IIRC, this was a multicolored jade bowl. This picture does not capture how delicate it looks as the light passes through the stone.

Beautiful multilevel vase with vibrant color - I wish I had taken notes to go with these pics.

The way the light shimmers in these fossils is breathtaking. It looks unreal.

Hey, @peculiarityshop.bsky.social , I was thinking about you this weekend when a bunch of us went to the Lizzadro Lapidary Museum in the Chicago burbs. It was amazing and I totally recommend a visit.

Respectfully, to hell with the ACA. It was crippled from the jump. We need to have a nationalized health care system that kneecaps the insurance lobby and makes health care portable. Please take an actual stand on this with some progressives.

@barrybutler9.bsky.social I have a question for you: one of my kid's teachers (HS level) wants the class to do an "AI Creative Task" on photojournalism. Both my kid and I are upset about this. Could you help us respond?

I'm not going to say that I'm smarter than you, but it seems to me that the things he should be brought to trial for should go to an international court.
I'm also really curious to see how diplomatic immunity weighs in on this situation, since he is still the leader of a foreign country.

That's absolutely fair. I'm just here socially (not creating/influencing) and its a lot across 5 platforms, 6 if you count Discord

I follow his Reels and was pleasantly surprised he popped up over here in the 'Sky. It looks like he hasn't posted here in about 6 months, though.

We also can't stay at the extremes - we will eat our own put there. We need to chase the Far Right out of the playground, then come back to the teeter totter.

Where did I say that Dems were going to save us? They have been letting up down in the name of "finding middle ground" for way too long, and here we are trying to ease tensions with people who are being absolute monsters. You can't balance extremists by being centrists.

"Shaking things up" and being "anti-establishment" is what got this menace into the Oval Office in the first place. How about "serving the people and not the corporations"? That works better for me, a person who votes.

He is soooo precious! (Guessing "he" based on coloring, but please correct me if I'm wrong)

As an Illinoisan, I kind of don't want to give him up. We are surrounded by states that are restricting rights and defining who gets to be an actual person. Pritzger is setting rights in the State constitution to protect them.

We'll research the hell out of how to get .001% improvement out of a machine, but why bother seeing if we can improve the workings of these mobile incubators? They're disposable and self-replicating anyway. /s

Might go lighten my mood with some Shirley Jackson.

Yeah, it's darkly funny, but we might not have so much misinformation if anyone bothered to study medical histories in women. So much research almost exclusively on men's bodies, but women? Nah, we're an enigma, ineffable, toootally unknowable. Why would science even try? /s

that time my psych professor did an experiment on my class #psychology #school #college #fyp TikTok video by hannahthawriter 🍉

Every time people vote against libraries or school funding or SNAP or other social services, this is what I think: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP821t9Qg/

Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.

Please, do not sign something like this.

Please, think about it for a couple of seconds before giving your/any information out for a strike.

This is the most CIA using bait vibes I have seen this week.

Please, find other way in your local community to protest than signing something like this.

This is how you do it. Don't let the press get away with this shit. Thanks @justinwolfers.bsky.social.

Even my little 'burb to the west of Chicago had a big protest on Saturday

So proud of you. And thanks for the reminder to schedule appointments.

You're just starting Gilmore Girls? What a journey! (And yes, but usually only when Rory is there)

I will love you both no matter where you are. I hate that these are choices that anyone has to make.

They'll see it just as clearly as all the self-destructive idiots did this time around.

That's fair.

My brain is having a "you got your schadenfreude in my dystopia"/"you got your dystopia in my schadenfreude" moment, a la Reese's commercials

This is erasure with a move toward negating people's lives. The Republican administration is working toward eliminating all those it finds icky & the tiny % of trans people who are in the population is a good place to start to see how far they can push. SPEAK UP!
www.facebook.com/share/p/15qH...

It was! We are so lucky to have great people on our board, but amazing people in the communities where we live.

Hey! That's me!

Something I learned about politics a while ago was to listen to Black women: they bring receipts because they know how to do the work. (They aren't perfect - nobody is - but so often they are living wxamples of Cassandra Complex.) www.instagram.com/reel/DFOIBPg...

Political cartoon showing a line of dominos. The first one is labeled Trans Rights and has a blue-pink-white trans flag painted on it and is tilting. Three people (representing a trans man, trans woman, and person wearing rainbow colors) are pushing back to keep it from falling. Behind it the second domino is labeled "Gay Rights" and "Freedom of Expression" and has a couple, one member of who is pulling the other from behind the domino and walking towards the first domino. The 3rd one "Women's Rights" and "Free Love", a woman is pointing and shouting to rally others behind the domino to come forwards, the 4th one " Free Speech" and "Democracy" and has people peering out from behind it as well as two people running forwards with a piece of lumber, the 5th one "Freedom of Religion" and "Modernity", and has a few people nervously peeking out from behind it, the 6th one is "Literacy". Dominos 7-10 are unlabeled and faded out in the background. Text on bottom: "United we stand, Divided we fall"

United we stand, divided we fall.