This is a type of science story I really love. We know ancient humans (and, in all likelihood at least some of our archaic relatives) could do math. But it's one thing to know in principle and another to be able to *hold* the evidence of something like that in your hands.

Fresh snow on the mountain #photography, #potd2026, #photoaday, #pad2026-017, #mountain, #snow, #snowstorm, #gobblemountain, #winterwonderland

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

My take is that this backfires horribly. Professional soldiers getting a good look at ICE acting like a D-tier militia while being opposed by some of the most boring, middle-class people imaginable is going to shake a lot of preconceptions.

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Something beautiful for the weekend! ✨ A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago. From a Mousterian level at the Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

While everyone is watching Minnesota, ICE is still terrorizing other communities in other places & I know it's not a contest but those places deserve attention too. Everyone is looking north while our border with Mexico is being terrorized as well.

I would argue that we can't run our next Presidential campaign purely on a "well, we're not MAGA" platform. We need to put forward a positive platform that states with moral clarity who we are as a country and what kind of world we want to live in. Newsom just can't offer that sort of vision.

Have helped guard a local mosque during their Friday prayers. Been very cold but Somali restaurant offers us delicious, warm tea constantly. Members expressed much gratitude & confidence this ugly time will pass.

It was a cold and windy day in Minneapolis today. I was rather worried because we had outside Nazi agitators coming by to stir up trouble. But they got thrown out of town while, at the same time, the crowd remained lawful, if angry. They were hoping for a fight but got shown up as clowns.

And ICE tried to smear this family for "taking their baby to a riot." They were there because that's where they live and the only people "rioting" were ICE. Keep this infant in mind next time you see some regime operator on the media telling you about "instigators" on the ground.

The people acting like everything is normal right now are the ones who look insane. History will not look kindly on them.

Welcome to Minnesota, you Nazi fucks. A Z-list influencer decided he could farm engagement in Minneapolis. What he got was mostly just video of him looking like a terrified cosplayer and having to be bailed out of trouble by a black bystander.

one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen

What makes Frum's analysis extra-vapid is that none of this is an unknown. Historians and sociologists have studied authoritarian movements and secret police forces extensively since WWII. Good's killing could be (and was) predicted from day 1.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gender-2 #smbc

ICE has been validated on Bluesky, I trust everyone knows what to do. These losers are so insecure that becoming one of the most blocked accounts is probably going to *actually* hurt their feelings.

feet: under the desk cat: under the desk feet: bitten by cat

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed dramatically in the span of just a few hundred years

🪨An Acheulean (Mode II) handaxe from the Lower Palaeolithic dating to c.425,000-250,000 BC. It is 18.5cms in length and 10cms at its widest and fits perfectly in the hand for its purpose. #Archaeology #FindsFriday #Palaeolithic #Prehistory #Lithics #Wirral

Sometimes I wonder if *I'm* the crazy one. Like, RS here is talking about things Biden is supposed to have done and it's, like, no? I was there, bro. All your readers were there. That's not what happened. Why do you think that the Dems launched a "furious cultural revolution?" That's not a thing.

Scenes like this are part of the reason "they just need more training" is a sure-fire way to infuriate people who live here. They aren't doing this because they lack training. They're doing it because they want to and know nobody will stop them.

MAGA people are truly the most delicate little flowers our nation has produced. Elsewhere, they're complaining that the dastardly locals have poured some water on their driveway. People so weak should probably find a new job anyway.

For #FossilFriday a small #IsleofWight iguanodontian dinosaur tibia in the collections @nhm-london.bsk.social. What makes it special is that it is from the Gideon Mantell collection. The fossil takes me back 125 million years but its history casts me back to the 1820s.

At its core, ICE, and really this entire government, are simply Losers Who Are Bothering You

People forget that the No. 1 issue among dem primary voters in 2020 was 'national unity' and in 2028 it's going to be 'mass executions NOW' so I am not particularly worried about any (openly) centrist losers

Put the Nobel Peace Prize on the blockchain. by Andrew Yang

GW just announced not only female custodes, but a female shield captain model was just previewed. So if you're looking for the joy of exploding chudheads, that's definitely about to happen.

I love when I pet a sleeping cat and they make the cat activation noise at me and give me a slow blink before putting their head back down.

"Four respectable polls within the past few days now have Trump at 40 or 41 percent approval. Here’s a simple goal for the opposition: Get him down clearly into the 30s by the time of the State of the Union."

Oh my fucking god if I see one more person claim this is all to distract from the fucking Epstein files. Multiple things can be bad at the same fucking time. Read another book god damn

"As a commander, one of the first things you want to reinforce are your rules of engagement and your constraints....It seems to me, as I've watched over the last few weeks ICE officials doing their job, there are no constraints." @markhertling.bsky.social joins Ben Parker:

posting cat photos kind of feels like the band playing on while the titanic sinks these days

Bro, people are going to build entire lives around the neighbors they’ve found in these anti-ICE signal chats. Marriages, lifelong friendships, weird hobbies. It is actually breaking my brain. I am almost crying in the club (chat).

Masked federal agents are terrorizing our communities — teargassing babies and pastors, kidnapping our neighbors and shipping them off to foreign torture prisons, and killing innocent people. But we’re not powerless in this moment. In fact, we have an opportunity to rein in ICE this month.

The only good thing about ICE Is that future video games/movies will have new bad guy characters we can kill en masse without guilt.

I have a big, unexpected bill to pay and many dice with Quest Sprout's face on them. Let's work together and create a great outcome for everybody: swords-cut-the-deck.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Despite it all, I believe most people are basically decent. The great sin of the American electorate is that we've allowed ourselves to become alienated from politics, treating it as something that happens in some nebulous "over there." When shit gets real, people stand up. We'll get through this.

Look, is this person a bot? Almost certainly. Was I ever going to change their mind? Nope. But sometimes it feels good to express the contempt I have for people who think this way. They were born as a member of a free people but yearn for the lash of the whip.

My painting LAKE HARRIET SUNSET Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A beautiful state where I happily raise my children. I ❤️ MPLS.

It’s A LOT right now. I needed to take a breath, maybe you do too? Perhaps with some of my favorite fishes, right here in Minnesota:

BREAKING: I will be entering the NFL Hall of Fame by conducting a daring raid on Devin Hester’s house and stealing his gold jacket. Sportswriters of America, please adjust your stats accordingly.

Things are grim, but I have to admit I'm very much looking forward to the new Taskmaster season.

We’re in Chicago

Adding on: what I need people outside Minneapolis to understand is that ICE is operating in the densest parts of Minnesota's densest urban center and along the city's busiest streets. They are deliberately acting in a way to endanger bystanders. This sort of collateral damage is 100% intentional.

Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Damn, they have really created Tactical Norm. Every fleeting moment of my day is now spent thinking about how best to secure the lives of a bunch of people, including kids, at my children’s schools and protecting them from getting kidnapped by armed federal goons.