First pushcart nomination 🙏💕 Thank you, Salt Hill Journal! 🎉🎉🎉 “To not save anything. To rush headlong, fall, collapse.”

The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year. It is time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan. Read the 'Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #RSOS 🧪

On November 11, 1918, the armistice ending World War I upon Germany’s surrender was signed in the dining car of French Commander Ferdinand Foch’s train. The “ war to end all wars” was over. In 1940, Hitler had the car taken from a museum, to sign the terms of the German occupation of France.

Ángel Pintado Sevilla. Escena en Trujillo, 1987

Monday evening, December 15, at 7:30, do join @kerryomalley.bsky.social, Annabeth Gish, and me for In the Night. In the Dark. A Shirley Jackson Evening. Thrills and chills guaranteed. Details linked below.

A beautiful great egret soaring past the clouds. #🪶 #birds #nature #wildlife #birding #photography #birdsofbluesky #greategrets #naturephotography #birdphotography #nikon #nikonZ8 #nikonphotographer

that's what I keep wondering. is it possible he'll blindly stumble onto Medicare for All? like a toddler swinging at a piñata might eventually make a solid hit? please god make it so!😅

The Beacons of Denton are lit! Late? But lit! (life, eh?)

Japanese maple leaves show off their most glorious crimson. Hope you all have a great week! #VT365 #NaturePhotography

I will not be watching or reading any "analyses" about the Democratic party in D.C. I know all about them & their complicity. I'm not interested and I choose to reclaim my time and attention. There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).

M. Cynthia Cheung ♥️ from COMMON DISASTER (Acre Books) I absolutely love this poem! @acrebooks.bsky.social

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

Untitled Acrylic, ink and pencil on paper 2025 11x14 inches #art #abstractart

I thought this was just gonna be another predictable anti-NYT screed but no—it’s much broader, funnier, more pointed, and better written than i imagined

Colour etching by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami (1911-2004) #WomensArt

CHUCK SCHUMER, I SWEATER GAWD!

Jess Rowe (!) and Miriam Payne become the first female team to row across the Pacific Ocean!! "The Difference between an ordeal and an experience is your attitude." Photo by Brian Cassey/AFP via Getty Images

Stained glass window and ceiling at the St. Louis Public Library; the library was built in 1912 and designed by Cass Gilbert.

This is the women’s room entrance at Union Station, St. Louis, built in 1894 and rehabbed starting in 1985. Exquisite green and gold reliefs and tile work.

Just a superb fall day in Missouri today.

Why rent a house when you can just rent money?

Chaos machine, this guy. Every single day. www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...

Reykjavík. Iceland. November 2018. #Reykjavik #Iceland #GuðjónKetilsson

Three dentists think about the same squirrel

Scissors were invented in Egypt in 1500 BC

now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it

POEM 282: "Looking at the Photo, I Remember an Episode of America’s Next Top Model" by Megan McDermott (@megmcdermott92.bsky.social ) "where contestants had to pretend to be living statues, staying very still as pigeons landed on their heads and arms." stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/ #Poem

‘For philosophers devoted to the authority of Aristotle but nervous about the clash between his cosmology and the creationism of the Abrahamic faiths, it was reassuring to think that God’s existence could be established either way.’ Peter Adamson on Moses Maimonides. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A little backyard birding. This gorgeous guy was behind my house perched on the remnants of a cornstalk. #northerncardinals #🪶 #birds #nature #wildlife #birding #photography #birdsofbluesky #naturephotography #birdphotography #nikon #nikonZ8 #nikonphotographer

In case you missed it this morning...

for the uninitiated: the monk documentary STRAIGHT, NO CHASER youtu.be/wE2UmaSjkzc?...

Yayoi Kusama, Fish (+ Depth of the sea, silkscreen; 2 works), 1988 #WomensArt

Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt

The remains of Nottingham Looms at the abandoned Scranton Lace Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania www.abandonedamerica.us/scranton-lac...

Shigeo Fukuda • Japanese designer who used minimalism and clever visual tricks to create posters that quietly engaged the viewer, 1965...1993.

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

6.45am Poetry Club for one — plus one faithful mourning dove at the window. When your sidetable becomes a study desk and the colours straddle the spirit. As for the poem, this is how they all begin...handwritten and beautifully illegible. #liminal #process #otherness #poetrycommunity #poetry #art

Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Beyonce is so bad at fashion it should be studied 😭

Call for papers at the happiest, most welcoming conference of the year—the St. Louis University Medieval and Renaissance Symposium, June 8-10, 2026. Proposal deadline December 31, 2025. More at www.smrs-slu.org #medieval #renaissance #literature #philosophy #philology #religion

The work of May Morris (1862-1938) influential English embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor who supported and taught fellow female artists #WomensArt#WomensArt

Escape

Thank you so much, Dana! 🙏🏼

Flash! #fungi #fungifriends #fungiphotography #blueskyphotography ##naturephotography #nature #forest #westcoastkin

Rachel Newling Australian Flowers: Blue Waterlily linocut on handmade Japanese paper

Fall colors 🍁🍂 #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography #leaves #autumn

So white folks continue to do white folks shit, eh? And Black people continued to fight for Democracy. Black people are the patriots white folks on the right and the left think that they are. We always have been. Black people are the base for the Democratic Party.

Liquid Sand/Arena Líquida marks a major moment for Mexican poetry in translation, the first substantial bilingual selection of work by Jorge Valdés Díaz-Vélez, translated by Sue Burke and Christian Law-Palacín. @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @sueburke.bsky.social #Mexico #poetry #poesia #translation

This. Always this.