But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Gift article 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...

A painting from yesteryear.

Siren

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

The Virginia Distillery Co. did issue a response about the drunk raccoon. bsky.app/profile/jona...

The agreement between the Walt Disney Company and OpenAl for Disney to license its content to Sora, a short-form generative Al video platform, raises several major concerns that not only affect animation workers but consumers and families around the world. Please read.

Folks! We did it! The Onion has 60,000 subscribers! We're that much closer to reaching our goal of beating The Washington Post's print circulation by the end of next year. (They were last reported at 97k, but it's probably lower now.) Thank you all. Democracy died in darkness but we're still here.

BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc

Bull's head rhyton, Minoan, 1600-1500 BC

There's a special circle of hell reserved for people who do things like this to animals. So glad she got the treatment she needed and promptly.

Some frosty snow-foes. #ttrpg #art

We just want healthcare when we are sick and preventative care when we are well. We don’t want to shop around for it, we just want a system that works and is fair and good. Like the senators get.

If you work in the facility where he's being kept and want to anonymously send a tip, my signal is open as well as many other journos I trust. Bring him home. #momsky #whereisyuanxin

Or, indeed, order them direct from the publisher. Or get them from your library. Or buy them from a secondhand bookshop. Or borrow them from a friend. Anything rather than giving Amazon money for ‘accidentally’ selling stolen goods.

Getting to talk to @realgdt.bsky.social is never anything less than an honor and a pleasure, and I was delighted to dive into what making #Frankenstein meant to him for Consequence. Fun fact: He now feels like he's done with stories about father figures. consequence.net/cover/guille...

The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor

One last time. Transition2025.com secure.actblue.com/donate/zm129...

Monitoring the potential for light accumulating snow to impact NYC from Saturday evening into Sunday. Still a lot of uncertainty regarding the track of the system. Stay tuned! 👀❄️

Donate now ➡️ donate.wikipedia25.org #Wikipedia25

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Located copies. However Doyle's Iguanodon footprints, and the casts of them, are still at large.

Day 8 of my 2025 Favorites: You Can Handle The Floof Rosy maple moths emerge fairly regularly in my yard, and occasionally I'm lucky enough to find a fresh one who wants a nice spot to rest and let their wings dry. Like my hand. Look at him 🩷

I miss journalism.

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

'Enroute from the Thames to West Africa loaded with whiskey, brandy, and rum, Glenbervie ran ashore in Cornwall in 1901. A photographer from the Gibson family was among the crowd that gathered to see the shipwreck' www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gib...

Bats and Umbrellas by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1882

“In the early 20th century, ornithologist Robert Ridgway published a massive dictionary to categorize birds’ hues, from Peacock Blue to Duck Green. His work still resonates for artists and designers today.” www.audubon.org/magazine/lon...

Nautilus shells from ‘Deliciae naturae selectae’ by Georg Wolfgang Knorr. Published in Nuremberg, 1766-67. Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections. #naturalhistory #sciart #animalart #rarebooks #bookhistory

Heather Cox Richardson offers the most lucid explanation(s) of the way Trump and his cronies are taking a hammer to our beautiful America. Get her daily letter wherever you get your podcasts.

there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive, half-fabulous whales, which, as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

nope nope nope no sympathy. she has lived life long enough and been a writer long enough to know that no one but Joan Didion will ever again be the “Joan Didion of your generation.”

Went to the NY Botanical Garden’s train show last week, and saw our new home!

Un #bouquetin des Alpes sur une #photo de Léo Gayola, passez une douce #nuit à venir.

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Always start the week with an Owl post 🪶🦉

Always Repost Owls 🦉

Always Repost Owls 🦉

Webcams are also great tools you can use to monitor auroral activity, and I have a large list of live cameras on my website: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams . If you see a large, intense burst of auroral activity on these cams, it's a substorm taking place. Head out when this happens.

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage. Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word. A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

Always start the week with an Owl post 🪶🦉

Whether you're questioning the effects of technology in your life or you're the designated family tech wizard, Digital Rights Bytes is here to answer common questions about the devices you use: www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/is-m...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Lo you, my lord, The net has fall’n upon me! I shall perish Under device and practice.

Northern lights over Colpoy's Bay, Ontario for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Sky #EastCoastKin #photography #longexposure

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