This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
This. It can be hard to remember if you work/volunteer in or are currently under siege via one of the few political areas where Trump has near complete authority (immigration enforcement + the others Jamelle mentions), but they don't control everything, they lose all the time, and we will win.
If anyone I know here is interested in moving to/joining Mastodon, I’m also @enting on wandering.shop and am happy to DM an invite code or discuss other server options.
As an advocate for dark skies …. This is not the right way to do it. There should be no facilities and no lights. 🔭🧪
‘DarkSky International said in its statement that theconstruction of the detention facility "demands the most rigorous application of dark-sky friendly lighting principles."’
19% of peer reviewers in a Wiley (🥴) survey “said they have used LLMs to ‘increase the speed + ease’ of their reviews.” Meanwhile, some authors are using “indirect prompt injection, which involves inserting hidden white text or other manipulated fonts that tell AI tools to give a… paper 👍 reviews…”
John Linnell of They Might Be Giants performs live, singing into a microphone while playing keys. Next to him, bassist Danny Weinkauf plays with focus, wearing a black T-shirt that reads “GENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE SAVES LIVES.” Behind them, the drummer, Marty Beller, plays under purple and blue stage lighting, creating a vibrant and energetic concert atmosphere.
The bass player of TMBG, Danny Weinkauf, is wearing a shirt with a trans flag and says Gender Affirming Care Saves Lives.
I didn’t think it was possible to love TMBG any more than I already do, but here we are.
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
The most important thing you can do is visibly do things that make sense for you and who you are and where your skills and capabilities lie.
If someone sees you, they will think "oh, it's okay, I'm not alone."
This is one of the most beautiful space images I have ever seen
Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words
so they're mycoblogging
Joseph Finder ~ • Follow 2d • G • • • It's the 250th anniversary of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. A local TV station mapped the route out with nods to past and present Boston-area landmarks, including all seven Dunkin' Donuts a modern-day Paul Revere could stop at: https://www.nocboston.com/news/local/paul-revere-midnight-ride-boston-today/3685215/
i often see things that make me say "this is the most Boston thing I have ever seen in my life" but i think this one might have swept them all
This is the time of year to see the trout lilies sending their stark white rhizomes out into the world, arching over the forest floor. They'll be gone in a month or so. Maple Grove this morning.
Bloodroot flower open in the sunshine, surrounded by leaf litter and with other bloodroot flowers and trout lily leaves in the background.
Bloodroot is just so great.
Yes!
White hepatica flowers surrounded by leaf litter and twigs.
Spring beauties blooming in front of a mossy rock, with young aster leaves out of focus at the bottom of the frame.
Purple hepatica flowers in front of some reddish rocks, with mystery green leaves that might be some kind of plantain (not the banana-like ones).
Small good things: spring is progressing in the woods around here.
Major good news for my transmasculine readers.
The Washington State Democrats have informed me that the bill will cover 6-month supply stockpiles of testosterone as well.
They were unable to get 12-month supply stockpiles due to its controlled status, but it WAS upgraded from 3 to 6 months.
I saw advice to buy extra cans of food when you’re at the grocery store to donate to the food bank.
I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any).
We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods
A set of five silver tone sheep charm stitch markers. The jump rings joining the sheep to the stitch marker fastening are arrayed in a rainbow.
A set of five fixed ring silver stitch markers. The charms are two coffee takeaway cups and three coffee beans.
A set of five fixed ring silver stitch markers. The charms are a teapot, a tea cup, a spoon, and two tea bags.
A set of five fixed ring silver stitch markers. The charms are a bunch of grapes, a bottle of wine, a barrel of wine, a champagne flute, and a corkscrew.
I’ve been getting together sets of stitch markers for the market on May 10th and for my trunk show at Knitty City in NYC on May 31st!
Which of these sets would you most like to take home?
morality aside: it turns out, as a purely sociological matter, that a politics premised on empowering people who loudly and performatively don't care if discriminated-against Others suffer and die results in surprisingly indiscriminate suffering and death. this needs to be explained to people
A group of state and local elected officials slammed Penn for its response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on diversity initiatives in recent weeks.
The university has pulled down DEI websites at several colleges and plans to dissolve DEI committees at its medical school.
Brown tabby on the back of an armchair, partially lit by an adjustable lamp that’s pointed toward the wall behind her. She’s looking over her shoulder, toward the lightbulb and at an angle to the camera, and the difference between the bright light on her back and the darkness around her chest and paws is pretty dramatic; slightly more than half her face is lit, and the other half is in shadow. (The vertical lamp support is hidden by her body.)
Phoebe really wanted the comfy chair to herself again. (I ceded it because it’s almost bedtime.)
This is terrifying.
A chart called "how to tell a raven from a crow". An illustration shows that the common raven has long, fancy throat feathers, but the American crow has smooth throat feathers. The raven has a wedge-shaped tail and the crow has a fan-shaped tail. The raven croaks, saying "crroak crroak", but the crow caws, saying "caw caw caw". The raven regularly barrel rolls, and is shown doing a fun roll in the sky, with the sound effect whooooosh. The crow less regularly barrel rolls, and it's shown flying awkwardly and saying "Am I doing it now??" while another crow replies "ummm almost".
How to tell a raven from a crow. An older guide I made with Dr Kaeli Swift. And yes that's an aileron roll, not a barrel roll, but only us nerds know that :)
Ooh, I just found a fabulous slide show that shows the evolution of the male American Goldfinch plumage through all the months of the year. I wanted to confirm that the bird I saw was a male in winter plumage (it is), and David Sibley, of course, had all the info! So useful. I love my Sibley.
For anyone else in this position, Please never underestimate the usefulness of annoying the shit out of govt officials, organizing meal trains, being the support person who stays home to be jail support during protests etc etc. I know Gwen knows. Lot of y'all still can learn to help.
Instructions on Not Giving Up Ada Limón 1976 – More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.
I’m feeling impatient for spring this morning, so for #SaturdayPoem we’re anticipating the season a bit.
Native California Flora x Fauna is becoming a series! I’m enjoying perusing CA nature guidebooks for inspiration. Here is the Sonoran Desert Tortoise and Desert Five Spot, a block print.
#blockprint #printmaking #tortoise
As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
