A society that places people in impossible situations cannot feign surprise, much less innocence, when they use the means at their disposal to escape.

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

It’s a very particular kind of affluent wretchedness that I’ve only ever seen in: – Piedmont CA – Bellevue WA – Silver Spring MD – Takoma Park MD – Chevy Chase MD – Bethesda MD – North Bethesda MD – McLean VA – Falls Church VA – Arlington VA – Springfield VA – Tysons VA – Fairfax VA – Huntingt

rogue@roguechocolate.bsky.social · 3d ago

You could do that uncanny geolocate thing with a decent amount of precision using this picture alone

Real quick while I’m here, anyone need anything from the cursed Little Free Library®?

Folks, [takes a sip from the glass on the pulpit] imagine a loosely history-adjacent epic movie about the end of mythological time, but that contained actual ideas. [Pauses and looks around thoughtfully.] We don’t have to imagine. We don’t have to imagine! It’s called “Princess Mononoke”, and

Some personal news: I’m no longer calling it the Net. Now it’s the Grid. I’m posting this on the Grid right now. Thanks!

Gresham’s Law but for all the expired treats I’m discovering as I clean out the pantry.

I said this last summer, but it’s still true: wildland firefighter/smokejumper tiktok will really show you 45 seconds of the most compelling visual storytelling and personal heroism imaginable over a soundtrack that’s what a radio station that was skeletonized by private equity plays.

A sliced optimal transport–based cartogram again. This is testing a Rust rewrite. Green is (aboveground live dry) biomass, gold is GDP, and people is purple. Each dot is one 2.5 millionth of the global total of its kind of thing.

How you know I’m not consulting on media/outreach for any satellite companies right now is you’re not seeing satellite images of World Cup games in progress. Do it and let FIFA sue you; you’ll make it up in publicity.

Friends worry he’s using sliced optimal transport to make population cartograms again.

[Lowering my broadsheet newspaper at the breakfast table slightly and catching my wife’s eye:] There’s a 5.3-million-year–old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone, dear. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone - Nature

Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...

nature.com

Oh, you’re still eating analog rice? Twentieth century rice? Manual, non-Uzbek, legacy rice?

Just going by the titles, an Edwardian musical writer could do huge numbers posting on this site. Imagine getting dunked on by someone with the display name The Bing Boys are Here. He’s wearing a straw hat in a slutty way and half his replies are just the word “oojah”.

Would you rather fight the “Hamilton” version of “Oppenheimer” or the “Oppenheimer” version of “Hamilton”?

If I were Ridley Scott I would release a final cut of “Gladiator” (2000) in cinemas that’s exactly the same except he says “husbeast to a murdered wifemonster”.

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

Researchers from University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa created a simple ocean-based model to predict El Niño and La Niña 15 months ahead using ocean surface temperature and height data. It achieves forecast skill similar to complex models. The current forecast predicts a strong El Niño later this year. 🌊

Simple ocean-based model forecasts El Niño skillfully, points to a strong event ahead

For decades, scientists have worked to improve predictions of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate powerhouse that can cause droughts, flooding, marine heatwaves, and more around the world

soest.hawaii.edu

They laughed at Galileo. Louis Pasteur was only allowed to present his results as Pierrot. They made Simone Weil wear a diving helmet and swim fins. I guess senses of humor have really changed.

referring to the boring parts of books as “mummystuffing” web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

The UB’s archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer’s ‘Iliad’ inside a Roman-era mummy

The papyrus, placed in the mummy’s abdomen, contains a catalogue of ships. This is the first time a Greek literary text has been found in a mummy.

web.ub.edu

🎼 Why are there so many 🪕 🎶 songs about loquats? 🎻

Your phone will never take a good photo of the moon except for this one rare exception.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Reading a book about Sicily, set in Sicily, by a Sicilian, and at one of the many, many parts of this Sicilian story where the Sicilian characters mention Sicilian things in Sicily, a previous reader has made a marginal note: “Sicilian”.

Interestingly most of the research into POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia) happens because of space science; it astronauts who have been in space for long periods of time suffer from it when they return to earth.

CZEdwards@czedwards.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Funding NASA is funding this planet‘s near and long-term health. You think solar power just appeared? GPS? Weather prediction? Battery tech? Most aspects of the microcontroller? Velcro? Space sciences are planetary sciences!

Hard not to be jealous of anyone bobbing gently the Pacific with three friends and no signal right now.

⚒️🧪 Got an @earthscope.org email saying that the #ArtemisII re-entry shockwave may be audible in coastal southern California between 17:00 and 17:15 PDT or so today! If you're in this area, fill out a USGS felt report with details of what you do (or don't) hear! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

I strongly suspect that this is part of a much larger pattern and a lot of the “people are using AI for THAT?!”/“people are taking out loans just to XYZ”/“did you hear about the weird fad on that one social platform?” news is this kind of countersignaled PR. www.theverge.com/business/905...

Fake or real, the “inside traders” on Polymarket are great engagement bait

Welcome to the age of fake insider trading

theverge.com

Who do I ask for the raw for art002e000193? I know JSC has a process for releasing them.

That’s a great question. A man doesn’t have to walk down any roads at all before you call him a man—he’s already a man. Would you like me to suggest some better ideas for songs, or should we explore the wonderful world of children’s riddles?

Sending a box of angry hornets to the work address of everyone who distributes data in the netCDF family of formats with a smug little note letting them know the hornets are self-documenting.

I think that if the intro to your video is “Thing – you know, [complete description of thing]”, as if you don’t know how the phrase “you know” works, but really you’re just too lazy to write a carefully pitched intro, you should have to post a no-excuses apology, sincerely reflect, and make amends.