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A collective photo taken at Firestorm Books. Our team, including five humans and two dogs, is sitting on the sidewalk in front of the building looking relaxed. The sky is bright but cloudy and flags on the building hang without any indication of wind. The building is painted forest green and various posters and signs are visible in the windows, which reflect the sky. The largest reads "Immigrants Welcome."
Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9
Protect Chaco Canyon! Trump’s DOI has announced a proposal to open it to oil and gas drilling—potentially destroying sites that have been sacred to Pueblo and Diné indigenous communities for generations.
Say NO to revoking protections for this sacred place: eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...
My fifth grader had a small amount of cursive a couple years ago and absolutely can't read contemporary cursive. Thats absolutely a thing.
With specific regard to historical research, historians have to train on paleography already. I worked with 16th c Spanish and learned notarial shorthands, different letterforms, archaic spellings. It's not uncommon even with training one can be uncertain in identifying a specific word or name.
Obsidian is a zine documenting the downhill skateboard scene from Asheville, NC. Picked it up at @firestorm.coop the other day. www.obsidian-zine.com
Farewell to the great Augie Meyers, founding member and keyboardist for both the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornadoes and a genuine Lone Star legend.
old photo of juneteenth emancipation day
People gathered before a stage, Juneteenth celebrations in Corpus Christi, Texas (1913) by George McCuistion.
Source: SMU Central University Libraries
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#texas #houston #emancipation #wagons #juneteenth #austin #slavery #tents
Up early to publish our list of things entering the public domain today and then rest publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/01...
Illustration of space colony
A colony's windows (1970s) by Rick Guidice.
Source: NASA
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#technology #utopias #architecture #art #publicdomain
lobster
Sea Serpent and Giant Lobster (1555) by Olaus Magnus, from History of the Northern Peoples
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Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library
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#ships #attacks #sea #oceans #art #publicdomain
Medicine Man, Performing His Mysteries over a Dying Man, 1832, by the American artist George Catlin, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Featured in our essay “The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram” — https://buff.ly/2QZcWIB
map of california as an island
Novveav Mexiqve Et Californie (1684) by Allain Manesson-Mallet.
Source: @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social
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#maps #calexit #decorative #california #geography #cartouches #territories #labeling #art #publicdomain
Last two reposts in conversation: It's very common for people to lament LLM's clumsiness in writing while extolling its suitably for coding, but expressiveness and precision can be just as satisfying and edifying in code as in writing. Focusing only on results feels like an impoverished perspective.
An interesting question in this IEEE article. If writing code is now primarily about telling some coding agent what code to write and scolding it when it gets things wrong, is tracking programming language popularity even meaningful?
In reality, the most popular programming language is now English
It's glorious.
*Coach Eck puts his kiddo in a safe place and then gives the signal*
THE LOBOS GO ABSOLUTELY CRAZY WITH THE HATCH CHILE ROASTER TROPHY
Watching the Lobos and NMSU with local ABQ TV advertising means my first exposure to DHS ads directly addressing ABQ police officers to quit and join ICE to catch the ‘worst of the worst’ instead of ‘standing down’ in a sanctuary city. I assume there’s not much audience for this, but sad to see it.
Harley 647 f.3v
From Aratea (ca. 820).
Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social
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#astrology #zodiac #calligrams #astronomy #manuscripts #fish #aratea #stars #constellations #art #publicdomain
"At a Funeral", one of the many enigmatic images to be found in Thought-Forms (1901), a work co-authored by the theosophist Annie Besant, who died #onthisday in 1933. More on these “synesthetic” abstractions in our essay by @ResObscura here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/v... #otd
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Bought the Kabutomushi cassette from Mei Simones last year and have noticed she’s taking off a bit in recent months which is super great. Hope KEXP will post her full performance soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPZ7...
I was reading this in the car camping at Field of Vision a few weeks ago. Worked for me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_R...
First time we went to a Lobos game I got in the wrong parking line and the parking attendant let us park two rows from the stadium in booster parking when he heard we were first-timers. It was even the NMSU game.
This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
A Life Well Wasted episode 9: Game Over is up now. Grab a timed-edition poster by Olly Moss anytime in the next 7 days to support the show. Thanks for sticking with me! alifewellwasted.com
Illustration of jellyfish
Medusae of the World: Plate 6, Volume 1 (1910) by A. G. Mayer, from Medusae of the World.
Source: MBLWHOI Library / Biodiversity Heritage Library
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#anatomy #zoology #jellyfish #marine #medusae #art #publicdomain
Visboek: Folio 62v and 63r (1580) by Adriaen Coenen, from Visboek.
Source: National Library of the Netherlands
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#jellyfish #manuscripts #aquatic #fish #art #publicdomain
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