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It was drivers' ed and the teacher basically just gave us handouts of every possible DMV question plus answers and bailed. Last period of the day, so almost everyone else did too.

she's just found a more lucrative culture to appropriate at this moment

"understanding" in quotes reads to me as "puts out on demand, 24/7."
Because why else do you put it in quotes, in this particular list, when it could mean what the word really is understood to mean?
Dude fucking wishes he could add an age range, guaranteed.

-ddie's Home!

✨The GOP platform✨

Cultural burning returns to Jasper Ridge Muwekma Ohlone Tribal members conducted a cultural burn at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, providing a learning opportunity for a Stanford course on environmental stewardship.

New article! Cultural burning returns to Jasper Ridge.
Muwekma Ohlone Tribal members conducted a cultural burn at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma), providing a learning opportunity for a Stanford course on environmental stewardship. news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

1. A #flu & #measles update.
#CDC has been informed of 5 more kids who've died from flu this year, bringing the pediatric death total so far to 71. About 90% of them weren't vaccinated.
Flu season isn't over & flu B — which is tough on kids — is surging. The death toll, sadly, will continue to rise.

Now *THAT'S* a bacronym. *claps slowly*

More than 10,000 acres of ancestral land restored to rightful owners: the Washoe Tribe In what is the largest land return in the Sierra Nevada region and third largest in Californian history, the Washoe Tribe now owns 10,274 acres (4,158 hectares) northeast of Lake Tahoe, announcing the...

nit.com.au/19-02-2026/2...

Red flag warnings are in effect today across portions of New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.

These warnings are issued when critical fire weather conditions are happening or about to happen.

Avoid activities that could spark a wildfire! And check weather.gov for any updates.

A comical pile of boxes raking up Sarah’s whole first floor

The price points of the pint glasses were structured in such a way that getting too many made more sense than getting just barely enough so if you know of any bars in Philly that would be interested in hosting some educational pint glasses, get at me. This is my living room rn 😅

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Since 1641, the Black man's ability to perform in combat was questioned by White commanders. The question should have been not whether he could fight—but why.

Meet Black patriot First Lt. John R. Fox. (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/research/research-conducted-at-nimh/scientific-director/office-of-fellowship-and-training/outstanding-scholars-in-neuroscience-award-program

I can highly recommend the NIH Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience Award Program (nice backronym for OSNAP)! Need to be 2 years before/after PhD, due March 23. Great opportunity to visit and present at NIH and meet some amazing colleagues.
www.nimh.nih.gov/research/res...

it's silly as fuck, but I still want to know how many takes they gave him.

Three people were rescued after being stranded in 6 feet of snow in Amador County. What we know: https://www.kcra.com/article/three-adults-stranded-mormon-emigrant-trail-amador-county-rescue/70399763 

Bipartisan majorities in Western states oppose Trump's rollback of public lands protections • Nevada Current Large, bipartisan majorities of voters across eight Western states remain concerned about the impacts of climate change and opposed to efforts by the Trump administration to weaken environmental rules...

84% of Western voters say that “rollbacks of laws that protect our land, water and wildlife” are a serious problem, up from 68% eight years ago, according to a poll released Wednesday by Colorado College’s State of the Rockies project. Via @coloradonewsline.com

For those interested!

How the tiny 87-person town of Strawberry, Calif., produced an Olympian Strawberry, Keely Cashman's hometown, has fewer than 100 residents.

“With fewer than 100 residents and one Olympic bib, Strawberry may have the highest per-capita Olympian rate in the country.”

Phenomenal story from Jessie Fisher about a California town right next door to @calalumniassn.bsky.social’s Lair of the Bear. For @sfgate.com:
www.sfgate.com/olympics/art...

Gusty winds and low humidity will critical fire weather to the southern Plains Thursday. A Pacific storm will continue gusty winds and heavy snow over the western mountains into Thursday. Severe thunderstorms are possible across parts of the middle Mississippi into lower Ohio Valleys Thursday.

Tahoe Keys a center for recreation " and controversy Few construction projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin highlight the often-conflicting interests of development and environmental protection quite like the Tahoe Keys.Built in the late 1950s and early '60s...

*sighs*
One of the many sort of obscene things about the Tahoe Keys neighborhood is how much city plowing resources it sucks up for a neighborhood with less than 60% full-time occupancy. Another is that it should be a wetland.
www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/tahoe-k...

So much this. An interesting take on the source inspiration of Pinocchio at a time when pop AI was closer to HAL, #5, & WarGames than it was to now, with what would have been an absolutely gutting ending.
Spielburg - 'OK, but what if H.J. Osment had a really nice bday with mommy instead?'

Back in graduate school in the late 1900’s, I worked with HeLa cells in the lab. I had no idea of the story behind them.

They were cervical cancer cells that were taken, without consent, from a woman named Henrietta Lacks.

Her story is one that covers just about every corner of public health.

About a mile away from me is a street called 'Al Tahoe Blvd' and that second letter is an 'L' but it doesn't read that way on the sign and I've called it 'A''I'Tahoe Blvd by accident many times then tried to play it off as a joke.

Machine Learning was always the term in bioscience. Useful tech.

Avalanche update: 8 dead, 1 still missing UPDATE – WEDNESDAY, Feb. 18 at 11:30 a.m. Eight skiers are dead and one person is still missing, but presumed dead according to this morning’s press conference regarding yesterday’s avalanche. One of ...

Damnit. Was the most likely outcome but wanted to hold out some hope.
www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/avalanc...

In the last twenty-four hours, a powerful winter storm has dropped between 1 to 3 feet of snow in Sierra Nevada.

The heavy snow exacerbated conditions for dangerous avalanches, especially in the Lake Tahoe region where the heaviest snowfall occurred.

An odd coincidence given this moment in time, but 'AI.' It had such a perfect ending and cautionary moral and I swear you can tell the instant Kubrick died and lost control of the outcome and Spielberg stepped in and made it stupid and pointless for some feely goody and it just killed it for me.

Reports 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.

Using digital platforms for revanchism to a pre-digital time also feels like it should be doomed, but that's probably more hopium than anything.

Reactionary tautological politics are entirely too tautological to stop being reactionary, and that's why libertarians were defeated by bears.

Things I have recently learned you need a gov ID for:
-Going to that thing they still call a "grocery" store (it's an old word but you can look it up)
-Going to the library (haha, never mind)
-Internet (lol look something up?)
-Getting on a train
-Walking down the street
-Elevated melanin content

I want to see another stately still life of a pear in some classic style like I want to see abstract corporate art sculptures in front of HQs. Not particularly.

We have inconceivable to the past science now - wonders from the inconceivably small to the unimaginably vast. Give us art to reflect it!

Trump's distracted and drooling over his ballroom plans, and the people he's delegating thinking about science to are too busy sucking their own dicks to be bothered with their jobs. Hell, like him they're all just trying to paint their names on all the things while destroying them in the process.