Put your boots on, do they fit you comfortably?

[sovay]

I forgot to bring my camera when I left the house to walk around the block this evening, but I saw a white hibiscus growing through a hedge and bees clustered around some brilliantly Halloweenish orange flowers. I have not had my head in the sand despite being under quite a lot of rocks this month, but I am still demoralized that an international friend's postcard could not reach me because of the intimidation theater of the tariffs. Nor am I thrilled that last week I had an unexpectedly bizarre interaction with a medical professional about Tylenol. I am much more cheered by the existence of ghost ponds and the renascent fern, not to mention the eleven-million-year-old asteroid no one knows yet where it hit. The Draconids peak on the eve of my birthday this year. Last week was still too many doctors, but I have hopes of fewer in the week to come. At least I managed for the first time on this new regimen to write about a film.

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[davidgillon]

not to mention the eleven-million-year-old asteroid no one knows yet where it hit.

Different asteroid, but Silverpit in the North Sea is now confirmed as an asteroid strike: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/scientists-find-proof-that-an-asteroid-hit-the-north-sea-over-43-million-years-ago

[sovay]

Different asteroid, but Silverpit in the North Sea is now confirmed as an asteroid strike

That's so cool! Plankton fossils. Thank you.