My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.
The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.
Over the years I've had several requests to make a loon painting. Well, I've finally gotten to it! Here it is, let me know what you think!
'Sunset Serenade'
12x12 acrylic on canvas
monicamorrillart.etsy.com
Photo of a sketch on a table. The sketch depicts a big tree with its top highlighted by a white orb. On the ground to the right stands a little samurai silhouette and somewhere hides a cat. Brushed ink on a4 paper.
Daily sketch 🔺️🥷🐈⬛️
Can you spot the cat ?
#art #ink #sketch #artsky
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
it changes the biodiversity in it too over time, slight change of activity, different wind at the surface :)
i regularly have a you need to retake a year at Uni dream, with the occassional can't find exam hall variant
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
My latest original watercolour “you me us”.
The deep, deep stench of corruption.
Brilliant news. The Lords backed amendments to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales, end police investigations, to pardon women who had previously been prosecuted, and fought off anti-abortion amendments designed to limit choice and access. 🧵
humanists.uk/2026/03/19/l...
Me, being led away by the secret service after releasing thousands of gophers at the Capitol: "You don't understand! It's a scientifically proven way to revive a desolate place! I'm a patriot!"
www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...
As in the excellent 'Wifedom' by Anna Funder.
Photo of a sketch on a table with two pens on the sides. The sketch depicts a bridge with little white and pink flowers above it. In the middle stands a little samurai silhouette and somewhere hides a cat. Indian ink and technical pens on paper.
Daily sketch 🌸🥷🐈⬛️
Can you spot the cat ?
#art #artsky #ink #sketch
@davidho.bsky.social is absolutely right. NCAR isn't just a great institution in its own right, but vital for all of us Earth scientists at universities and institutions across the country and around the world. To learn more, watch the video below. Write to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov today and #SaveNCAR !
Credits please , to @privateeyenews.bsky.social
GNU SIR TERRY PRATCHETT
Signal this to all towers, not logged.
‘He’d never have wanted to go home. He was a real linesman. His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken”?’
Going Postal
If you support the #AssistedDyingBill, the most important thing you can currently do is sign the UK Government and Parliament petition. It's important that filibustering is called out, and that the Lords don't effectively block the bill. Sign the petition now.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so.
The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/n...
one of my favourite simple things is to look for the cat each day, thanks @lkcreations.art !
@smallredone.bsky.social @molassive.bsky.social (who like cat related nice things :)
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Sketch of a beach with a little building on the right witg a street light above it. On the sea, far away on the horizon can be seen some mountains or ships or.... what you want. In the dooreway of the building stands a little samurai silhouette and somewhere hides a cat. Indian ink and acrylic pens on a4 paper.
Daily sketch 🏢🥷🐈⬛️
Can you spot the cat ?
The samurai and the cat are peacefully living their lives and they're happy to share some peeks with you. I hope it can bring you a smile and some warmth. Take care of yourselves 🩵
(Zoomed out version below)
#art #artsky #ink #sketch
Samuel Loveman (1887-1976) was a gay Jewish poet, bookman, and amateur journalist. Lovecraft stumbled across Loveman’s work in 1917 and admired his poetry, and the two began a long correspondence and friendship, with Lovecraft often praising and boosting Loveman’s work. The two finally met in 1921 in New York City, both of them invited there by Sonia H. Greene (Lovecraft’s future wife). In 1922 Lovecraft visited Loveman in Cleveland, where he met Loveman’s friend the gay poet Hart Crane (1899-1932), and others in their circle, including composer Gordon Hatfield, the “precious sissy” in the above letter. In 1924 Lovecraft and Greene eloped to New York; Loveman and Crane moved there as well, with Loveman as Lovecraft’s upstairs neighbor for a period. In time, the marriage failed, and Lovecraft moved back to Providence, RI.
ok, you cowards, which of you's going to write me a sitcom titled lovecraft & loveman?
A happy magic frog that says poof. You are now untired and very happy.
I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE
running down Stinkpot alley across to Old Sarum was always fun, particularly in muddy conditions.
Cambridge University has just announced that the proposal to close its undergraduate course in veterinary medicine, which would have led to the end of its Vet School and Hospital, has been dropped.
The vets will carry on with the reforms they had already launched and the course continues. Victory!!
proud that my daughter somewhere here.
An incredibly lifelike illustration of Paddington Bear, official psychopomp to the British royal family, gently escorting a man in top hat and tails (carrying a Puzza Express takeout) to Belmarsh
Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy
