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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

you're not really a dog owner until you google "[food dog ate] okay for dogs"

This is Teddy. He just finished his first Thanksgiving feast. Immediately proceeded to his new favorite tradition, the post-feast nap. 12/10

I’m hit!

right wing Hindu nationalism has always been treated like a little bit of a side oddity here in the US but it is a horrifying, supremacist ideology and Tulsi Gabbard is all mixed up in it

This is part of why one of the key issues at COP28 and now COP29 is financing for developing countries--they did little to cause climate change and won't be able to use fossil fuels to grow economically as the U.S., Europe and other countries did if we bring emissions down like we need to.

This is extremely important to track. The RSS in India spent years building an alternative infrastructure to undermine reputable centers of knowledge production and eventually took over our university system and professional academic associations. I am seeing the same process play out here.

"as the AMOC evolves in a changing climate, how we define these water masses becomes more critical" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Slug’ by Nagasawa Rosetsu Edo Period en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaw...

I think when we bike home in the dark it must be like riding Space Mountain for him.

Actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist. I, the person correcting you on this trivial point, am the monster.

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith “The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”

Do I wake up for this?

What’s going on?

Bluesky is very slowly starting to build up enough that it has the constant flow of posts I need to avoid real life.