Midtown Manhattan from Hallets Cove, Astoria, Queens.

I listened to the Giles Martin 2022 remix of this last week. Wonderful but this mono mix hits harder somehow. The best Beatles album and possibly my favorite of their songs.

This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯

These are the droid-mimicking birds you are looking for... 🧪 (stole that from @megha.bsky.social)

Okay, I might have to check this out.

Chacmool for @ejalbright.bsky.social - piñata exhibit at Museo de Arte Popular

I like how these guys get to have it both ways they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it

Please read this wonderful and important piece by Chris. (It’s short.) I had never read the words of E.B. White that Chris quotes here, and I’m extremely glad I now have.

I’ve become obsessed with making a low cost, DIY planetarium dome with a negative pressure screen. With the right pattern of gores, the screen (and outside cover) could be made of Tyvek. Here’s the math. www.themathdoctors.org/making-a-sph...

Happy birthday Wendy Carlos 🎂 📷 Leonard M. DeLessio, 1979 "For me, she’s a hero. Not only is she a pioneer in electronic music, but she’s also a pioneer of living with grace, courage, & personal conviction in the modern age." - Jonny Pierce

Here is an alpha release of Fabric, my open source node based creative coding & prototyping env. github.com/Fabric-Proje... Enjoyed Quartz Composer, or want a more intuitive node based tool? Check it out, & help build w me! #swift, #swiftui #metal, #realtime, #gpu #graphics

Calle Real de Guadelupe, last night

Great thread on this wonderful composer. We are proud to know another truly American composer, David Amram - 95 this month, still composing, performing, inspiring.

We need videos from optical gas imaging cameras for CO₂ emissions.

From: One by One (2004), dir. Pixote Hunt and Dave Bossert, Walt Disney Feature Animation

Alexander Calder, Cat Lamp, 1928 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136802

Back in my DIY dome frame of mind. This Sketchfab creator has great models. sketchfab.com/daliadome/mo...

POV: Earth’s solar defense system pushed to the limit last night

I knew it was an agave, did not know it was a century plant, which blooms every 10-30 years, until two weeks ago. 6 feet growth of the flower stalk in 2 weeks. Will check it again in January.

All these aurora photos, and all I've got is the sunset over Huitepec #Chiapas

AMAZEBALLS! #aurora

Not now, Carnivorous Death-Ball

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Yes we’re a little over with the Beatles, but come on. This is sweet and simple. Some great versions of familiar tunes.

Today in the @thestar.com, I wrote about the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and the story behind “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”—and how what you hear on the Gordon Lightfoot classic is actually the 1st time his band ever played the song www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

A group of tourists at Tikal were watching, and recording, a group of coatimundis when a jaguar came out and grabbed one (of the coatis) coming within feet of one watcher. Scroll down to the video. www.publinews.gt/virales/2025...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Overturned Blue Shoe with Two Heels Under a Black Vault by Jean Arp, 1921 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137527

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Maya site believed to represent the cosmos, report www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wish I was there to see and hear. But we'll be back soon.

Damn bro, do you ever feel like your eyes have seen the have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord? Like He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored??

Last Eddie Harris I posted was the upbeat. This one is the down. Rocking, angry, and suits this moment. "Try to make it real, compared to what?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejJ...

Mood. Possibilities for a new future. LISTEN HERE www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHt...

A drinking squirrel, surrounded by Autumn colors 🐿️🍁💦 📸 Equipment

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El Panteon San Cristobal de las Casas

A beautiful Sunday morning read by @christopherbrown.bsky.social full of rain and fog fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/an-ofrenda...

From the special issue of Befores & Afters magazine on MPC's work for 'Mufasa' --> Virtual filmmaking: New approaches to virtual cinematography, the use of Unreal Engine, and understanding the film language of the filmmakers. An excerpt from issue #40. beforesandafters.com/2025/11/01/v...

Halloween mothership, San Cristobal

Bat and Moon — Yamada Hōgyoku, c. 1830

Chip and I, Romerillo, Chiapas 2018

Remembering Chip Morris and Alfonso Morales this Day of the Dead. #Maya #Chiapas #Mexico

We voted early, and now watch from a distance. Our hosts are already asking "What's up in New York?" This is the hope.

Day of the Dead, San Cristobal de las Casas

now *that* was a rainbow.

For multiple displays (or projectors) with M1-M5 Macs. www.macworld.com/article/6758...

Useful addition to my Resolve/Fairlight understanding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OytQ...