and hail!

Cuckoo-leafcutter (Coelioxys sp) bee taking a little break from chasing the other males off his flower patch.

Tiny wasp with an emerald on her back, from my back yard 😍
Aeptencyrtus bruchi (Encyrtid wasp, of course)

Clippy popping up asking "are you not entertained?"

Serapias carica with bee within the orchid's flower, Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn

Serapias carica with bee emerged, four orchid pollinia attached to it, Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn

Thrilled to show my @mariposanature.bsky.social #OrchidsOfRhodes group masses of Serapias carica today, particularly when I found a flower with a bee tucked inside it. When it emerged, it had four orchid pollinia stuck to its head - a busy little bee indeed.

THE GUN IS GOOD
THE PENIS IS EVIL

I use Rome2Rio for this, don't know if there are better options. Amtrak will also put you on a bus and could make the mode more obvious when booking.

Seats are still available for our upcoming Spring Session of Marine Mammals 101 - a 6-week course introducing the basic natural life history of the most frequent marine mammals seen in the Salish Sea.

We are accepting scholarship applications and encourage you to apply via the link in comments.

Okay fine I finally did it.

In a world where "pollinator habitat" signs feature honey bees and European bumble bees, a Vancouver Island Bumble Bee is a sign of someone who knows her stuff. Just ordered mine!

This will be the thread of the night, no question.

The Washington House is about to debate a new 9.9% tax on annual household incomes over $1 million. It's widely seen as a major first step toward broader reform of the state's tax code.

FBI self-manufactured a ‘threat to life’ during 2020 Seattle protests, justifying potential use of informants FBI self-manufactured a ‘threat to life’ during 2020 Seattle protests, justifying potential use of informants

NEW: FBI self-manufactured a ‘threat to life’ during 2020 Seattle protests, justifying potential use of informants

www.realchangenews.org/news/2026/03...

I keep thinking about how much how friction is the best way for me to know I need to rework a design but AI is a tool you reach for when you just need to code your way through it and what that will mean for system design.

Was looking at a complicated abstraction sandwich recently that was AI-made

UI Designer / Oxide

hello. are you an incredibly good UI designer? want to work with people who will love and respect your work and your process? want to make $250k (same as every other employee) and work fully remote? take a look

David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’

Sextou!!

This is from my cousin who's been living there for years: "news is beginning to trickle out through international media, I will now announce that Mexico is currently under attack by cartels, including in Puerto Vallarta. This is unprecedented. 1/n

honoring my ancestors by having a cold one in Mexico City

35 Republicans and 1 Democrat in the Washington House just voted against a bill that would prohibit school employees from putting students in restraints or using isolation as a planned behavioral intervention.
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/...

no step on funk

Across the eras and after generations of struggle, our deepest fear is still the Mothership Connection.

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

spent a year at An Unnamed Company That Owns Clojure and this tracks. Also you can take a glance at its “manual”

Also subtweeting nothing in particular: decentralization shifts issues of control over technical systems, and can obscure them, making it harder for users to hold anyone to account.

And if you want more detail on why I left iNat, I wrote about that too: kueda.net/blog/2026/01...

Apropos nothing in particular, why are non-profits so easily captured by narcissists, and what can we do about it?

I suspect the most impactful thing would be for workers, both staff and dedicated volunteers, to unionize.

What a world huh Lemon it’s still struggling to be born

Why I Didn’t Sign the Resonant Computing Manifesto: The Foundations Need Work The Resonant Computing Manifesto speaks to humane tech, but its foundations don't address issues of power, accountability, and community. I wrote this to name what’s missing and suggest commitments th...

I appreciated this critique of the "Resonant Computing Manifesto"

spacecadets.love/why-i-didnt-...

A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.