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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Seismologists xkcd.com/3021

Nothing as fun as starting your morning walking the dog and seeing a big skunk running down the street straight towards you. Turns out, the skunk was fleeing a gardener into its hiding spot, and it promptly disappeared before reaching us. But for a while, it looked to be a stinky morning :)

Every major new outlet criticizes the "extraordinary breadth" (WP) of Biden's pardon and makes it "harder for Democrats to defend the integrity of the Justice Department" (NYT). Do they seriously not know what is about to happen--Trump doing far worse? Hope Trump's pardons garner same attention.

Some 3d prints I made of forams and rads for tomorrow’s marine sediment lecture

~ November 24 ~
1859: Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species".

Sean Bean, n. A well-known character actor specializing in convincingly portraying demises.