Noise cancelling headphones have made public transit so much more bearable

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

I think half of the data wrangling for my last manuscript was done to the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack so I too don’t play games with complicated scores 🤣😂

Ok but have you tried video game music compilations

This week’s SNL just became a must-watch. Please, please, please dust off every Chicago sketch ever. The Blues Brothers, Da Bears, Cheeseburger Cheeseburger, Obama, I WANT TO SEE ALL OF IT.

They have a livecam pointed at the chimney and there is currently a SEAGULL posted on smokewatch

Nah I cover mine in souvenir stickers

The Canadian election result shows that the 2024 US election might have gone very differently if American voters could somehow have known in advance what it would be like to have Donald Trump as president

9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry.

As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.

A rye sourdough boule

Brigitta popped over to Bavaria tonight for a minute

100%. My pottery class made teapots last session and we got a little fast and loose with the forms and this would’ve fit right in

A sketch of purple orchid flowers

A reference photo for the purple orchid sketch

Went to the orchid show this weekend

Those BEANS

A bald man and a woman with curly hair standing next to each other all chummy, both in new-age hippy robes

Donna would 1,000% be an accidental antivaxxer.

Dharma’s dad would be antivaxx but her mom would have probably secretly vaccinated him in his sleep in one episode

I’d like to thank my neighbor (not on bsky) for the ride to the airport so I could spend the cab fare on an airport bar beverage

A dog on a scooter with Holi powder on its forehead shows how much Indians love their pets A photo of a dog in India on a scooter, its forehead daubed with colored powder, is a potent symbol of how many households treat pets as family and include them in festivities, including Holi.

A photo of a dog in India on a scooter, its forehead daubed with colored powder, is a potent symbol of how many households treat pets as family and include them in festivities, including Holi.

Orange and white cat looking out of a window. He says, "Good morning Gonzobongos! I'm looking out upon this blasted wasteland, waiting for the infernal winds to stop blowing dust at me."

Goodemorning Gonzobongos! I am lookng owt upon this blastid wasteland, waitng fore tha infernal winds to stop blowing tha dusts at me.

When can this country get some high speed rail because these bargain carrier airlines are the woooooooooorst.

This post brought to you by flying while neurodivergent

A tiny water color painting of an evergreen tree and some rooftops

I’ve been making tiny paintings instead of doomscrolling and it’s. Been. Wonderful.

Is that a moral? Leave me alone I did 90 minutes of a four-hour government training before coffee this morning

The other moral of the story is I still like drinking basically a quad espresso if the coffee is high enough quality

Working from home today and “answer a few emails before coffee,” turned into 2 hours of working and I have just now surfaced and accidentally made and drank an 8oz cup of the beans that normally comprise a 20 oz thermos and the moral of the story this Friday morning is

Coffee before emails

A teeny tiny watercolor painting of a fall scene. There is a penny next to it for scale (the penny is roughly 1/3 the height of the painting).

I love your setup! I prepped all my tiny papers today and have a little setup at home but haven’t put together a travel kit yet. Painting #1 is my train stop.

Sourdough with herbs resting in a glass mixing bowl before rising

Brigitta is visiting Tuscany today.

DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines…

If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public.

If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

At least this means that MTG and I agree that she doesn’t deserve her job or her paycheck.

A quick sketch of a rainbow flag and the neon sign reading “We make things we love ourselves. From scratch.”

Drag Bingo Brunch!

Several Northwestern alumni in a bar with OSU paraphernalia on the walls look on as the NU men’s basketball team prevails over the Buckeyes on TV

When you get invited to a double alumni event and your team SHOWS UP

New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

I use AI for some stuff (image analysis and sometimes to clean up writing I’ve already done) so I guess I’m not a TOTAL hater, but the amount of time I have to spend fixing what AI writes/generates is vastly more than if I just did it myself from the start.