Joe (they/he)

Or "...Omelas."

I mean, the MAGA dialect has always been Orwellian.

The TSA decades back was a drop in security. Look at stats for thefts from checked baggage.

(Hint: If you can take something out of the secure area without being caught, you can probably put something into it, onto a flight, e.g., bombs or guns.)

One of the few of these I have on my walls (I don't have that many walls.)

Peaks peeking out through fog and snow, Lemaire Channel, Antarctica.

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Half Moon Island

For many photographs I wait severe weeks to wash off most of the bias of "what I felt in the moment" and to be able to see whether or not an image is effective. I intentionally wait weeks to edit my own images In most cases b/c of this.

But maybe a lifetime won't be enough for this one.

... eventually I got the coveted Antarctic gig, and it was better than I could have imagined. But at the moment of the image above, that amazement was still ahead, what I had at this moment was joy, anticipation, curiosity, mystery, and hope. 2/3

This is the subthread where I blather about the "first time seeing it." I'd spent several years trying to figure out how to get there without simply writing a check. There was a program Hurtigruten was using at the time that got me first to Greenland and Svalbard for work.... 1/3

I am unreasonably fond of this because this is the first time I saw Antarctica with my own eyes.

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Had to explain my disdain for the Hugos again today, I'm tired.

"Some day, all of this will be yours."

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Not a cloud formation I was familiar with.

The film soundtrack was by Tangerine Dream, if you've heard their work from the 70s that'd sell ya even more.

Oh goodness, I love it! :)

If juvenile penguins had a barbershop quartet it might look like this. (But it would sound different, and smell different.)

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Tell me somewhere out there that someone sees the connection between the new #NMS (No Man's Sky) update and the 1977 film Sorcerer.

Right down to the soundtrack, @nomansbsky.bsky.social, right down the soundtrack.

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I rarely see images of penguins swimming in shallow water.

Looking for things to nominate for awards n things?

Here are my picks of last year's best sff novels....

"This is all your fault."

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'Washington Post' CEO departs after going AWOL during massive job cuts Washington Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis has departed just days after the newspaper announced massive layoffs.

Those of us who refused to support the control Bezos was exercising over the Post have a victory. You might argue that's a
Pyrrhic victory and many argue just that, but I don't believe that, the damage was already done.

www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...

Healthy reminder:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

....participants using LLMs were significantly less likely than those in the control group to correctly identify at least one medical condition relevant to their scenario (χ2(1), n1=n2=600, P < 0.001...) and identified fewer relevant conditions....

A little wind, a bit of blowing sand, a little bit of time to let the sand move.

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G'day! Thanks and thanks, and I hope the world is treating you well! <3

LOL. One too many penguins, too, but you _somehow_ knew which album I meant :)

Pretty sure this is an album cover.

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I like a penguin with attitude.

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that's fantastic, thank you.

Bison dealing with a fair bit of snow.

Where would the fun in that be? ;-)