Anyway if you have a child in your life that you want to buy a book for I am more than happy to curate a little suggestion list for you it's my favorite thing

100 Days of Reef Fish Iconic Fish 2/10: Porcupine Puffer, Diodon holocanthus. These shy but curious fish can change color and pattern for camouflage. Special thanks to Uncle Scotter @dinosauceros.bsky.social for the suggestion. #sciart #marinelife #coralreefs #dothe100daysproject

During the 2010s, physics student Reza Domiri Ganji got permission to take high-quality photos in various Iranian mosques. As a completely avoidable, pointlessly destructive conflict looms, it's worth remembering what can be achieved when people create instead of smash. www.cnn.com/travel/galle...

Little hieraldic spino sketch

#WorldPangolinDay : Mark Leithauser (USA, b.1950) #Pangolin, from Lettered Creatures, 2002-03 pencil on paper, sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum 2016.52.1.19 americanart.si.edu/artwork/pang...

This should be the real American dream - to have a table big enough for everyone who wants to sit at it, and enough food to feed all of them

Increasingly feel like private air travel is incompatible with the necessary tedium of democracy, if you can't sit in a crowd waiting for your group number to be called then you haven't signed the social contract

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

One of the quietly great Bluesky accounts is a field botanist who posts pictures of Iran's alpine wildflowers. The beauty is stunning, especially since these kinds of images are rarely shown in western media.

Trying to think through some recent discussions, it seems like one of the main fault lines is whether "vote" is treated as a noun or a verb.

I've done a lot of flyering and petitioning in my life (wrote a book about it!): Gathering signatures to save our BART & bus service while standing outside a BART station that is marked for closure is the EASIEST thing I've ever done (+ people were grateful to be able to sign!) DM to get involved

Seeking advice from the clever engineers and gardeners of Bluesky. 🌱 We have an agave in a ceramic pot, which we want to extract and plant in the ground. The agave has many sharp thorns, and has totally overgrown the pot, so there is no visible gap between the plant and the pot edges.

Here you go.

Artists, quote with something silly!

This letter is heartbreaking. "I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been in detention for 113 days. I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I miss my country and my house, I went on vacation for 10 days and they took me into an ICE office... 1/4

Postbox nestled snugly in mossy wall, #Devon lane #PostboxSaturday

The plot of Wuthering Heights is like an arch, past and present balanced but opposite, with Nelly Dean as the keystone linking the two sides. Without the second generation, the whole structure totters over. No redemption or resolution, just cruelty and suffering lacking even the excuse of modernity.

Been thinking a lot about these Washington Post layoffs, and the parallels to what happened to the media in Kenya in the 2000s. For context, Kenya had one state owned broadcaster until 1992 but we have always had at least two newspapers (often more). We had one radio broadcaster in two languages.

Having non-politicized career experts in the civil service, instead of political sycophants who don't know anything about the issues they working on, may seem like an abstract issue But doing it the way we do it makes your life better, and the Trump/Project 2025 proposal would make your life worse

Fun to learn that star-nosed moles are the fastest eaters in the mammalian world, and apparently also capable of underwater olfaction? (They blow out air bubbles and re-inhale them to smell the water.)

Thiebaud wasn't an artist I knew about before seeing this fan account on Bluesky, but his work is really cool, kind of like a sunnier, West Coast Edward Hopper.

Augur of Emptiness

What's important to remember about BRIDGERTON is that all of the characters are actually crew members on the USS Voyager, killing time during a long warp haul with a holo-novel programmed by Neelix (who did several whole hours of research about ancient human society and mating customs)

A key point in this interview is that Fulton County ballot seizures may be about more than relitigating 2020-if the documents get used to gin up some "scandal," that could become a pretext for Georgia's right-wing State Election Board to take over the county's elections. www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...

