My favorite part of the mural are the panels showing how sacred the cottonwood tree is to the Dakota people. In Dakota stories, a star wanted to live with people, and became part of the cottonwood tree. When you snap a twig you can see a star living in the heartwood.

I’m in Minnesota, which has its own cultural weirdness, but when I coached 6YO’s soccer team this spring, I had to pull the team aside after the first game and literally tell them, “if the other team has the ball, it’s okay to go get it.”

tbh it's kinda funny how ER nurses are in the trenches, regularly under the threat of assault and working in lightning pace life-or-death situations, and this job is seen as significantly more feminine and frilly than a mechE who spends all day tinkering with autodesk in a climate controlled office

I MISS BOSTON. this is in the Charlestown Navy Yard someone go see it for me PLEASE

"Good science requires a chain of custody of why"

when somebody says "of course even I can admit that ai is good for X" X is often something *outside their area of expertise* they've heard it's good at. like, for example, protein folding. spoiler: it turns out that actually there are serious problems with using it for protein folding

getting really into evo psych (evolutionary psychiatry) if bats evolved to cope with being very small and having no money, then so can YOU

Let’s say you had pictures of Talmud pages, would there be a reliable way of extracting and OCRing just one part, e.g. Rashi’s commentary?

Something odd happening to this milkweed 🌿

New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🌈 Margaret talks with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era. @margaret.bsky.social @kavehmd.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/coolpeoplepod

"What used to be utilitarian vehicles for construction workers are now marketed to the American masses, with messages tailored to specific audiences. One common pitch centers on machismo. Automakers trumpet how some of their trucks have an 'aggressive appearance' or a 'piercing glare.'"

"The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam" is a great rule to have against AI content

This week’s astonishing artifact is a Byzantine oil lamp shaped like an extremely realistic foot. 🧪🏺

"Heroes never eat vegetables and rarely touch fish; instead they subsist on a diet of meat that is fundamentally impossible for the world of their audiences. Gold, silver, and bronze adorns their armor. But where did the wealth come from?" sententiaeantiquae.com/2026/06/22/h...

Banning data centers is a lot like bringing out the guillotines. It’s an admission that we have failed to get things under control and now we are left with extreme, crude, backwards, and regrettable measures because there’s nothing better that anybody can think of to try. 1/?

boy does this thread track with my experience in the medical system

Hard not to take notice of how white soccer fans visiting from other countries are treated by our media (and police) compared to soccer fans who are people of color and live in places like Brockton

People are going to see this and think, "wow i should plant bamboo haha lol" but actually, don't. bamboo is aggressive, invasive and fucks up biodiversity, so you're like ... planting one bad thing next to another bad thing, hoping they affect each other that is not how it works, so don't.

When you realize that isn’t “pollen” blowing away, but a buffet for the birds and bats….. #inverts #gettingmidgeywithit

river perfec t size for put feet in to w\alk! inside very Cool and Comfort wade safely put legs in River. no problems ever in rivver because good Temp and Flow for hot feet of summer britain. Ariver yes a place for a foot put feet in river can trust river for giveing good love to feet. friend river

HELPED PEOPLE HELP PEOPLE

It’s time for the British people to accept that all their attempts at self-government in the past 1600 years have failed, and resubmit to Roman rule

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

Perfect ("satirical") summary of the AI bubble. The whole thing is gold: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

Trying to name a bunch of silly english villages for an RPG adventure is so disheartening. How can I possibly top the real Hampshire village of Nether Wallop? Nothing I write will ever come close.

Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.

[folding my hands] and that’s why here at rancid elfs incorporated you will be seeing men with long flowing hair and glittering jewelry calling their political enemies sodomites and never seriously considering their daughters heirs

If Vandals are destroying the Reflecting Pool, then it stands to reason that the East Wing of the White House was sacked by Ostrogoths.

I just saw the typo "social newtworking," and I so want this to be a thing. Coworking with amphibians. Flamewars that are just a lot of salamanders around a campfire. All newts are good newts.

today's Late Antiquity Fun Fact: "none of these words are in the bible" is an actual argument used by 4th century Christian theologians when trying to hash out the Arian controversy

why didnt the tolkien estate go after Palantir the company back when it was baby

going to choose to believe this is about Mr. William Collins of Hunsford parsonage and imagine John Roberts as his twin in affect, intelligence, and charm

I’m sure I agree with the basic critique of the right wing’s monstrous form of Christianity, but “Pagan” is a word that applies to real people and it’s bad news for me and my family that well-meaning people keep using it to mean “not the kind of Christianity I would prefer.”

today's Late Antiquity Fun Fact: "none of these words are in the bible" is an actual argument used by 4th century Christian theologians when trying to hash out the Arian controversy

can someone explain how Patreon doesn't get eaten alive by transaction fees

(cw suicidal ideation discussion) What are the things that give you hope/joy? Do you actually think in terms of "I'm glad I'm alive to experience X / I want to remain alive to experience Y"? vs. the option of life/death just not coming up in everyday thoughts?

@theradr.bsky.social since folks were talking about the stereotype of "Jewish rules lawyering" - is there anything you can point to that Explains Like I'm 5 why it's wrong and what a more correct understanding is?

I'm having a lot of bad sad mad and suicidal ideation and it fucking sucks

Me, breathless, bursting through the doors to the chapel seconds before the vows: The Minions are bioluminescent extremophiles

i GOT them! the FAMILY OF KWEH

Look at this little tiny chick I painted 🥹 (It’s a Qi Baishi style study) #art

Elrond couldn't believe that Frodo, a mere hobbit, had successfully carried the One Ring as far as Rivendell. In other words: The elf checkout encountered an unexpected item in the Baggins area.

This week on the blog: We're back to our primer on pre-modern armies, aimed at worldbuilders,, and the second part of our outline of the ways pre-modern armies are recruited - this time looking at the more administrative approaches! acoup.blog/2026/06/19/c...

From the Discord commentary (Emmet, with permission): “Average writer has a hundred stories worth of worldbuilding in their head” actually statistical error. Tolkien Georg, who lived in a hobbit hole and cranked out a thousand background details every night, is an outlier adn should not be counted

Happy Summer solstice. This is a pinhole camera 6 month exposure photo I took from Winter solstice 2024 (bottom line of the photo) to Summer solstice 2025 (top line of the photo). The lines are the Sun as it appears to move across the sky and gets higher and higher until we get to Summer solstice.

Paper Fanwort (Cabomba caroliniana) Handmade plant replica. The second picture show all of the leaves, cut by hand, ready for painting. #sciart

“The Lemkin Institute is disgusted by the use of equality law and the cloak of “women’s rights” to cause harm to the trans and intersex communities. The existence of trans and intersex people in no way threatens women’s rights.“

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

A truly incredible analysis of the small details of handling user input and the rules that are so thoroughly ingrained in human brains that you absolutely can't fuck with them as a UX designer: aresluna.org/show-your-ha...

Y’all really got Elmo fucked up🤣