the year is 2036. black friday season starts july 1 and runs through the end of november. cyber monday is celebrated every other monday from december to may. june has several prominent internationally recognized sales days based on the lunar calendar

Yikes! Never been watched by so many Monkey Face Orchids.😳

Good old Woz. Good for him.

Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...

I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.

President Zelenskyy rejected “Trump’s”Peace Deal that gave in to Putin’s demands— “Ukraine may now face a very difficult choice, either losing its dignity or the risk of losing a key partner.” 🇺🇦

The Covid enquiry's finding that Johnson's government was "toxic and chaotic" should prompt the question: what conditions must be in place for there to be good government, because the evidence before & since suggests it wasn't merely an individual failing? This question, though, won't be asked.

Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables. Eclipse tables in the Dresden Codex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...

Loose lips sink ships

Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

US MANUFACTURING RECESSION: The ISM Manufacturing Index fell to 48.7 in October, marking the 8th STRAIGHT month of contraction. The US manufacturing sector has been in recession for 34 of the last 36 months.

Described as worse than prison, the conditions at the largest ICE detention facility in CA are inhumane. With the lives of detainees at stake, KVP has joined Prison Law Office, the ACLU, and the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice in filing a class action: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

Sunset Ireland - West Field, Galway, Ireland #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography

Early evening Aurora in Upper Michigan. #scape #EastCoastKin

Resign it then and leave thine insolence.

Today on Volts: the subset of cleantech known as "electrotech" -- solar, batteries, heat pumps, etc. -- is marching toward inevitable victory, not because it's low-emissions (though it is), but because it's more efficient & cheaper. I discuss the good news with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social.

this looks like an after school program where young people help out seniors at home

To recap: Trump said Zohran isn’t a jihadist and is going to do a good job, even as Zohran still maintained Trump is a fascist.

If the orders were legal, why were people who followed them given immunity? It really is that simple.

Is it just me or do other Long Covid suffers read headlines like this one and think: “No shit Sherlock! Welcome to the party. We’ve been telling you this for yearsssss.” Followed immediately by gratitude for scientists investigating Long Covid to someday lead to treatments.

I actually thought I had shared this on here and I hadn't. But if you want to look at why Tehran has to move it's climate change, yes, but it's genuinely fascinating as a failure of long term planning/ not understanding water supplies.

The Donald Trump peace plan is nothing of the sort. It takes Russian demands and presents them as peace proposals, in what is effectively for Ukraine a surrender ultimatum news.sky.com/story/trump-...

www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-.... As a nurse with 2 Masters degrees, I am sickened, but not surprised. As an overwhelming female profession, Trump and his minions have shown us over and over what they think about women and our work.

Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.

I'm sure this will be totally useful, cool, and well regulated, with no curious Enron-esque financial chicanery

Texas is back to using its 2025 congressional map, at least temporarily, after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted the state’s request to pause a court ruling that would have required using the lines legislators drew in 2021. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/21/t...

I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽‍♀️

Once in a while you should remember there's a guy who invented leaded gasoline and a guy who invented CFCs and they're the same guy.

Ghost pond resurrection. Is it the most successful form of ecological restoration known? www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/gh...

"I want to speak out against the politicization of the military and to protect the Constitution.” Jackie Robinson is one of the many veterans who joined us on Capitol Hill this week to meet with elected officials and make it clear that troops shouldn't be patrolling our streets.

A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his car into an SUV that crashed during a high-speed chase faces a new trial in the death of a 11-year-old passenger after a jury acquitted him of murder but failed to reach a verdict on manslaughter.

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.

Waterfront Park. Seattle, WA. #photography #icmphotography #icm #bnwphotography #bnw #grsnaps #shoot_gr #shootgr_seattle #griii #ricoh #ricohgriii #buffalosoldiers #ishootfilm #sometimesishootdigital #horse

The person here who'd previously been diagnosed with H5N5 died today. Bird flu confirmed in domestic flocks in 3 WA counties – KIRO 7 News Seattle share.google/pbCsCX2wHAoE...

Oh hell yeah, a private equity firm is taking over a service I've used for years and never had a problem with?? This is sure to have a lot of benefits for me, the consumer!

FIRRP does great work, give them your money and support.

Real men have shoulder kittens. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.

Even though most Maya books were burned by Spanish conquistadors and Catholic priests, four surviving hieroglyphic codices have managed to provide a window into their remarkably accurate timekeeping tradition.

post leftist intercept comment section types are just so eager to buy into the delusion that fascism can be negotiated with Trump is shallow and was briefly charmed by a charismatic man, by tomorrow he'll be threatening to nuke woke daycare centers again there is no coalition with fascism

CNN: In the last couple of weeks or so, she's become kind of an ally on some issues. What do you make of this? Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.

it's actually really good our stock is down $500 billion, you fool, you absolute simpleton www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...

this prompted me to put on the postal service record which, surprise, still rules

hate to be a “our adversaries must LOVE this” guy b/c the reflex was so annoying including in the first term hashtag resistance stuff but I’m sorry, I’m full wine mom now and it’s impossible to get around how other nations must enjoy seeing us eat ourselves alive for no reason beyond stupid menace

“Wood’s near miss w/ executioner’s syringe came after months of meticulous attention to his case by… Jessica Schulberg, whose coverage helped set the stage for Wood’s miraculous escape” grateful for @bgrueskin.bsky.social giving @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social her flowers www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Still there.