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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 1d

As I approach my 7th decade, I am focusing more and more on creativity, compassion, and curiosity. To me, those are the key ingredients of a life well lived.

Having lots of money seems like the sign of a person who distains all of these.

K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 1d

I love building things. Taking an idea from spark through execution, putting something real into the world, whether it's a book or a painting or a garden.

What it means to live well is always personal but I don't get how chasing money as its own goal is real.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

I don't need expensive cars or a big house.

I need experiences and time with my loved ones. That, to me, is a mark of living well.

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a sleepy #Caturday here

A black cat looks at the camera from her sisal basket. Her eyes are partially closed so she looks sleepy

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 3d

I’d love to be a dolphin for a week or two. Eating sushi every day. Doing areal acrobatics. Swimming really, really fast through ocean water. Not to mention the sex. Did mention the sex? That would be an awesome vacation.

Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 3d

The travel poster looked like so many others. A lush forest behind a serene beach. The text said "Be something exotic!"

"Sorry, there's a typo on your poster. I think you mean 'somewhere'?"

"No. We can make you to be, say, a bear, tiger, or hippo, for up to a week."

"A hippo? Tell me more!"

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3d

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 3d

I live in Central Ohio and it’s definitely giving me waking nightmares.

My nighttime nightmares are (sadly) about spreadsheets. Can’t wait to retire.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 4d

UPDATE:

I absolutely did trigger my fire marshals to go through the code and grumble about it continually playing catch up. That part of the point of building the datacenters where they are isn't just cheap land and resource they can exploit, but older code with poor enforcement.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 5d

I suspect I have just triggered a "Well, shit" moment regarding the building code, its to imagine datacenters facilities like this, and the potential of people just outright ignoring the code to load as many GPUs in as possible and run them at 99.999% of maximum clock speed until they melt.

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 3d

Just reading an article about data centers in Ohio and Thors sentence popped out:

“That’s just a fraction of the 179 data centers Ohio is host to as of this month.”

It’s giving me Alien vibes.

Here’s the article:

futurism.com/future-socie...

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

futurism.com

Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 3d

Can the Kennedys stop being a political dynasty? Please, for the love of dog, do literally anything else.

Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 3d

On #Throwback Thursday, a picture of when ask three siblings, Brigitte Lin, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li, were all together.

A slightly out of focus picture of three cats lying on a bed. One is stretched out with her head upside down. One is yawning. The third is curled up with his back to the camera.

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 6d

There's a niche market
For mothman plushies, untapped
Gothic potential.
#vssmagic #niche #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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kdrama news @kdramanews.bsky.social · 7d

SNL shares the full #KpopDemonHunters sketch featuring #BadBunny as the biggest Huntr/x fanboy.

youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A?...

KPop Demon Hunters - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 6d

Where are you located? I looked at your profile and it doesn’t say.

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 6d

Why am I here now
Dragged along by wild horses?
Ah. Thinking again.

#haiku #buddhism

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kdrama news @kdramanews.bsky.social · 7d

OMG. They did the thing 💀

#KpopDemonHunters

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kdrama news @kdramanews.bsky.social · 7d

#KpopDemonHunters made it to SNL (feat. #BadBunny as the biggest fanboy).

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a blue blue sky

Pink cosmos flower brilliant against a blue sky

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 8d

Serious dose of cuteness:

Wildlife photographer Michael Poliza visited the Evaro Gorilla Orphanage in Gabon in 2007 & captured amazing photos of these orphaned chimp & gorilla babies bonding & sharing with each other.

Orphaned Baby Gorilla and Chimpanzee Form an Adorable Friendship

"In the wild, chimpanzees and gorillas do not get along...Growing up together in an orphanage breaks down that trained barrier."

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 8d

Sea otter would be a good next life

Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 8d

I am reading T. Kingfisher’s What Stalks the Deep and enjoying the hell out of it. She always makes me laugh even while the horror creeps slowly, inevitably closer.

This passage (no spoilers) is typical:

“That is horrifying and I want to go home,” I said, although I pronounced it, “Ah, I see.”

Cover of T. Kingfisher’s What Stalks the Deep. Against a pure white background, a dog’s head that is part skeleton, part strips of fur is pierced by bare branches. A deep set eye peers out from the skull.

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 8d

On this fine #Caturday, Brigitte Lin perches in her cat tree and gazes out the window hoping to see her fluffy white kitty “furrend” so she can make the appropriate greeting (hissing and yowling with much puffed up fur and slashing claws). As one does.

Black cat with green eyes rests in her cat tree. She gazes contemplatively through a window that is out of frame.

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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 8d

Cat train in Japan! 🚉 😻

#train #transportation #cats #caturday

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 9d

If you find my bones with cougar gnaw-marks on them, just know that my last words were 'pspspspsps'.

Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 9d

Happy purrthday Link and Nova!

Orphaned in the wild last year and brought to the zoo by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, these cougar cubs are celebrating their first birthday this weekend

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 10d

No notes, only cat’s eye

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Twig Blossom @twigblossom.bsky.social · 10d

With a great effort
I’m looking you in the eye.
Are you happy now?

#haiku #autism #audhd

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