@maniagnosis
Tommy M. McGuire (Not that one. Nor that one.) Coding bum, tetrapod. (he/him) Bitterly cynical misanthrope. It's always more complicated. I apologize in advance; I tend to get too comfortable. Called 'weird' by Kevin Kruse.
I'm here watching Irish music on PBS and it's clear we have different ideas of Irish music.
Bob Dylan and ye olde traditional Irish rather than the Pogues. Hmph. No Turkish Song of the Damned.
Me and Small Squatter Birb want to be part of her tea gang!
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
In a cafe: A woman (80s?) is gifted a pretty tea towel with teapots, cups and saucers on it.
Laughing, she ties it on her head like a makeshift bandana, asking her friends: "Anyone want to be in my tea gang?" (1)
The Soul of Horatio as my witness, I had no idea we were running up on the anniversary of the Battle of Lissa...but here we are. For "Wooden Ships and Iron Men". Ships are 6'' long in scale. @armchairdragoons.bsky.social
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
Wait.
WSIM can do steam ironclads?
IT'S TUESDAY SOMEWHERE!
ITS SHOUTY TUESDAY
Ink bookstore - Oathbreakers lower left on the front facing bookshelf
Midway - @profgabriele.com
For an upcoming story, I'd like to hear from people who have had an encounter with a stranger recording them on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. If that's you or you can pass along this request to someone else who has experienced this, I'm at miles_klee@wired.com or millionbear.44 on Signal. Thanks!
Found my new mock essay question for Introduction to Political Theory:
“THE MOMENT WE LET OUR APPETITES RULE US, DEVISING EVER MORE INTRICATE BEVERAGES, WE KNOCK ONE MORE CHUNK FROM SOCIETY’S FOUNDATION.” Discuss.
I just remember when the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris was on fire and how every Western leader became a cultural expert and lamented the damage and how everyone donated money to rebuild it.
I am having a hard time finding a single article in any European or American publication about this.
Guinness the black cat sits on a new green striped rug placed under a hallway table. He looks pleased that he is depositing his scent and fur all over it.
NEW RUG
GOTTA SIT
Some of the people like this seem to have deeper problems, like not understanding that other people are people just like them. Sort of a lack of a theory of mind.
Like not understanding Columbo because the viewer knows who is guilty, so why doesn't the detective?
We don't talk enough about the risks of geomagnetic storms.
Earlier this year, an Aussie power company said that some of their network might have been knocked out by the Jan solar storm.
So I chatted to our leading space weather scientists about the origin and risk mitigation of these events.
🔭🧪
TITLE Anatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of a Chupacabra Description: A four-legged creature with brown skin the fades to light back legs with dark stripes. His bat-like face has bulging eyes, small teeth protruding from his cringing mouth, and pointing ears hald back on his head. His shoulder blades and hip bones poke out, spikes along his back and tail stick out. He holds one hand up and stands on a sandy, pebble ground. Jokes: - First sighted in Puerto Rico in 1995! (Mainly because that’s when the island’s wi-fi finally got strong enough to upload blurry photos.) - Genetic makeup: 30% Feral Dog, 20% Gargoyle, 50% expired gas station beef jerky - His teeth are arranged like a junk drawer: nothing matches, and everything is sharp. - His skin is “sun kissed”. If the sun was a blowtorch. - These shoulder blades could double as bottle openers. - The posture of a pro-gamer who’s never seen a chair with lumbar support. - His “blue-sih glow” isn’t bioluminescence: it’s a recently consumed double-tall Jamba Juice. - He gives off the energy of a guy who owns four different leather jackets, but no shirts. ——— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
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Orange and white cat delivers a weather report: 88⁰ f, 31 ⁰ C
Wethers reporte: 88⁰ faringhides, 31.111 celery degrees
ARCs are now available by request! Email publicity at beltpublishing dot com. Perfect for your (counter) America 250 coverage ;)
It's that time of year when my feed goes crazy again: *MARCH. MAMMAL. MADNESS*!!!
Does guest mammal Assassin Beetle have what it takes to claim victory in the Wild Card match? Find out TONIGHT at 8pm for the opening night of #2026MMM!!!!
Thrilled to announce that Jennie King and I will be giving the Paul Sykes Annual Lecture at the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada on March 19th at the SFU Burnaby Mountain Campus.
Our talk is titled Exploring Our Horizons: Working with NASA Data and we'll talk about @space-missions.com and more!
Elizabeth Gaskell: 1851 portrait by George Richmond. A chalk portrait drawing of a Gaskell, shown from the chest up against a plain light background. She has dark hair parted centrally and drawn back smoothly, with loose strands falling at the sides. Her features are delicate and her expression gentle and slightly smiling. She wears a light dress with a dark brooch or bow at the neckline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell#/media/File:Elizabeth_Gaskell.jpg
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Unsung Author Jane Austen And Brontë Fans Will Love
The Victorian writer had the wit of one, and the friendship of the other.
By Amy Glover
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Gaskell at PG:
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#books #literature #womenhistoryMonth
Our St Pancras site will be closed this weekend on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 March for essential maintenance work. Find out more and see the latest updates on our website: link.bl.uk/5ym
Your methodology doesn't have to be revolutionary - it just has to be right for your research question. Solid execution beats flashy innovation.
@vimtotime.bsky.social
National Weather Service graphic titled “Weather101.” Text reads: “This week’s classes (times are ET): Tue, Mar 10, 8 pm – Fire Weather; Wed, Mar 11, 11 am – Severe Storms.” It directs viewers to weather.gov/ohx/weather101 to register and notes the online classes are free, open to all ages, hosted by an NWS meteorologist, and run one hour or less including a Q&A. Background shows blue sky with white clouds and the NWS logo at the top.
The spring 2026 Weather101 season kicks off THIS WEEK!
18 topics. 36 online classes. All taught by #NWS mets LIVE! There will be Q&A about each topic at the end and classes run only 1 hour or less. The best part? They are FREE!
Get signed up here: weather.gov/ohx/weather101
Our latest “Document of the Week” was chosen by our Editorial Assistant, Chloe Haney. It is an article published in The Illustrated London News on 15 December 1877 exploring Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary invention: the telephone.
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A clean house is a sign of an empty mind
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From there, the fire seems- again, judging from what I can piece together from social media footage- to follow the natural progression of “old ass building with draughts and hidden cavities and Victorian construction standards catches fire”. It’s sad, but also just how those buildings burn.