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overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.

good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.

good night, sewers, everywhere.

Glad I checked all those squares that contained bicycles.

NJ's 1st Drone Food Delivery Launches In Somerset County This represents the first time drone technology will be used for commercial food delivery in the state.

Grubhub is now using drones for food delivery in New Jersey. Of all the places to test it, it is happening in Hillsborough, NJ. And you can only use it for orders from the local 'Wonder'. patch.com/new-jersey/w...

a squirrel is wearing a hat and playing a bagpipe while another squirrel watches ALT: a squirrel is wearing a hat and playing a bagpipe while another squirrel watches

Why is everyone assuming a Red Squirrel can’t get past the Humpback Whale in the first round of #2026MMM?

Qatari-backed Irth Capital offers $47 a share to buy Papa John's, sources say Qatari-backed investment fund Irth Capital this month offered to pay $47 a share to buy Papa John's International, in a second ​attempt after it tried to buy the pizza chain alongside ‌Apollo Global Management last year, said two sources familiar with the matter.

Qatari-backed Irth Capital offers $47 a share to buy Papa John's, sources say reut.rs/4rmPdzz

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so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery!

I'm in a lot of debt from my extended illness and I've not found a job yet, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much!
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Mayor Cherelle Parker’s new budget plan includes fees on Uber and Amazon, 1,000 homeless shelter beds, and $200M for addiction recovery After Parker delivers her budget address, City Council will hold hearings on her proposal and negotiate with the administration over potential amendments.

Tomorrow Mayor Parker will propose creating new city fees for rideshare and delivery services, increasing the hotel tax to pay for homeless shelter space, and add an $200 million over five years to her admin's addiction recovery facility www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand Vast systems, from automated supply chains to high-frequency trading, now undergird our daily lives — and we’re losing control of all of…

back in 2020 I wrote about our dependency on 3 systems -supply chains, global markets, the internet- all very fragile and too complex to control

for the last year the Trump admin has tried to do just that, and has failed with spectacular and terrifying results

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This stone stopped me in my tracks. For a moment I thought I had discovered rock art, but up close the patterns were clearly natural. With my very limited geology knowledge, my best guess is a Liesegang ring. I’d love to take it home, but it weighs more than my backpack!
#geology #Sahara #travel

"Off The Hook" is on tonight at 7 pm EST on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City and on wbai.org online! "Overtime" follows at 8 pm EST at www.youtube.com/live/d3MjHGa...

probably my favorite illustration I did for Scholar's Codex, for the Elden Ring section @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social

"Marika bathed the village of her home in gold,
knowing full well that there was no one to heal."

5x7" ink on claybord

A stunning 1.9-million-acre wild landscape, Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument protects awe-inspiring geological formations, rare dinosaur fossils, and revered cultural sites. It’s habitat for bighorn sheep, mountain lions, bears, >200 bird species, >600 bee species, and more.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. A PADD is shown up close held by a pair of hands. (Kind of looks like an old palm pilot and if you're not old this will mean nothing to you) The beautiful LCARS user interface is displaying the text, "GO AWAY."

You used Pokemon Go. You were not the customer.

You were the product.

By @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social
www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1...

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy

Cover of US DOT report “Transportation Noise and Its Control,” with an Illustration showing truck, helicopter, motorcycle, train, car, airplane, bus, subway car, and boat, and radiating lines suggesting noise patterns.

Fox squirrel on a fence beside a weather vane. The squirrel has snow on her nose and front paws tucked into her chest.

G’mornin!
#sqrlpix

Brompton World Championships Coming to the Sea Otter Classic this year.
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The woods are still a tender greenish yellow - an aged, broken tree trunk has a hole

Tree portal (early Summer)

looks great!

Ye
GADS

Twin fountains! Spectacular.

US watching a movie where a vigilante’s entire family is wiped out: “Oh yeah, time for fucking vengeance, this dude will never stop. Get them!”

US watching Iran pick a Supreme Leader who just had his entire family wiped out: “This guy is plainly going to be reasonable and fold.”

Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...

Comic. [Person with shoulder-length hair talking to a second person. She is gesturing at a dinosaur skeleton with a machine mounted on its back.] PERSON 1: Although Bazookasaurus’s distinctive structure was long assumed to be a weapon, vascularization studies show that it was very fragile and could only have been used for display.

Bazookasaurus

xkcd.com/3216/

Nasa Soldering 'Basics', probably from the mid 60's.

The mystery of a globetrotting iPhone-hacking toolkit Tools used in a series of hacking campaigns by hackers in Russia, Ukraine, and China may have originated inside U.S. government contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.

SCOOP: The iPhone mass hacking toolkit used by Russian spies was developed at U.S. military contractor L3Harris, former employees said.

The Coruna toolkit was used against Ukrainians and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google. But the toolkit was initially developed for Western governments.

Oil down 7.3% this morning to $87.90- this could act to greatly throttle back gas price increases- some still could happen as the summer RVP transition continues- but the national average should stall out soon $3.55-$3.65 based on where we are now.

Northern Saw-whet Owl, bent over, checking out something on the ground

Northern Saw-whet Owl batting its eyes at me. Looks like it has blue eyeshadow

When I posted the Northern Saw-whet Owl on Saturday, I mentioned that it kept looking straight down - something on the ground had its interest. Here's a shot of that, and one after it closed its eyes, looking like it is wearing blue eyeshadow! #birds #birding #HamOnt #owl

tiny truck tuesday power pose