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Natural disasters occur all over the US, and part of the role of the federal government is to help out states in recovery. Except… Trump seems to think Democratic states deserve disasters, and withholds aid based on his political needs....
It's not exactly what I said, but a pretty good approximation of something I said to my partner before she went to bed goes something like this: I know that I don't drink enough water, or didn't, but now that I'm actually paying...
Contra the previous post, just spotted this “Same settings, new look!” callout in Firefox, on a page I have never visited before, talking about a feature I have never used: I mentioned this once – when you get someplace new, everything...
The people who ruined sleeping in Men randomly showed up at my house again one morning this week. This is the part of renovations I knew I wasn't going to like. The unreasonable expectation that I should be awake when everybody else is....
Hola Darling Ones, When I turned 26 during my AOL days (geminmat@aol.com, y’all) in June of 1998 a guy I was IMing with on the reg wrote me a song. The only thing I remember is it ended with “you’re twenty-six years old.” It was a sweet...
Hi! I’m back from Rhode Island, having spent less than a week there, hanging out with family, and taking a bit of a working vacation. The weather was lovely; it was nice to be outside for a change, even if it was still with my laptop....
Who are you, and what do you do? I’m a data visualisation designer, developer, and researcher based in Sydney, Australia. I like playing around with how data can be gathered, combined, and visualised in interesting ways, and particularly...
IRU’S ISLANDIru is the god who made your world. He lives in the middle of the island - you have spoken with him. First he made the infinite sky, then he filled half of it with the sea. This was a lot of hard work, he has told you, but he...
I can tell you this: I did that talk for A.E.O.U.D. in New York and then inhaled Manhattan wildsmoke/miasma for a few days and then came back. I'm trying to finish up that project and make a silly video about it, but freed from the...
Transfixed – New York, New York I’m proud to announce that Issue 85 of my photography magazine is hot off the digital presses (via email)! There’s extensive coverage of my newest camera, the Panasonic S9, which has proven to be...
I am currently incandescent with rage about something else entirely that I'm told I can't talk about yet, so let me sublimate that instinct with this unrelated story: The SFPD "Real-Time Investigation Center" is the surveillance...
View the original post here: Bye, bye, Bear Blog!. Or here Internet Archive. You can find my favorite blog from 4s here: What the veil reveals. Or here Internet Archive when his blog goes offline. Man, I just don't know what to say....
In this latest study published in the Planetary Science Journal, researchers measure a thinning of Pluto's atmosphere as it recedes from the Sun. Whether the atmosphere completely freezes out as Pluto approaches its aphelion (furthest...
I’m 38 and I Can’t Support Myself Anymore The ideal person under capitalism is tireless, independent, resilient, endlessly capable of overriding their own limits in service of output. You may be severely injured and anemic but don’t you...
George Catlin, Floyd’s Grave, Where Lewis & Clark Buried Sergeant Floyd in 1804, 1932, oil on canvas, 11 1/4 x 14 3/8 in., collection SAAM Had a fascinating conversation with a scholar working on early 19th century American painting, and...