Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Vivi makes beautiful pieces! She’s based in France

mä en vihaa mitään mä en vihaa mitääään… mä en vihaa mitään mä en vihaa mä en vihaa mitään niin kuin sinua Hat tip to still-fabulous Don Huonot (lyrics from song “Seireeni”)

I'm totally pinching myself announcing this, but a film about my life journey rewilding a West Cork farm, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, will get its first screening at the Dublin International Film Festival on Saturday the 28th of this month. Tickets are available here: www.diff.ie/programme/an...

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Good morning, Bluesky! Happy #Sunday! Sunrise at Tahoma. The sun lighting up a lenticular cloud just as it peeks above the summit of Mt Rainier, Washington on New Year's Day, 2025. 📸Morgan Stephen

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Très bonne conférence en effet. Alors que la défiance des citoyens traduit avant tout la volonté de retrouver un peu de marge de manoeuvre, de pouvoir d'agir sur le cours des choses, les élites politiques se raidissent dans l'exercice du pouvoir en se débarrassant des contraintes et intermédiaires.

For the 1st time, archaeologists have direct proof of far-flung social networks during the last Ice Age. “In times of climate crisis, cooperation—not conflict—was a successful strategy,” says @cnrs.fr's @solangerigaud.bsky.social. “It’s good to recall that as a lesson from our past.” 🏺 @science.org

Gary Larson was on to something! Larson: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en... Real life cows: www.instagram.com/reel/DTs8Nk5...

I’ll always love my beautiful Oregon Cascades, especially the Three Sisters (climbed!), and the French Alps have a special place in my heart as well. Visited again these past few days. 1 - Mont Blanc du Tacul, Mont Maudit, Mont Blanc, Dôme du Goûter 2 - Aiguille du Midi 3 - Les Grandes Jorasses 💜

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.

A small and exotic Buddha found far from home in #VikingAge buildings on the Swedish lake island of Helgö. Probably made in the Swat Valley, the Buddha travelled some 5,000 km from its place of origin, encapsulating the idea of long-distance trade during the Viking Age. #Archaeology

Sunset on the Oregon coast. #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #sunset #seascape #oregon

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

Prof. Richard Macksey’s home library: St. Martin’s Road, Baltimore, Maryland. 70,000 books

For this graphic we compare the terrain of the three most expensive rail projects in the world. HS2 costs an eye watering $537mn per km despite being built on relatively flat terrain. Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article www.ft.com/content/3f73...

This is gonna be the first time, for many of us, that any human has been that far away (they are going to orbit, not land on the Moon). If you were born after 19 Dec 1972, humans have never been this far away since. It's also the first time a woman will leave the proximity of Earth! It's BIG!

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

white supremacists spray painted racist messages on the high school by our house, and our neighborhood came together to clean it up and to leave uplifting messages written in chalk for the students they can’t win if we choose to love each other

“All quiet, sentry?” “All quiet sir; perhaps…too quiet…” #PlaymobilInfestation

As long as it can be the poetically evocative meaning, e.g. “2026 was the galvanic year for joy”, rather than “2026 was the year that brought galvanic corrosion of metals in water” 😄 www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/g...

“I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe that disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

It’s now been 31 years to the day, and I can still remember the sun during the parade on the way to the Pasadena stadium. We put on a great show and had so much fun. Still some very good friends from those days too.

I only rode a couple of times in 2025, even though cycling is my bliss. I will get out more in 2026 as my mojo returns. A couple months ago I crossed the Jitensha custom bike shop in Paris with this chromoly-steel e-beauty, and on one of my 2025 road rides I was greeted by an approving floof.

This is me. I count myself incredibly lucky to have had sensible coaches back when that was decidedly not popular. Our coaches were jeered in competitions because we kids weren’t winning. They taught us to care for our teammates, and that joy, fair play, & mutual support (teamwork) were the goal.

For the last #caturday of 2025, my beloved floof Kanoko, rescued Maine Coon mutt. Found as an abandoned malnourished kitten, he adored me from the moment we met and was my delightful companion for 15 years. I miss him 💜

I gripe a little bit about the ambiguity of the word "day" — astronomically speaking, of course — and also present you with a *gorgeous* Hubble shot of a face-spiral galaxy that turns out to be part of the puzzle that tells us how the universe expands. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/happy-sols... 🔭 🧪

Currently 902 books in my library - I use @librarything.com Have read every page of every one, organized by theme & author to find quickly when I want to re-read part or all 😊 Most recent fiction add was “Earthsea: The First Four Books” by Le Guin; nonfiction was “The Culture Map” by Erin Meyer

meowy meowmas :3 🎄 #art #cuteart #caturday

The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die. He had this to say about the experience:

A few days ago, a very cool preprint went up on how the brain processes prosody — the melody of speech. This is one of those studies that I feel like helped me understand my brain better. So it's the topic of this week's post, which ends with a little future-studies wish list for science Santa 🎅🧪

Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday

Teeny tiny flowers of Butcher's Broom, with a bonus Ladybird! Spotted in woodland near Plumpton Green, East Sussex #wildflowerhour

Even more tragic/ironic saying this at the party conference of probably the biggest transatlanticist germany ever had

when you dig into the history of menswear, you find the same stories repeated. men who moralize traditional aesthetics rarely consider how their "tradition" was considered a corruption by an earlier generation, who wore things hated by people before them IG the_art_of_dress

| PUBLICATION 📚 | We are very happy and proud to announce the publication of the English translation of ‘Introduction à l’archéologie du genre’ by @barpublishing.bsky.social ! 🎉 👉 www.barpublishing.com/book/an-intr...

Gustavo Novoa (Chile, b. 1941) And Color Arrived, n.d. (sold 2021) Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 in. www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

This series shows how a damselfly reaches a dewdrop on a horsetail stem, turns its head, touches its eye to the drop, and brings it onto its face for a drink.

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

After years of keeping lookout, finally found a used copy of the wonderful 2006 book “Victorian Lace Today” by Jane Sowerby. “Meet the women who first put knitting into print. See how lace knitting evolved from the 1830s to the 1900s.” Forty patterns in all!

Meister Bertram von Minden’s “Madonna Knitting” depicts the Virgin Mary making the young Christ’s red tunic, by knitting “in the round”, using 4 needles, to produce a seamless garment (early 15C) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kn...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Mein erstes deutsches Wort, kleines Weihnachtsgeschenk von Lehrern des Goethe-Instituts 😊 Bald beginnt meine erste Unterrichtsstunde! Ich habe den Schal gestrickt

I had a blue steel Japanese bike and an outfit that looked very much like this in the 80s 💙🌸🌟 my great-grandma knit my matching hat, gloves, sweater, and legwarmers!