Basic Land but make it actually nostalgic Made by Ron Lecher

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but not the useful kind. Flight attendant: the crew are arguing over whether early modern #bookhistory should pay more attention to the material flows of the paper trade or not. Me: *halfway down plane*

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

a speedmetal version of the level 1 music for the original Castlevania on NES

I'm not saying that I just sent the link for this to my boss with a suggestion that we incorporate it into all future witness prep, but I'm also not not saying that I just sent the link for this to my boss with a suggestion that we incorporate it into all future witness prep.

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

my god right i KNOW it's a fossil i UNDERSTAND but it also CLEARLY DEMONIC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What absolute units!

Recent Commissions! Weird round dinosaurs inspired by cattle painting :3

Do you have prince Andrew in a can? Yes, yes we do.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

thanks, endorsed

At the beginning of The Last Jedi, they have bombers with racks of bombs like in a B-17 that DROP onto the enemy ship. Gravity bombs In space.

Days since I have been baited by my children into discussing hagfish at the dinner table: counter reset to 0.

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

Good morning. For everyone who wants to get a better gander at the cover of our new album, The World Is To Dig, here you go. The painting is Yosemite Valley after Thomas Hill, circa 1882. Song titles included! Arrives April 14.

RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything." And. Yup.

Wow.

Gung hay Fat Tuesday choy

I Carry A Torch For You*

i can’t think about deer anymore without thinking of this tweet

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

This is fucking sick

imagine building a perfectly useful technology that could even actually change the world for the better while also making a ton of money and instead of using it to do that, you decide the first use case should be “cognitive harm generator that’s also a global recession machine”

Delia Ramirez is a real one www.thehandbasket.co/p/rep-delia-...

A key challenge, and a huge source of the disconnect between Silicon Valley and the other creative industries is that, for coders, AI eliminates the drudgery so they can focus on the creative/expressive part. In every other creative discipline, it has the exact opposite effect.

I think devs who (rightfully) see their work as creative, see LLMs smoothing tedious junk away, but don't realize in other creative fields there's less of that drudgery to begin with, and most of it has long since been automated without LLMs. No one is manually managing footnotes (I hope).

Happy Valentines Day! ❤️‍🔥⚔️

WHAT TIME IS IT? IT'S VALENTIMES!

I love that he loves his job and his city and people generally. Doing good things for people feels like a reasonable bar for electeds …

Roses are red Yellow is the color of lard Writing good poetry is genuinely hard

This Song Sparrow was flitting about in the tall bushes of an oceanside field. The out of focus blue background is not sky, it is the Bay of Fundy. L'Etete, #NewBrunswick, Canada July 2025 📸 #birds #SOSP #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

Sent this one to my beloved @anarchocatfan.bsky.social.

Roses are red Violets are blue Microbes are awesome Even when they're in poo #microValentines

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Portrait (a portrait capture of any bird) I'll share this photo of a Herring Gull from a session where it gave me pose after pose like it was a trained model. #birds #photography

Exclusive overnight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/uscis-refu...

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #DivingForFood (birds that dive under water for food). I managed to catch this Ring-necked Duck just as she popped up to the surface from a dive. I love that there is still a sheen of water on her back. #birds #photography

There’s a section of the populist left that wants to win internal Democratic Party fights by calling their factional opponents the “Epstein class,” and it just seems really obvious that the populist right is going to hear that as “the Jews” with some very bad results.

At Law Dork, a big report on documents filed by DOJ in the Minnesota refugee case overnight: www.lawdork.com/p/uscis-refu...

Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

The biggest planet in our solar system is a little bit smaller and a little bit flatter than we thought. A new study involving LPL Professor Emeritus William Hubbard updates our understanding of the shape of Jupiter. lpl.arizona.edu/news/2026/ju...

Our Italian whistle designer just dropped the whistle he designed just for us, and my heart is very full today. If you are doing printing for local events, check this one out! Designed to slice fast, pack a lot on a plate, be quick to print, and be easy to use! makerworld.com/en/models/23...

“Exquisite Creatures: An Immersive Journey into Nature's Art” #Seattle bio-sculptural #nature #art #exhibition by artist Christopher Marley

Ominous bird valentines.

The most famous alum of my high school has got to be retired Maryland Supreme Court Judge Glenn T. Harrell . . . . Just kidding, it’s Tori Amos

Two days in a row of hitting both #BirdOfTheDay themes in one image! Today's main theme is #Birds&Bugs (any bird and bug in one capture) and the alt theme is #EverydayBirds (birds you see often). Here's one of my backyard Purple Finches with what looks like a click beetle(?). #birds #photography