Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months. Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

even I can’t develop me. I will remain in my natural state.

selling a conservation easement on myself

one thing i'm gonna do on marketplace is click on every funky ass traditional instrument i see. you selling a bazouki friend? clicked. gotta get rid of your uncle's baglama saz my guy? clicked. old zither brother? new guzheng sister? mint condition hurdy gurdy cuz? clicked. clicked. clicked.

you just know they used the shittiest glue imaginable and it’s going to fuck up the plaster/woodwork/stucco

I have a trip next week and two of the four airports I need to get through are on the 10% cut list

chiles en nogada is a strange dish, IMO. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile_e...

I’m still mad that the little white flight hitlerburg in my state house district means that I will basically always be represented by a republican

He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

the universe made a real life macguffin

“Did you see Elon Musk posted nazi emoji?” You bolt awake on the royal island of Tenochtitlan. You are not online. It is 1519 AD. You are Moteuczoma Xocoyotzin, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Cortes must die

I occasionally accept money for the service of transcribing historical documents. I tried one of the new transcription AIs and timed it, and it took me slightly longer to correct the AI. More importantly, it was annoying as shit.

You GUYS. My nerds. Go read this paper. It's got everything: - massively social, multispecies communal spiderwebs! 🕸️ - spiders with weird intracellular bacterial symbionts!! 🧟 - fully chemosynthesis-based cave ecosystems!!! 🦠🪰🕷️ and sorry to anyone who expected me to work in the last half hour, lol

Look at the death toll from the USAID shutdown and tell me to give a shit about protecting crypto owners.

Conifers. Cones from the genera: Thuja, Thujopsis, Chamaecyparis, Pinus, Picea, Cypressus, Callitris, Taxodium, Tsuga, Cryptomeria, Calocedrus, Tetraclinis, Larix, Metasequoia

Both the sling-jaw wrasse and this video of it are all I hoped for and more. Wait for it... And... Perfection. 🧪 🐟 💋

the universe made a real life macguffin

kids should get sick less

how long must the feds piss up our leg, before we are all wide awake?

I occasionally accept money for the service of transcribing historical documents. I tried one of the new transcription AIs and timed it, and it took me slightly longer to correct the AI. More importantly, it was annoying as shit.

I would like to hype a new book that just came out!! It is a collection of memories by Metis writer Marie Rose Delorme Smith (1861-1960), with context by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon. AFAIK, this is the first time writing by a Metis woman who experienced buffalo hunts has been published as a book.

I have a trip next week and two of the four airports I need to get through are on the 10% cut list

I regret to inform you that ross is habituated to his position of influence and his return to the wild was unsuccessful

It’s the yellowest town in Texas

I dream of being a long snouted predator in the backwaters of Laurentian rivers, but for now I crush shells with my round teeth and am sad #garweek #scheenstiaposting #totalgroupginglymodi

Obscure question related to trying to interpret some slides I'm scanning: Are there a lot of Fouqueria columnaris (cirio, boojum tree) planted in, say, botanical gardens or as landscaping around Tucson or the Phoenix area?

I'm proposing a 1.5-week mini-season between Halloween and Thanksgiving where we choose display names inspired by the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and and its sinking or the iconic 1976 folk rock ballad by Gordon Lightfoot that commemorates it.

Meet the Apalachicola redhorse, a newly described fish species.

sex pest solidarity is one of the key forces in contemporary global politics

“Cuomintang” is so good.

sex pest solidarity is one of the key forces in contemporary global politics

This article is incredible and you better believe I'm going to work this into my lectures on first encounters between indigenous people and Columbus when I teach my American history survey next.

'Monkey and Moon' - Ohara Koson, ca. 1910. #FullMoon #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

y’all are talking about Woke 2.0 but just ignoring Woke 0

🇧🇷Saurá-de-pescoço-preto 🌎Phoenicircus nigricollis Conservação:Pouco Preocupante O saurá-de-pescoço-preto é uma ave passeriforme da família Cotingidae. Também conhecido como anambé, araciuíra, papa-açai, saurá, e uiratatá-de-garganta-preta. 📷 Luiz Brito

A Definitive Ranking of U.S. State Flags 🧵 1. Virginia: A+ • Strong anti-fascist message • Tits out for liberty • Her outfit looks comfy • Fuck bras; don't need 'em • That lady just teabagged Caesar's corpse • Girlboss

BRISTOL LIBS OUT

there is a church near here that is constantly watering their grass and obviously paying a lawn care company to fertilize and spray and even though I would never darken their doors I am offended at the waste

we’re going to pull that AG loser across the finish line through sheer partisanship

The election of Jay Jones proves that Scott Adams prophecy was correct on everything except the timing

Yes! A bowed psaltery! We found the bow hiding in the case. It is super cool.

🇧🇷Surucuá-mascarado 🌎Trogon personatus Conservação:Pouco Preocupante O surucuá-mascarado é uma ave da ordem dos Trogoniformes, da família Trogonidae. 📷 Marco Guedes

Hey musician instrument folks! My wife got this at an estate auction -- we thought it was a fancy zither but when we got it home, it had strings *on both sides*. The only "brand" is "Waynie". Any clue what instrument this might be?

every academic q+a:

Today is Quintidi the 15th of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate turkeys.#JacobinDay More information on turkeys

For decades, wildlife policy has defined recovery as survival, keeping species alive, but not truly allowing them to live. From wolves to grizzlies to bison, we’ve settled for the bare minimum. What if conservation meant more than avoiding extinction? Read more: theconversation.com/wildlife-rec...

Shostakovich just read your posts

Purple donkey orchids (Diuris punctata) out in heathland in the edge of Croajingolong NP, E. Gippsland, VIC. Not as many of these beautiful orchids out this spring compared to recent wetter years but still a few plants in bud so might be some more flowering later in the season #orchids #inthefield

If you cannot vote for the Democrat, you should not lead them.