It's NOT the first Fido, but a new pair of papers shows humans across Europe were paling around with Some Very Good Dogs more than 14,000 years ago, pushing a domestication even back another 5,000 years.
TY to @wwrfd.bsky.social for keeping my puns.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dog-domestication-genetics-bones-europe
GOP sheriff in California seizes ballots as he runs for governor
A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy.
A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy. County elections officials have disputed the claims by Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, called Bianco’s move unprecedented and says it is designed to sow distrust in elections. Bianco held a news conference Friday saying his office had launched the investigation after receiving a complaint from a local citizens group about the ballot count from a November 2025 special election on redistricting.
No mention of air purifiers, oddly. They don’t imagine that pollen can be released from clothes and hair during the course of removal and get cast into the indoor air? Or that pollen can waft in through opened doors?
Anyway, there’s a subtle mention of using masks to prevent pollen exposure.
(It’s an AP article, so direct your ire re: past-tensing the pandemic thataway)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/heres-how-to-protect-yourself-during-allergy-season
Can you imagine Mastodon raising 100 MILLION dollars from a crypto VC fund and failing to disclose it... for a full year? No I can't either.
And from their actual press release: "The Atmosphere currently contains about 20 billion public records—the posts, likes, comments and other interactions that bring the ecosystem to life. It's an astonishing collection of what open social infrastructure makes possible."
https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b
How I read it: data harvesting at its finest 💁♀️
Interesting study showing GLP medications are likely treating whole-body inflammatory conditions through long term use—not just helping people lose weight in the short term:
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/stopping-glp-1-drugs-can-quickly-erase-cardiovascular-benefits/
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