Rakete von Amazon-Gründer Bezos setzt Satellit in falscher Umlaufbahn ab Bereits zum dritten Mal ist die leistungsstarke Schwerlastrakete „New Glenn“ von Amazon-Gründer Jeff Bezos gestartet. Dabei erreichte sie neue

"Ihr Paket wurde beim Nachbarn abgegeben" 😂

"Easter Bunny on the Train"
By German artist Michael Sowa (1996)

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

Life, and the war, go on in Spring Journal by @fiddes.bsky.social "Later we dance/as if peace depended on it..." #peace #war #missiles #drones #strike #poetry

Flowers for the anti fascists. 🌺 #friedrichshain #berlin

Raymond Chandler's crotchetiness with publishers and film folks is breathtaking.

(from RAYMOND CHANDLER SPEAKING, collected letters, 1962).

the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote I think of most often these days is, “What do you mean, why’s it got to be built? It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”

Any connection to certain modern technologies is purely coincidental, and mostly harmless.

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

A while ago I put together a short movie for @archaeologymag.bsky.social about experiments with stone axes like this – remarkably effective, although clearing a forest would have been a lot of work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5U-...

Bolludagur; an Icelandic Festival where Kids Spank their Parents for Cream Buns - IcelandDiscover.is What is Bolludagur, or bun day in Iceland? Learn how to enjoy this delicious festival, and the days that follow it here. Even where to find vegan buns! Delicious!

Happy Bun Day to all who celebrate!

Please honour our traditions of spanking people while they are still in bed, yelling "BOLLA BOLLA BOLLA!" and then demanding they give you a creamy bun!

The @throwingmuses.bsky.social Moonlight Concessions US tour 2026

What a time to be alive!

Life is chaos, don't miss your chances to see the one @kristinhersh.bsky.social and this iconic band!

More dates coming!

Tickets links
kristinhersh.com/tour

Bonus #DarwinDay content:

Six of the best grumpy Darwin quotes.

Hello fellow linguists! I'm putting out this post to see if there are any JP to EN freelance translators who are interested on working on a relatively small Japanese game. Please leave a comment in this post or send me a message, and I can assist in getting you connected.

A overhead view of an ancient Greek cup, decorated in the centre with a workshop scene in orange.

A overhead view of an ancient Greek cup, decorated in the centre with a workshop scene in orange.

Adding the finishing touches 🖌️

The image in this ancient Greek cup depicts a helmet-maker concentrating on adding the final touches to a Corinthian helmet.

📷️ Attic red-figure pottery stemmed cup depicting a scene of daily life, The Antiphon Painter, 490–480 BCE. AN1896-1908.G.267

The Food of Love by Black Armada Games A game for two players about romance, love and the words of Shakespeare. Table top RPG.

The Food of Love - did you know I wrote a whole 2-player romance game where you play actors in a Shakespeare play falling in love with each other and the words of the bard!

Available on itch

#rpg #ttrpg #duetgame #valentinesday

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

What (else) does a gigantic unaccountable human-rights-violating slush fund buy you? Not as much secrecy as you'd think, luckily.

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

I have a lot of thoughts about the "I can generate 200 books a year you can only do 2 at most if you actually write the things, I win" bullshit, and no time to yell about all of it. So I'll just say this:

This thread is completely essential. Though I was delighted to goggle and dance in my seat even in half-ignorance.

Wednesday night 2/11 from 7-7:30 EST I will be doing the first of a series of brief online gatherings with the good folks at the Ashland (MA) Public Library, where I will recommend some science fiction books you might like to read!

ashlandmass.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/vir...

ProPublica is doing the work.

Hate to sound like I'm begging, but pre-orders are incredibly important for visibility... so, if you're planning to get the latest in the Stella series, please consider ordering it now! Out very soon

I like how editing can mean "I will ply this poem with so many tightenings it will erupt like a watermelon girdled by a thousand rubberbands" but it can also mean "I will put this in Garamond and save it as a pdf"

Very good paper about a very strange thing #farright #radicalright

Colorful (blues, yellows and orange mainly) graphic image of 4 white men with punk-like hairstyles and a big yellow star - representing the band, The Clash

#Music loving friends! It is the annual #KEXP International Clash Day tomorrow! Streams globally 5 am- 7 pm PT. So fun. This art is from a fantastic exhibit of local Seattle artists doing cover style art. LOVE my print of work by Pat Moriarity, 2017. kexp.org/listen #TheClash

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.