Now THAT's scary!! Teleporting between the planes, eh?
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TwigsAreUs. This old maple tree has great twigs for tiny feet. Ruby-throated Hummingbird 🪶
LACon V is happy to announce that the following bids have completed the required filing to qualify to appear on the Worldcon Site Selection Ballot for 2028:
Brisbane in 2028
Nuremberg 2028
www.lacon.org/siteselection
#SomethingBeautiful the book fountain in Rome, where I was yesterday
#SomethingBeautiful
This was so fun!
This underscores the fact that providers, not patients, are involved in the lion's share of program fraud.
Our Discord community named our 2026 Steamy in Seattle mascot last week! Meet Vignette (Vinny for short), our teacup dragon! Vinny will feature prominently at this year's fundraiser on March 21 on keychains, scarves, and assorted delights. Get your tix today! www.clarionwest.org/event/steamy...
Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine
The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a stamp collection honoring low-rider culture.
In 2022, we reported on the push to overturn bans in California cities against cruising, where people parade their custom-built low-rider cars on local streets. https://to.pbs.org/3ToH6m6
The BBC's 1973 adaptation of ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS contained enough nightmare fuel to put a rocket in orbit. Sarah 'Nyssa from Doctor Who' Sutton as Alice, there.
#Mnleg HF3555
Install/operate plug-in solar photovoltaic device regulated
www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...
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Senate doing a good thing. More to be done, but a good step.
Scientists have developed an electrode that can capture CO2 directly from flue gas & straight from the atmosphere, no purification required. The electrode process turns the CO₂ into formic acid, a weak acid currently used to preserve livestock feed & tan leather buff.ly/sUIzHlC #ShareGoodNewsToo
I think my seeing stone has a virus. Is the flaming eye screensaver supposed to be so hard to turn off?
ELVISSHE TECH SUPPORTE:
Has thou tryed turninge thy computir off and then restartinge it undir a brighte colde moon yn a sharp green glade yn spring to the sounde of harpes?
Please take this survey and tell Metro Transit to keep the bus /bike lane (and not let a Highland realtor drive the narrative). This is the precise spot where I was nearly killed by a red pickup truck driver. www.twincities.com/2026/03/06/s...
The new Netflix series The Dinosaurs features two azhdarchids, Arambourgiania and Hatzegopteryx. Both are portrayed in their capacity as eaters of small dinosaurs and general menaces. And they look gorgeous
Great Blue Herons in the great blue sky ...
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
I absolutely loved this conversation. Ada's effortless erudition, energy, and insight really bring the renaissance to life. It's long but worth it - I learned loads. Recommended.
Snakes on Two Planes
More than most novelists and journalists too.
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
I support that!
THE WEE BABY TOESIES!
T. rex tooth cleaning time.
#SciArt
A comic about New York's election matching funds, and the comptroller's race (they're connected, I swear):
Reminded by @adapalmer.bsky.social on the Dwarkesh podcast and of Bacon's classification of knowledge gatherers: ants, spiders, and bees.
I wonder how Bacon would have described the contemporary desire to *look like* one who has acquired the "how-to" knowledge of accessing all knowledge...