Farhad Moshiri (Iranian | 1963 - 2024). Space Station (2006, embroidery on canvas).

I want to stay in bed, Robert Kinsley

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time. www.wired.com/story/the-do...

I am actually in society, I just wear a mask instead of breathing raw grocery store air but ok !!

I’ve had the privilege of working and studying at lots of fancy places, but Brown is the most special. Nowhere else have I encountered such a depth of broad intellectual curiosity, joy in learning, so many dedicated teachers, or so many dear friends. Nowhere else is as treasured in my memory.

my alma mater 💔

Big week for people maintaining the distinction between font and typeface

everything* is beautiful *some exceptions apply

Crosswalks. NYC. A couple of autumns ago. 6”x6” oil

i serve at the pleasure of the queen

Philip Surrey (Canadian, 1910 - 1990). Winter Street Scene (oil on canvas).

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

was the genie Robin Williams’s finest achievement or…?

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

this muzzle

Hi literati, can y'all suggest a novel writing class or group that helped you?

New funding model for my lab: for every $1m donation to my lab I will make one legally actionable claim about a man over the age of 50 in my field

Hi literati, can y'all suggest a novel writing class or group that helped you?

I wanna make t-shirts that say, "Throeau's mom did his laundry."

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide

Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.

pandan milk bun from bakesum in oakland (couldn’t distinguish from vanilla tbh but very good ntl)

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... We're headed for net zero coral. #Environment

John Wieners

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

not sure what you're supposed to feel, but i can't say i'm particularly rooting for heathcliff and cathy (altho the name "healthcliff" has excellent wordfeel)

Morning. Pompeii, 100 AD.

And that’s that about that.

"you can do it out of spite" 🙏🏻

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑 Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for. We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

“I don’t want my mind to go but if it should do so then I want to go out like a light just as soon as I possibly can.” ‘After Depression?’ by Tom Paulin (from Namanlagh)

should i start jane eyre or wuthering heights?

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

We’re going to need a bigger little treat

nonfiction book: salt: a world history author: mark kurlansky topics: historical anthropology, technological history, food history recommendation: yes, a compelling read about salt's place in politics, history, cuisine, and even etymology 😋. interesting and non-stressful

hi friends, it’s a great time to donate to your local food bank if you are able. folks are really struggling. @accfb.bsky.social is a great option if you live near me & i donate monthly (i am peer pressure-ing you)

Reading is punk. Keep reading in public. Reading in public is hot.

Caroline Bird

Octavio Paz

live your life such that, when you die, your obit doesn't need a whole section on how you didn't credit your colleagues in general or how you stole data from a female scientist in particular

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

through the kalix

big question of the night: why didnt NYC like the billionaire backed groper who killed their grandparents

The Reader, Ichijō Narumi.

Richard Avedon The Beatles 1967

Jack Clarke

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) here’s one I love for the first weekend of the month, by Jane Cooper~