Summer river twilight, the veil is thin

this AM the last Prairieland 9 defendant Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years — so he and his partner, Liz Soto, got effectively life sentences. they have 3 kids. those who took non-cooperating plea deals, Rowan Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, got 15 each. total time sentenced in this case: 530 years

"Trans people will always exist." Cool. "They can't kill us all." Comforting. Yeah, transness will survive, but *I* want to survive, too, y'know? But also, survival and existence aren't enough for me anymore, and they shouldn't be enough for allies either. I want to see my trans friends thrive.

"appearing "based" to online racists" the world's richest man is also the world's biggest loser, a notice-me-senpai tryhard desperate for validation from fascist internet trolls, a grown ass man groomed by teenagers

la luna però

I always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life

1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface

Fun fact: the word "tungsten" is Swedish (literally "heavy stone"), but the element is not actually called that in Swedish (the term used is "wolfram").

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the book that arrived today departed from Tuffley Avenue

25th June 1992, 33 days after Giovanni Falcone's murder and 24 days before his own murder, Paolo Borsellino unexpectedly makes a dramatic and moving public appearance at Palermo Library, with a speech that comes to be known as "The Days of Judas" [Thread] >> 1

I know this battle was lost long ago, and lord knows I try my best to be a good descriptivist, but it's not a goddamned amphitheater! Theater! Theatre! "Outdoor theater" if you must!

Ok, look, what's been particularly infuriating about the redundancies at Exeter (and Nottingham and Newcastle and and and) is this weird idea that it only affects those individuals and institutions. It harms us all because we are so closely interconnected.

Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.

Happy #BourdainDay. It’s easy to forget how rocked many of us were by the untimely loss of one good and honestly complicated celebrity in 2018 but I think about it every year around now. Here’s what I wrote then

"The Government Doesn't Want You To Read These Zines" – new benefit zine packets from South Bend Commons! All proceeds go to Prairieland Defendants. firestorm.coop/products/253... @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social

⚒️ 🧪 A catastrophic earthquake just struck northern Venezuela. Large buildings have collapsed, and the USGS PAGER is forecasting thousands of fatalities. Our colleague in Caracas, Dr. Frank Audemard, has shared with us what the earthquake felt like and footage from the region. Here’s what we know.

If you’re a manager, teacher, or other leader, consider if you have Venezuelan employees, students, or volunteers. A USGS red pager event means we’re anticipating thousands of deaths. Silence is going to be echoing terrifying for people far away from their loved ones. Just… Be gentle.

Colleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate their petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

I've known for years that there is so much clothing in circulation in the US that some thrift stores will no longer accept it, and have learned recently that the same is true for books, but somehow I didn't realize that the same is also true for home goods until I started volunteering at the ReStore

Alors que les violences faites aux enfants et aux femmes suscitent de nouvelles discussions, je rappelle que mon livre "Perséphone et la culture populaire. Patriarcat et féminisme aux Enfers" porte sur la façon dont ce mythe nourrit la culture jeunesse et... editions.univ-lorraine.fr/edul/catalog...

GP on the BBC this morning parroting the oft-heard “stay indoors between 11 and 3 because the sun is hottest then”. The sun is *most intense* then, that’s the time of day you’re most at risk of sunburn. The hottest part of the day is usually between 4-6. Thinking you’re safer at 5 is daft.

"... while whales in the western Mediterranean basin favoured a 3+1 coda involving three regularly spaced clicks followed by a longer pause, then another click, those in the eastern basin tended to use a faster version." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A reminder that the evidence presented for the supposed terrorism of the Prarieland 8 is opposition to ICE, having black non-descript clothing, having leftist literature, and in some cases simply being trans.

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

A lot of people agree that capitalisms response to climate change is inadequate and will continue to be especially regarding environmental restoration and protecting human well being in the face of environmental destruction and heat. More of these people need to be building the socialist movement

🏺 From the blog archives - I wrote a bit about thrift/charity shops from an archaeological perspective. animalarchaeology.com/2019/05/22/s...

"Addictive, frictionless thinking" is about as good a description of AI I've seen, and captures the danger it represents so succinctly.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a single sentence go downhill this far and this fast

last RT reminds me of a couple months ago... I get a notification on my phone that the password on my school email account has been changed and I've been logged out. I had not changed the password. Panic! Hacked? I try on my laptop, but I've been logged out there as well, and my pw doesn't work. 1/

I'm in that awkward period when I've been forced to change my U password but only some parts of the U system know it.

Hear me out: what if we replaced rolling news with helicopter footage of trains every day? I don’t think anyone would actually be less well informed.

Happy Summer solstice. This is a pinhole camera 6 month exposure photo I took from Winter solstice 2024 (bottom line of the photo) to Summer solstice 2025 (top line of the photo). The lines are the Sun as it appears to move across the sky and gets higher and higher until we get to Summer solstice.

“There are colors that I want to show you, but I can’t. …You probably saw some of them today, but I can’t show them to you on a screen.…Instead, I have to show you how to find them in the real world.” Forget touching grass, just stand under trees. And more! moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

Gosh, missed a week - who knows...? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOB...

In our new paper, we isotopically analyze 50 sheep & goat mandibles/teeth and uncover the economy supporting both households and public feasts at Azoria on Crete. More soon: we will drop a YouTube video about it tomorrow & an article in The Conversation next week 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was one of the tragic victims of the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Today, we’re delighted to release new multispectral imaging of the manuscript, allowing us to read its texts for the first time in hundreds of years. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

Found this photo again - I look at it & can see the maker at work...I can hear tap, tap, tap of hammer on punch, way the piece was moved as they decorated it, the overlap of punch marks - there's so much movement. ❤️ I wonder who they were... if only I had a time machine, eh? #Archaeology #Torcs 🏺

doing some work on Tufo Rosso a Scorie Nere - a tuff, or rather two of them, from the volcanos north of Rome, that were used as building material from antiquity onwards. There are two deposits from two different eruptions (both huge), only definitively distinguished a couple decades ago

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

I cannot faithfully summarize this excellent thread. LLMs should not be used in education. They are next-word predictors, are not checked for hallucinations, and are software looking for buyers rather than using any rigor at all to improve education.

It's not a huge thing, but being a thing at all is still pretty good for the ruler of an early iron age rump statelet mainly notable for getting merked by the Neo-Assyrians

One of my favorite things is that the Syro-Hittite states have broken through into meme culture. Some of the all-time Glup Shitto polities. Eat shit Ozymandias, brainrotted zoomers are reproducing images of Suppiluliuma II of Pattin

This is the best inference re: the "whale graveyard" in light of earlier stuff on the shear number of fish teeth recovered from open ocean drill sites. We really haven't looked all that much.

apropos of the thing of the day: just about every construction regulation that you personally find to be annoying overkill is in place because somebody had a grisly, avoidable death. they don’t establish regulations ahead of disaster just to be safe. they do it to clean up horrifying messes

A flagship journal in my field uses AI in the editorial process! Yes, & they even give this vacuous (described below) feedback when they reject papers. I tried pushing back and was told I'm being emotional (sexism red flag) because I can't deal with rejection (lemme laugh for a few minutes).

To whom it may concern.

Fundamentally, running massive table multiplications in GPUs to answer what time it is is a very inefficient way to do computing but people like the promise of getting rid of nerds insisting they learn how the box works. AI is an "I don't want to learn how things work for them to be useful" tool.

Fashy Tech Bros: Back in Roman times, men were men. Just conquering the world with the boys, no time for woke feminist soi boi bullshit. Actual Roman who fought Hannibal: I'd like to share my recipe for poppyseed cheeseballs with you (Cato Agr. 79)