July 31, 2026
When I was chastising myself for getting out of practice with parallel parking, it didn’t occur to me there’d be a Guinness Book of World Records record for parallel parking.
Best buddies π
This is cool: Finlandβs radical answer to renewable energyβs biggest headache: The worldβs largest sand battery
July 24, 2026
Oh this is so cool: Jo Nagai, How a 10-Year-Old Boyβs Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory
July 17, 2026
This is good, though it’s a shame none of the photos show the scale of hundreds of people:
Photos: Hundreds protest at Open AI, Anthropic offices in San Francisco
Also good: These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
BTW if you’re a fan of amazing awesome librarians you really need to read Kit Rocha’s Mercenary Librarians series. Please read and buy them. I very much need the next books and that can’t happen until their third book earns out. I’m planning to pester Tor about making a worthwhile offer to Kit Rocha so they can write Books four and five, dammit.
July 10, 2026
Ursula Vernon’s grandmother was fascinating.Β
Oh, have I not told this one here?
Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.
β Kingfisher & Wombat (@tkingfisher.com) July 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
July 3, 2026
Couch Couch Couch Couch!
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June 26, 2026
1. Entirely by happenstance, we got to spend time with friends from the East Coast AND from Alaska, both passing through the Bay Area. That was great fun.
June 19, 2026
1. While I’d like the dang app to just show me my friends’ posts, Instagram has learned to show me very cute animals and I love that bit.
Comment replies since the app is buggy:
@Beth: Great minds! I did start looking at some philanthropic foundations. No traction so far but definitely an area to continue exploring.
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