cpgorski
cpgorski.bsky.social
cpgorski
@cpgorski.bsky.social
⚠ Invalid Handle. Fifth-level Bluesky elder. Obligate tacovore. Amanita. I am not actually the number 7. Am I the pleasant weirdo, or is Gonzo?

My dog runs this account, mostly. Send her a milkbone as soon as this place supports DMs.
Pinned
Tell your friends you love them.

Make it weird if you have to
Big "no take, only throw" energy.

She'd have accepted tug, but I am not putting my fingers there when she's excited

(Taken Weds after the stick appreciation picture)
January 24, 2026 at 6:57 PM
... yes I will be posting dogs and unserious stuff and whatnot today, as well as about the storm

I will not be tragedy-posting, as if me yelling On Here has real world effects

Please take care of yourselves. Do what you need to do, then rest--staying mad just makes the next thing harder
January 24, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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And now for a deeply unserious moment.
January 24, 2026 at 3:40 PM
... tfw you have your radio in the charger stand but can't find the plug for the charger... I don't remember ever separating the two of those

*sigh*, anybody got a Yaesu brick lying around? d :
January 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM
You know what I miss, it's having One Big Weather Map...

I appreciate the place-specific nuanced forecast discussions that we have now, but especially on days when there's a big storm coming across the country, it would be great to have an overview...
January 24, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Ira Behr: In my show I invented Section 31 as a cautionary tale

Alex Kurtzman: At long last, we have created the Section 31 spinoff film inspired by the classic DS9 episode Don't Create Section 31
January 24, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Has anybody checked, is @neorsd.org closed for inclement weather?
January 24, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I might have found the upper limit of how many shakes of Tabasco scorpion pepper sauce I want on a bowl of beans and rice

It sure was good, it's just that it's still hot after I ate a bowl of yogurt...

Good, though
January 24, 2026 at 2:21 AM
...frigging yikes.

(It's real, it's on spiegel.de, I looked)
I didn't say it. The Germans did.
January 24, 2026 at 2:11 AM
...At least it's Friday.
January 24, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Mine's A Wrinkle in Time, hands down.

Pretty clear second place to Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH.

But there were so many good books on that list...

What is "your" Newbery book? The one you read when you were little (or not so little), and took into your soul?
What is "your" Newbery book? The one you read when you were little (or not so little), and took into your soul?

Mine's The Perilous Gard.
January 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
You know the Board of Peace is serious when they got Lukashenko, Orban, and the Qatari royals...
I don’t know why but I can’t stop laughing at this list of governments serving on the “Board of Peace.” My god
January 23, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Just a reminder: aside from a smattering of 2"-high Cooksonia plants in the late Silurian, this was what was growing around Prototaxites.

Y'know. Since it came up
Hey, friends in Iceland and Finland!

I will be in Iceland from 11-13 April, and Helsinki from 14-18 April.

I'd love to meet up!

Please enjoy this photo I took of some moss in the park down the street.
January 23, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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WAIT

We should start telling people that the prototaxites are the original form of brassica oleracea!
January 22, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I love how this guy is reuniting people with their families, with all the miles an hours he has to spend to do that good deed...

... and also treating BBQ as a thing he can bless them with on the way.

Even if it is KC BBQ. ( ;
Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul

Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home.

So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.
January 22, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Y'all.
me every single day
January 22, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Advantage of Mrs. @cpgorski.bsky.social 's basket making, in the eyes of a puppydog:

Unlimited sticks
January 22, 2026 at 2:37 AM
PROTOTAXITES MENTIONED 🎉

It's not a fungus either...
"Big" if true... well... big either way ( :
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
January 22, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I opened this app at the end of my workday, saw this, and I'm gonna close the app now...
This has, quite possibly, been the dumbest two weeks of politics I have ever seen. Just full on rake stepping idiocy from everyone involved
January 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

Provided that the Air Force is strong enough, or, in other words, possesses an adequate number of bombing units capable of destroying sufficiently large areas, the attack will not be directed against a single target ...
Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

The simple form comprises a series of telegraphed gestures, a precise motion of the palps conveying a limited amount of information.
Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

“Feel bad about yourself?”

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, A City On Mars
January 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
January 21, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Seen online elsewhere:

"I really like whatever is wrong with you"
January 21, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Apropos of nothing, this seems like a reasonably cromulent strategy for maintaining your focus on work in 2026
i've modified the Pomodoro method so I work for 5 minutes and then scream into an abyss for 25 minutes, i'm not getting anything done but at least my coworkers refuse to talk to me
January 20, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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please pause your doomscrolling for this breaking news re: dogs and fries 👇
January 20, 2026 at 9:15 PM
On the left, iphone app forecasting 14–17" of snow in Raleigh in 4½ days.

On the right, the local meteorologists aren't falling for it.

*Even if we did* get 14" of snow, "significant snow and ice likely" is a better description of this w/e now than straight model #s

Give your local mets some love
January 20, 2026 at 7:31 PM