I'm in a small town, and my neighborhood looks weirdly suburban but backs up to a cow pasture (all of us have privacy fences between our yards, but just wire between us and the pasture, because we all want to watch the cows).
112% this. Everything I read, every image I see, every video I watch, I'm scrutinizing instead of just enjoying, and I hate it.
I have no idea how to get there, but I want people to have choices about how/where to live – without wrecking the planet any more than we already have. Maybe I'm being too stubborn and/or naive. I am open to that, lol.
I realize this on a rational level, and I'm pro-urbanism, but I also, personally, just really intensely don't want to live amid any higher population density than I already do. We've need a way to make it sustainable for people to live at whatever level of density they're happy and comfortable in.
One thing chatting with journalist unions have taught me is that management doesn't care about the quality of the news product.
Nor do they actual care about respecting actual journalists, it seems.
Why does he feel the need to doodle anything on his hand to remind him to tell the truth? And why not just use words, if he's really that in need of encouragement? So baffling.
For some reason, a turtle. Armored mount
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Very serious science journalist analysis: it looks like a giant space moth with antennae and folded wings. Can anyone else see it?
Halal meat is the good stuff. Also no significant number of Texans are going to boycott HEB. It's HEB. That's like boycotting... air or water or joy.
Yeah, no, Texans are never going to boycott HEB. We're all obsessed with that store, for multiple good reasons. It's the one thing that unites us. The racist bots are bullshitting way too close to the sun.
I'm not even an artist, but I still enjoy your art threads. They're a fun glimpse into a whole world I don't normally encounter.
The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.
Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.
📷 Royal Ontario Museum
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A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.
In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."
Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!
No, this is perfect. Thank you!
Thank you!! I enjoy seeing all of your work, but I was especially thrilled to see this one because I have fond memories of walking through that gate most mornings while I was in Cambridge for a summer program, way back when I was a high school student. :)
My mom just described the Cybertruck as a motorized doorstop, and she's not wrong.
Is there any chance you could sell a print of this?
My photo shows a dark brown, intricate, openwork Roman leather sandal for the left foot against a light grey display background. It is cut from a single piece of leather. It has a flat sole and the edges are cut into many narrow strips that have been pulled upward and inward to interlace over the top of the foot, forming a cage-like structure. The front of the sandal tapers to a rounded point. It measures 23.5 cm in length.
A stylish leather sandal worn by a Roman Londoner some 2,000 years ago!
This well-preserved ‘carabatina’ sandal was found under the City of London during excavations by MOLA for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014.
London Mithraeum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
How can you not love something called a "murder muppet"? I know that keeping de-extincted exotic animals as pets is a bad idea, but I still want one.
5 knives within a wooden box. 'ORTH' on each knife.
These knives are designed for cutting the crescent-shaped disks of fibrocartilage that is attached to bones (meniscus). The blades vary from long and flat, tapering and straight, concave, or v-shaped ends. These knives are typically used for orthopaedic procedures.
Nearly 20 years later, I'm still mad about the time there was an hour-long debate about whether a coworker's pants counted as jeans, which would've gotten her sent home. And it was a worker in the adjoining department who "reported" her, just to add to the level of bullshit.
For no reason at all, I feel like this is a good time to look up what set off that 1905 mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin.
Holy shit. According to the article sailors on TRIPOLI are rationing their food and if someone gets a little extra they're sharing it with their friends. There's no fresh produce, which points to a lack of resupply ships able to serve the ships maintaining the blockade.
It's extremely rude for these tornado sirens to go off while I am trying to crochet. Siiiiiigh.
For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩🚀🚀💕
*All four astronauts went to public schools!
Godzilla Divide By Zero?
A small but round road sitting in an empty flowerbed next to a sidewalk.
A larger, rounder toad in the same empty flowerbed.
I guess @seananmcguire.bsky.social has trained her fans well: see toad, tag author.
