Ever blow-dried a labrador?

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Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby kitten appearing to burst through a sheet of white paper in a dark frame. Text at the bottom reads “sauve qui peut”.

“Sauve qui peut”. This is a French phrase that translates literally to something like "save yourself who's able/can" and roughly equates to “run for your life!” or “every man for himself!”, indicating a chaotic or dangerous situation/stampede. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

Love the lil patch of white on their wings!

What you got, bird nerds? 🪶#birds

The red worm NASA logo on the side of the Artemis spacecraft.

The red NASA logo unveiled in 1975 nicknamed the worm.

The original NASA logo with a blue starfield and a red swoosh nicknamed the meatball.

Purely for childhood nostalgia, I like that NASA has resurrected the 1970s-90s “worm” logo. (Hilariously the older one is called the “meatball.”)

That red logo is a remnant of a more hopeful moment for space exploration and society, and despite everything it makes me glad to see it in space again.

White text in a black background “If your flyer is AI, I won't go *clap* *clap* If your flyer is AI, I won't go *clap* *clap* If your flyer is AI, I won't go and I won't buy If your flyer is AI, I won't go *clap* *clap*”

I’ve had this, to the tune of “if you’re happy & you know it” stuck in my head for days.

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.

A group of devoted volunteers is methodically researching, cataloging and digitizing more than 10,000 concerts that one music fan recorded over four decades.

An image of the Orion spacecraft with the crescent earth in the background. Annotations labelling Orion “4 people” and earth “8.3 billion people”

The first image we get after comms come back is us. All of humanity is in this shot. And I’m crying again. 🧪🔭

📸: NASA, annotations by me

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Mads Horwath.

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

Lettering on window says Geography and Map Reading Room

Woman with glasses stands in front of giant globe

Woman in glasses stands in front of long hallway lined with old card catalogs

Back on my bullsh*t #herebedragons

Black and white photo of a shorthaired white and tabby cat standing on a seat with its front paws on a dining table, leaning forward as if about to snatch a bit of sandwich on a plate in front of it on the table.

Snack snatcher from my collection, 1963. The back says “Fluffel, the well fed cat. In our trailer in Cozy Trailer Park, Edison, NJ (he is 6 mo. old).”

Someone sent me this.

Everyone remember to hide when the astronauts comes back.

"Confronted with stark new evidence that many migratory species are moving closer to extinction, governments at a major UN wildlife conservation meeting...agreed on expanded conservation efforts for...40 species of animals"
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A top climate scientist just resigned from NASA. Here's why Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges

As @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explains here, when the US admin ended the NASA climate modeling group's office lease, they were kicked out of their building -- and "have been kind of couch surfing at various NYC universities and libraries" since then. Unbelievable.

Read more here:

Four white or maybe light pink hellebore flowers with double petals edges in red hang downward toward the ground. A bush and a trellis rise into the sky in the background.

Hellebores are beautiful, I just wish their flowers weren't so shy. 🌱

Scribner Will Reprint Don DeLillo's Hockey Novel Scribner will publish a new edition of Don DeLillo's hockey novel AMAZONS on November 17. Originally published in 1980 under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell, the book follows, the "erotic exploits of the first woman to play in the National Hockey League." Since its publication, DeLillo has renounced the novel, removing it from his bibliography. He did not publicly acknowledge being its author until 2020. The name Cleo Birdwell will remain on the cover as the author. DeLillo reportedly resisted offers to reissue the novel for years. "He was so against republishing," his literary agent Robin Straus tells the Times. "Lots of people have asked, and he would always say no." But a new interest by readers in hockey romance sparked by Heated Rivalry, as well as a January New York Times article about the book, has caused the cost of used editions to rise. The author recently changed his mind after a lunch with the novelist Dana Spiotta and his longtime editor at Scribner Nan Graham, in which the book came up (Spiotta describes it as "comic DeLillo with no restraints whatsoever, running jokes, ridiculous set pieces, insane riffs one after another.") Graham called him after the lunch and asked him to reconsider a reprint. DeLillo said, "what the hell, why not." At the time of its original publication, the book was rejected by Robert Gottlieb, DeLillo's editor at Knopf, and was instead published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. The book was long out of print and rights had reverted to DeLillo. The author declined to comment to the NYT.

finally, some good publishing news.

Why are hyphens important, you may ask? Check this out:

Rundown (noun): "Give me a rundown of what happened at the meeting."

Run-down (adjective): "The run-down building is being demolished."

Run down (verb phrase): "My bike was run down by the huge truck."

#editor #amediting #writingcommunity

The more I learn about ancient mapmaking the more I learn how many important archeological finds & breakthroughs happened in the '90s, the decade of my teens, when the world felt full of possibility & news about the ancient world hit the airwaves regularly. No wonder I wanted to be Indiana Jones.

Shoutout to everyone who writes their own shit. You rock.

15,000-Year-Old Clay Beads Preserve Children’s Fingerprints and Reveal Early Human Life Learn how early humans in Israel’s Natufian period used clay ornaments to express identity, share skills, and build social connections before agriculture.

We've become so used to archaeological discovery these days that some may take this for granted, but the fact that we can directly view preserved fingerprints of human individuals that lived & died ~15,000 years in the past is pretty staggering.
👇🧪

What’s the matter with you? What’s the matter with you, shipmate?

This essay is incredible and this recognition so very well deserved!!!!

Rising Sun Medecine
Leah Dorion ~ Métis
2007

The Dante Map: Mary Hensman’s Masterpiece | Worlds Revealed This post features a map designed by the 19th century scholar Mary Hensman. The map is commonly referred to as the

The Dante Map: Mary Hensman’s Masterpiece

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Books by Dante at PG:

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#books #literature #cartography #womenshistorymonth

Rope and Research An interview with writer Tim Queeney

I thoroughly enjoyed doing this interview with Tim Queeney about his new book Rope, a microhistory about how rope has been at the heart of human progress (for better or worse) for millennia. We talked research, writing & the importance of microhistories libraryofwonders.substack.com/p/rope-and-r...

Rope and Research An interview with writer Tim Queeney

I thoroughly enjoyed doing this interview with Tim Queeney about his new book Rope, a microhistory about how rope has been at the heart of human progress (for better or worse) for millennia. We talked research, writing & the importance of microhistories libraryofwonders.substack.com/p/rope-and-r...

Sepia toned black and white photo of a scruffy medium haired dark tabby kitten being held aloft by a white male hand coming from outside the frame. The kitten look proudly into the distance and has a light colored ribbon bow around its neck.

Behold! Postcard from my collection, no date.