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#Scotstober: Quair Raither than howk oot the wird “quair” fae the nuvel (Moby-Dick), A thocht the day that A'd gie ye an owersettin o the stert o the quair itsel, seein as hou it's yin o the maist kenspeckle intros in aw o leeteratur in Sudron…

"If you want a job you go where the jobs are." Australia? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Group of 20 economists ... "change course urgently". Text of letter at link. ganeshnana.substack.com/p/group-of-2...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Weather Forecast 4 October: Stormy with showers or longer spells of rain. theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/04/w...

History repeats.

you guys look at this pūtangitangi with its pups. the ducklings have racing stripes!

Me after I open LinkedIn after like 3 months...

We are in the midst of a Bee apocalypse Lets work to stop it How Gardeners Can Help Prevent The Bee Apocalypse diygardening.co.uk/help-bee-pop...

Mayor Wayne Brown tells Auckland Ratepayers Alliance to “fuck off” is absolute gold 🧡🧡🧡😂

Well hey! I gotta repost this! And hi to my Portland friends 🥰

I found an interesting study on the potential links between copper mining 4000 years ago and Strawberry trees in Ireland based on DNA sequencing a year or two ago. britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi...

australian street style, 1973

Jane Goodall, RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Can't stop won't stop. The apple reviews continue, because the world is chaos and I must assign some small iota of order to it by eating and rating apples. Today's specimen: the fancy boy known as Cox's Orange Pippin:

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Who by shutdown

Samuel Palmer's 'Oak Tree and Beech, Lullingstone Park,' (1828) is a world you can peer into. You can put a magnifying glass to the bark of the ancient oak and pick out its minutiae.

RIP Nigel Latta

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

Sounds like a recipe for war crimes - or encouragement to commit them. It will potentially make it much harder for the US to fight alongside allies: I remember tortuous debates in NATO in the late 1980s on differing US & allied rules of engagement - & what Hegseth says implies a much bigger gap.

How is it that I've never seen this image before?

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Tree stuff:

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

While I’m at it: You guys know what to do!! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Good thing our decision on recognition won’t be manipulated for propaganda effect by anyone - that was a bullet dodged by our wise political masters!!!

Greta Thunberg: “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.” #SumudFlotilla #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

Anyway, liberalism is good, for many reasons, but high among them is because it understands society is composed of individuals, not groups.

Bunny Hopped A Cat. #MTB #Cycling #BikeSky #CaturDay

Laser weeding is one of those “no wa-well actually no that makes perfect sense doesn’t it” things.

50 years.

Trump To Travel With Own Escalator Following U.N. Embarrassment

Hard agree. Treasury have properly gone back to the fuckyuh. Is there anyone left there with any integrity, or has the whole organisation gone ghoul?

Vija Celmins, To Fix the Image in Memory, 1977-82 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137042

🇹🇷🇱🇹 Turkey deployed an E-7T AWACS to Lithuania after Russian drones and military aircraft repeatedly violated NATO airspace. The E-7T, equipped with a 360-degree radar and long-range target detection capabilities, allows NATO air forces to conduct real-time surveillance

Smallest man ever to hold this post?

In today’s NZ Herald #Trump #UN

Now, looking to who invented trench warfare: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%AB...

This thread needs to be attached to music

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Good column. This conceptual error is of a piece with the error made by many (though not all) originalists in conceiving of the Constitution as a lock box with a fixed meaning to be deciphered deductively, like a puzzle, rather than a contested resource for structuring and arguing about politics.

Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social weighs in…

JD Vance warned, in an essay in The Atlantic in July, 2016 that we would have excessive American deaths if Trump were to be elected president that year, and JD was right:

Looks like the meeting with Zelenskyy was a good one. Trump now backs Ukraine’s 1991 borders instead of offering up Crimea to Putin.

"Beijing is offering cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory." @davidfickling.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Omg, I love this so much

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".