As we kick off the Round of 32, I give you what these matchups are really about: 1. Canada 🇨🇦 vs. South Africa 🇿🇦 - Battle of the Commonwealth nations 2. Brazil 🇧🇷 vs. Japan 🇯🇵 - Battle of the Portuguese Jesuit "colonies" 3. Germany 🇩🇪 vs. Paraguay 🇵🇾 - Battle of *chuckles nervously* (1/x)

"Doge veterans have quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites – for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s savings – in ways critics say appear to violate federal law."

Fly #BlueSkyArtShow #macro #fly

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

The russian fuel crisis is deepening. Ongoing Ukrainian drone strikes have systematically hammered oil processing capacity. June 2026 data shows daily gasoline production has plummeted by 25% compared to last year, leaving an estimated 25,000-ton daily shortfall in the country. 🧵 1/5

Left: the Portuguese king in 1505 claiming ownership of the New World. Right: another uncrowned Portuguese king of the 21st century claiming ownership of a ball game.

Toad put his head very close to the ground and shouted, “NOW SEEDS, START GROWING!”

Repatriation story time! Aka, how a stolen goddess of dance went from the photo on the left (on display for worship at a Nepali monastery in 1969) to the photo on the right (patiently posing with a dorky admirer in the Nepali consulate in NYC in 2026).

See from the guidebook 'Ways To Stay Cool In Non-Stop Sunshine' this contribution from 1657 featuring the three furies of Greek mythodology fame - Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto - attempting to blow out the 🌞 with bellows! Nice try, Eumenides. Nice try. #skystorians

Ebola outbreak in DRC continues to grow at rapid rate with dozens of new cases every day. According to latest situation report: 956 confirmed cases (+23 in last 24 hours) That includes 247 confirmed deaths. Follow-up of contacts is around 70%. And still far too few contacts insp.cd/sitrep-n36-m...

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

A Cycladic idol, 2500-2000BC. During the Early Bronze Age figurines were made from marble on the Cyclades, islands in the Aegean Sea. The most common are female figurines with folded arms. Most of them were found in graves.The intended purpose of these figurines remains unknown. 📷 me

Butter-Cups Cereal (1965-circa 1967): Puffed, light, crispy, flower-shaped corn cereal pieces from General Mills. A commercial featured children picking and eating real-life buttercups (which are poisonous), which led to parental complaints of copycat behavior and ultimately its discontinuation

Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.

He looks like a villain for kids show that leans heavily on physical comedy

Ursula K. LeGuin, "American SF and the Other," 1975.

CHOTINER: So you moved to the country recently. ME: I do really like peaches. CHOTINER: Hmm. Millions of peaches, doesn’t that seem like a lot? ME: I’ll be supporting the local farm economy— CHOTINER: You said here you were planning on obtaining them for free. ME: Look out! CHOTINER: Okay

Here's a weird fact: KOALAS 🐨 are the only non-primate animals with (human-like) FINGERPRINTS, in spite of being separated by 100 million years of evolution. They have nearly identical swirls & loops as humans & apes. That gives us a really useful clue on why we even have fingerprints.

PS: We had 3D puzzle kits made, too:

Just a superb owl couple, dressed and skating on a frozen river in seventeenth century Europe, with him holding a mouse in its beak, and her looking a bit grumpy because of the state of the world. This is what I call a #timelinecleanse. Not one #superbOwl but two #superbOWLS on ice. #skystorians 🦉

ok so l guess rfk brought up autism again, please refer to this diagram before engaging with any of his claims

what did dietrich bonhoeffer do that was bad, brandon

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

Roasted red peppers. Hate.

for iphone users, if you very suddenly regret NOT turning off biometric unlock, press the lock button on the side 5 times in row - this will lock your phone and require the passcode before biometric unlock can be used again, preventing police from using your face to unlock it against your will.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

This momma has got a pretty big brood #photography, #potd2026, #photoaday, #pad2026-166, #merganser, #ducks, #babyducks, #bigbrood, #birds

Wake up, babe. New imperial-style Roman villa just dropped! (It was discovered at Castel di Guido a few miles/km west of Rome, in an area called Lorium that was popular with the Antonine dynasty. And there's a cool photo gallery at the link as well!) 🏺🧪

If you’re looking for a summery dessert, this chocolate loaf cake with a scoop of ice cream is like a grown-up ice cream sandwich. www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/choc...

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

Still be-tarped but the tarps have doors now

Ducklings and cygnets at Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

sorry i know its fun to be conspiratorial about everything but let me tell you from decades of experience in labour, it's totally normal to put up a tarp for this kind of thing. Not everything has to be some grand, shady mystery.

Ancient Greek fish plates were very popular tableware 2,300 years ago! They wouldn’t look too out of place on a modern dining table today! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Forgot to take a picture because I was too excited to eat it. Trout amandine with roasted broccoli, both recipes from ATK. And no, I didn’t eat the skin. I don’t like it.

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The global far right led by highly online white nationalists like Elon Musk has had its Kristallnacht moment, producing images that shock the conscience. How will the world respond?

Big salad and dinner rolls for dinner.

This utterly infuriates me. grew up on raw milk because I grew up on a family dairy farm. And that is precisely why I won’t drink it now. (We never had problems, but we knew who did. And some of those problems were Very Bad and got farms banned by producers.)

Call me Schmidt. John J. J. Schmidt. It's not my name, but it's that of my doppelganger, & everywhere I go, people call me by it. I used to think it was just annoying, and that it'd end when I grew up. Then, when I actually grew up, I realized he was stealing my life. That ends tonight. Da-da-da.

calling women who take allegations of domestic violence seriously “HR ladies” is a way to diminish the power we have worked so hard to gain and make women feel annoying for caring. i hope women in this category know it is never annoying to care.

White porcupine #leucistic

An experienced, well-connected investigative reporter with a great reputation, personal loyalty, and nothing but time is a formidable enemy to assign yourself.

Even with a case count that was revised downward with the testing of samples from suspected cases, this #Ebola outbreak is already huge. DRC reports that as of 6/1, there are 633 confirmed & suspected cases, with 23 new cases confirmed y'day. And Uganda is now up to 15 cases. insp.cd/sitrep-n018-...

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

For #MosaicMonday a mesmerising mosaic with a three dimensional cube pattern in a house on the #Greek island of #Delos, dating 2nd century BC. #Archaeology 📷me🏺