Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

This Day in Labor History: November 23, 1891. A miner in Alaska named Patrick Whalen was injured in a mining accident. After a lower court awarded him financial compensation, the Supreme Court stepped in to make sure that injured workers would get nothing!!!!!! SCOTUS ALWAYS HAS BEEN TERRIBLE!

"Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers." May Sarton

"The Climate Study That Changed My Life Forever" She decided that her research needed to be public, not just seen in academia #ClimateChange #NaturalHistory climateages.substack.com/p/the-climat...

I have to repost this because I have taken so many pictures of Tulips but failed to capture their raw, passionate essence. This picture by Plustax444 is phenomenal!

Just experimenting here. Truro beach sunset.

Barbed wire and a weathered old fence post. A breezy, bright autumn day on the moors. #classicmono #photography #Stunday

In the US too. How soon we forget #CovudWards #JustRecently observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Juvenile Sally Lightfoot Crab. They get much brighter and rainbow colored as they get older and their armor hardens. #animals #nature #oceans #galapagos

#SilentSunday #Photography

📱 | Grand Marais, Minnesota (2017) Rock pool #meditation

Leaves fallen at pond bottom, large oak burl, small bullfrog, jewelweed (touch-me-not) - all were photographed in Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio)

It's a #small world: my daughter looks at mosses and plants growing out of a log, South Slough Estuarine Reserve, Oregon #Photography #Oregon #BlueskyArtShow

#BlueSkyArtShow #Small Greetings from Costa Rica

A #small newt at the South Slough Estuarine Reserve for #BlueskyArtShow #Photography #Oregon #Newts

Jumping spider #BlueSkyArtShow #Small #BlueSkyPhotography #jumpingspider #spider

#blueskyartshow #small #wildlifephotography #urbanwildlife #squirrel

#Small red apothecia on British soldier lichen for the #BlueskyArtShow , South Slough Estuarine Reserve #Photography #Oregon #Lichen

Tapestry #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #RavennaPark #Autumn #Leaves #Artsy #EastCoastKin

ChatGPT has been telling me not to trust that motherfucker Gemini, and Claude informs me that Grok really likes the taste of Nazi boots

A fungus photo a day: A little family of waxcaps/hygrocybes I found yesterday. Scroll down for other views of them. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!

We just picked up about 150kg of Danish magazines for our digitalization efforts at the Danish Data Historic Society, between carrying it down from from the third floor and driving four hours to get it and sorting it when we get home, I predict that I'll be sleeping good tonight 😅

#caturday #cats

It’s like a step back in time until the mist fades to blue sky …

Some beautiful light this morning in the Lakes. #Hawkshead #mist #mountains #winter #snow #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #trees #forest #woods #woodland #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #OPOTY #PhotoRippin

Medicare premiums are going up 10%. If Medicare users are willing to shop, some Advantage plans will cost the same as we paid last year. This means treating all medical providers as interchangeable units to be evaluated solely on cost. Homo economicus #HealthCare seattlemedium.com/medicare-par...

School is closed for at least part of next week, so you may be able to recruit a few good mathematicians for your quantitative work like, for example, dendrochronology. Just be sure to pay them well.

Rejoice, for ginormous investments in LLMs have finally produced a genuine social good: new ways to mock Elon Musk.

Victor Berger insisted that because of racial divisions & hatred, "the American proletariat is surely more poorly organized than any working class" Black workers responded by consistently voting Berger back to Congress — and voting Mayor Hoan back to Milwaukee City Hall

A little info on how hoar frost forms. #NaturalHistory Hoar Frost by the River 1001species.substack.com/p/hoar-frost...

the songs are all on SoundCloud too if that suits you better m.soundcloud.com/washington-p...

@support.bsky.team what happened to the up arrow(s) taking you to the top in the feeds? Now i have to scroll up and up and up and ... Please restore them! The ones that are gray just to get to the top, and the blue ones that tell you there's something new. Super useful

The rainforest the world forgot: the Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected? | Global development | The Guardian #ClimateChange #Conservation #Sustainability www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You are probably aware of the global loss of biodiversity. It is happening right in front of us, and many of us don't notice. Here is a magnificent white ash that is now gone. There are things we can do to stop the invasion of foreign insects and diseases that kill our trees. More at Our Trees.

En Irlande, les centres de données consomment déjà 22 % de l’électricité nationale... 🪫 Ou comment se tirer une balle dans le pied... 🤦‍♂️ #cloud #IA #énergie #climat #crise #suicidecollectif —via @sciencesetavenir.bsky.social

I'm beginning to think the real Singularity will be when all the cloud services and AI servers crash, all the IOT devices (including vehicles) seize up, and there will be no social media to scroll through. We will suddenly be blind, mute, and in trouble. There is no plan for this.

A fungus photo a day: I found this powdercap/Cystoderma amianthinum yesterday and it is not only adorable but it is also home to a tiny spider. Scroll down to see a blurry close-up of it and also an in situ shot. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Shades of brown #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #RavennaPark #Leaves #EastCoastKin #BigleafMaple

Newly discovered Bach!

Light and dark Looking down on Ravenna Creek on a winter afternoon #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #RavennaPark #RavennaCreek #EastCoastKin

She arrived with a gentle tap on the shoulder …

Almost every WhatsApp message ...🤦🏼‍♂️

Skies over Seattle today. Time to get outside. Monty is like a barometer, he dozes in rainy weather and perks up wildly when the sun is out. #SeattleWashington

If you'd like an informative and interesting conversation to enjoy try "Inside Harvard’s Data.gov Archive – A Conversation with Jack Cushman" @jed.co interviewing Jack Cushman @harvardlil.bsky.social about Data.gov archiving on @source.coop Now live www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYMb...

Repurposing! #Conservation #Repurposing #Sustainability tech.lgbt/@lenarena/11...

The signs, which declared the area restricted Department of Defense property, caused an international dispute after they appeared on what is sovereign Mexican soil. Here Mexico is removing them

New comic: Climate Silence www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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