Everyone should know the perfect blanket is actually a dragon's wing

If you're annoyed at Microsoft, this might help you feel a little better.

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Hey fans of Seanan McGuire, good news! The Store of Seanan Stuff is baaaack after being gone for a year and we've taken over hosting it and running fulfillment, and you can not only get her CDs and old preorder pins from it but also signed comics and books, and proceeds go towards feeding her cats and our cats. You can find it here: https://shop.crowsnest.quest/collections/the-seanan-mcguire-store

But the life rafts are disrespectful to the sea

Then the spacecraft kept flying. There was never a second take.

Source: NASA

Jeez, it's raining hard enough that I stepped outside to take the garbage to the bins and instantly dissolved instead.

Happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day to all who celebrate!

A 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid just turned up carrying the complete genetic alphabet.

Scientists found all 5 building blocks of DNA and RNA in samples from asteroid Ryugu: adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil. Every one that life relies on.

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft scooped that material off Ryugu’s surface and carried it back to Earth.

Here’s why that matters. These are the molecules that store and copy genetic information, and they were sitting in space rock long before anything on our planet was alive.

So maybe Earth didn’t have to invent life’s ingredients from scratch.

Maybe they got delivered.

@Soreth so headcanon/realization just now-

the way the other birds talk like they're "others", the weird flocking behavior crows don't normally do, the way they never talk-

the Wildwood crows *are a hive mind*

Also I'm deeply unsure why they chose invasive english ivy as the scary plant that drinks blood when invasive himalayan blackberry is right there already growing daggers and bleeding you.

Anyway the film is so amazingly a love letter to Portland that it was a delight just for those parts alone.

Wildwood is very good and well-done but it is EXTREMELY rude about crows.

When seeing a movie that has Jay and Silent Bob in it, I am always struck by just how much I want to hit Jay with a brick.

It is always permissible to celebrate a fascist losing

"Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. I live in a state that mails out ballots weeks beforehand and has drop boxes in every city. I voted forty-eight hours ago."

Holy shit.

This guy takes a couple of minutes of audio from a security camera anywhere in the US, with no clues from the video whatsoever, and finds the exact spot where it was recorded.

How?

By correlating the Doppler curve sounds from two almost inaudible planes passing by with public ADS-B flight data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UytYrhYLOKI (29 min)

I think this is the #OSINT video of the year.

Greatest of all calamities is a lemon-flavored tea that does not taste like lemon.

Unregulated businesses optimize towards criminal activities.

The closer to the equator you are, the more sense it makes to remain on standard time. Your daylight hours are closer to 6am/6pm year-round and you don't really need to make any adjustments.

The farther away from the equator you get, the more sense it makes to go to daylight saving time forever. The sun rising at 4 in the morning *sucks* and it's better to have it up later to enjoy the evenings.

For example, in Seattle (47 N latitude), on the shortest day the sun rises at 7:56 am and sets at 4:19pm. No matter what you're doing, you're waking in the dark and coming home in the dark. On permanent DST this would be 8:56am and 5:19pm. You're still waking in the dark and returning home in the dark no matter what.

On the longest day, the sun rises at 5:11 am and sets at 9:12 pm. On permanent standard time this would be 4:11 am and 8:12pm. That is a VERY early dawn compared to DST time, and will wake up the night owls way earlier than necessary.

Compare to Honolulu (21 N latitude), where your dawn and dusk vary by about an hour at most. Day starts at 6 or 7 am, day ends at 6 or 7 pm. Stay on Standard time, it doesn't make a difference.

I went back to Kubota Garden yesterday to photograph the twisted Japanese maple, this time from underneath, looking straight up into the canopy.

The bark was still wet from the rain, dark and smooth against the orange leaves. When I showed my wife this one, she said it looked like a sculpture.

I think she is right. It looks less grown than carved.

Do you see a sculpture in it, or something else?

I keep finding new shapes every time I look at it.

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