A #Skydiver Appears to Fall from the #Sun in a Stunning Image #photography #Icarus Credit: Andrew McCarthy Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andr...

How did the Virgen de Guadalupe evolve from a colonial icon to a modern emblem of defiance? Listen a new season of Getty's podcast ReCurrent, an exploration of impact of cultural heritage in our every day. Episode one: gty.art/4hGcE3P

Live news from #Japan for thise interested in the #earthquake and #tsunami threat. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

⚠️TSUNAMI ADVISORY in effect for the California coast. Stay away from the water! Stay away from beaches and waterways! Remain away from shore until local officials say that it is OK to return. #KnowYourZone at . #CAwx #Tsunami https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1950370981848961247

I will never recover from the years I spent working in media amid a totally deranged obsession with empathy for Trump voters who wanted nothing but to make other people suffer

Here's an interactive map: wilderness.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

Republicans want to sell over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas! www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Site w/ info 4 keeping👁️ on fascists' anti-immigrant, anti-human policies of #TrumpIsATraitor ship. #NoKKKings #LaMigra #LaResistencia #Resist #NoKings #UniteBlue #BlueCrew #LBGTQ+ #BLM #Latinx #BadassFeminists @vetsat.bsky.social #AmericanOpposition #StrongerTogether 💙 www.aila.org/deaths-at-ad...

There are widespread reports of ICE agents abducting people while masked, without warrants or identification. Due to recent events, we strongly advise: do not open your door or car for anyone you don’t know. That’s the message. No need to elaborate.

CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE 🔗 www.404media.co/cbp-confirms...

BREAKING: ICE is preparing to deploy tactical units to five cities run by Democratic leaders, according to two sources familiar with the planning of future ICE operations.

Los Angeles population is roughly 4M+ people. It’s a massive city, folks. The combined 4700 National Guard and Marines have been sent to about a 3-block area to aggressively eat lunch and watch peaceful protestors sing and dance. 👇🏽 💃🏽🎶🕺🏼 So now you know. Keep lifting the veil, LA fam!

Let this sink in. Even the Los Angeles Police Chief, Jim McDonnell, made it clear: the people protesting immigration raids were not the ones causing violence. During a Sunday evening press conference, McDonnell condemned the violence as “disgusting”

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

#Harvard University has made it possible to virtually explore the Great #Pyramid of Giza in stunning 3D and 360º! Now you can take a digital tour and uncover the mysteries of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Tour here: giza.fas.harvard.edu/giza3d/

Lot's of NOAA datasets are slated for decommission soon: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

Still enraged they cut the NIH Bridges programs. 13 students in my lab came as CC students through Bridges. Students who had little/no support or guidance before. They could now be in lab instead of needing to make ends meet off-campus. Most are now in PhD progs (incl GRFP awardees) or applying. 1/2

betty white as roses: thread

Great segment that gave me a lot of chuckles this past weekend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Vz...

A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.

lil psa for those who use chrome on their computer and have been driven crazy by the constant "sign in with google" prompts that pop up at various sites and didn't realize they could disable them and have been suffering in silence until now like i've been: here's how to get rid of them

If history is a guide, Spending Freeze 1.0, now dead, will be followed by Spending Freeze 2.0 and maybe Spending Freeze 3.0, each of which will be better written and lawyered than the one before.

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

What a beautifully made and immersive short documentary on the quiet battle to preserve the Haíłzaqv language in British Columbia: youtu.be/s-aw1r76CnE?...

It's probably going to be lost on a lot of people, especially those that hate LA, but emergency response teams have been phenomenal. Warning efforts for evacuation have been phenomenal and have saved a lot of lives.

Something to keep in mind for 2025 Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction

📸⛽ Gas station night Vibes #photography

Big fan of Carter Vail, even before the Dirt Man song. This YT short has quickly become an earworm for me. www.youtube.com/shorts/NQWvX...

Last class of the semester. Topic is climate change and preparing for hazards and disasters. Teacher: "We have to be prepared; an earthquake could happen right now as we talk" CA Triple Junction: 7.0 mag. quake and tsunami alert. Here was our recording on the seismometer at Modesto Jr. College.

It was quite the experience being on a conference call, hearing the alert from multiple audio sources. Hopefully it's minor...

Always a mixed feeling when procrastination actually kind of works out...I've been meaning to visit the bulb for a while now. www.latimes.com/environment/...

This is a good time to celebrate that Covid deaths are at a near record low and have continued to trend downward, even amid ups and downs, for the past three years.

Nice little preview of things to come...

See the colors of BlueSky, live! www.bewitched.com/demo/rainbow... This little visualization scans incoming posts and draws a stripe every time it finds a color word.

Okay, Blueskyers, buckle in, because I'm going to post a thread of Walter Molino originals for the best series of celebrity portraits ever. Molino was a genius, and these originals have LIFE. Here's Marcelo Mastroianni with Sophia Loren, and then Ursula Andress, John Wayne, and the Beatles.

I've missed content like this...

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy. It’s not rocket science.

The temperature here is forcing me to succumb to the tyranny of pants. No bueno.

just lost 30 grand

This python package can be used to "easily download, model, analyze, and visualize street networks and other geospatial features from OpenStreetMap." It's really cool! osmnx.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Column: A thank you to the undocumented on the eve of Trump’s deportation storm www.latimes.com/california/s... @latimes.com

"Gifford v. Sheil is not the first time an influencer has accused another of copying them — copyright itself is frequently weaponized in inter-creator conflicts..." Of course influencer lawsuits are a thing, I just hadn't really considered it. Fascinating read. www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...

Someone has created a font out of fElon’s stupid X jump & called it Times New Dumbass. Fun times! Hehe 😃

In the first Trump Administration's budget requests, they proposed privatizing the Power Marketing Administrations. This is also in Project 2025. PMAs sell electricity from dams (like the Hoover Dam) and build and maintain transmission facilities. Privatizing these functions is a terrible idea.

This need to interact with liberals on their pages and in their personal accounts, or to email insane things to strangers you see on TV or online, is genuinely perplexing to me. Why do right wingers find that pleasurable? What's behind the drive to interact with people you despise? Please explain!

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