Please keep DoorDashing TACO Bell to the White House. Extra chicken seems appropriate.

Many later alchemy symbols were forever immortalized in October 2010 as UNICODE U+1F700 thru U+1F773. My favs here.

More can be learned at:
unicode.org/charts/names...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/refer...

I went into new years dreading a new era of xenophobia and East/West hatred, but the last 3 days has perhaps been the greatest cultural exchange of the last 50 years. Interesting times.

I think it was @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social who said spite isn't a perfect motivator, but it's useful if you have it. Sums up my feelings about the current state of social media pretty well

Girls in white dresses with blue-satin sashes... Horrors that sift through my forgotten ashes...

Lego Pterodactyl, Circling. #automaton (not #animatronic or #robotic) Her name is Pterra. Happy New Year, everyone.

Oats, peas, beans, and barley... turns out to be a song about resistant starches. I think it's time to make some soup.

Wait, wait, wait... Mitochondria communicate with each other across tissues using hormones? Cells are their spaceships and organisms like you and me are but their colony clusters! youtu.be/vzqXeAtDnTA?...