Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

O'Leary, Prince Edward Island. Forget Disney World kids, we're off to the Potato Museum!

Touching grass is not enough I need to share a sunny log with five or six turtles

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

A reminder that my team is trying to bring some joy and reaffirmation of human agency to this anniversary with the 250 to 250 videos. Here's Pete Buttigieg talking about the Erie Canal, for example:

Amazing! Go watch the videos. Great fun

Longleaf pine #Growth at sunset, near Freedom Park behind the Archives building, Raleigh NC. The longleaf pine is the state tree of North Carolina, and was once used in naval stores production throughout the Southeast and is also featured on the State Toast. #BlueSkyArtShow

DO YOU SING?

And THAT is something everyone should be asking “why?” about in regard to the current media landscape & it’s takeover by people with *very* specific agendas

My Go Big or Go Home thoughts for this Saturday: I make the case for why we should consider amending the Constitution to create a fourth branch open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

My kit and kaboodle.

Managed to capture some video of the little floofballs emerging 🪶

The lady opposite me on the train was reading this. To be fair she was only on the first chapter.

Sharing another article by Josh Marshall. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

Dang the Dallas Morning news editorial board did not hold back

Today with @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @kim.senate.gov youtube.com/live/2WUYCw4...

My watch is telling me to stand up. I keep telling it, "You can't tell me what to do. You're not my dad." I've also run out of steam too early on a Friday. Just returned to work on Wednesday and still can't imagine a whole work week yet. We'll see how next week goes.

Update on the Cooper’s Hawks behind Tucson Subaru… they’re still actively hunting. Hoping for a healthy yield next month.

This is one in a city I've actually been to. Of course, it was December 2000, so a while ago, but this looks like a cute little place. Praia and all the places we went in Cabo Verde were quite interesting.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme by @alan678.bsky.social is #NegativeSpace, where the subject occupies only a small portion of the frame, with empty or simple surroundings playing an important role in the composition. Merced National Wildlife Refuge, California.

And I am back in my break again. The worms that eat human brains are, of course, ideas. Bad ideas are eating your brain. This article from 1707 is having it all. Stop overthinking. Goodbye, and take care.

May 29, 2018 - I would cover NC Poor People's Campaign--"The War Economy: Militarism & the Proliferation of Gun Violence" protest outside the Legislature and action outside of a committee meeting in the Legislative Office Bldg where about a doz arrests occurred. I was caught on camera over there

What (with complete awe and amazement) the actual fuck? This is so freaking cool.

BREAKING: Billy Bob and The Rock-afire Explosion have also withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration.

I am terribly sorry to interrupt your doomscrolling, but today's Low Quality Ad is for this Baby Goat Blanket. Look at them. They are young. They are adorable. They are hopefully not screaming goats or you will never sleep again. collabs.shop/k0n2r1

Former Montana Senator Jon Tester is a third-generation farmer and former school teacher who has served at the local, state, and federal levels of government. Tester explores the origins and influence of Yellowstone, America’s first national park. #WeAreAmerica250

This little spine of mine*, I'm gonna let it shine... *Yes, it's from @newberrylibrary.bsky.social again, why do you ask? 😂

from the me memory feed this a.m., working with the N&O Collection from the State Archives. this was a common practice. the hole was for hanging the uncut roll of film from a hook in the lab. clipped neg would have been chosen to print. typically you used that notch to locate the neg in a carrier

Similar for rice. Cook too much? Freeze it flat (wrapped however you do it), and indent squares in it so you can break off a smaller amount for adding to heated up leftovers, make an individual serving of fried rice, or a bowl of soup.

Hognose snakes are the drama queens of the serpent world. Thanatosis is how the small snakes hope to avoid predation, theatrically fakings death. Original post

My life has improved a bit since discovering that the annoying captchas where you identify the buses or crosswalks or whatever, have a sound-based alternative. Click on the headphones. So much quicker and easier.

Years ago we put googly eyes on a giant paperclip and stuck it to the wall. Now the blu tack has melted and the paperclip has grown ears and this is basically what Darwin was talking about. #NationalPaperclipDay

The emergence of Bruno, who can't tell the difference between sticks and small trees.

NEW EXAMPLE FOR FONT LESSON JUST DROPPED

Absolute Units returns! Listen to our latest episode with artist and disability rights activist Anahita Harding, exploring disability in museum spaces and collections. Plus, how we can shape a future that better includes and represents people with disabilities. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

I'm giving a public talk in Manchester on 15 June! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-shoul...

America vs the Oligarchs

It's upsetting to see the DOJ open a phony "investigation" into 82-year-old E. Jean Carroll. But it is also an important reminder that #MeToo still matters. The forces of misogyny wouldn't go so hard after survivors if they weren't scared. www.salon.com/2026/05/29/e...

"while we instinctively shrink from a writer's adulation, we lend a ready ear to detraction and spite, because flattery involves the shameful imputation of servility, whereas malignity wears the false appearance of honesty." [Tac. Hist. 1.1] That might actually be true.

‼️Look at this insanely perfect shot my husband just captured with his phone. We're both very sad he didn't have a real camera, but this is still amazing.

We’re playing in Orlando tomorrow night, so I thought this would be a good chance to catch up with some old friends.

Learned recently there's a whole subculture of halal BBQ joints in texas, originally because Texas's quite-large Muslim population couldn't eat at ones that also prepared pork, but now it's a whole thriving culinary niche. Real "glorious American melting pot" stuff

This is a metaphor more metaphorical than any metaphor that has ever metaphored before.

I love Puffins.

Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few moments and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno

When Ludovic Mbock, an expert Street Fighter player, was detained by ICE office in Baltimore, a network of video game players located him and raised money to retain an immigration attorney, who was able to have him released. https://wapo.st/4uHpwfM

More pink roses from the garden this time you can fully appreciate the beauty of the bloom. 🌱 #gardening

🚨 The UK leg of the Dropout Improv tour kicks off THIS SUNDAY! Join Kurt Maloney, Jacob Wysocki, Jeremy Culhane, Kimia Behpoornia, Scott Passarella, Oscar Montoya, Jiavani, and Vic Michaelis for a WILD night of improv comedy!

@simonmoyasmith.bsky.social and I are back live tonight with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social Tune in to hear about Simon’s recent tussle with ICE in Albany, New York. Tune in to "We’re Still Here" with Simon and Julie. Tonight at 10 PM ET on SiriusXM Progress, Channel 127. Call in!

Called this back in October