World Cup games to have largest police deployment in Vancouver's history, @loriculbert.bsky.social reports.
"The contingent will come from Vancouver police, the lead agency for this event, as well as from the RCMP and municipal forces in Calgary and Edmonton..."
vancouversun.com/sports/vanco...
That style seems to be coming back.
They don't work on me, but they are definitely around.
ooo!
Also, like, drafting.
I really want to improve my conceptual diagram work... which would be helpful in all my future creative endeavours. ... whether planning to knit a sweater or actually drawing out the bird feeder/plant stand of my dreams.
I think mine is encouraging progressives... but I definitely need help with reading (or I take my glasses off (like right now)) so... we'll see.
A white picket fence with a small historic plaque that reads “In 1832 on this spot Nothing Happened”
Not suspicious at all. More quirky plaques,please.
Nothing for public consumption? Hmmm.....
I would relearn how to draw, paint and sculpt (clay and maybe welding too). It has been decades. I would like refresher lessons. Nobody needs to see my art. I'm truly happiest that way, tbh.
Former Premier Rachel Notley published an excellent op-ed about how the UCP is putting democracy at risk with their attempt to rig the election.
i love reading people's alt texts when the web site decides to no longer show any of us images
remember when we all spent a lot of time worrying that artists might sell out? Those were the days
Cover of Beronda L. Montgomery's "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy," against a colorful backdrop. The cover is black, with different tree branches/leaves/fruit, including apple and cotton to the left and oak leaves in the lower right. The title is in large white font, with subtitle in the black space in the center in smaller orange font. The author's name is at the bottom in white font.
Despite hitting some heavy topics, it nonetheless strikes an inspiring and hopeful tone. I would love to see a docuseries based on this book, similar to High on the Hog. (11/11)
Cover of Beronda L. Montgomery's "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy," against a colorful backdrop. The cover is black, with different tree branches/leaves/fruit, including apple and cotton to the left and oak leaves in the lower right. The title is in large white font, with subtitle in the black space in the center in smaller orange font. The author's name is at the bottom in white font.
Overall, this book is such a fantastic read, and the balance of personal memoir, family history, ecological insight, and Black history is so well-integrated. The anecdotes flow seamlessly into science and history, and it’s such an enjoyable read. (10/11)
OMFG!
Cover of Beronda L. Montgomery's "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy," against a colorful backdrop. The cover is black, with different tree branches/leaves/fruit, including apple and cotton to the left and oak leaves in the lower right. The title is in large white font, with subtitle in the black space in the center in smaller orange font. The author's name is at the bottom in white font.
Time for another book review! My next book review is When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy, by botanist Beronda L. Montgomery. (1/11)
🧪 #BookReview #ScienceBooks #BlackHistory #Botany
Someone shared a reel where the creator critiques spaces created with the “aesthetic of community “ and it’s a phrase and lens I can’t stop contemplating. Community is messy, not an aesthetic.
chat is it good when companies are claiming ownership of people's likenesses and identities abstracted from their selves
This is one of the most dystopian things I've ever read.
... tornado warning? California wyd
80% of the way to GOAL!!!! Can we make that 100% tonight???
What’s hilarious to me about the failure to analyze racism in AI is that “experts” don’t understand how Karpf being black … makes perfect sense if anybody did humanities
Very sharp image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula showing protuding narrow jets emerging from the rounded tips of the gas clouds.
Zoom in on a clump of a nebula showing a grainy, fuzzy thin line that has a white arrow annotated to it. This is the jet from the protostar. Image is fuzzy taken with my telescope
Ohhhhh ... love doing these.
Left: Hubble Telescope image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula. That's a thin stellar jet from young stellar object buried in the cloud
Right: same, but from my backyard telescope. Can just see jet!
Original: @esa.int - www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
đź” #Astrophotography
Photo of the people listed in the post, including me, doing a "I once ate a meatball *this* big" gesture in front of signs about our panel.
Had a great time today talking transportation with @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social, Darwin Moosavi, and @francessawyer.bsky.social.
Big takeaways:
- SAVE TRANSIT by voting yes on the two Bay Area transit measures
- Policy is personnel: focus on office-holders, not just projects or policies
I think I’m good with retired astronauts forming an activist group on behalf of the Constitution.
www.astronautsforamerica.org
Mama here would rather crawl fences and run like a buck eejit than feed her baby, so I’m giving them the opportunity to play nice with each other.
Every fucking time!!!!!
bsky.app/profile/norm...
The sheer contempt publications have for their employees is absolutely gushing out of their pores. It’s bad enough that they’re insisting on doing this and debasing people’s names but that evil is compounded by how fucking nasty and mean their tone is about it.
This is horrific. I feel physically ill.
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Politicians leaving office or ending their campaigns when hit with a scandal.
