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Seeking out small beautiful things, especially in nature, is akin to gratitude practice with the positive effect it has on anxiety & mood. Some small beautiful things from the last few days, in case you’re scrolling & feeling low or stressed🌿:

My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature. Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:

Sketch of a peregrine falcon Charcoal on toned paper 5x7 #art #birds #nature

The four pillars of disordered doubt: Doubt the Evidence Doubt the Source Doubt the Process Doubt the Claim Each pillar corrodes truth validation in a different way, but together they build epistemic collapse.

I've written a lot about disordered discourse and counterpublics, but given recent events I want to cover a key part of disordered discourse, which I call the four pillars of disordered doubt.

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Inspired by Fred Rogers, @nature.com asked readers to help us 'find the helpers' amid the crisis in American science. What emerged were inspiring stories of researchers, legal experts, data hounds and government scientists who are fighting the dismantling of the US research enterprise. 🧪🧵1/6

Hia taluj ay'gohlvsg asgwadv kohig I finished making this basket for myself today. Basket took around 8 hours, lid took 2 tries with first attempt pictured with the purse. Back to commissions after this. #Cherokee double wall basket purse #tsalagi #basketry #nativesky #indigisky

"Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil." Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer" (1951)

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Words are magic

“These results suggest that physical activity levels are directly influenced by the built environment and not simply a product of personal preferences or other types of selection effects” If we really want to make America healthy again, walkability should be a priority

Trees are my friends 🌲 🦎 🌿 #greenwitchtea #greenwitch #harmnone #animism #nature #forest #trees #peace #love #bethechange

Pastel interpretation of pine bark in sunlight. Inspiration was a photo taken through zoom lens from where I lay. The photo was out of focus but I just wanted a reference for when able to use my soft pastels to recreate the essence of the tree trunk in the golden light. #art #chronicillness #MECFS

#TwoForTuesday #Anti-Stress #Cuteness for you! Mother Bear protecting her young cub 🐻 #TwosDay #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Bears #BearLove #NatureMoments #Motherhood

Who else is ready for cosy season? 🙋🏻‍♀️

big tech hasn't come up with anything paradigm-shifting and useful since the smartphone in 2008 and I'm tired of all the shit they keep shoving down our throats trying to recapture that high

Sketch of a Crow Pastel on toned paper 5x7 #art #birds #nature #sciart

There's a formation in NYC where you can organize with others around our public libraries. NYC PLAN continues to demand that at least one-half of 1% (0.50%) of the total New York City expense budget be committed to our library systems. We also have two other goals. Join us. nycplan.org/faqs/

Bison grazing boosts grass nutrition without harming soil ->Earth.com | #Soil | More info from EcoSearch

I can’t find the lie in this.

😝🦌 #sillysaturday? idk lol deer are so darn cute sometimes. I know I promised butterflies and birds but.. loookie that face!! #deerphotography #deer #nature #wildlife #naturephotography #photography #canon #wildlifephotography #forest #mammals #portrait

POV: you’re a bowl of kale 🥬

💯👇 Mornin' all

she slayed www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/b...

I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences

Just want everyone to know that Heater is being very brave in her stroller at the vet.

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

You can’t bánh mì from saying it

Compromise suggestion: The President can redesign the Cracker Barrel logo, and the Fed can set interest rates.

People make fun of the mutant names from X-Men whilst conveniently forgetting that most mutant powers become activated at puberty, so you’re gonna give yourself an incredibly cringe name you think is cool as hell

Horseshoe Bend, USA

Don’t know who made this but thank you

Chinese artist Leng Jun,I have never seen anything like it. Extraordinary!!!

For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.

Humanities people are constantly telling tech people "you're missing the context of this sci fi story entirely" and tech people are like "we should defund the humanities and also check out how neat my killer robots are"

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

Windows 10: You can find out and fix if your speakers are set to stereo instead of 5.1 with one click from right of the taskbar. Windows 11: Fuck you, we've buried that information completely, in an old control panel, because we're the most incompetent group of fuckwits on earth outside politics.

To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!

the era of small government is over and we can either have armed thugs with badges disappearing people or universal health care and high speed rail

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Medscape: 'SARS-CoV-2 Infection Tied to Early Vascular Aging' "In his Substack, Ground Truths, Eric Topol, MD..of Scripps Research Translational Institute in San Diego, noted the risk for long COVID is greatly increased in women" www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...