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Cinderella's pumpkin sword is such a great detail!

Even when Bloomberg writes about Wu "coasting to re-election" with a "commanding mandate," her popularity is presented not as a success but a problem. The focus isn't on what she's achieved, it's on the CEOs who are sulky and fretful that they can't dictate terms to her, or buy votes for Josh Kraft.

#inktober is an art challenge to create one artwork in ink per day for 31 days. Last year, I did Halloween themed sketches, like this black cat. This year, I’m doing crustaceans. Some of my friends and family think shrimps are waaaay creepier. #sciart

A solitary sea lion resting on the shore, scanning the horizon for circling sharks.

Hen & Mouse Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

Nice try, but he's not surpassing Nuggan until he tariffs ears, accordion players, and the color blue.

Something I've learned over a couple decades of marriage is that arguments are much more irritating and intractable when you're not clear on what you actually want. If you preemptively swerve and bend, based on what you imagine the other person wants, the likely result is that no one ends up happy!

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Listening to a review of TASK, which sounds like a perfectly decent crime show, and also a dispatch from another universe where the FBI is still doing normal FBI stuff

Can't stop thinking about the comics who've spent the last decade eating nothing but HGH and raw bison testicles, while going on three podcasts a week to bray about how ~controversial~ and ~transgressive~ they are, and the way those guys were just completely smoked by Jimmy Kimmel of all people.

Wikipedia's list of predicted apocalypses starts off funny ("when his prophecy failed for 1988 he revised it to 1989, then 1993, then 1994..."), but becomes unexpectedly moving - only 1.3 billion years before all eukaryotic life dies from carbon dioxide starvation! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Circa 2028, if the Trump-Vance regime looks shaky, SCOTUS will finally slap together some opinions limiting presidential power. Many credulous articles will then be written about how the Court has rejected partisan hackery and doesn't need reform, even as it hamstrings the next Democratic president.

¿Se acuerdan de la orquídea del respirador del metro?, esto es lo que podría ser si la dejarán crecer, jaja. La ví ayer a unas cuadras del metro San Antonio Abad, en el centro de la CDMX. Aún no abren sus flores, son de color naranja intenso a rojo. Dichromanthus cinnabarinus - Cutzis

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Horseshoe crab mugs? Horseshoe crab mugs 🙂‍↕️ #mugshotmonday #bskyart #nightmarket #ceramicart #pottery

I did a Squidney painting a few weeks ago that I forgot to post and his head looks … unsettling.

Not exactly praising to the heavens, because there were a lot of flaws, but PITCH had an incredible premise and a great cast. It could have been terrific if it focused more of its storylines on baseball and the challenges of being the first female MLB player, instead of confusing love pentagons.

"botbot", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn) #art #sciart #invertebrates

Crested pigeon for @lanewcombe.bsky.social ! Thanks for your #Waymakers donation! These pigeons are so cool! To donate & request a bird, see: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon... All funds support unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

"Ban racially based targeting of Latinos by ICE" is a simple demand. It can be explained in a single sentence. Every Democrat can agree to it. It supports a key constituency that is drifting from Trump. It is a trivial piece of legislation. It reverses a very recent, outrageous SCOTUS decision.

....dear God.

This question got interesting responses on Twitter a while back, so I'm curious what Bluesky thinks: In your opinion, what is the most famous poem written after 1970? (Focusing here on the "poem" side of the poem-song spectrum, even if Nobel Prize in Literature winner Bob Dylan muddies the waters.)

In Transition Sheila Kernan 2024

FIND ALL "wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross" REPLACE WITH "a rejected Doritos promo"

I tentatively started drawing again. Here is a cat

My great grandfather was an illiterate Irish dirt farmer who immigrated to the US. His son was a teacher with a masters degree and his grandson was a lawyer. Immigration is a human right.

My one serious piece of advice to new educators, going into the new year, would be to never give up connecting with every single student. You *will* fail, but there will also be a couple kids you thought you absolutely failed and in June you realize that they see you as their one important adult.

LONG STORY SHORT may be the only show I've seen whose main characters wear masks and are concerned about COVID post-2020. It's very realistic for the show's Northern California setting (and for the individual characters!), but is still kind of a surprising departure from the norm that masking=2020.

Are there other examples of animals that went extinct due to the _absence_ of humans? (Wondering mainly about nondomesticated creatures - so a heritage chicken breed wouldn't count, but a louse that only infested Neanderthals would.)

Real tossup as to which Atwood novel we're in right now.

“Los Angeles Quetzalcoatl” Gouache, 2025

John Savio (Norway, Sami, 1902-1938) Alone, 1928-34 Hand-colored woodcut on paper Nasjonal Museet NMK.2006.0090 www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/collectio... #ScandanavianArt #IndigenousArt #Reindeer

Building is an active verb; it continues and, like so many good and vital things, takes time. First impressions are important, but they do not have to be lasting ones. If you put forward the right effort, the images will expand and deepen.

Using inclusive language to demonstrate respect is fine, actually. And so is using academic or technical language to discuss specialized situations or concepts. A politician in the 2020s _should_ be able to talk cogently about heteronormativity, even if that's not the focus of their campaign ads.

Asked Jeff what he would name a military history bookshop and he immediately came up with two bangers, "Tank & File" and "Squire and Page."

Little vulture Pastel on toned paper 5x7 Available #art #birds #nature #sciart

Realizing Pedro Pascal has been in at least two recent projects with a reverse-Omelas plot, where the well-being of a single child is prioritized above the rest of humanity's survival.

If John Bellairs ever wrote a picture book this would make a perfect cover.

Every time I have to get a new laptop, it feels less like my own computer, and more like a screen Microsoft is grudgingly allowing me to borrow.

"We're going to get crime under control" means "we're going to make a spectacle of disciplining and surveilling people of color." The goal is to make residents feel LESS safe, to let them know the state can ruin their lives on a whim.

Gouache paintings of long tailed blues (might have a couple of these still available if that's something that interests you)

A montage of nature I have painted over the years:

Just saw an iris variety called "Apollo One," and uh

I keep imagining some future TA trying to lead a discussion about this era. "Over a million Americans died in a pandemic, and many more were saved by new mRNA vaccines. So...why did the US slash medical research?" Whatever the students say, it's guaranteed to be way more rational than the reality.

The phrase "everything bagel liberalism" is kind of weird because it's meant to have a negative connotation, but people absolutely love everything bagels, there was an everything bagel ice cream flavor

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I'm attempting to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk in memory of my late mother. The best way I know to honor my mom is to sell crocheted blankets since she's the one who taught me to crochet. pages.lls.org/ltn/mi/Detro...

It is undisputed that the previous, widely scattered, ventilation system, was unacceptably providing air to terrorists. We therefore ask inhabitants of the rebel sector to visit any of the four newly-installed authorized air hoses safely located in the vicinity of our automated death-ray systems.