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Posted by Michala Garrison

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/shades-of-a-lunar-eclipse/

https://science.nasa.gov/?p=1205257

A grayscale composite satellite image centered on Alaska shows observations at several times during a total lunar eclipse. Snow, ice, and clouds appear bright in swaths acquired before and after the eclipse and darker gray in the partial phase. The scene during the total phase is mostly black.

March 3, 2026

On March 3, 2026, Earth lined up directly between the Moon and the Sun, casting its shadow on the full Moon. The total lunar eclipse was visible throughout the Americas, East Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. Skygazers in those parts of the world may have witnessed a “Blood Moon,” when the dimmed lunar surface temporarily turned an orange-red color.

Meanwhile, satellites observed the effect of the darkened Moon on Earth’s surface. Changes in the amount of moonlight reflected back to Earth as the eclipse progressed appear in this composite image, composed of nighttime observations made by the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the NOAA-21 satellite. The satellite collected these images of the Arctic about every 100 minutes, with earlier swaths toward the right and later swaths to the left.

The VIIRS day-night band detects nighttime light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as city lights, reflected moonlight, and auroras. The darkest swath was acquired at 11:20 Universal Time (2:20 a.m. Alaska Standard Time), about 15 minutes after the total phase had begun. With very little moonlight reaching Earth, ribbons of light from the aurora borealis shine through, along with specks of artificial light from settlements in the Yukon and eastern Alaska.

When the satellite passed over western Alaska and the Bering Strait, at 13:00 Universal Time (4:00 a.m. Alaska Standard Time), the eclipse was in the partial phase. The scene is noticeably brighter than the earlier one, and light from the partially shaded Moon illuminates snow-covered topography and offshore clouds. The brightest swaths on the far right and left sides were acquired before and after the eclipse, respectively, with light from the full Moon.

The next chance to view a total lunar eclipse will occur on December 31, 2028, when it will add a dash of astronomical flair to New Year’s Eve celebrations in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using VIIRS day-night band data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Story by Lindsey Doermann.

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References & Resources

CIMSS Satellite Blog (2026, March 3) VIIRS Day/Night Band imagery showing the effect of a total lunar eclipse. Accessed March 9, 2026.
NASA The Moon & Eclipses. Accessed March 9, 2026.
NASA (2026, January 29) March 2026 Total Lunar Eclipse: Your Questions Answered. Accessed March 9, 2026.
NASA (2009, April 29) Total Lunar Eclipse of 2026 Mar 03. Accessed March 9, 2026.
NASA Earth Observatory (2025, September 20) By the Warm Light of the Moon. Accessed March 9, 2026.
NASA Earth Observatory (2008, March 13) Lunar Eclipse from Orbit. Accessed March 9, 2026.

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torachan

1. I walked up to Whole Foods tonight and dropped off my Amazon return and got an email saying the money was credited back to my account while I was on the walk home.

2. I did two store visits in Orange County today and Carla came with me and went shopping (one of the stores is right next to a Book Off) while I worked, so we could just go straight to Disneyland on the way home. We haven't been doing midweek trips as much this year, but a friend of hers is in town for work and this was the best time to meet up. (But since the Food and Wine Festival just started, there's a ton of new menu items to try, so it works out in that regard as well.)

3. Tomorrow I am just doing a store visit at the store near home and then WFH in the afternoon for meetings, so no long drives, which will be nice (especially with gas prices as they are, though I do get reimbursed for the store visits).

4. The weather was about 15 degrees cooler today than yesterday at home and around 20 degrees cooler down in OC. Much nicer than yesterday!

5. Molly has been really into the old cardboard cat house lately for some reason.

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Title: waiting for someone else
Fandom: Ponies (TV 2026)
Rating: Mature
Length: 1031
Content notes: n/a
Author notes: I guess this is loosely about anticipating, in that it is about waiting? Anyway, my first fan_flashworks entry! And also the only fic I have ever written for this fandom. Is it the only fic I ever will write? Unclear
Summary: Ivanna and Twila understand each other, but they both know Twila would rather be with someone else. A specific someone else.

