The ocean around Japan is also what gave the world the sea bunny. Cute abounds!

Sad story. The poor otter heard about the Crab Nebula and went for a feast. But it got as far as Eagle, and realized it made a terrible mistake. All the crabs are back home!

3. [Oregon, US] Liquid sunshine

My wife has a stack of 9 mostly finished quilts that just need bindings and thread burying, all set to get finished and given out between now and the end of the year.

As of yesterday the stack is down to 8 because the lap quilt destined for my workstation is currently getting its binding.

Fun fact: discs can herniate multiple times even after you’ve shrunk half an inch in height and think all the cream has been squeezed out from between the cookies.

Deno2 and typescript. For no particular reason the release of Deno2 has prompted me to build a web app in my spare time. I mostly a sysadmin, I haven’t written anything but APIs and utility scripts for at least 5 years.

The House of Hohenzollern in Germany. The Habsburgs formally gave up their claim in order to create the Austro-Hungarian alliance/Empire, but they had asserted it less than a generation prior and also claimed their Empire status on that back of it. And in the Ottoman Empire the lineage of Mehmed, including Mehmed V during WWI, claimed to be the continuation of the Byzantine / Eastern Roman Empire.

The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman empire - we really on refer to them differently for temporal convenience. The west were the Latin speakers and the east were the Greek speakers (as least for the first half-millennium). And many people still called themselves Emperor of Rome, in a continuous succession, after the fall of the west. For quite a while one of the Pope’s titles was (legitimately) Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

By the 20th century it was down to 3 rightful heirs, all trying to make Europe recognize them as THE Emperor. But in the mean time their empires still recognized them as such.

It can be argued that the Roman empire didn’t truly end until WWI in 1918, 106 years ago.

The fall of the Byzantine Empire (aka the Eastern Roman Empire) resulted in a number of subdivided but diplomatically aligned states. By the end of the 19th century a number of European powers were still vying for some claim to the lineage of the Roman Empire (and the Emperor title). But as consequence of the war, the German/Prussian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires we’re all dismantled (and France was out or the running because of the revolution) so every entity with a claim was dead or out of power for the first time since the 11th century.

That has been known to happen.

The ones that I get excited to see new videos from are, in no particular order:

Lindsay Nikole

She’s a biologist and does videos on prehistoric animals and time periods, that we know of. Entertaining videos and it turns out we studied under some of the same people.

acollierastro

Dr. Collier is a theoretical physicist who covers a wide arc a physics topics, and who did a pretty impressive review of Picard.

BobbyBroccoli

Very indepth and well researched videos about science and tech scandals and controversies

Dr Becky

Is an Oxford Astrophysicist who covers a lot of findings about JWT and will point out upcoming things in the night sky

Here’s the API dev site

so reticulated

Most of the time I wish the nutrients would just enter my system without me ever having to think or do anything about it. So I get as close to that as possible.

My cats are not amused.

I have to bounce around between languages so much I don’t really think I’m fluent in anything anymore. I may not be a bad programmer, but some of my programming is bad.

Thank you

The real sea puppers are sea lions. They’re like angry mastiffs who like to shoulder check anything and everything that’s the same height as them, but seals just want to watch the world burn.

Just fork peeler from 4.2, rename it to “Skininator 4000” and set up a BuyMeACoffee button.

I use the phrase “wide-awake nightmare” kind of a lot.

At least I know where I picked it up from, the Screaming Skull episode of MST3k.