grantimatter

If you just arrived here and are following me, hi! I have a couple lists in my profile you might be interested in. You might even be on one, if you are just getting back into an old account. If you want to be taken off, just let me know. Otherwise, there’s a cheese tray and crudite in the back….

🌊 RECORD WATER LEVELS Water levels at Lake Worth Pier in Palm Beach County reached 2.70 feet above the average daily higher high tide (MHHW) today - topping NOAA’s listed record of 2.52 feet during Hurricane Nicole in 2022 by about 2 inches…

The world is abundant.

Eris is pleased with this offering.

exactly

27 Oct 2026

Top three cities are in Florida. Keep that in mind for statewide elections next week.

She is just so good at this. Never saw this until now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZdn... Maybe I should get me one of them loop pedals....

A friend has just informed me that there are a bunch of congresspeople now receiving letters filled with (harmless) white powder. Funny what isn't in the news these days. Or what is, but is just one thing among many things. This guy, inspired by other guys. Huh. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

A Socratic dialogue twixt minds... www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cX...

Dinosaurs Survived! Series 4 is here with 5 new dinosaurs and 6 new birds. www.emmalerae.com/store.html Bearded Vulture with Monolophosaurus Western Meadowlark and Anzu Budgies and a Cockatiel with Astralovenator Pallas's Sandgrouse with Guanlong Goldcrest with Archaeopteryx #paleoart #sciart

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

The "Torch Dragon" Zhulong (燭龍) is sometimes also mistaken for the "Candle Dragon,” Zhuyin (燭陰) 🐉

You know, I have been thinking a bit about William Shatner lately. This is going to sound weird. I think he has finally achieved what he said he wanted for so long, people think of him more as William Shatner than Captain Kirk at long last. Thoughts below.

Just installed my 26-year-old copy of Word on a new desktop. I will never pay subscription fees for software I already paid for. I will go live in a shack in the woods first.

#Florida drag queen raises $26,000 by selling Miami rainbow crosswalk bricks that homophobic Gov. Ron DeSastrous ordered removed. The money will support Pride celebrations. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/drag-qu... via @miaminewtimes.com

Here, just dropped, is where #NewCollegeOfFlorida raids the Foundation endowment to pay for the debt it just incurred taking over the campus next door, USF-SM. Which is why dissolving the alumni association makes sense: they were on that board. www.ncf.edu/wp-content/u...

“If you’re not part of the problem… you’re part of the solution.” - Simon Joyner

Here, just dropped, is where #NewCollegeOfFlorida raids the Foundation endowment to pay for the debt it just incurred taking over the campus next door, USF-SM. Which is why dissolving the alumni association makes sense: they were on that board. www.ncf.edu/wp-content/u...

Got ‘em

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

10:1 student-teacher ratio, free food, later start times (and free childcare), triple the chances to play and move, no grades till high school, well-paid teachers and aides. Offer tutoring and quiet library time as needed. Now you have twice as many kids who can focus, so you can try some things.

He cycled into a protected forest after his shift and built, by the light of burning tires, a twelve-acre kingdom of gods and goddesses from smashed pottery, broken bangles, and discarded toilet bowls. Nek Chand, road inspector. https://oddlet.com/p/uqd #HistSci #history #SciComm

The spacing here implies a madlib. Go for it.

If you're in Lake Worth on Wednesday, Nov. 4, you could hear a live reading of a short play I wrote, FLIGHT ANGLERFISH 235, as part of Square One at the Lake Worth Playhouse. There are nine other short plays being read, each no longer than 15 minutes. Lights in the darkness, all of them.

They're almost here... soon.

when i was young i fell in love with the first stanza of Waking Early Sunday Morning by Robert Lowell and now crouched in the middle of my life I am reconciled to its ending

New TTRPG slang just dropped.

We'll need more seawalls like this in the future

Almost like a Russian doll…

If you're in Lake Worth on Wednesday, Nov. 4, you could hear a live reading of a short play I wrote, FLIGHT ANGLERFISH 235, as part of Square One at the Lake Worth Playhouse. There are nine other short plays being read, each no longer than 15 minutes. Lights in the darkness, all of them.

I can only respect the elegance of this reference

Space Force recently tried to book rides for three future satellite missions, but #SpaceX declined to offer its services, as it doesn't want to sell the Falcon rockets anymore. No other rocket companies offered to take them either. #EverythingIsFine