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jazzfish

*mindblown.gif*

Okay, so, clefs. If you've seen piano music you know how it's got two staffs, one for the right hand / high notes and one for the left / low notes. The staffs have a squiggle on the left end of them: the high one has a sort of loopy thing and the low one has a sort of 7 or 2 with a couple of dots. These are clefs, specifically treble clef and bass clef. They tell you what pitch the notes on the staff represent.

Technically the symbols are a G clef and an F clef: the spiral at the centre of the treble squiggle is always on a note that's a G, and the two dots on the bass are always on a note that's an F. Technically if you put the symbols on other lines you'd indicate different pitches. In practice, these days nobody does that, and 'G clef' and 'treble clef' are synonymous, as are 'F clef' and 'bass clef.'

Violin music is written in treble clef. Cello music is (mostly) written in bass clef. The range of notes you can easily play on those instruments more or less coincides with what you can easily write in those clefs without egregious use of extra ledger lines for notes above/below the staff.

There's also another clef symbol. The C clef symbol looks like a capital B, and the middle of the two humps is always on a note that's a C. It's used to indicate two uncommon clefs. Alto clef gets used for viola music and nothing else as far as I know, and tenor clef gets used for cello music that's off in the upper registers of the cello. Alto clef is... honestly I don't know what its relation to treble clef is, other than "lower," I think it's a sixth lower? Maybe a seventh? I don't read treble clef very well so I don't really know.

Tenor clef is a fifth higher than bass clef. This makes it really convenient for cello music. The strings on a cello (or violin or viola) are a fifth apart, so if you're used to reading bass clef for cello then tenor is the same thing just one string up.

A viola is a fifth lower than a violin, and an octave higher than a cello. If you put 'octave strings' on a viola, it plays the same notes as a cello. A tenor viola is an octave lower than a violin, and a fifth higher than a cello.

Which means it can natively play music in tenor clef. Hence the names.

Here endeth the classical music neepery for the day.

torachan

We went down to DCA again today for dinner to meet up with a friend of Carla's who's in town for work but also spending all his downtime at Disneyland.

Since we'd just been to the park a couple days ago and also had had kind of a long day today before getting to the park, we didn't really do much other than have dinner and chat, and then walk around the park and chat, but it was a nice visit.

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Title: in the digital rain
Fandom: Crash Fever
Rating: G / General Audiences
Content notes: Embedded images.
Artist notes: Drawn with Krita, page/canvas templates via Electric Zine Maker.
Summary: Foucault and Helmholtz wait for the rain to stop.
Challenge: 508 - Anticipation

( in the digital rain )

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Title: Worth It
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationships: May Grant/Ravi Panikkar
Tags: Established Relationship, First Time
Summary: The anticipation was worth it.
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Just a few final adjustments.

Phil Foglio reported being sick with a bad cold this weekend, but the page is out on time anyway.

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I decided it was time to leave my walkable radius. Took train to Taipei Main, as that seemed quick and promising. Main is rather large and confusing but I eventually made it to the surface. Walking south a bit took me to 228 Peace Park; the '228' refers to something in Taiwanese history that I should look up. Park includes the National Museum, which is said to be really good and is cheap (NT$ 30, basically US$1) but I need to get up earlier for it. Park was nice. Album! ( Read more... )

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Posted by Seanan McGuire

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With the first Magic the Gathering novel since 2019 fast approaching, Omens of Chaos, an adventure set at Strixhaven University, I am pleased to offer a giveaway for one signed, personalized ARC, which will come with an exclusive promotional sticker sheet! Wow! To enter:

Comment on this post.
Tell me whether you’re in the US or elsewhere. International entries are accepted: if you win, however, you will need to pay postage. Sorry.
Tell me your favorite MtG color combination! …or…
If you don’t actually play, tell me one thing you know about Magic. It can be wrong!

And that’s all! I will choose a winner on Friday, March 13th, and announce the name on this blog.

GAME ON!

(If it’s your first time here, be aware that all new commenters go initially to moderation, and please don’t double-comment. You WILL be approved, if you followed the rules. It may just take a few hours.)

