That embarrassing moment when your medieval pet suddenly decides it isnβt going to walk any further and you have to carry it back home - 13th century, Rutland Psalter, British Library, Add. 62925, f. 76v
To quote the very wise person who once gave @kendrawrites.com advice, "would you rather be right, or effective?"
Climate and public health communicators like myself and @publichealthguy1.bsky.social understand that the knowledge deficit model (aka telling people more facts) does not change minds.
They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"
Oh no, Iβm not reckless. I thought you said recluse.
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently
By Catrin Einhorn
A draft assessment of the health of nature in the United States is grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility.
Gift link! @catrineinhorn.bsky.social
While thereβs plenty of bad news in the meticulous recounting of how humans are affecting every aspect of nature, I love how the report begins by highlighting Bright Spots in Nature!
Good news like this builds the efficacy that inspires us to act by showing us that solutions ARE possible.
Reminder:
You set achievable goals for the work and growth you desire today.
You deserve success, as you define it.
Your mental health is a priority.
You are proud of how far you have come.
Your worth isnβt based on your productivity.
I'm proud of you
This story contains a porn-texting police chief, a money-hungry police union, a nasty mayorβs race, a man in a Waldo costume and the phrase βpig pig pigβ β your weekend read from @thewesternedge.bsky.social / me and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social
www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-shady-...
From: The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon (1968), dir. SΓ‘ndor ReisenbΓΌchler, Pannonia Film Studio
Note: flashing images
Initial βRβ. chansonnier, Bruges 1542. Cambrai, BibliotheΜque municipale, ms. 125B fol. 133v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Initial βRβ. chansonnier, Bruges 1542. Cambrai, BibliotheΜque municipale, ms. 125B fol. 133v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
photo of the βStirrup-spout bottle with fox head and clubsβ on display at museum, front profile
photo of the βStirrup-spout bottle with fox head and clubsβ on display at museum, side profile
photo of gallery sign: βMoche artists); North Coast, Peru Stirrup-spout bottle with fox head and clubs 500-800 CE Ceramic, slip Gift of Judith Riklis, 1983(1983.546.4) Recorded provenance: Judith Riklis, New York, by 1983 The top of this vessel was modeled in the shape of a war club with the head of a fox and tiny human arms. War clubs and other elements likely taken as trophies from a defeated enemy were painted on the side of the vessel. The fox's helmet strap holds down a vine of chili peppers, perhaps underscoring an association between the spice's heat and the pain caused by the club.β
#FoxFriday π¦ at the Ancient Americas wing of the Met:
Moche artist(s); North Coast, Peru Stirrup-spout bottle with #fox head and clubs, 500-800 CE
Ceramic, slip
1983.546.4
#AndeanArt #PeruvianArt #IndigenousArt
how to get out of the mirror universe
"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live"
-Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
DID THE NAVY JUST SINK SHIPPING?
Was there any discussion about the impact that sinking an Iranian frigate near a heavily trafficked shipping lane would have on global shipping.
The survivors were brought into Galle on the SW coast of Sri Lanka, which is near a heavily congested route.
A snake has its head right in front of a camera. It has a cream and rasberry coloration in large patches that get smaller on the top of the head. The eyes are comically enormous, lime-green colored, and seem to protrude from a tiny snake skull. From the Wikipedia page on Imantodes cenchoa Colubridae: Imantodes cenchoa Yarina Lodge, Ecuadorian Amazon Geoff Gallice from Gainesville, FL, USA
The blunthead tree snake (Imantodes cenchoa) looks like what happens if you squeeze a garter snake too hard.
The eyes make up 27% of the head's area, and a thin ribbon body looks out of proportion.
You'll find them high in the trees of Central & South America.
(π·: Geoff Gallice)
Nancy 3/3/26
The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February.
According to our polling, 24% of Americans say Trump has made the economy better since becoming president, vs 53% who say he's made things worse.
Voters say 2:1 Trump isn't focused enough on the things they care about.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/53-of-amer...
Three Little Boars. Gaston Phoebus, Le Livre de la chasse, Paris ca. 1407. NY, Morgan, MS M. 1044, fol. 1v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Three Little Boars. Gaston Phoebus, Le Livre de la chasse, Paris ca. 1407. NY, Morgan, MS M. 1044, fol. 1v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!
This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.
Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start
Length: 5.6 cm
π· Landesmuseum WΓΌrttemberg πΊ
So, obviously this isnβt true. But if the CEO actually believes this nonsense, it implies he thinks maybe heβs enslaving a sentient being that has the capacity to feel emotional distress. And he hasnβt immediately halted operations to suss out how to resolve that?
Fantastic:
www.youraislopbores.me
Data centers for AI are driving huge increases in electrical load, and thereβs currently not enough power on the grid to match the projected growth. The Trump admin is now trying to promote new fossil gas generation as the solution, and there is no shortage of reasons to be concerned about this:
what disordered slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable carrion of those battle-fields
My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.
Chotiner: And you have how many tabs open?
Me: Oh, well, I haven't counted, but...
Chotiner: Would you say it's more than 20?
Me: Sure, it might be, but I'm using all of them.
Chotiner: So you remember what all of them are, then?
Me: Listen...
no
This might be the last year of Lloyd Center. I wrote about some of the people who want to save Portland's iconic mall. www.portlandmercury.com/culture/2026...
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, βKristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Trainβ
Screaming
