Tanzania’s native turquoise dwarf gecko was once a popular pet in Europe; this became a problem when collectors started stripping them from forests. Listed as critically endangered, the gecko was subject to an international trade ban, now numbers have bounced back. buff.ly/Zpjnfgc #ShareGoodNewsToo

Renewable energy construction is my day job and, in my professional opinion, you are correct.

On good days, I believe the clean energy renaissance is too far along for the oiligarchs to stop.

Every city should hire a dozen people to do this!

19th century replicas of the “Plague Doctor’s Mask” in Ingolstadt and Berlin. But did they ever really exist? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #histmed #medievalsky

I'm feeling a bit under the weather today, but I wanted to share my latest small but lovely Midnight Blue Rose for #RoseWednesday.🌱🌿🍃 #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Garden #EastCoastKin #FlowerReport #nature #Roses #PhotographersofBluesky I

So, guess who's reviewing the proof for Anime Herald Magazine #2 tonight? 😎 @harleygin.bsky.social cooked with the layouts. Even if you're not huge on anime, you should 100% order a copy for the layouts alone. Preorder: hera.fyi/buyahmag2 Value Bundle (1&2): hera.fyi/buyahmag2bun

If you nave not picked up @adapalmer.bsky.social “Inventing the Renaissance” do it. Awesome book

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Cory Doctorow on the “promse of AI” for top corporate execs: “Workplaces without workers, screenplays without screenwriters, movies without actors, hospitals without doctors and nurses.” @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social @doctorow.pluralistic.net www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

little demon, france, 15th century

They are the remains of early universe train lines.

It is possible to go to full green energy, this is what we should be striving for, cheaper alternatives that can completely change the face of our global economy.

I recommend Bookshop dot org for the first two & for the 3rd, you can get free shipping from Blackwell’s in the UK @adapalmer.bsky.social’s Inventing the Renaissance @mattielubchansky.com Simplicity & Boys weekend @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social’s Everything Will Swallow You, now in paperback

Good morning, Bluesky! 🌞 A long-exposure image at sunrise portrays the weathering of the Hualien, Taiwan coastline near the Tropic of Cancer. #landscapephotography #landscape #seascapephotography #seascape #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #eastcoastkin #sunrise #taiwan #asia #photography

Am in love with this book cover from the @colezoology.bsky.social collections. New tattoo idea?

Owls as depicted by Japanese artist Ohara Koson (1877-1945)

Free shipping for @bookshop.org's Anti-Prime-Days! If you want to support ARB a little bit while you snag some books, click on any of the links in our reviews and essays, or check out our shop here:

First of all, finders, keepers. Secondly, I gotta go. Important business.

This is a SO much better use of business expenses than using genAI. The tide has turned. People don't want slop that nobody bothered to actually make. They're seeking character and life.

California’s new eight-hour battery is making its grid even more renewable. California has switched on Tumbleweed, the first major US battery project able to discharge power for eight hours, twice the usual duration for grid batteries. Canary Media buff.ly/jBKQxrf #ShareGoodNewsToo

Sadiq Khan has been saving people's lives.

🎉 EPISODE #99 IS HERE!!! 🎉 In this epic episode, we interview worldly traveled and renowned Japanese paleontologist ⛏️ who was just appointed President and Director General of the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, Makoto Manabe! 🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mako...

“We have disparities across teams, across regions. No one who works at ProPublica — where we say we hire the best — should be living paycheck to paycheck.” This is why we’re fighting for fair wages: www.propublicaguild.org

Petition to the University if Exeter ti not dismantle its humanities programs. The humanities help make thoughtful, active citizens, something all democracies need!

#SomethingBeautiful - art zhuzhing up life's colours

The Vikings in Greenland digression in Inventing the Renaissance…🤩

On Jan. 1, Peter Pap Rugs announced the sale of "Sørover (Southward)," a 1903 tapestry by Norwegian textile artist Frida Hansen (1855-1931) to the Christen Sveaas’ Art Foundation for $750,000. The 12'2" x 10'2" tapestry had disappeared for the last 90 years www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/out-...

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It's Anti-Prime Day on Bookshop.org, the best day to support your favorite independent bookstore, and give your money to working people not billionaries, when ordering one of my books! bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Aw, a cute little fossil croc with soft tissue preservation!

there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse

@jazzreads.bsky.social #BookSky #BlackskyReads #BlackskyBooks

Saw these solar panels on the roof of a church in Missoula. ⛪✝️☀️

Moomin with a zweihänder 💙

My latest novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, is out in paperback on 21 July. Barnes & Noble are running a members promotion right now where you can get 25% off preorders, and this is included! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-heist-...

Another great Anti-Prime-Day option: Barnes & Noble is having its PRE-ORDER sale on books coming out next winter, including the paperback of Trace Elements, my essay collection with @bluejo.eurosky.social on the craft and history of scifi and fantasy www.barnesandnoble.com/w/trace-elem...

I love how meta the paperback cover of @adapalmer.bsky.social's Inventing the Renaissance gets when you've been reading it for a while. (I also looove the book itself)

Maryland officials gathered in the Dundalk area Monday to commemorate the arrival of the first “double-stacked” shipping containers arriving by rail to the Port of Baltimore, thanks to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure improvements. marylandmatters.org/2026/06/22/d...

Barnes & Noble is running a preorder promotion. The sale will be 25% off for Barnes & Noble Members and 35% off for Premium Members. Preorder your paperback copy of Trace Elements between 6/23-6/26. Coupon code: PREORDER25 buff.ly/0kaCg4Y #BNPreorder

This too is good reading, and less bezos-y bsky.app/profile/adap...

I DID NOT KNOW YOON HA LEE HAD A NEW BOOK COMING OUT 👀 If you've not read the "The Machineries of Empire" series, you're missing out on some damn fine sci-fi.

It's Anti-Prime Day on Bookshop.org, the best day to support your favorite independent bookstore, and give your money to working people not billionaries, when ordering one of my books! bookshop.org/beta-search?...

the Vatican was the largest funder of astronomical research at the time

that sound you hear is the sighs of hundreds of scholars of science and religion wishing people would take their courses

ALSO get me & @lollardfish.bsky.social's new book OATHBREAKERS! @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social said that "Oathbreakers is historical writing at its finest.” #medievalsky bookshop.org/p/books/oath...

hey it's anti-Prime day on @bookshop.org!!! Why not grab a copy of me & @lollardfish.bsky.social's THE BRIGHT AGES? @bostonglobe.com called it "Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." #medievalsky bookshop.org/p/books/the-...