Ajourd'hui. Il fait froid. Il pluie. Il y a du vent. Puis Le soleil brille. Les oisseaux chantent. Ah! Le printempts.

I didn't know you were on BlueSky until a day or two ago. I read "Between Two Rivers" recently and wrote a little thread if it interests you. Not really a review. Just my reactions. Anyway, it's a good book. Thank you.

A European Robin judging the photographer for the aperture he's using. For the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJForJuxtaposition Photographed in south #Cheshire, England on #Kodachrome in the 1980s. #ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #PhotographersOfBluesky

I do not have the patience to read books (even award winners) that forgo the use of helpful quotation marks, capital letters and other useful punctuation. Those things are there for a reason. #BookSky 📚💙

Comedy is hard. Maybe harder than drama. But I'll tell you what comedy based on misunderstanding and confusion is, to my mind, much better than comedy based on buffoonery.

Scientists Discover Undersea Cow Tool!

tušāma ina urri iššira damiqtī arḫu innammaru inammira šamšī "Perhaps, at daybreak, good things will come to me A new moon will appear, my sun will shine." A couplet from Babylonian poem, Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, whose protagonist hopes for better days. A lengthy, beautiful, bizarre work of literature.

Happy #FridayThe13th!🐾🍀🐾

Inspired by ancient reverence for cats, I've created 'Felines of Antiquity,' a raku vase that honours their timeless, divine charm and enduring diva attitudes. Does your cat act like a god or goddess? Mine certainly does! Share your stories and photos below, and happy #Caturday to all! #art #cats

It amuses me to no end that "rire" means "to laugh" and "sourire" means "to smile"

📚💬 #bookskychat So much depends on why. My current read is poorly plotted, lacks character development, and it's writing is flat. But I persist because it's doing wonders for my French comprehension.

In 1290, Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I & mother of his 14 kids, died in Nottinghamshire. The places where her body rested during the journey to its tomb in Westminster were marked by stone crosses. One of these still stands at Geddington, Northants, & I took these pics there this p.m.

"Translocution" is not a word. But it ought to be. Bonne nuite mes amis

🧵 As a society we are beset by multiple maladies. One that doesn't get talked about is a lack of humility. Humility is not self-abnegation. It is not the denial of one's self-worth. It is not a wallowing in a sense of humiliation. 1/3

This one cracked me up

Wish I knew how to report this: Southern France. Southern sky. Almost horizon to horizon. Brightest meteor I've ever seen. And it was distinctly green. @philpait.bsky.social

The demonic is but the effulgence of the void when stared into by a mind wrapped in fear.

I'm not saying I hate Monday, I'm just saying I'd prefer if it was Sunday again.

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only

Another day where the urgent fights the important and nothing gets done -- Reflections on a life that got away

Untitled Landscape original hand printed monotype print. Image size is approximately 9" x 12" and depicts an imaginary scene along one of the hiking trails in Western Pennsylvania. Available here printsnat.etsy.com/listing/6431... #printmaking #landscape #monotype #pittsburghartist #printsky

I have once again been way off w/r/t actual painting so I wanted to mess with something small and low stress and dumb with no attachment to how it was going to turn out and I think it's safe to say I accomplished that

Is there an acceleration in global warming expected in the CMIP6 climate models? yes! But not as easy to detect in the real world. (from www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...) (see also: www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar... from 2024).

Really doubt Plato wrote this. A citation would have been useful

📚💬 #bookskyschat 🧵 "Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History," by Moudhy Al-Rashid Sometime in the 1920s an archeologist by the name of C. Leonard Woolley stumbled into a room in the temple of Sîn in Ur. 1/4

Traditionally, Western Civ classes tell us that it began in ancient Greece (i.e. Athens). It didn't. Two examples: 1. The distribution of offices in Athens was by sortition not by election. Election is more typical of Rome where being able to run for office was a matter of privilege. 1/2

Just for the record, the correct order of courses is Starter Main Salad Cheese Dessert (And please stop calling the Main course the Entrée)

🎬📽 If brutal satire is your thing, try "Represent," (originally "En Place"). Twelve episodes. I had to stop after seven.

Neurodiversity beyond the social model freedomnews.org.uk/2026/03/05/n...

Enfin je n'sais pas rien

"Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder, which is to say that there is some pathology in the brain existing from birth." Yeah, no.

Le vaineteux a un chapeau

Don't fludge the driver!

The first Battle of Armageddon (Megiddo) was between King Thutmose III of Egypt and an alliance of Canaanite city states. It's a fascinating battle because of Thutmose's audacious tactics and the detail in which it was recorded en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... 1/2

Armageddon is not an event. It is a place. A place also known as Megiddo. A place that once was of strategic importance but now exists only as an archeological site. References to a final, cataclysmic battle at Armageddon posit a long obsolete map of the Middle East.

This world is terrifying. So, what is courage? Is it fearlessness? Is it pressing on through fear? Or a secret third thing?

Stupid story idea: The Flower Children -- A peaceful, seemingly naive civilization is threatened by an imperialist power. The Flower Children seem to do nothing to defend themselves, yet the aggressor collapses in on itself.

S1:E7:The Nox seems like a good place to leave it 🎬📽

(I can't Reply for some reason, so...) "The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore Where Israel's tents do shine so bright." (William Blake) :)

'Pine of Success and Oumayagashi, Asakusa River' from the series 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

Netflix recently added Stargate SG1 to its offerings. Let's just say, it hasn't aged well.

Unpopular opinion: neuroscience is the new phrenology

"If you can talk someone into it, someone more eloquent can talk them out of it."

The idea that autistic people lack a ‘theory of mind’ has shaped ASD research for 40 years. The evidence never supported it – and it’s time to move on.

"Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again." --Gandalf the Grey, in J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1, Part 1, Ch. 2

The consensus among rightwing trolls is that because video shows him walking outside the closed Tim Hortons where he was dumped, he was actually not blind at all (he could see about 3 feet, blurrily). I suppose it's slightly impressive: Trumpism can magically cure blindness.

Of old, Stoicism was "amor fati," the joyous embrace of what is fated (which was everything -- time was a cycle that repeated without end). Somewhere in time it became a fixation on control grim endurance of what what had to be endured because it could not be controlled.

Il ne marche pas

On n'en parle pas.