@asking4myfriend.bsky.social I’ve found you! It seems we follow many of the same people. I love your profile pic and banner. It’s YOU! 💫

Wishing the good people of Finland a blessed Independence Day! "Finlandia, Op. 26, was composed by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius for the Press Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from the Russian Empire." Hyvää syntymäpäivää! 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"Be the lighthouse in someone's storm." — Unknown "In Scotland's Outer Hebrides, on the east coast of Scalpay, stands Eilean Glas Lighthouse, looking out across the Minch to the Isle of Skye." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by RajaniR©️

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 English Literature

The let-me-in-right-this-minute stare on #Caturday.

“But this sort of grisly rubbernecking is not limited to social media. Reality television is built in large part on the antics of people willing to trade dignity for modest celebrity and sponsorship opportunities. Earlier this year, The Conversation’s Noor Gilani asked five experts—+

if the midterms were held today, I think democrats would win 235+ seats in the house, easily www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-s...

A recap of tonight's special election in TN-07 (plus a WAY-TOO-EARLY model of the 2026 midterms). A swing of 13 points would put Dems over 250 seats in the U.S. House. A more reasonable scenario—say, D+6—still gives them the House, and maybe the Senate. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-s...

the avg special swing for special elections in the 2026 cycle is 13 points to the left, according to The Downballot -- so we are seeing an above average shift here in TN-07, even with Trump's late intervention docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Yes. It is.

“According to local farmers, until the construction of Sullom Voe Terminal in the mid-1970s, the cairn contained a variety of "sacrifice" items, such as coins (some "very old") and other items.[7] Before that time, Ronas Hill would have been far off the beaten track.”

The beauty of the arts, the absolute necessity of the humanities, is to seed the mind, broaden horizons, inspire creative thought. You don’t have to be an artist to benefit. We’re all better humans when inspired and enlightened.

Very close up, these tiny flowers on Isle of Skye each are doing their very best to shout “Look how pretty!“

For god sake! Shakes head.

Disappointing to say the least.

@jakichantler.bsky.social 😂

My motto!

Long past the flowers here, but so glad they are thriving somewhere.

Cusco was the center of the Inca Empire, and the Temple of the Sun (Qorikancha), built of flawless megalithic masonry dating back 13,000 years, was its heart. On the powerful energy line that threads through all the great Incan sites stands a dark basalt stone said to mark a sealed tunnel /2

@tepizep.bsky.social wherever you are. I so love this.

The magic just before sunrise. We usually miss it all behind sleepy eyes.

“Unsurprisingly, the Art Deco style is at the heart of the project, expressed through geometric patterns and textiles, extravagant archways, decorative ceilings, and curated materials like velvet, marble, and dark woods.” mymodernmet.com/the-orient-e...

“When arthritis ended her habit of embroidery, Anna Mary Robertson Moses first reached for a paintbrush with serious purpose in her 70s. Her rural scenes soon hung in New York galleries “ www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

This is necessary

100% chance ChatGPT also helped write the proposal

“Civic education can help us to see that not all problems have solutions, to live with tentative answers, to accept compromise, to embrace responsibilities as well as rights—to understand that democracy is a way of living, not a settled destination. +

Oh my gosh—THIS! Just to add my fuddy-duddy used to: We used to dress up to fly. It was an occasion!

“Readers recognized themselves in “poor moon-faced, unloved, misunderstood” Charlie Brown — in his dignity in the face of whole seasons of doomed baseball games, his endurance and stoicism in the face of insults. He … reminded people, as no other cartoon character+

Thank you for this portrait @ryanjreilly.com. It’s horrific to have lost one such as this.

Autumn pear tree. Trying to doctor its hollowing trunk. We’ll see how it goes this winter; I’m hoping this isn’t my last photo of this friend to all manner of creatures—birds, squirrels, raccoons, bees and me.

Yikes! A winter storm is bearing down on northern Michigan From Detroit Free Press: Massive snowstorm is about to hit northern Michigan, Upper Peninsula

Yeager’s book “10 to 25” is presents game changing science on how young people think.

All the answers are here. “Why was the hydria decorated with such elaborate images? What did they mean to ancient Athenians and to the people in southern Italy who buried the vessel with one of their dead? What does the hydria's discovery in the 18th century have to do with a scandalous affair+

Written for a world of 100 years ago, but still so applicable today.

Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.

Post a movie where you are from

There are so many things to highlight, but this is worth reading related to the on again-off again nature of safety vs personality permutations that have accompanied the development of OpenAI.

Connected today with the stunning Saqsaywaman complex, where the Incas believed heart and soul meet. Its original purpose is lost to time, but its presence is overwhelming. Limestone blocks of up to 110 tons were set millennia ago with breathtaking precision. Today, alpacas graze here peacefully.

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it reminds viewers that the quest for a more perfect union is far from over.

What to Know About the Nearly 10% Climb in a Key Medicare Expense for 2026

An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter). My prayers go out to her and her family. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

this article will publish tomorrow morning at 7:30 am www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

It’s a great idea.

Thank you…it’s such a joy and privilege to trace the story of the Incan people, their astonishing achievements and heartbreaking fall. We have a young Incan wisdom keeper with us, the first generation able to speak openly about their history. You feel that weight in the land, it‘s impossible not to.

@tepizep.bsky.social I hope you are flooded with wonders.

It is important. Our headlong rush into AI, with all its infrastructure demands and employment disruption, remains too little discussed. Democrats don't have to be Luddites to demand a slowdown. We can insist on a regulatory framework. The tech bros see their aims as a fait accompli. We say, not so.

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The hidden axis: the left-right spectrum has a non-ideology problem “To this end, in our November Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll I asked over 2,000 Americans to describe, in their own words, their ideal political party.+