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...
Apropos of nothing, it took humanity 2,700 years to finish digging the canal across the Isthmus of Corinth.
Harl. 2694 Lucretius, De rerum natura, with a lovely map illumination! I remember gasping when I opened the cover!
Please welcome our @britishlibrary.bsky.social BL Medieval friends to Bluesky! 🎉
Small actions like letters and phone calls do make a difference! 💪 🤝 🙌
Bookmarking
Biological life is a billion year effort to make water taste like things.
This is VERY cool.
Scary parking garage monsters
Pittsburgh, PA
Undergrad class: Historical Linguistics and Intro to the Gothic Language
This 2000-year-old sculpture of a baby doing a hadouken from inside the mouth of an old man’s head is still one of the hardest things I’ve ever seen
www.artic.edu/artworks/221...
Getting featured in the Billy Penn newsletter - it's a dream come true! Still feeling all the good feels from our collab with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
This interview with @adapalmer.bsky.social was an incredible treat! Best podcast episode I've listened to in a while.
youtu.be/PAIhVfGbREA?...
And the prequel, Nothing Nowhere Never.
👏
1985