Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #289,827. Are you not impressed?

Today was my first time in an embassy: the British embassy in DC, to celebrate the power of international partnership for space science! Lots of discussion about amazing JWST and next steps They had OG red phonebooths but I forgot to take a selfie, so pls use your imagination

600 and 4000, sigh

Oh good, you can have my share

As for harvesting, on-the-tree fruit wasn’t ripe; fresh windfall was best. And I figure it can’t hurt, when finding overripe windfall fruit, to toss it it away from its parent. An easy way to mammoth

Wait… this isn’t about politics, is it? It’s about… college football? <realizes that’s still a thing> Um, carry on, then

Advice from the interns: - there are foraging websites that list good sites - riparian areas are generally good. Around here I’m told Carderock and Great Falls. - But I wonder how much of that is that paw-paws do well in those areas, versus that’s where humans brought seeds Other advice, hive mind?

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I believe federal workers are allowed to post a sign at home and put a bumper sticker on their car. Overall I think the Hatch Act has the right idea — the career civil service should be non-partisan. However, I think it needs a range of consequences, and updating for the digital age

And don’t even get me started on how the flowers of a paw-paw change sex multiple times. Science is weird