The only thing better than bison manure is free bison manure. https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2026/03/06/colorado-state-offering-gardeners-free-bison-manure-how-to-get-yours/89015192007/
Fur Auction Decried As Colorado Mulls Halt to Native Pelt Sales https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/fur-auction-decried-as-colorado-mulls-halt-to-native-pelt-sales-2026-02-02/
Preferential Accretion onto the Secondary Black Hole Strengthens Gravitational-wave Signals: #GravitationalWaves mystery: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/01/07/new-study-examines-gravitational-wave-mystery
In 2020, during the George Floyd uprising, hearing the national and international news coverage of the neighborhood where I live, I saw with painful personal clarity something I already knew:
The feel of news coverage — its content, its voice, its perspective — is far more the feel of the org doing the reporting than it is the feel of the reality they are covering.
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Ordering groceries from Safeway online for the first time in a while.
Because "I'm signing in from a new device" (I'm not, it's the same browsing VM I've used every time I've ordered in the past and I haven't cleared any long lived cookies etc) they're trying to 2fa me by sending a code to my email inbox that expires in only 5 minutes.
The email is HTML only with no plain text body.
BBC Studios partners with Panasonic Avionics to launch BBC Player, its first fully rights-cleared streaming platform specifically for the airline industry (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/bbc-studios-launches-bbc-player-air…
So there’ve been efforts on and off for nearly 40 years to build light rail commuter service from Pueblo to north of Fort Collins in Colorado. Recently they called for suggestions for what to call it. Sadly, my suggestion, Trainy McTrainface, was not only rejected but ignored altogether.😰
Source: Jeff Shell is ousted as Paramount president even as a report from a law firm cleared Shell of claims that he shared confidential information (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/jeff-shell-fired-paramount-president-1236784545/
Haven’t seen anyone making predictions yet (maybe I’ve just missed them) but given that so far the #snowpack levels for all of Colorado are at record lows (55% of normal overall, 47% for Arkansas River basin) and last year we had pretty good level, which results in lots of new growth in grasslands and forests, I suspect we’re likely to have a surfeit of