A Curious Caution - made with cosclay, a lot of wire, and patience. Created for Beinart Gallery's "Cabinet of Curiosities"- which is on view now! 💀 🍓 🌿 Beinart.org/collections/cabinet-of-curiosities #cosclay #sculpting #fantasyart #cabinetofcuriosities

Fluffy

as democrats, if we want to get immigration numbers back up to a reasonable level, we're going to have to do more than just go back to "the way things were." we're going to have to provide a real, reliable, fast pathway to CITIZENSHIP.

I love these historical renderings of the constellation Draco 🐉 #astronomy #astrology #space #dragons #mythology #folklore

So many online arguments boil down to "It is NECESSARY (but not sufficient)" vs. "It is (necessary but) NOT SUFFICIENT"

If you’re Dems, please coalesce around Stephen Miller not having a job anymore.

If you've ever wanted Jane Espenson as your writing buddy, 17 minutes from now is the time.

Ooooo yeah, one more piece for our upcoming show in Juneau Alaska! A deep-sea octopus, titled “Living the Kaleidoscope Life” this 16x20” acrylic on canvas is based on deep sea footage taken by NOAA off the coast of Alaska in 2023 #deepsea #deepseacreatures #octopus 🦑🐡 #sciart #womenartists #painting

"Hand over the voting rolls or we'll keep terrorizing your city" really lays bare the question of why immigration agents should carry any weapons whatsoever. To the extent their work needs to be done at all, the tools of their trade should be databases and court summons, not pepper spray and guns.

I don't think we get out of this with Glonzo-chasing rhetoric about securing the border, because the question of whether freedom of movement is fundamentally good is the crux of the struggle.

I'm on the Green Line towards downtown Minneapolis ICE OUT protest. The train filled immediately. Even 20 stops away from our destination we reached capacity. People are cheering at every stop when they see people waiting to board because we are all starting to realize how big this is.

The thing I keep coming back to is how unnecessary all of this is. There's no harsh tradeoff being forced on us, no cold equations that demand a sacrifice. We could just NOT DO THIS, and everything would be FINE.

#WatercolorWednesday : Tang Juey Lee (Malaysia, active in Singapore, b. 1953) #Parrots, 2014 Watercolor on rice paper 69 x 109 cm (27 1/8 x 42 7/8 in.) #BirdsInArt www.phillips.com/detail/tang-...

Sent an email last night to the members of my department encouraging them to contact our Congressional representatives with a simple ask: use 2024 multi year funding levels, NOT 2025 multi year funding levels, in the 2026 NIH funding bill

chatted with a guy from the Falklands, which you don't get to do very often, because there are only like 3k of them. He told us generations of the same family of humans and the same family of penguins will be neighbors, for generations. He said that Penguins are "bad guys." He doesn't like them.

it's not ideal that the old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born, but at least we can take comfort knowing that now is the time of normal stuff

Scott Simon: Turning now to economic news, US president Godzilla has vowed to boil the ocean with his atomic breath--which could be a sticking point in upcoming trade talks. NPR reporter: That's right, Scott. Sweden's finance minister released a statement calling the ocean "essential to all life."

Half-baked theories about THE PITT (through episode 2.2): -Med student Joy is an online influencer with a big following ("Dr. J") -Robby and Hastings are running some kind of insurance fraud scheme -Mel isn't actually the main target of the malpractice suit, she has to testify about someone else

My mom’s BF sent me a t-shirt

The delicacy of the art and the art-making is incredible.

Yes, we do really need to comprehensively overhaul the immigration system as well, but the actual case for abolishing ICE has virtually nothing to do with that, it's simply that it is untenable for the Federal government to have an unaccountable internal security force with arbitrary authority.

Sunrise Drive (2023) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

A big splashy article exposing villainy is good, but not as effective as a steady drip of stories showing the villains as loser screwups.

Raven pair #iceland #bird #birds #raven

I’m begging Democratic leaders to understand that outlining and forcefully articulating their vision for accountability now is an electoral strategy.