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Occasional science reporter at The Washington Post and elsewhere. Disabled by complex chronic post-viral illness. Living on #Kauai #Hawaii. Sometimes […]
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[Winnipeg]
@sundogplanets The only thing I know about Winnipeg is that my parents honeymooned there in...1962. 😀
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Just FYI this is Octopus cyanea, known as a day octopus because they are diurnal.
A few weeks ago I also saw a very confused night octopus out and about at 10am. Must have shift-work sleep disorder, poor dude.
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@laurahelmuth.bsky.social Um do you call the feral chickens in my yard 'wildlife'? Because they certainly mate.
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Spoke too soon, lol. Easy to get the thing set up and running but getting it to see a NAS drive seems very challenging.....
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@cdarwin The electric utility on Oahu has for years been slow-walking permits for rooftop PV...it can take 2-3 years to get permitted. They had four people in the permitting office for an island with nearly a million people. Utilities hate rooftop PV and will only pay for the power generated if […]
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Some folks on United got a 6 hour SFO-SFO round-trip.
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I know so many chronically ill people who have internalized this message and spend their days feeling both sick and guilty for being 'lazy.' It's so goddamn pervasive and pernicious.
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"The center-left’s utter abdication on the pandemic has left us with a single-sided narrative when it comes to COVID. It happened. It ended. As the public gets- and remains- sicker, we have no story to explain why this is happening, who is to blame, who must be held accountable, what must […]
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@Dseitz Well I'm not really looking to get my ass kicked this morning..
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Anyway, giant corporations are all garbage.
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https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/02/public-discourse-was-flowing-on-pot-bill-then-the-house-snuffed-it/
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@chris I mean it's like 3rd-hand info....