T Karnos

A real dismal nitch, as they say

Coping with my rage at Kansas lawmakers by donating to the Transgender Law Center
transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/

You call it a filing cabinet, I call it a Void Ship. You had to go and touch it, didn't you?

Who actually signs for payment to the agency?
If it's the executive branch, what's stopping them from ignoring Congress and paying anyway?
They've ignored plenty of other rules, laws and guidelines.

Very much looking forward to the answers.

I was just wondering last night how to describe songs by the Beautiful South and found this - "Socialist politics with gospel harmonies"

Yay for you two!

♥️♥️!

Bud Cort, ‘Harold and Maude’ Star, Dies at 77 Bud Cort, who starred in 'Harold and Maude" and "Brewster McCloud," died Wednesday. He was 77.

I will be spending the rest of the day strumming a banjo on the Marin headlands, and thinking of him in M*A*S*H too
💔💔

More than meets the eye: How different animals see the world What would it be like to see through the eyes of another animal? Learn how different animals see the world.

Ever wondered what it would be like to see through the eyes of another animal?

Explore the fascinating diversity of eye designs across the animal kingdom in this week's post by @catrinahacker.bsky.social: pennneuroknow.com/2026/02/10/m...

#PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦 🧪

Nudibranch?
Maybe chromodoris snowmani?

Asterisks added...

OHSU formally launches a process that could— **though by no means certainly will**—culminate in the transformation of a nationally significant scientific research center into an animal sanctuary.

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Deleted my response b/c it may have been too graphic. Just saying, love the upbeat, family-celebrating aspect.
'Cleanest' isn't what comes to mind with the translation of the Safaera lyrics, but it's all good.

💙💎

Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane

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An orchardist in Oregon forever changed the international fruit market in 1875 by cultivating the popular Bing cherry.

https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2026/02/who-was-ah-bing-new-childrens-book-reveals-oregon-story-behind-famous-cherry.html 

Valentine’s Day quiz: discover your Canadian lovebird | The Narwhal Take our Valentine’s Day quiz to find the nest-mate of your dreams — and get a card to share

Has your partner ever built you a home in a chimney? Or regurgitated food to save you all that tiresome chewing? If not, perhaps it’s time to look beyond the human dating pool. Check out the very first Narwhal quiz, and find your Canadian lovebird. projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...

"We do not expect you to get everything right. We just want you to do the best you can."

I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now.

Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.

Siding with the eels on this one

" In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II was gifted a lamprey pie for her Diamond Jubilee, but would not meet her fate for another 10 years."
Lampreys are patient, they can wait for their salty revenge.

All I know is that it's completely taken over Crumbl and they're pretty much just a firehose of Dubai chocolate now

Lake Oswego theater loses rights to screen 'Melania' after marquee jokes - Your Oregon News Lake Theater & Cafe announced that it will no longer show “Melania,” the Amazon Studios documentary about the first lady, after Amazon revoked the theater’s rights to the film. “Got […]

“it just seems so weird that it even exists (who wants a movie about Melania lol?), and wouldn’t it then be exponentially weirder, to the point of being funny, to show it here, at your obviously anti-establishment, occasionally troublemaking, neighborhood cinema?” Perry wrote.

Photo of a small waterfall flowing into a pond (at a fish hatchery though it's not obvious) with sword fern and bigleaf maples and other green vegetation along the banks

Gotta give some love to the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area! Not a national park exactly, but it deserves to be one.

Here's a mini waterfall at a fish hatchery in the Gorge. My favorite waterfall is Latourell but none of my photos do it justice.

looks beautiful!

Missed #HATM tonight but thought of you all as I was driving home and saw local theater marquee:

To defeat an enemy
You must know them.

Melania
5pm 7:30pm

Delia Deetz is my go-to Catherine O'Hara character, but Cookie Fleck is awesome too. I hope #HATM does one of her films soon. Looks like Train Dreams is still on the docket for this weekend though.

ordered!

For the alt text

for a split second that made me think 'wow, NPH was in GOT?! How did I not know this?'

then the reality of the mind-blowing gif kicked in ..sigh.. but I'm very happy for your personal list of random new-information tidbits!