Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
Oh no no no, noooooo
This little love has been such a deep companion to you and to so many of us through your posts. His small fierce joy has been such a support. I am so sorry. 💔
Central panel from a Roman mosaic featuring two naked male characters, one seated playing a lyre, the dancing with pan pipes
Here's one of our favourite #Dorset #Roman floors for #MosaicMonday
The lively depiction of a music battle between Apollo (with lyre) and Marsyas (pipes)
[Spoiler alert: things end badly for Marsyas]
Found 1834 and moved to Sherborne Castle
Painting by David Neal for @antiquaries.bsky.social
My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.
This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!
Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
First to Second Century AD floor mosaic from Rome with the head of Medusa at the centre. Now part of the collections at the Terme di Diocleziano in Rome. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #Rome
... on the LP I checked out of the library for two weeks at a time
Pancreatic cancer usually kills within a year or two of diagnosis. In this trial, nearly all 8 responders are still alive six years later. The 5-year survival rate is usually only around 12%. We should be increasing federal funding for mRNA research, not cutting it.
a poster with a drawing of a person wearing a dress and another wearing pants under a sign that reads "your future" it's an ad for the Uof T library school, the caption reads "you like people you like books be a librarian"
YOU LIKE PEOPLE
YOU LIKE BOOKS
BE A LIBRARIAN
(may 1945)
Reminder: Speaking at Stanford this Thursday, planning to share some sound breakdowns and discussing why biophony matters. Come for the sound, stay for the science, and watch the screening of two episodes (one of which may not be airing yet)!
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
I'd say it's a common blind spot. Have you revised the plan?
One of the biggest lies in American culture is that the wealthy got wealthy by making morally good choices (ie working hard) and the poor got poor by making morally bad choices (ie being lazy and irresponsible) and that they both deserve what they got.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
I'm sorry for these specific women and their kids and for so many feeling the weight of ongoing violence against Black women. I read Karen Attiah'a post about how news and online discourse can take one thing from those killers - the name of partner / husband. But you are right, it's been rough. 😕
If this was partially related to the Virginia event, I was honestly stunned by how quickly she was dropped from all conversation. What she and those babies must have lived thru to get to her last day is heartbreaking
Unchanged !
This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.
This is what happens at concentration camps
so glad you shared - fantastic energy
It’s like it saw a picture of a sand boa and said “That! Yes!”
A dozen tree swallows are perched on a tree branch near a marsh. They are a dark blue bird with a white breast and are very fast flyers and highly active birds.
Last time I got out birding, I saw a small flock of tree swallows. They stayed still for one second so I could get this shot. They had been feasting on some of the first bugs over the marsh.
#birds #TreeSwallows
Yikes on scary-ass bikes, that took a dark turn! 😬I hope it was somehow less horrifying than it sounds and that you have been able to be safe since then.
Me: [idly looking up info on popes]
Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.
Me: wut?
Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]
BirdCast map showing 305.6 million birds in flight at 12:10AM EDT on April 17, 2026. Much of the movement is concentrated from Texas north to Canada through the Midwest states.
NEXRAD radar composite map showing birds and weather.
Birds be moving up the middle tonight! Lots of activity along the border, too; starting to get some of those longer distance birds moving north.
#birds #spring #migration
#LightsOutForBirds
Well, this is a nightmare
wheeee!
the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.
I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort
i ... think that ship has sailed?
The site didn't even post error messages, let alone comms from anyone at bluesky corp!