at a local Portland area bakery who was raided by ICE recently

if any of yall get a message like this, for the love of all heavens do NOT click on the link in general if you get any messages saying that your account is or will be suspended asking you to change the mail adress or to click on a link to fix it, IT IS A SCAM

Chicons au gratin season

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Le prix Gouincourt récompense quatre lauréates pour sa première édition

📷This is the Branco River in Brazil, as seen by #IRIDE HEO constellation. The near-infrared channel used to process this image helps us better distinguish between vegetated and areas where vegetation has been cleared, such as on the left of the image. 🧪🌏 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

I made the otter a sibling

you have been visited by Baby Bison and will now enjoy 48 hours of elevated serotonin

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

#MediaInvitation: journalists are invited to online media briefings ahead of the #Copernicus Sentinel-6B launch. The briefings start at 10:00 GMT/11:00 CET (EN) and 11:00 GMT/12:00 CET (FR) on 13 November. Details and registration 👇 www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre...

This morning, two oblivious wasps doing their kamasutra exercises on my car's windshield. Ah. Young love.

Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.

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This queen is at the Alameda Animal Shelter. Ellie needs a soft spot to land. www.alamedaanimalshelter.org/adopt/cats/a...

This is one of the best YA books I've ever read - strongly advise seizing this opportunity to grab a copy!

Sounds very interesting!

fun fact: Halloween in the north of England used to be known as nut-crack night. people would mark nuts with the names of lovers and place them around a fire. nuts that sizzled, spat or jumped indicated romantic incompatibility. nuts that burned together suggested peaceful, happy partnerships.

Male Snowcap #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica this morning. #birds #nature

We join @peninternational.bsky.social in calling for the immediate release of poet and former PEN Georgia president Paata Shamugia.

As protests continue in the country of Georgia, writers and cultural figures play a key role in pushing back against the government's attacks on free expression. Read Paata Shamugia's piece reflecting on writers' roles in the protests and the importance of solidarity: pen.org/in-georgia-w...

'Two Rabbits in the Moonlight' - Imao Keinen, ca. 1930s. #FullMoon #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

I hadn’t considered this particular flavor of AI hell and now I’m mad all over again

Cat servants! ⚠️ Did you know that sometimes all it takes for your cat to finally start using the expensive cat tree you had posted from Germany is for you to move it to an inconvenient location in an already cramped room? 🤯🤯🤯

I made this tonight and served it over lo mein noodles; it uses few, cheap ingredients, makes a ton of food, and is delicious. And if you don’t have a slow cooker just cook it in a dutch oven, lid on, in the oven at 350 F for 1 hr 45 min cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027... (gift link)

A major rescue attempt ended in tragedy in Rome last night after a construction worker died in hospital after being pulled out alive from under the rubble of a partially collapsed mediaeval tower.

For some reason, I am affected by a white rabbit mood and the actual clock is not complying.

Snowy egret in the pickleweed at the estuary. 🪶

Uganda and Kenya landslides leave more than 40 people killed

Casualties feared after magnitude-6.3 earthquake hits Afghanistan

Coming through! Important ptarmigan stuff to do! #birds 🌿

“Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the cage – And sings the taunting songs – That never stop – Yet, tonight, tonight – When you sleep – I will eat it.

I’m Cinnamon Spice- I protected my family against an intruder&instead of loving me- they threw me @nycacc.bsky.social to be killed! Idk what I did wrong! That person wasn’t supposed 2b in our home! Some1 NY NH NE ME MD CT DC DE MD PA VA- I can be transported! nycacc.app/browse/239294 pls REPOST

Another earthquake in Afghanistan.

Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh. These illustrations are from “Machinalia.” #historyofillustration

I feel like if congress is getting PAID and not doing congress stuff they should be make to pick up trash in DC and wash dishes in soup kitchens and be useful and whatnot.

Hey so if this is true I'm cancelling my Fortnite subscription and uninstalling the game. I encourage anyone else who cares about trans people to do the same

me this morning

All Souls' Day, and in the blue dusk light, carrying a lantern, Old Fox walked down to the churchyard. A barn owl called down from the tower, and was answered somewhere in the trees.

A NEW CHRISTMAS THING! The Big Green Books Advent Calendar! Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books. Your chance to unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas. The books will be chosen based on what you enjoy reading. More info HERE www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

What could be better than free books delivered to your home for your young child? Sign up for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library today! action.everylibrary.org/dolly_parton...

Can't believe that it's November 1st and I can't stay outside reading in the sun (and pairing wine with book) because it's too warm!

What could be more 🎃Halloween🎃 that the statue of Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons being attacked by serpents... ...recreated using SKELLINGTONS?! 🦴💀🦴 hyperallergic.com/593043/a-spo...

'Blue Bird in Autumn' - Ito Sozan, ca. 1910's. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

Foods that to me sound like the name of an alien species in a science fiction work: Gremolata (add yours in the comments)

❄️It's time for Old Fox to plan his Advent Calendar! Throughout December, I will be writing one frozen fragment each day, blown in by the North Wind. Join my patreon or buy me a chocolate on Ko-fi & write Christmas in the message, a theme or a dedication, & I will add you to my list of 24 windows❄️

TITANCHILD by @sennydreadful.bsky.social is officially out in paperback! 🐉 The stunning sequel to the British Fantasy Award-winning Talonsister, full of romance and treachery, powerful magic and devastating choices. https://tinyurl.com/cu5w8kzn 💜

Shutdown à la Nasa, donc personne ne voit/diffuse cette image, pourtant superbe. Merci @langinspace.bsky.social et @cieletespace.bsky.social