A Dozen Lizards in a Trenchcoat

Your unsolicited Welsh word of the day is "colomen, colomennod" - it means "pigeon, pigeons."

Mae cymaint o golomennod ar fy nho!

4 U.S. citizen children, with their mother, held in a detention facility for 2 WEEKS. Denied access to lawyers and even communication with family.

Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.

Ithya: Magic Studies on Steam Ithya: Magic Study is a cozy background app combined with productivity tools. Customize your room and relax with lofi or fantasy playlists in beautiful, hand-drawn environments. Perfect for a focused ...

I have a few of these background/productivity apps, but I think between the music and overall style, this one might be my favorite. I just wish it had more to it in terms of locations and customization options - hoping they'll keep putting out updates.

@aminus.bsky.social you have to see this

RED ALERT - this is my favorite band, ever. I'm broke, but if they've still got those signed LPs by the time I make this month's mortgage, ima nab one...
AI junk is taking over music space... but these are real people, some of the realest and coolest there are, and they need this.

Unpopular opinion: if you hate #AI, absolutely the dumbest thing you can do is go after people who're using it transparently. If people can't use it honestly (whether you agree that it's honest or not), they won't stop using it - they'll just try to pass it off as real.

I haven't posted much art recently. I tend to work in "seasons" - I'll do a burst of art, then move on to writing for a while, then whatever else... then circle back to art. Recently, it's been writing. But here's a #WIP I've been slowly working on while "off-season." #art #artsky #coloredpencil

We were warned. Here we are

if you have a D senator, we still haven’t seen this point of order.

call now—it can be quick!

"senator ___ must call or suppoint the point of order to remove section 71114's anti-trans medicaid ban. democrats must stand together to protect the right to access medical care."

contact info: reps.fyi

Jason Delgado (Florida Capitol reporter for Spectrum News 13) on X: "Quick look at what inside a detainment tent looks like here at Alligator Alcatraz." What is shown in the picture is a long tent structure, about 50 feet wide. There is a corridor running down the middle. On each side are three rows of bunk beds. The bunk beds are sectioned off into cells which are constructed out of chain link fence, with chain link on the ceiling as well, making each cell a literal cage. It looks to me like each cell contains 9 bunk beds, so has capacity for 18 people each.

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

In 2024 alone, immigrants paid approximately $24 billion into Social Security, despite being ineligible to receive benefits. Eliminating this critical source of revenue not only undermines the program’s stability, it brings it closer to collapse.

And #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid Republicans don’t care!

Queens! Midnights! Barracuda! Grouper! Call the doctorfish, we’re up close and in your face! #queenparrotfish #midnightparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #parrotfish #barracuda #blackgrouper #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

A pigeon with a bad foot visited yesterday - wouldn't walk on it - so I'm going to see if I can catch it and check it out.
So far: the pigeons are smarter than I am, and all seem to agree that this is sus.

Everybody tells me that I shouldn't move to the tropics, because it's *so hot and humid*, but they don't realize that like... if I don't feel like my fingers are pruning just sitting at my desk... it's not humid enough for me. The weird bugs are just a neat bonus.

Why are matadors so damn hot? Why am I so reproductively devastated by professional bull annoyers?

There is a terrible wizard's curse upon me: wherever I live, wherever I move, whatever happens... There will always, always be a neighbor replacing their roof. All day. For all eternity.

Noem, the FBI & Trump Just Sent a Message to America: the Police State is Not Coming—it’s Here Senator Alex Padilla asked a question. The regime answered with fists, lies, and a chilling promise: “We’re not going away.”

open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Long term effects of ionising radiation in the Chernobyl Exclusion zone on DNA integrity and chemical defence systems of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) accident in 1986 resulted in extremely high levels of acute ionising radiation, that killed or damaged Scots…

I really want a pine cone from Chernobyl.

Pride was a riot we're running that shit back

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

AI, and the politics, ethics, disputes, discourse around it, is becoming one of my hyperfixations. I lie awake at night thinking about it. I confess that I hope someone comes at me to argue about it - I have thoughts, but if they're wrong, I want to know how so I can let them go.

Looks like I lost a follower after the post I did about an organization that's working to make AI more environmentally sustainable.
I might be wrong, but I don't think it's problematic to want to try to look for ways to fix what makes AI bad, instead of just writing it off completely.

Welp, now I feel better about all the pens I've gone through... reuniting ink families, one page at a time...

Coalition for Sustainable AI An international community of stakeholders to advance concrete initiatives for making Artificial Intelligence beneficial to our environmental goals

I'm tired of seeing so many posts from people screaming about the problems with AI, but seeing nothing but dead air when it comes to finding solutions (short of "AI abstinence" - which appears to be working about as well as it does in high school sex ed). I want to see more of this:

YouTube video by Lustmord - Topic Black Star

Yes, this music may be creepy or ominous to some, but this might be my favorite thing to listen to when I'm feeling overstimulated, overwhelmed, and socially drained. It sounds like VOID. I need VOID.

Got back from vacay & probably 1/3 of my 1000 email backlog was begging emails from the DNC & other Dem orgs. @democrats.org you're turning off your own people with this crap. Put Gen Z's on social media & Gen Jones ('57-'64) in the town halls. Get moms involved. LISTEN TO US!!

Coral meditation in the Coral Morphologic lab #coralmorphologic #miami

Two things they don't warn you about starting a reef keeping hobby:
1. The amount of time you'll spend obsessively staring at rocks, and
2. The rocks start to stare back.

"I'm putting this rock in rock jail, because it is being naughty." - a thing I never thought I'd say before I started building a reef tank.
To be fair, the rock is a good rock; it's what's growing on it (aiptasia and clove polyps) that's misbehaving and must be taught the error of its ways.