitation of state power on its head, with state power used to narrow municipal power to *expand* and protect *more* rights

I had hoped to one day retire my "Protect Trans Iowans" t-shirt but these ghouls just keep making it more relevant