Art by Peter de Sève Goodnight Blue ones #MenWithCats

🌐 The ripple effect of undersea cables... Following big tech investment in submarine cable systems, @oii.ox.ac.uk Prof Vili Lehdonvirta & PhD researcher Anniki Mikelsaar examine the infrastructural impact of the world’s longest cable. Read more: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... #SSDConnections

Strawberry Finch 📷 @luva What a great shot!!

This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

All of Catalina's deer will be killed to restore the island's ecosystem

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 Narwhals become quieter as Arctic Ocean grows louder belugas and bowheads, are in jeopardy, too. Increasing shipping traffic cargo vessels, fishing fleets, cruise ships, and oil and gas tankers interfering with whales’ ability to hunt and communicate. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

It’s good to see that not all men are shitty. Two academics, Norman Finkelstein and Joseph Chaney, are in the Epstein files calling out who he is. 💪

Trump has prioritized fossil fuel companies over consumers, hitting the lowest-income families hardest

Lots of interesting articles in the new issue of "Pacific Historical Review," which we publish in partnership with @pcb-aha.bsky.social. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...

happy pub day to my dear sweet friend jasmin ‘iolani hakes!!!! this book is literally magical and i’m so glad we got to talk about it for @electricliterature.com 🌺

UK textile artist Rachel Wright who creates textile art using machine embroidery on calico with fabrics and Madeira rayons #WomensArt

These books beg to be read with close attention over long wintery afternoons, when the only thing to do is stay inside.

In Friction: A Biography, Jennifer R. Vail explains how mastering resistance helped humans cook, build, and innovate. The review highlights how this overlooked force underpins everyday life.

America’s Legacy of Black History Is Tangled in Its Trees: Beronda L. Montgomery, a botanist and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard, has made a career of interacting with plants, though her first attempt at communicating with them was kind of a flop. As a child, she had a full-fledged love affair with…

The NPS has decided to humanely trap the Alcatraz coyote and relocate him to somewhere outside SF where he will have a more varied selection of prey, better habitat, and the opportunity to meet other coyotes.

The CDC recommends installing carbon monoxide detectors in every bedroom and every level of the home, such as digital detectors that indicate high levels of carbon monoxide and those that can emit alarm sounds. www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/sto...

Do you like cat photos? Are you constantly distracted? You’re probably actually quite good at focussing: 10 myths about attention

Delightful start to the day with a musical watery @theguardian.com country diary by @derekniemann.bsky.social. #countrydiary #naturewriting

I’ve had many people ask the last couple days if I sell my art, and where. I do sell it, I’ve been a professional artist for the last 5+ years. I sell on Etsy, and on my own Website. The woodpecker I posted on Friday isn’t for sale as it’s for an exhibition, but there will be prints available :)

Solve our weekly math puzzle! This week's is a birthday conundrum

Bad Bunny thanked his mom for having him in Puerto Rico, told the people on the island there's nothing they can't do, and dedicated his award to all Latinos and to immigrants who keep pushing forward with a lot of strength.

This new drug might really change outcomes for people with diabetes. New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints | Live Science share.google/MMCa7pYhsx0w...

Grand staircase circa 1905 at The Rookery building, Chicago, Illinois

Jeremy Noel-Tod (Jeremy Noel-Tod) on the problem with telling history through poetry: “Good poets were not always eyewitness to historical events, or even interested in them after the fact...”

White Walkers

Can humans keep making art in an alien world? Will they want to? @willwiles.bsky.social watches ‘Pluribus’ and gets some bracing answers.

"A world-first gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers." www.positive.news/society/revo...

Six statues of Indigenous heroines now stand along Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/new-...

DHS says that if you’re struggling to afford a house you should report undocumented immigrants. The Nazis blamed immigrants for their economic crisis too. Immigrants are not to blame. Billionaires are. The ruling class wants you to blame others so they can keep power & wealth.

This article and thread should be the most important news of the day. Their insistence in calling immigrants "aliens" is telling: anyone could be "alien" to this or future US or any other country's administration. The use of data from agencies unrelated to law enforcement is also a big red flag.

Welcome to my crib

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s. Which is your favourite? From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain. Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia 📷 by me #Archaeology

The Blenheim Estate lost an oak, and as they like their fallen trees to remain in place to encourage wildlife, they asked artist Matthew Crabb to do his magic Photo: Pete Seaward

Will just be here watching this clip of Catherine O’Hara saying the word "baby" on Schitt’s Creek for the rest of the day….RIP 🥺🙏

Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” calls back to protest music’s glory days, Spencer Kornhaber writes—and though the Boss has sounded bitter and mournful before, he has never sounded “this purely angry”:

Traditional bodybuilding advice has been to push workouts to the point of failure, and that soreness is an indicator of effectiveness. But recent studies show there’s another way

"Forests that once teemed with maple, sweet gum, bald cypress and stately pines have given way to scrubland."

A rare desert plant is flourishing at a solar farm near Las Vegas, new research finds. The study is the latest to show how, under the right circumstances, solar arrays can be a boon to nature. via @grist.org

Amulet Tlingit, Southeast Alaska ca. 1840–1870

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This should piss everyone off, and our tax dollars paid for this. A massive building purchased by ICE for $70 million in Arizona to “warehouse” immigrants. Calling this “housing” is a lie. This is storage. This is treating human beings like inventory.

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‘Crashing’—Microsoft Issues Critical Warning For Windows Users

A complete Roman dodecahedron from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt – one of about 130 known examples found across the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. We don’t really know what these mysterious objects were used for. Over the years, countless (and sometimes rather absurd) theories ...🧵1/3 📷me

Selling ‘Star Maps’ beneath the ‘Marlboro Man’ on Sunset Strip in 1991.

"Moonlit Hills" by German artist Martina Heiduczek.

"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland. In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.