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People frequently ask us about whether their specific US state is trying to enact a social media age verification law so they can call their state representatives and yell at them about it! I have had "build a system that will let me easily update this without having to do so manually, categorizing these bills by status, what problems they have, and what we'd do about them if they pass" on my want-to-do list for a really long time, but until I can, here's the current list of bills I know about.

This (very long, sigh) list is accurate to the best of my knowledge as of 8 March 2026, but it may not include every bill that's been introduced in every state. (I've used a few different lists plus my own "searching until I got too depressed to continue" to assemble it, excluding laws I think have absolutely no chance of passing but including laws where I think there's still even a slight chance.) If you know of one that isn't on the list, please let me know in the comments!

These are state laws only. I'm concentrating on those because you can find lists of bad federal bills more easily, but all the lists of state bills I know of are industry-gated or limited-distribution. If you don't have a preferred source for finding out about bad federal legislation about the internet, Bad Internet Bills (from Fight for the Future) and the EFF Action Center are a great place to start!

This list is only counting social media bills; I am not including bills that don't apply to us because they're modeled on the app store/OS age signal model legislation or bills that deal with age verification for other services like chatbots or "AI companions", because I'd go completely off the rails and resort to just screaming incoherently when the list passed a hundred items. I will try to update this at least quarterly, or whenever the Magic 8 Ball says there's a rapidly moving bill that you need to yell at people about.

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Title: Desperate times
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Lisa
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Length: 800 words
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Posted by Michala Garrison

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/lake-coatepeque/

https://science.nasa.gov/?p=1204884

A blue lake rests within a caldera with steep walls. Several volcanoes near the caldera are capped by clouds. The terrain is mostly lush and green, with patches of gray urban areas.

February 10, 2026

Just inland from the Pacific coast of El Salvador, the striking blue waters of Lake Coatepeque fill part of a caldera of the same name. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photo of the lake and surrounding terrain on February 10, 2026, as the station passed over Central America.

The caldera formed during a series of explosive eruptions between 72,000 and 51,000 years ago. After the caldera’s formation, additional eruptions produced several lava domes along its western side, including one that became Isla del Cerro (Isla Teopán). According to the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program, there have been no reported eruptions from the caldera during the Holocene (the past 11,700 years).

Today, homes, restaurants, boathouses, and other structures line the lakeshore. This human footprint extends westward toward the caldera’s steep rim, which abuts the eastern flank of Santa Ana—El Salvador’s tallest volcano. Unlike Coatepeque, Santa Ana remains active, with small to moderate explosive eruptions recorded since the 16th century. Its most recent severe eruption occurred in 2005.

Although the lake appears its usual blue in this photo, it can occasionally take on a strikingly different hue. At times, the water temporarily shifts to bright turquoise, prompting questions about its cause. In 2024, scientists reported that while pigments from microalgae and cyanobacteria can affect the lake’s color, the turquoise episodes are likely the result of natural mineralization.

The broader landscape around the lake and Santa Ana Volcano is a mosaic of urban areas, agricultural fields, and even more volcanic terrain. The city of Santa Ana lies about 15 kilometers (9 miles) to the north, while San Salvador, also nestled amid volcanoes, lies 40 kilometers (25 miles) to the east. The volcanic landscape stretches more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) along Central America’s Pacific coast, from Guatemala to Panama, composing the Central American Volcanic Arc.

Astronaut photograph ISS074-E-312810 was acquired on February 10, 2026, with a Nikon Z9 digital camera using a focal length of 400 millimeters. It was provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit at NASA Johnson Space Center. The images were taken by a member of the Expedition 74 crew. The images have been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

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References & Resources

Atlas Obscura (2024, November 12) Lago Coatepeque. Accessed March 5, 2026.
La Prensa Grafica (2022, August 24) The turquoise color once again takes over Lake Coatepeque. Accessed March 5, 2026.
NASA Earth Observatory (2023, October 14) San Salvador: A City Among Volcanoes. Accessed March 5, 2026.
Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program Coatepeque Caldera. Accessed March 5, 2026.
Universidad de El Salvador (2024, October 3) Marine Toxins Laboratory presents study results on the turquoise coloration phenomenon of Lake Coatepeque. Accessed March 5, 2026.

