3 years ago winning a judges award for costuming at San Diego @Comic_Con. Suit by @clckwrkcreature.

Commercial fusion is no longer "30 years away,” as it has been since the 1950s. Widespread commercial deployment is now just 10–15 years off. That's a remarkable change. Low cost energy w/o carbon would have enormous geopolitical impact.

"do more than exist" -- Definitely.

"Ah haha!" -- seen on Hey 280 to San Francisco, left here without comment.

Spotti in tiger form by @Gouda012345 (@forfunbangkok).

Japanese lizard by @konillustration.

Fooood?!?

Jabari the Serval literally taking up the entire bed

Sunset over San Francisco Bay rn

"706" -- so: 155, 165, 175, (tiny) 706, 195. I mean, how would you even find that. You'd prolly start in the 700 boxes, on another wall. You can't see the tiny 706 from there.

Saigon @SaigonTheKomodo at SF Pride (by head by @/magpiebones)

Calling it.

San Francisco summers are famously chilly, with hot inland valleys pulling cold, foggy ocean gusts thru the city. June 2025 was exceptional, among the coldest since 1982. The measured daily maximums at SFO did not exceed 65 °F/18C from June 3 until end of June (pic @nytimes)

"This is ridiculous, I need my phone to brush!" -- @SaigonTheKomodo just now, wandering thru the room looking for their phone, which has a @OralB app on it that displays what areas they've toothbrushed and if they've brushed too hard.

July 22nd will be my Bēs-centennial birthday! (pronounced: biece (like piece) centennial). If "semi-centennial" in Latin means "half-century," then two-thirds would be based on Latin for "two-thirds" (bēs or bēssis), to coin a new term (shown: balloons from the future).

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The original water tower in Palo Alto, Calif from 1896, just off the Spanish royal road that opened in 1775-7. The water rates are fun: $1 per house and family, 40 cents per bathroom, and 25 cents per horse or cow.