Steph Curry, still good at basketball

View of the night sky from Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, with the Anglo Australian Telescope visible in the lower left hand corner. Image Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Macquarie University)

Happy International Dark Sky Week! 🌌 Access to dark skies:
🔭 enables world-leading science
✨ preserves shared cultural knowledge and traditions
🌠 sustains wildlife ecosystems
🌌 encourages people to look up

Learn more at: idsw.darksky.org

Image Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Macquarie University)

Tried to order the awesome official Canadian Space Agency Jeremy Hansen Artemis II mission patch 🇨🇦 but they politely informed me no shipping to the US “due to the new custom requirements” & “we are hopeful things will change” ❤️

Oakland “is this still thunder or explosions”

Your hunky Jesus 2026 — renewable energy Jesus!

Tsunami NOT expected. https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2036309737336177149

I recently had a chance to speak to a marine biologist and it was one of the most depressing conversations I’ve ever been in. We were talking about the rate of species collapse in the oceans. “I just don’t know how to get people to care,” was a sentence in that stuck.

Trailer LESSONS OF DARKNESS (Werner Herzog, 1992) - Festival de Cine 4+1 YouTube video by festival4mas1

youtu.be/vMIM-ma2juo?...

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

It was raining and there was low clouds in the Laker Merritt neighborhood of Oakland when I heard a passenger airplane fly above me. #photography

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

the amazing @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy has created a full listing of where to find online archived copies of the CIA World Factbook onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/seria...

internet archive has a lot of them archive.org/search?query...

1981-2017 digitized from libraries catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00053...

A two panel shot of Bart sleepily watching a computer with a Warriors logo on it, and then Bart closing the computer with a sad look on his face

M 4.3 - 4 km ESE of San Ramon, CA

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

earthquake

The NBA has postponed today’s Warriors-Wolves game in Minneapolis.

Berkeley ska & new wave vets The UpTones unearth 1987 EP (listen) One of the most underrated bands in US ska history have just unearthed the final recordings of their original '80s run.

US ska & new wave vets The UpTones have just unearthed their final recordings, from 1987, and here's your first listen:

www.brooklynvegan.com/berkeley-ska...

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

World-First Ice #Archive to Guard Secrets of Melting #Glaciers (via @france24.com / @en.afp.com) www.france24.com/en/live-news... #climate #environment

giant lego model of Enterprise 1701D (& crew)

Tomorrow’s high tide will be the highest tide since 1998. 🌕

NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

😓"NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts---Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

The archive that was at Berkeley moved to UC Riverside awhile back library.ucr.edu/collections/...

thanks for reporting on it

Chart of Berkeley's total rain in 2024 (25.28 inches) and 2025 YTD (19.77 inches)

Chart of Berkeley rain levels the last 24 hours showing over .5 inches at 3AM

Over 2.5% of Berkeley's 2025 total rainfall occurred at 3AM last night

This Chrome Extension Turns LinkedIn Posts About AI Into Facts About Allen Iverson The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.”

The developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.” www.wired.com/story/chrome...

La comète interstellaire 3I Atlas depuis la station spatiale internationale, avec des aurores en avant-plan!

La comète interstellaire 3I Atlas depuis la station spatiale internationale, avec des aurores en avant-plan!

America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision “The U.S. taxpayers have a right to this data.”

America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision flip.it/Cj85mg