I see life as a shared gift, received from others and passed on to others, living and dying as one process, in which lies both our suffering and our reward. Without mortality to purchase it, how can we have the consciousness of eternity? I think the price is worth paying.

8:48:15 PM on Sunday, November 30, 2025, over the South Pacific Ocean.

This is a spectacular view of the fiery descent and failed landing attempt of the Zhuque-3 first stage. m.weibo.cn/detail/52397...

Northern Lights. Study from North Norway (date unlisted) by Swedish artist, Anna Boberg (1864-1935), Oil on canvas 97 x 75 cm, 38 x 30 in approx Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

🏔 Wild flowers of the North American mountains / New York: R.M. McBride, 1915. [Source]

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

ngl “prioritize sentence structure over meaning” is a cutely sciencey way to describe poetry

Per Capita, 1981 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5024

is that good

Factory by Tyko Sallinen, 1919 Oil on paper mounted on canvas 60,5 cm x 51 cm Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, Helsinki Finland #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Alexander Calder, Brooch, c. 1940 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136772

these morons thought their chatbots were going to become the Servant Platform and whoever got there first would get infinite rent forever. oops!

RIP to a master of the form

RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.

this horrible gremlin’s name is YODA… and he just can’t stip talking backwards!

grading ahead of school starting up again on Monday and there is so much AI bullshit

eery experience at a nice coffee shop a while ago where all the baristas seemed to have come from the same factory of slender blonde androgynes with baggy sweaters and shaggy mullets

Good morning! Gathering for the hunt in front of an inn within the ruins, because that's just how it was in 1650s Italy. Or so we are assured by Jan Miel, whose day is today.

the Bongian Jihad begins 2026 let’s go

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

#birdbot

Perseverance Parachute Uplook Camera A - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qMq1hb

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Charles Schultz

Hey. Wanna see what it looks like to fly past your home planet? THEN LOOK AT THIS This is the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft's view as it swung by Earth on Tuesday, 23 September 2025 from an altitude of 3,500 km. Look how beautiful that big blue marble is ❤️

"Secretary Noem is seriously deluded if she thinks the upcoming elections in Myanmar will be even remotely free and fair, and she is just making things up when she claims non-existent ceasefires proclaimed by Myanmar’s military junta will result in political progress"

The Steps at Vetheuil - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9708

SUNDAY WITH NANCY AND SLUGGO

Studying history long enough, in my experience, absolutely obliterates easily held theories about practically everything to do with human beings. Plenty of residual value still in many of them, but honestly the pat certainties of determinism are the first causality of sustained historical study.

i love logging in to spread MAGA talking points from an undisclosed location on the burma-thailand border

I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery? Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!! Here are 5 other things to know:

why arent men at the lighthouses. theres so many ships at sea and so many foggy eves looming and yet the men are still at home, playing call of duty and feeling sad. but yet the lighthouses lie empty

Vasily Leonidovich Khudyakov Born (1983) Russian “February lace” Oil on canvas, 23.6 W x 27.6 H x 0.8 Private Collection #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Child with Orange - 1890 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14742

"supercritical fluids" are woke science at its worst. we all know what liquids and gases are, theyre obviously different. can you believe they want to spend your tax dollars on this nonsense? some of them cant even say what a gas is any more, they wave their hands and say some bullshit about entropy

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

Current* conditions near Michigan City, IN:

I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered. The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo. apnews.com/article/immi...

Albert Alberg's Frost Flowers on the Window (1899) communicates a “new, truly great discovery”, that frost is able to make “ice photographs”, expressing the form of objects near it — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frost-flowers (Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)

Dove https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1120267

MSL - Sol 4696 - MastCam - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2rBnrwe

Current* conditions near Evanston, IL:

see what the robot servant fantasy gets you?

#MargaritaRivière, Pop Boy, (1967)

Ray Morimura (Japanese Artist, born 1948) "House in Tamugimata", 1999. Japanese Woodblock Print, 45 × 30 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

“By royal command the pastry chefs have worked all night in the half bakery to make sure that——” “The half bakery?” questioned Milo. “Of course, the half bakery,” snapped the king. “Where do you think half-baked ideas come from?

Mars - Valles Marineris - Orbit 25 - Hope Mission - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mzdn25