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This is contact juggling. There's maybe a few hundred people in the world for whom contact juggling has at one point been their primary source of income, and most of us know each other. It coalesced as an art from in the 1980s and got its name in 1990, though it pulls from practices far older.

A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal." It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.

Moral cowardice is contemptible. To be so entirely ethically naive at 23 years old? Contemptible. Ehren Watada knew better.

It’s time for the kirkolator

swearing my oath on the enron people’s choice cookbook

the official statements I’d like to hear from XAI will require subpoenas

Not a dunk just pointing this out but the daycare panic is worse than comet ping pong because there you had an armed intruder storming a place where they mistakenly thought children were present but now they're mistakenly thinking children aren't present

Charles Hinman, still living, was born on this date in 1932 and was an innovator in using shaped canvases in the 60s, a mixed blessing to be sure. He worked alongside artists like Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly, but he seems to be little discussed today.

SWSS covers Dumbest Girl Alive share.google/Ts7Q5FO9dKIF...

Annie Alexander was born #OTD in 1867. A pioneering amateur naturalist & paleontologist whose wealth and passion for science fueled her founding & financing two world-class scientific museums at UC Berkeley: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (1908) & UC Museum of Paleontology (1921). #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

Oh is a yearsball happening

Merry Christmas from my neighbor’s dog!

🌐 From a dead link, The Wayback Machine made history and culture accessible again. Learn how Tintin’s 1929 adventures were uncovered again last Public Domain Day. 📚 Read the full story 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/26/w... #Tintin #WaybackMachine #PublicDomain #DigitalArchives

art by Tom of Finland #gay #gayart

This is an amazing science story on so many levels. I’m not sure where I net out on Dr. Buck’s approach, but I’d love to have a beer with him.

Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983

But my favorite Christmas-adjacent piece of art is always this woodcutting by Ben Wildflower. It turns out that if you actually _read the Biblical text_ you will find some radical political messages!

fun fact: the chairman of the board of the student publication that used Nazi slogans and imagery to advocate the mass execution of a “parasitic” underclass is…. Alex “US Attorney who gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal” Acosta

Portsmouth was closed in 1900 for a couple years for urgent foundational work but did not collapse. Wells started showing signs of subsidence mid construction, so the master mason (I suspect got high and then) threw a Hail Mary in the form of this unique situation. So far it has worked.

"Night Cruises" I hope I'm not stepping on @stigofthedump.bsky.social's toes by posting a boat 🎞️ Portra 160NC (expired) 📷 Minox 35 GT #believeinfilm #35mm

"21 years of homesickness that only went away when I was able to get the care that I needed"

In the meantime, if you want to understand why Republicans are all obsessed with kid's genitals, you need to understand Pedocon Theory.

missing the oystercatchers... #birds #birding

in case anyone thinks im joking

And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.

Hey don't cry... 60 million icefish nests in a colony twice the size of Paris discovered in the Weddell Sea in 2021 ok???

There is no stopping the progress of #science. "In a First, Photos Show Moths Sipping a Moose’s Tears" www.scientificamerican.com/article/phot...

I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.” And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.

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pleasantly surprised reading up on Brad Lander

Local restaurant listing this menu item as "girl dinner" speaks to me in the craziest way

what a beautiful Triceratops! I love them!! 💕

Sugared Sunburst Lichen (I love that name), Xanthoria sorediata. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

75¢ ICE CREAM

I am against the anthropomorphization of machines, and also against the mythologization of cognition.

cloth mother asking wire mother for parenting advice

DHS is now using methods pioneered at black sites by the Bush administration’s CIA on people in “Alligator Alcatraz,” its center for torturing migrants who haven’t even been charged with a crime.

Slowly watching every video with Bill Gudenrath available online I found this deep cut from 1988, back when UrbanGlass was the NY Experimental Glass Workshop. Is that a young Deborah Czeresko assisting? (!) youtu.be/jpKNwdqI6Yw?...

Max Beckmann, Family Picture, Frankfurt 1920 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134620

as seen on Misfits!

TW: ED Spurred by the discovery of Ariana Grande’s old proana tumblr, I have found that Etsy is promoting explicitly triggering products. I expected these to be sold as vaguely Kabbalistic, but it’s shamelessly pro-ED. Anyone know how to contact Etsy? 🤢