The Wetland Project, which I just posted about, is something very near and dear to my heart. I’d deeply appreciate you reskeeting that post. Thank you.

The Wetland Project is an #EarthDay tradition. A 24 hour #slowradio #naturesounds Broadcast. Learn all about it on the April edition of Making Waves for WGXC Wave Farm with guests Brady Marks & Mark Timmings. Audio and transcript in next NAISA Sound Byte. open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...

Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series" earlier today and I just wanted to run through some of the main claims he made - you'll be unsurprised to learn that almost all of them are false. Here's his summary slide - let's start there. 🧵👇

We've officially launched Project 2052, a website or revolutionary fiction and art in the world of Everything for Everyone. Here's our introduction, stay tuned this week for our first five stories! Pitch us an idea or help us pay writers by donating! www.commonnotions.org/project-2052...

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

@sruizvelascob.bsky.social Hice tantito código para encontrar sustantivos terminados en 'n' en DRAE. Resultó que tenías razón. La mayor parte son agudos. En particular los terminados en "in", sólo 5% son graves. De ese sustrato hispanohablante debe ser que "chapo:lin" grave pasó a "chapulín" agudo.

Paul Celan's grave. Cimetière parisien de Thiais.

Pocho acomplejado. Haciendo cabriolas para carle bien a sus amigos anglos. Nunca falla. Por eso todo mundo los alucina.

Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw (a.k.a. Kwakiutl) wolf mask. Bonhams, not dated.

Hi bluesky! I have a newsletter. The content is free to all but if you can afford $5/month it keeps the words coming. Subscriber-only content coming next year once I have worked out how/why to do it. Read and sign up here! www.thetroubledregion.com

@clausalarcon.bsky.social Hogoshi. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

[in the background: Pixies' "Where is my mind"]

J. J. Rousseau. Les Confessions livr. 2e, s. Mme. de Vercellis.

@meresankh.bsky.social ¿Alfonso Durazo?

I could never figure out exactly why that alcoholic had it in for me, but a number of men tried to throttle my first few books at birth and were otherwise weird (as in vile). Part of why my memoir is called Recollections of My Nonexistence.

Frontispiece of T. Hobbes' Leviathan (London: Andrew Crooke, 1651), by Abraham Bosse.

Lantian "Jay" Graber (born 1991) is an American software engineer and Bluesky's CEO. Her Chinese mother named her "Lantian", meaning "blue sky" in Mandarin. [WP]

Histoire littéraire des fous. Octave Delepierre, 1860.

"This piece operates with a combinatory principle: Italian literature, religion, art, politics, Mafia, and mass media collude to generate an effect at the level of lived allegory." Robin Wagner-Pacifici 🔥

Franz Boas died in Claude Lévi-Strauss's arms. December 21, 1942.

Hieronymus Bosch. Ecce Homo. 1475-1485. Detail.

Webs of a Zilla x-notata spider under different narcotics: sleep-inducing, marihuana, benzedrine (Peter Witt, 1954).

Costume Armour. Historisches Museum Wien, early 16th c.

Andy Goldsworthy, from the (ongoing?) series "Rain Shadows".

Cecilia Vicuña, "Improvisación precaria" (2009).

Marinette Cueco (1934-18 oct 2023)

I still don't know what dogs make of human music. I know of Laurie Anderson and Yo-Yo Ma "concert for dogs" in 2010, but not how they got there. These dogs seem to like classical music and Tom Waits.

Bombi pro scudis valebant

Michel Pastoureau, always so satisfyingly astute, argued that striped clothing went from being ‘bad’ in Medieval times to ‘good’ after the American and French revolutions. We still live in that tradition.

Ludwig Wittgenstein's grave. Ascension Burial Ground, All Souls Lane, Cambridge (up Castle Hill, I'm guessing).

Ludwig Wittgenstein's house in Skjolden, Norway, 1950. [grabbed from The Other Place]

I don't like of this site that I can only stop reposts from all accounts at once, not for individual ones. I need both.

In the year 1000, emperor Otto III went to visit the tomb of Charlemagne. Two centuries after his death, his body had most likely decayed to not much. Otto trimmed Charles' nails and ordered a golden nose for his face. He also took one of his teeth, for good luck.

In the old days, the tomb of Alexander the Great was a site of pilgrimage. Caesar Augustus went there once. After a speech, "he viewed the body of Alexander and actually touched it, whereupon, it is said, a piece of the nose was broken off." [Cassius Dio, LI 16]

Pteropus conspicillatus, a.k.a. spectacled flying fox. Latin 'conspicio' is to look at attentively.

I hope she made it.

The "inverted nun" (the character nun: "נ", not a woman on a wimple upside down) is an unusual character found in two texts of the Hebrew Scriptures. It does not function as a letter, it is not part of a word and is never read aloud. It's just a written symbol. No-one knows for sure what it means.

Recording (sound, image, movement) was a 19th c. obession. _Optography_ is the process of fixing an image from the retina of an eye. Wilhelm Kühne managed to obtain an image from a rabbit's eye (1878), after what sounds like a fair deal of torture (and the sacrifice of the animal).

"William Golding was born in his maternal grandmother's house in Newquay, Cornwall. The house was known as Karenza, the Cornish word for love." [WP]

Perhaps cockers are so given to excess because they were raised among the nobility (van Dyck, The Three Eldest Children of Charles I).

De ver cómo come, creo que la cocker es como la cabina telefónica del Dr Who. Por fuera es una perrucha pequeña que no mata una mosca. Por dentro es mucho más grande. Como una leona, mínimo.

What are you doing here?