🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Jewellery #Precolumbian #TainoCulture #DominicanRepublic Taino artist BAT MAN PENDANT, ca. 800 - 1000 Carved jasper or rhyolite

The Platner story shows how political consultants should not parachute into a state and pick a candidate. There were a bunch of solid Democratic candidates in the state. Maybe the elites don’t know better than the people who actually live in the state?

As the outbreak of cyclospora grows it has been reported that last year due to a lack of funding the CDC made tracking it optional, with means this outbreak (which causes explosive diarrhea) is just further proof that cutting the CDC’s funding was a really shitty idea.

Palm Beach International Airport has officially changed its name to the President Donald J. Trump International Airport. 🤮

The Night Light: "We Shall Overcome" Black leaders in Memphis organize to get out the vote after GOP lawmakers redrew state election maps

If I could have a magic box that would let my cats understand me for only one sentence, that sentence would be, "For fuck's sake, throw up on the bare floor and not on the goddamn carpet"

Zebra Finch – Australia, 10 to 12 cm Granivorous eat primarily grass seed, insects during the breeding season only This is the male. Females are paler their beak are orange and they lack distinct patterns only the males sing. The females basically chirp.

THIS 👇 HERE.......

Was thrilling to see a massive sunfish in the waters off Chester (Nova Scotia) this evening!

The Monkees received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 10, 1989. ⭐

Happy Birthday Jack White! album.ink/JackWhiteHBD

“This stealthy forest creature is a beneficial member in our ecosystem, and just for the record, I think they are very cute.” www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/07/05/o...

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

RIP Wally Funk. In her youth, she was an accomplished pilot and part of a group of women tested for space flight but never allowed to become an astronaut. Six decades later, she finally made it into space at age 82. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...

Ken Paxton just denied our public information request for the Hoffman Files. Adam Hoffman — an admitted child molester — should be in prison, but Ken Paxton let him off the hook. Texans deserve to know why. We don’t need any more pedophile protectors in our government.

Rare 2,700-Year-Old Seal from Tel Yavne Reveals Astral Worship in the Shadow of the Assyrian Empire | Arkeonews arkeonews.net/rare-2700-ye...

Cable Bay Trail, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC 🇨🇦 TT: @rebeccascott1996

About 250M years ago, 90% of species on Earth died during the Permian extinction. All of that loss created a lot of vacant niches to fill.
 Not long after, the first mammals, our ancestors, appeared. 
Life on this pale blue dot will be resilient - whether we’re part of it or not.

10x12ish, coloured pencil and acrylic paint on canvas

Controversial opinion: I think NFL teams make more than enough money to have grass playing fields in all their stadia.

If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. www.propublica.org/article/fede...

Seattle, there are some regal chairs out on the street for free, in case you're looking... 14th Ave East between Roy and Aloha on Capitol Hill🌸🌸🌸 @jseattle.bsky.social

Vaccines Save Lives! “Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.”

New Zealand, one of the global conservation superpowers, will vaccinate its endangered birds to protect them against deadly foreign disease www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

New York has installed 8 gigawatts of distributed solar energy, putting the state ahead of schedule toward its goal of reaching 10 gigawatts by 2030, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced July 2.

Wow! Ten Emmy nominations.

"In reality, they will, at most, be able to watch election procedures from afar. The reason is deeply ironic: Through legal action in recent years, conservatives have attempted to curtail the federal government’s ability to monitor elections." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Warning! ⚠️ Things are going to be bad this midterm election. The Trump administration has fired the remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), leaving the independent bipartisan agency without any sitting commissioners.

#ResistanceRoots Richard Roundtree was born on this day in 1942 in New Rochelle, N.Y. He is best known as cinema’s first Black action hero for his role in the 1971 film Shaft. Throughout his long career, he broke barriers for Black actors and reshaped how Black men were represented on screen. /1

I am horrified by the brutal killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE earlier this week. Mr. Araujo had no convictions and had been living here for decades, working toward the American Dream. ICE has provided ZERO evidence and has lied to us again and again. We need answers.

Saw this beauty yesterday, On top of a Van in Amsterdam 🦊🇬🇧

New research indicates that state voter registration lists — a common administration target — are actually accurate and up to date. And both blue and red states are largely doing a good job maintaining their lists. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Every time my pup gets a checkup I am always so proud of him. 🐶 The vet can't believe how healthy he is for being 16 1/2. He got a fully clean bill of health today and 🥹🥹 I'm so happy, we're so lucky to have had him for so long. He's showing no sign of slowing down. 🩷

My painting COASTAL GRASS

NEW: In an unsurprising but still devastating move, Rogers shuttered 6 news radio stations, eliminating 80 positions by informing the employees the morning of their closing… Literally one day after acquiring full control of the parent company behind the Leafs, Raptors and Argonauts. Read the latest:

NEW on “Paper Trail”: Reporter @reneedudley.bsky.social heard Microsoft was running tech support for the Pentagon through China, the country’s biggest cybersecurity adversary. She thought it sounded like a conspiracy theory — until she started looking into it. Listen to the full episode:

Mitt Romney confirmed that he won’t launch a third bid for president in 2028 — and argued that octogenarians should sit this one out. “I basically think people who are 80 and above really should not be running the world or running the country”

Cycling is four times more efficient than walking and one hundred times more fun.

I am not a software developer but as a person who needs a ton of coding done, I for one have not benefited at all whatsoever from this alleged 100x productivity In fact everyone I trust to do this kind of work seems crazy busier than ever and the price is the same, or higher.

Netflix is about to invent cable television

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

“Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic *** A regulatory loophole has let in thousands of new fossil-fuel-burning power sources across the state. The AI business is booming—but residents feel blindsided.” 7/9/26

USDA had to revise its late June U.S. beef export numbers DOWN 90%. Quite the "error."

If you're trying to learn about the candidates to replace Platner as the Dem Senate nominee in Maine, I interviewed @shennabellows.bsky.social last summer. She ran neck to neck with Susan Collins in a recent flash poll: joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...

“Planned Texas [AI] data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than many countries *** Texas regulators are allowing AI data centers across the state to start up thousands of new pollution sources with no public notice or environmental reviews.” 7/9/26

An Indigenous-made children’s TV show using human puppets to teach youth the Diné language recently earned two regional Emmys in California. After just a single season that included six episodes and a Christmas special, “Navajo Highways” had a flawless evening in late June.

🧵Staying with Roman Yorkshire connections, the unique 3rd-century Severan Tondo (currently housed in the Antikensammlung at the Altes Museum in Berlin) is a painted wooden panel depicting the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, his wife Julia Domna, and their son Caracalla. The