Disasters bring out the best and worst of humanity. Be careful out there.

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Why should you call insurance ASAP? Because opening a claim may trigger Loss of Use benefits — which can help cover:

* temporary housing
* emergency medicine refills
* food

More tips on calling insurance here: brightharbor.com/blog/after-f...

If you lost your house in the LA fires and are overwhelmed, @brightharbor.bsky.social made a step-by-step guide to what you should (and should NOT) do this week to start your recovery 🩵

There is a lot of TERRIBLE advice floating around. Protect yourself!!! brightharbor.com/blog/fire-re...

Paging @blockpartyapp.com

A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part: "The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop." Here's the whole paragraph: We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising.

I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping.

If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

MAGGIE I HAVE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

I hope most sincerely that it moves in that direction for you and other folks as quickly as possible 🩵

My insurance has been great so far. But you know why? I have good coverage, yes, but more importantly, breast cancer is Very Common. (And Stanford clearly teaches their doctors how to argue with insurance.)

I'm obviously super grateful but also so, so mad-- it should be like this for everyone.

Vinyl peel and stick is finally nice enough and now I am unstoppable

So many botanicals
So many fish

As soon as I am not a horrible fever monkey let me treat you to something!!

This post and any others featuring illustrations courtesy of my inability to do my real job because I've got a raging fever ✌🏼

A hand drawn orange anglerfish in the deep blue sea, with the words "Twinkle, Twinkle, little fish" written in cursive around it.

Dear fine purveyors of #fishmas, if I wanted to swap this made up angler fish in a board book I'm working on for a *real* species of anglerfish, which would be the *coolest*?

*and ideally most colorful, because children

It really explains so much. Leaded gas and lead paint, my enemies

In Hurricane Ruins, North Carolina Food Workers Organize and Fight Twenty-one days without running water. A week before any cell service or internet. Hospitals closed, and thousands of houses swept away. Not long after developers started trumpeting the city of Ashevi...

When Helene dropped five months of rain in three days on Asheville, Asheville Food & Beverage United members checked on one another and organized their own relief, incl. a joint solidarity fund with @raiseupthesouth.bsky.social, @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social reported: labornotes.org/2024/12/hurr...

For your situational awareness, every $1 spent on NOAA yields $9 in benefit to the US economy.

And 2025 is the year we see just how fast the tech industry becomes enemy #1 when the base is angry

It's so good 😭

Beware letting your toddler know that you can even vaguely draw or their requests will only escalate in complexity and copyright infringement

If you're trying to find out info about the earthquakes/tsunami, what questions are you hoping to find answers to first? And where did you look?

Read below to learn about the Cyber Resilience Corps (cltc.berkeley.edu/program/cybe...) and how to get involved. I'm looking forward to collaborating this group!

Huge thanks to @craignewmark.bsky.social, @cltcberkeley.bsky.social, CyberPeace Institute, CISA and others! #cybercivildefense

This is the content I needed today, thank you 😍

I realize all these questions have proven fruitless so far but...is anybody doing research on nanobots lichenizing?

5 winter squashes of different sizes and colors

Once again, my family has underestimated my willingness to commit to the bit, and so now we are having matryoshka squash for Thanksgiving. (You'd think they would learn someday. They have not.)

The real question: is the big blue and pink boy in back a Hubbard, a Queensland blue, or something else??

I see a lot of you still sharing posts from the obviously fake Count Dracula account, so please be aware:

- the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania

- his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir

- he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post

Low bar

Eek not licensed! Lichenized!

Also if we believe the hypothesis that prototaxites were licensed autotrophs, what would be the most likely symbionts? And a bunch of fiddly details related to that 🫠

Lots of questions about saxicolous crustose lichens, how quickly they digest their substrates, and under what circumstances they might plausibly grow very rapidly to be very, very big.

One Billion Users: The Social Media Card Game A competitive card game to build the biggest and best social media platform

Okay folks, this morning we launched our Kickstarter campaign for our new *amazing* card game, One Billion Users. You can back it here:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

Ok, is this the kind of place yet where I could find an expert in either prototaxites or lichen who could answer some mildly absurd hypotheticals in service of some #soilpunk climate fiction?! It's a. (very unimportant but rather urgent) #fungi emergency 😅