Day 20,562Chipmunk visitor this morning, Pearl let us know about it.
— Scottobear (@scottobear.bsky.social) 2025-05-21T15:20:29.170Z






Just to be clear, Musk bought the Presidency, used DOGE to kill federal investigations into his businesses, gave himself billions in government contracts, found zero waste, then bailed.
Now, more than ever, take care of yourself. Stay up to date on what you can. Wear a mask whenever possible.
We already had too many people that didn’t trust what the government said about disease and infections. Now we’ll have people who won’t KNOW because “Well, I haven’t heard anything about it.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5387723/cdc-communications-cuts-social-media-public-health
I wish I’d been wrong about Booker.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195475/cory-booker-democrat-vote-confirm-jared-kushner-father-charles
A few shots of Pearl this morning to document her whiskers.



Reminder :
April is procrastination awareness month.

A massage is not enough. I need to be rolled through a pasta machine.
“Everything that comes together must eventually come apart.”
I feel that my atoms agree.
I would love a heatmap of all the particles not currently connected to me, to see where parts of what was once me are now. Or the opposite, even!
“Oh, a piece of me when I was eight is now in a doughnut being eaten by an alpaca in Nepal!”
“There is a bit of ancient Rome in your tooth right now.”
One wonders (not deeply) how these people think someone gets to be a US citizen, ordinarily, if there’s no birthright citizenship.
“Well, my parents were US citizens.”
Oh? How?
“THEIR parents were US citizens!”
Why?
“The Constitution!”
The one that says if you’re born here, you’re American?
I can, at will, achieve internally an emotional state that billionaires must buy a megayacht to attain.
Charging your cellphone to full uses as much energy as a few hundred chat gpt requests, roughly. Datacenters as a whole use a lot of energy and water, but for the compute usage, they’re massively more efficient than running a ps5 for example.
Last samurai rebellion is 1877. First baseball team 1878. I wonder if they had their own barnstorming team like The House of David?