there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

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Perfectly put.

Reminds me of the Stan Rogers song “Lies”

gonna be sitting with “there’s an assault on giving a shit about anyone besides yourself” for a long time

The lesson I have learned over the last 10 years more than any other: Hatred and bigotry and greed are the flames of fascism, but its kindling are people who claim to be well-meaning, yet diagnose our problem as "polarization" without giving thought to the causes over which we are polarized.

I don't have "too many tabs open." My tabs are flourishing. Healthy. Bountiful. The ecosystem is thriving.

Ils ne leur fournissent pas de garderie, mais leur reprochent de ne pas travailler

Clustering at GEDmatch A new tool recently came out at GEDmatch, and I wanted write a blog post about it so I could understand it better. I realized, however, that I had never written about GEDmatch’s clustering to…

Posted this blog post before I went to bed, woke up with a comment from the creator of the tool. I love this field and the people in it!

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The thing about the relentless march of time is that you only get an ending (happy or otherwise) in fiction. Here in the real world no cause is ever lost forever even though we may not live to see it prevail. This is both hope and cautionary tale.

I like the Celtic and Gaelic addition! Interestingly both this update and the most recent 23&me update is pointing to Western Highlands/Hebrides. I’m wondering if this comes from my Scottish ancestor who was said to have come from the north eastern highlands.

New Ancestry update!?! Well there goes my morning…

Kind people want a just world. Nice people want a calm world. These are fundamentally incompatible positions in an unjust system, and results in the latter trying to stomp down any fuss over getting to the former.

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One of the newly added videos is mine!

C’est quoi, la généalogie génétique, qui a permis de résoudre le meurtre de Catherine Daviau? Près de 17 ans après l’assassinat de la jeune femme, un coupable vient d’être identifié grâce à l’ADN des banques de généalogie récréatives.

Merci à Anne-Sophie Poiré pour cet article, dans lequel j’ai eu l’occasion de partager mon expertise:

Ravie de constater l’application de la FIGG au Québec!

A DNA matrix from DNA Painter showing shared DNA in different colours, one is noticeably red, highlighting a problem

Finally have a chance to test out @dnapainter.bsky.social’s matrix tool and I love how easy it is to spot problems

This is so rich; I love it. I felt something messy and real and powerful in that image of hope crashing through the door, chaotic and uninvited, but still somehow enough. Like what if we could just show up as we are? Maybe that would be enough.

“Any person can enrich the whole world with their spiritual treasures, if you have the strength to reveal them. You don't have to be wise or learned. For there is no way to assess the excessive wealth of your soul, because your soul is the light of the divine in the world.​​​​​​​“

—Rav Kook

The only political split that matters - feed everyone on the off chance one person is hungry, or feed no one on the off chance someone undeserving might get fed

I feel like it’s hard to have discussions on AI because very reasonable positions are being treated like they’re saying “all AI bad, good AI impossible.”

But we cannot have a reasonable discussion of AI without talking about who is making it and how.

A picture of rose bush with a very pink rose blooming

First roses have started blooming here!

Many magenta dianthus blooms

My dianthus in all its glory

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Love this list; I added so many titles to my list of books to check out!

My recommendation is Dread Nation by @justinaireland.com

Civil-war era zombies. I’m a scaredy-cat but I couldn’t put it down!

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If you like retellings, Heartless by HG Parry was also good

I adore @natashapulley.bsky.social All of her books are an automatic pre-order. Her most recent “Hymn to Dionysius” is my favourite so far: beautifully weird

Every day, there are the Horrors and the Fascism and in the cracks between them, tiny weeds of Joy.