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Very happy to see this article come to life!

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When we were dealing with the almost-weekly power outages last summer for them to do electrical work, I could not get it through to them how challenging it was to turn off and restart stuff.

Hopefully it clears cf!

ugh

I'm a big fan of butter and honey when it's super fresh like this

Recently started biking for real, and holy f-ck - the cars. I swear to absolute fucking God. The cars man. I've never in my 30+ year life seen so many stupid fucking idiots in traffic. Blind motherfuckers. They are making my blood boil. Today someone decided it was a great time to make a U-turn in the middle of the street. I kept distance but the car was jerking and was indecisive and just stopped forcing me to go right on the curb making me fall head over the handle bar and crash. Not a care in the world the driver just looked at me and drove off. Never in my life have I seen so many stupid people that can't drive. And I've had a drivers license for over 20 years soon.

A common thread among newer cyclists is realizing just how awful drivers are. There are things you simply don't notice — behavior that has been normalized — when you mostly drive. Biking, walking, or rolling through the world changes that.

please await your strongly worded letter from a certain councilperson about being a bad example and not wearing a helmet

Odd

they just gotta sit there??

me

true

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ahhh say hi to TJ and alice and jana

what brings you in today? Psychic Damage

Iowa went all-in on school choice. It's hurting this city's public schools With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.

www.npr.org/2026/04/19/n...
#FullyFundPublicSchools
#NoVouchers4PrivateSchools

yeah but you're not gonna eat a variegated monstera

I know this says nothing you produce can be for public consumption but what if the rare plant experiments just ended up on your doorstep when I ran out of room in the basement. It's not for consumption. It's just a gift. A little miracle of nature. That's all.

jungle cat

Tipsy the tortoiseshell kitten has not at all concealed herself behind a fake plant

pure stealth

I would truly spend so much time in the shop basement farting around. Tissue culture lab. Traveling to buy rare plants/specimens. Learning more about propagation. Building a real propagation setup instead of just as I have time and resources.

Meet Jorge Hirsch - MagLab Meet Jorge Hirsch. Jorge Hirsch is a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of California San Diego who studies superconductivity. He visited the MagLab to conduct research on the…

We were excited to host physicist Jorge Hirsch for his superconducting research. He's the man behind the popular metric of scientific impact, the H-index.
nationalmaglab.org/about-the-ma...

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

I don't even know how to escribe thise. A black dog with white underneathy bit is cockroached on an ugly mustard colored couch. Both forelegs fully extended with paws crossed cuz she's fancy like that. Her expression is the canine equivalent of a loading screen.

I dunno man...
I think Esme might be a little weird.

NYT: Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

By Richard Sandomir

nyti.ms/4e18Mut

what a great great lady

A grey tabby cat with a bell around its neck is walking towards string or wool lying on the ground.

'Kitten and Wool' - Aoyama Masaharu, ca. 1950s.
#Caturday #JapaneseArt

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

America is losing a talented researcher today.
Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility."
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

It's Friday afternoon (somewhere) so time for a take.

One of my issues with what is often called "hard sci fi" is that it mainly focuses on accuracy in physics but will neglect basic chemistry (I'm sure it also neglects other subjects like biology and the like as well, but let me stay in my lane).

a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"