To this day I still wonder "so, lightning hit the Clock Tower at 10:04pm; Doc Brown calculated it so that Marty and the DeLorean hit the power cable at the exact strike of that minute... but there are 60 seconds in a minute so what if the lightning had hit at 10:04 and 1 second?" #BacktotheFuture

Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait with Necklace, 1933 #womensart

The holiday season is a great time to disconnect from screens and connect with loved ones.

particle physics produces pretty images

One reason I think public opinion is fundamentally important as a beat is that if people only talk to other people like them, it can be hard to get a sense of which hardships are unique to them or groups they're in, and where those struggles are broadly felt or even more acute elsewhere.

every year on the 17th December i remember the Lord of the Rings cinematic release days, it was always this sort of time, they were genuinely a great time in my life.

Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.

i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

Really dark stuff. Surely all the people who expressed horror at those who lacked empathy for Charlie Kirk’s murder will show come consistency and condemn this also, right? Saying they were killed “due to” their feelings about Trump is demented.

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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14, an Indigo Bunting I did as practice for a looser watercolor style. #BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #FineArt #ArtYear #AnimalArt #Art #ornithology

Spring path. #Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt Painting of the day 2118.

Wow that 3-pointer from behind the half-court line from Sanaa Tripp. 😱 Of course I'm cheering for the Wildcats, but wowers way to go on that shot, Sanaa! 🏀 #wcbb #kentucky #belmont

Watching the first OG season of the Simpsons (1989-1990) with my 17yo and one of my 10yo's. It's been a *while* for me. Assorted comments and observations. 🧵

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

Bibemus Quarry, 1900 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13340

There’s classrooms I try not to teach in because I think about their risk to a shooting and being able to safely evacuate. It is a terrible thing to have to consider.

"Mild" autism does not exist: "No one I know lives the life I live outside of work in order to cope with the demands of the job, and yet it seems that, surrounded by health professionals, not one of them knows what autism looks like outside of Rain Man." autistwriter.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/b...

These Indiana Republicans are civic heroes. Shocking and inspiring to see after the collapse of resistance to illiberalism among so many of their counterparts over the last decade.

It genuinely does feel like this administration thinks its entire legitimacy rests on the ability to torture and punish this one man.

The aurora borealis kan go to lots of differente places because it ys traveling light

My 10yo just exchanged Roblox handles with a 9yo she met at a restaurant. It was adorbs. Also the kids these days call an arroba @ a "shift-A" which is also adorbs.

It turns out their fellow Americans are willing to vote for convicted felon authoritarian insurrectionists. Go figure.

La Toilette de Vénus, dit aussi à tort L'Air - Albani, Francesco#painting#art#artist#oilpainting#paint#museum#artgallery#traditionalart#blueskyart

Rewatched some Star Trek tonight. Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human. Every episode says the same thing in its own way: ‘Be curious. Be brave. …Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”

Spydere Man, Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondry webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man

HALF | Iowa 35, Iowa State 35 It'll come down to the final 20 minutes of action tonight as Chit-Chat can't get a shot up at the buzzer and things head to the locker room knotted at 35-35. Wright leads Iowa with 13. Crooks leads ISU with 14. Brown with 10.

END Q1 | Iowa 23 Iowa State 19 Kylie Feuerbach cashes a three-pointer at the buzzer to put the Hawkeyes in front by 4 after 10 minutes of action. Chit-Chat leads Iowa with 7. Crooks with 8 for ISU. I feel better about the Hawkeyes after the first quarter than I did this morning.

Iowa-Iowa State women is the must-see game of the night in sports.

4:42 1Q - Media Timeout Iowa State 14 Iowa 12 Audi Crooks has been very good. She's got 8 points. Chit-Chat Wright with five points for Iowa.

The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.

I lived in Iowa for 4 years while doing school in Iowa City. So I'm totally cheering for the Hawkeyes tonight in the Iowa-Iowa St. #wcbb game. 🏀

This is the kind of thing you might hear in a 1930s gangster movie

Lmao, I love the Star Trek fans taunting the Star Wars fans here. It's such a perfect 1999 vibe.

Marcel Gobillard https://www.wikiart.org/en/berthe-morisot/marcel-gobillard

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

I'm 15 minutes into the Chair Company and totally having second-hand anxiety for the junior corporate manager lead character. Running that first dept meeting is intimidating! 😅 #ChairCompany

If a ballot initiative passed in 2026, Colorado Democrats could draw a new map for 2028 where they’d likely win a 7-1 majority, up from the current 4-4 split. Kamala Harris won 6 seats on my map below by at least 11 points & the light blue district by 5 points davesredistricting.org/join/88bbe20...

New, from me: by embracing unitary executive theory, the Supreme Court is moving towards making all public employees fireable at the will of the President. This will not just hurt government competence, it will aid democratic backsliding. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...

MY LATEST: Many religions are heavily concentrated in a few countries.

Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."

My dear friend Anna (third on the right) was recently ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church at the Cathedral Domain in Eastern Kentucky (www.cathedraldomain.org). It was an honor to attend! 🎨 #acrylics #acrylicmarker #painting #skyart #artsky

You will be visited by three spirits.

#LighthouseArt of the Day Paul Signac (French, 1863–1935), Entrance to the Port of Honfleur, 1899, oil on canvas. Courtesy Indianapolis Museum of Art, discovernewfields.org #BlueSkyMonday #art #artsky #lighthouse #MaritimeArt #MarineArt #FrenchArt #pointillism #NeoImpressionism

Henri Rousseau, French (1844-1910), The Walk in the Woods, 1890, oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

Day Seven & a Monday May your week exceed all of your expectations #ArtAdventCalendar #BlueskyMonday "Forest Cathedral" (My favorite painting from 2025 😉) Acrylic On Canvas #painting #torilart #art #fineart #acrylic #MountainMonday #XtraXmas

Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist - Baldassare degli Embriachi#painting#art#artist#oilpainting#paint#museum#artgallery#traditionalart#blueskyart

February lace by Vasily Khudyakov (Russian, b.1983). Oil on canvas | 70 x 60 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

LOL the contestants in the first round of Jeopardy tonight left the football category to the very last. To be clear: I *also* would avoid that category if I were them.

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