Maija

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

He clearly demands a better loafing shed at home.

A view through a round window to the a jumble of an exterior grid steel staircase in front of a doorway to a sloped and tilted concrete structure topped by a white dome shining in the late afternoon sun beneath a blue sky.

Shine on, you leaky diamond.

A brown carpeted concrete ramp follows a curving square spiral up and around An arched doorway like a cave entrance opens onto a floor mosaic of the planet Earth and its magnetic field in groovy earth tones. Up an around this rises a spiraling concrete ramp carpeted in brown.

Also it provides us with memories of a science centre.

A ceiling filled with an orderly-ish tangled of all manner of ducts and pipes, all painted white, converging on a more brightly lit inner space just off the lower edge of the photo.

I'm glad Contemporary Calgary exists to preserve this brutalist wonder and its magnificent ductwork.

"Youtuber (deceased)" is concise comedy

If you mix quinacridone magenta PR122 with PY150 you can get a range of oranges and reds.

Like this - a somewhat alizarine PR83/madder sorta red, but more light-fast than PR83. It's got more PR122 than PY150 to pull it away from orange.

A grubby plastic bin on a workshop shelf labelled "stem bolts"

If these are self-sealing I'm gonna get myself seven tessipates of land on Bajor.

Alas if only the barrier to the podium was the cost of a box of pasta because downhill racing is Bloody Expensive.

Good of the tiny fellows to adapt to BAMBOO in CORNWALL as long as it's got mould on it.

I had no idea my little parasitic wasp friends could sting.

As a kid doing Nancy Green racing in the 80s we did "carb loading" with spaghetti the night before a race and apparently this idea goes back to the 1920s? I can't say if it worked or not because I type to you now from an armchair and not Stelvio Ski Centre, Italy.

@inkmixer.bsky.social I did not know Alsace-Lorraine was a region know for pasta? 🤔

Figure from American Beetles vol. 2 with habitus illustrations of six nearly identical corylophid genera. No color is needed, for they are all equally brown. A used strip of point-punching cardstock has been used to bookmark a later chapter, probably weevils

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

Orthoperus, shiny and chrome, photo by one of our top local bug finders, John Rosenfeld

Orthoperus is always a strong choice, none rounder nor shinier, frequently associated with grass piles (unclear whether present at Bad Bunny show?)

Redeem Your Faust Coupon! Within the next few days a Faust Representative will call at your home and present you with a valuable coupon. This Coupon will save you money. Take it to your grocer and redeem it. Serve appetizing Faust Macaroni or Spaghetti tonight. Be sure to redeem your coupon at once. [image of Faust pasta] --St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 5 Apr 1929

oh is that what they mean by a Faustian bargain

Feb 17, 2023 tweet by Molly White: it's only a matter of time before a kid lets go of a mylar balloon at a birthday party and an F-22 comes roaring overhead to neutralize the threat

The two-step snake was named that because after it bites you, you get a code texted to you.

New York: note the change of venue! We’re excited to hang with you and do some good community building!

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Today #yyccc was told that a full repeal of blanket rezoning puts over $800 million in federal funding at risk, including $251 million in transit funding. In addition, it will jeopardize #yyc being awarded its share of $20 billion in transit funding. We quite literally can't afford to be NIMBYs.

Any idea why the Confluence is all fenced off? I thought it was for Skijor but that's not until the 21st

#CTRiders Future 52 Street East BRT 🚍
See the recommended plan including proposed stations, walking & wheeling connections, intersection improvements & future MAX Teal extension.
Attend one of our pop-up sessions or provide feedback online until Feb 27: engage.calgary.ca/52BRT

Bunny says Miffy and friends, holding pills, Medication abortion is safer than Tylenol—including mifepristone, which some judges are trying to ban now. plancpills.org, aidaccess.org

haha I made this in my professional repro activist days and never did anything with it, here, it's still all true:

Set me up with 3 please

✨️rownd✨️

fuck that is so rownd

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

This relies on: "There can be no revolution, as there can be no Indigenous sovereignty, because these people are inherently corrupt but also perpetual victims of their autocratic rulers. Not colonial forces, no! We ignore those. If they matter, it is only in how reactionary forces weaponize them."

It is striking how similar this discourse is to how certain people discuss Indigenous communities and our leadership. And it frankly reeks of colonialism. There is no nuance here, no examination of the material and historic conditions, just this. "We must oversee all aid."

A large wombat stood on grass, staring blankly into the mid-distance

Wombats have the largest brain of any #marsupial. Their blank expressions are just a reflection of the fact that they know they can outsmart you.🧠
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombats #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombat