Notices by Sam Levine (srlevine@neuromatch.social)

@skinnylatte Bidding for a rental apartment?!?! And I thought orange county was bad...

Thank you to @NorcalGma2 , my mom has been sick for the past two weeks and she was happy to get a fun package in the mail!

(I went with World Central Kitchen for the donation, figured it fit your vibe)

@skinnylatte Might I preach to you of the good word of arugula?

@kims Friction burns against the fabric?

@skinnylatte At what point does it get more efficient to bribe one of your parents to go to the most likely market and just photograph all of the available options to send to you?

@skinnylatte I don't like the vibe of the ad, but I sort of love the house? I hate living in bland boxes, even if the colors are weird or the architectural choices make no sense I want something interesting.

(my sister feels the same way despite having very different personal style--or lack thereof in my case--preferences. as far as we can guess it comes from having been raised in a house with kind of wild 1980s "ultra modern" architecture)

@skinnylatte have you done walnuts with sugar + something spicy + fresh rosemary yet? it's a classic for a good reason!

Any chance there is someone on here planning on traveling between approximately UC Irvine and University of Arizona in the next little while? Might be looking for transportation for a sewing machine between those approximate locations. Nothing unusually large, though a little heavy because it's an older metal one. Compensation in cookies and a fun story connecting people on fedi.

#SoCal #Arizona

@skinnylatte I mean don't get me wrong, it's delicious, but I don't think anyone thinks of it as "fancy" or "special".

@skinnylatte wait, shaved ice? as in that thing commonly found in many neighborhoods in socal? like on street corners?

@NickGates :blobrat_peek: Yes. We shall be very cool and normal. Yes. Of course. I'll get right now that. :blobrat_peek:

:rats: :ratDance: :brain_loading:

@xkcdbot 27 panel comic.

1. No hair and short hair are sitting on a bed. Short hair is on the phone with a doctor and says "Oh god"

2. No hair and short hair (who now only has stubble on their head) are sitting in a medical facility with short hair hooked up to an IV. Both are on their laptops. There are beep beep beep noises in the background.

3. No hair and short hair are kayaking, though short hair has their whole head covered by a knit cap and has no visible hair.

4. No hair and short hair (who only has stubble) stare at a phone on a table. Short hair says "how long can it take to read a scan!?"

5. No hair and short hair (who now only has stubble on their head) are sitting in a medical facility with short hair hooked up to an IV. They are playing scrabble. No hair says "zarg isn't a word", short hair interrupts to say "but caaaancer", no hair concedes with "ok, fine".

6. No hair and short hair are talking to a second no hair who says "so next year you should come visit us in the mount..." the speech bubble is overlapped with the couple having a joint thought bubble with "next year" in quotes.

7. No hair and short hair (with a very short pixie cut) are dressed up in front of an audience to get married.

8. Title: 2 years. No hair and short hair are holding hands on the shore, watching a killer whale jump out of the water with a "fwoosh".

9. No hair and short hair are walking through a red wood forest.

10. Short hair is sitting on the ground and says "My toe hurts. And I found a report of a case in which toe pain was an early sign of cancer spreading." No hair responds "Wait, didn't you stub your toe yesterday?" Short hair says "Yes, but what if this is unrelated?"

11. No hair, short hair, and buzz cut are climbing a mountain.

12. No hair is standing on a fenced deck while short hair is balanced on a rock attempting to take a photo of a large crocodilian below. No hair comments "When they estimated your survival odds, I think they made some optimistic assumptions about your hobbies."

13. Short hair is sitting on an exam table. A doctor is saying "This is probably nothing. But give your history, we should do a full scan. We'll call with the results in a few days. Try not to worry about it until then."

14. Short hair and no hair are faintly visible through the surface of a pond. They are controlling a robotic imager on the pond's floor.

15. Short hair has grown their hair out to their shoulders and it is a mess. They say to no hair "Hard to believe- six years ago I was bald. But today after a long struggle I finally look like the little girl from the ring." No hair replies "That's uhhh…good?" Short hair hisses in response.