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torachan

1. We went to Best Buy this morning to look at mice in person and I ended up getting a different Logitec one, the MX Master 3S, which fits almost as well in my hand as the Microsoft Sculpt. I set up a return for the other one to Amazon. I do like some things about it, but it felt at the same time too small and too large, and while I didn't have wrist pain after I got used to it more, it just never felt comfortable. I do like that this new one, like the one I'm returning, is bluetooth rather than USB, especially since apparently it was the USB dongle that was causing my PC's sleep issues with the Sculpt (all these years I had no idea!).

2. It was so hot today. Not the hottest we've ever had, but record setting for early March, and it just felt awful. Like that baking desert feel whenever you step outside. I'm so glad we didn't have anything that required being outdoors during the day today, just errands in the car in the morning. I did take a short midday walk, trying to stick to the shadiest streets, but even then I couldn't stay out for long. Tomorrow is supposed to be about 15 degrees cooler, so fingers crossed.

3. Despite the heat, I made Japanese curry for dinner and it turned out delicious. I found a bag of frozen kabocha in the freezer the other day so I put some of that in as well, and that gave it a little something extra, even though I didn't feel like frying croquettes with it as I'd originally planned, or doing fried eggs over top like I sometimes do.

4. This pic was taken the other day. Not even Chloe wanted to be under the blankets today!

selki

DC area folks may be interested in lovely Glen Echo Park pictures in several recent entries by

austin_dern . His way is to write journal entries (mostly about amusement park visits & history, hence the Glen Echo shots) and then include a batch of photos which may not be about that journal entry at all. But there are some very nice pictures of the Bumper Car Pavillion, the carousel, and more.

Books: I am really glad I read (listened to) Cat Sebastian's After Hours at Dooryard Books (thanks to

lcohen 's recommendation). Set in 1968 NYC*, a bookstore manager teaches his secretive new assistant about the business and then the bookstore manager's just-widowed sister and her baby move in. Aside from the slow burn love story (with the assistant), there's a fair bit about folk music, the music industry, anti-war protests of the time, walks through the city, and how to keep going when many things are terrible. Lots of resonance with our time, some love and hope, and a very good read.
* Incidentally, one of three books with garbage strikes I read in February, just happened that way.

Home life

This year my house is 100 years old and I am 60 years old, so maybe I should plan a big backyard party for us both for May or later. After a very cold and snow-laden February, suddenly it's getting very warm, so in theory I could throw a party sooner, but I have too much chores to put on a big party.
Mainly, I need to deal with my taxes (I know, I know), get my car fixed (a small crack on my windshield last weekend has this week meandered over a foot across so I got an appointment for next week), get a passport replacement (stymied b/c I accidentally threw the old one away in a folder of Germany maps, and the forms don't quite cover that and I don't want to lie), and do some de-cluttering.
My basement computer which is the more secure Ethernet-connected one where I like to do my financial stuff wouldn't display to its monitor for a while but it's better now (I took fresh backups as soon as I temporarily fixed it) so I really need to get going on organizing 2024 tax materials.
I have played a lot of Garden Joy and Polytopia this weekend.

Work

The worst federal lead has had us do a lot with metrics and road map for a big presentation he has next week. We finally got things into shape that pleases him Friday. Also, he attended some new-to-him meetings I was in last Thursday, finally realized I do a lot of work and have a lot of expertise he was ignoring, and spoke to me with a little more appreciation Thursday evening. We'll see if that lasts.
The work for the OTHER federal lead went by the wayside for a while and I need to pick it back up and jam on it before our meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Middle and upper management at both my employer and my client are jamming AI down our throats, the worst literally to the point of "But ChatGPT says" to contradict our recommendations.
I now have to drive in to the DC office 2x week. I love my old house but am sometimes a little overwhelmed by it (basement leak, etc.) and the yard, especially since my sister moved out. So I actually looked at 3 town/rowhouses a 20-minute walk from work, and I really like and could afford one of them, but I really shouldn't think about applying for a new mortgage until I file those taxes, plus this may not be the time to go back into debt. The commute is really tiring me out (I know others have it worse), but I am listening to more audiobooks.
I finally made back my hours from the negative leave I was in from the fall shutdown, so maybe I can take a day off later in March.

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