16. Title seven years: A group of people including short hair and no hair are watching a total solar eclipse.

17. Short hair and no hair are playing with a bunch of bunnies in a room labeled rabbit rescue. One of the bunnies is balance don no hair's head. No hair says "Do you think they're socialized enough?" Short hair responds "This one might need one more head pat."

18. No hair is running and pushing short hair on hand cart while short hair yells "whee!" From off panel someone yells "Has anyone see the hand cart?"

19. Title : 10 years. Double height panel. No hair and short hair lean back on a dock on a lake and look at a sky full of stars.

20. No hair and short hair are hiking through a meadow surrounded by snow capped mountains.

21. Short hair and no hair are curled up in bed. No hair is reading a book. Shot hair asks "one more chapter?" No hair replies "Don't we both have to get up early?" Short hair groans "nnnnnggggh." No hair replies "sure, good point."

22. A group of people including short hair and no hair are wearing a variety of face masks and watching their phones, which all show an exponentially increasing curve.

23. No hair and short hair are bundled up in cold weather gear and holding handfuls of bird seed. No hair exclaims "hah! They like my seeds best!" Short hair says "Wait, how do I take a picture of this one?" while looking at a bird perched on their phone.

24. No hair and short hair are in canoes through a mangrove forest.

25. Short hair is carrying a stack of pillows and blankets and a mug over to a bed, where no hair is lying down. Short hair says "I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket a—" No hair interjects "It was just appendicitis, I'm really—" Short hair continues in a louder voice "It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!"

26a. No hair is driving and short hair is in the passenger seat of the car.

26b. No hair is driving and short hair is in the passenger seat of the car. Short hair says "oh my god." No hair says "oh my god."

26c. No hair is driving and short hair is in the passenger seat of the car. Short hair yells "pull over!" No hair responds "I am!"

26d. No hair and short hair are getting out of the car.

26e. Panel is 4 regular panels wide and two tall. The tiny figures of short hair and no hair are drawn in white and it is dark out. The sky is lit up in a brilliant aurora in red, green, & yellow, which reflecting onto a lake.

27a. Short hair is propped up against a tree and no hair is lying in the grass. Short hair says "Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer."

27b. Zoom in to short hair "I am having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I'm losing my close-up vision." From off panel no hair responds "yeah. Me too."

27c. Zoom back out to both figures. No hair says "I think we're getting old."

27d. Short hair replies "I guess that's ok." No hair concludes "It's all I wanted."

@kims @ai6yr @smellsofbikes @Stormgren @MLE_online Very cool!

(our light pollution situation isn't helped by being super close to the coast, it's been pretty cloudy today and some fog looked like it was rolling in as the sun went down)

@ai6yr @smellsofbikes @Stormgren @MLE_online I'm horribly jealous that it's far enough south to see but orange county has too much light pollution. Even if I went to the "nature preserve" near me I normally can't even see stars there so I doubt I'd see anything tonight. Boo.

Since I haven't seen any posts about it yet (maybe I just missed them?) today's Nobel prize in chemistry went to

Susumu Kitagawa
Kyoto University, Japan

Richard Robson
University of Melbourne, Australia

Omar M. Yaghi
University of California, Berkeley, USA

“for the development of metal–organic frameworks”

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/press-release/

@RamenCatholic I always get the mental image of a fondue pot with that expression.

@ai6yr @MsMerope Didn't you say that the most space you got was when you were riding around with a rusty pitchfork on your rack?

@skinnylatte Used a bathroom on campus I hadn't been in before today and there was a sign posted inside that said "lights are on a motion sensor and turn off after 15 minutes". In the basement of a chemistry building. You know grad students have gone in there to cry and ended up in the dark.

@skinnylatte If you think you'll have time for a train trip into the suburbs specifically for what I consider the world's best bagels (though I haven't had them in close to 10 years now) let me know and I'll give you the address. It's down the street from a commuter rail station, so unlike much of NJ you can take transit to/from it. (egg & cheese on a fresh bagel is so, so good...)

@futurebird Did you also read Jessie Singer's There Are No Accidents recently?