'Part of the evolutionary fabric of our societies': Same-sex sexual behavior in primates may be a survival strategy, study finds A new study comparing 59 species of primates linked same-sex sexual behavior to scarce resources and more predators in socially complex species. The findings show diverse sexual behaviors are common —...

"Same sex sexual behaviour in primates may be a survival strategy and part of the evolutionary fabric." www.livescience.com/animals/land...

If Canada joins the EU it will force a great many businesses in the US to improve their food standards.

Edmond Bertrand (@vilniusschoolmaster) Hamilton has cancelled its entire Kennedy Center run. Issa Rae has cancelled. The Gay Men’s Chorus of DC has cancelled. The annual holiday jazz concert was cancelled. Artists are standing up to Tr...

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🎄 En esta versión del himno navideño sobre el aguinaldo - Ya viene la vieja - Maribel «Elenya» mantiene el espíritu de ésta arraigada costumbre con nuevos protagonistas: hobbits y menciones a los árboles del legendarium.
🎼 #Tolkiencicos #Navidad2025

Michael Everson’s white kitten Bele wishes you a Glad Solstice ☀️

Bele wishes you a Glad Solstice ☀️

Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!

If Labour would embrace an end to FPTP then Labour wouldn't have to court the far right.

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship Letter to the editor

In a letter to the editor, a reader warns that proposals to deny welfare to EU citizens with Settled Status are not only morally wrong – they’re legally indefensible.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

I'd say I've heard it, and might say it [ˈjud(ə)nə], but it would be very unusual to write it.

Three. [ˈʃʊdn̩(t)v̩] or [ˈʃʊdən(t)əv].

Westminster politicians with nae clue about Scotland lecturing me on how to integrate, when this place is home to me and alien to them, when they come to Scotland twice a year to do a
photo ops with a can of Irn Bru somewhere in frame. Piss off, I'm right where I should be.

"Farage doesn't like Britain" is a far cry from the desperately needed rebuttal to Farage's poisonous racism. By engaging in the far right's ultranationalist rhetoric of blind love of country, Starmer is kicking the door wide open to Reform Government without meaningful opposition.

It would violate copyright to “extract” my outlines. Would you kindly incentivize me?

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

And “sht” in Bulgarian.

Easy for speakers of Sanskrit. 😁 ष ṣ and श ś. Russian ш and щ, too.

The new cover for Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand has a stylized design that suggests waves, sand, water, and mountains; streaks of shades of blue wrap around the title and author's name, and at the very bottom, a section of brown and green circles suggests perhaps a grassy beach.

This fall, Searoad will be back in print! This series of interconnected short stories winds through the lives of members of a small coastal community over time.

Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.

Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.

Oh please let Miss Piggy be a Tellarite, oh please oh please 🐷🚀

The character was proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007[8] and incorporated as character U+A66E in Unicode version 5.1 (2008).[9] The representative glyph had seven eyes and sat on the baseline. However, in 2021, following a tweet highlighting the character,[10] it came to linguist Michael Everson's attention that the character in the 1429 manuscript was actually made up of ten eyes. After a 2022 proposal to change the character to reflect this, it was updated later that year for Unicode 15.0 to have ten eyes and to extend below the baseline.[11][12] However, not all fonts support the ten-eyed variant as of May 2025.

Absolute scenes

I attended a talk by @evertype.bsky.social last weekend at the annual @soctolkien.bsky.social convention, and from the images alone I just knew the text in that screenshot would mention him somewhere 😄

A' Hobat - Gaelic Books Council A Gaelic translation of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, a tale of an unlikely hobbit who goes on an unexpected journey in the company of the wizard Gandalf.

#Gaelic
#Hobbit
#Ghàidhlig

EEEEEEEEEE!

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@evertype.bsky.social some excitement...

Seems unfair. I go to bed at 04:00 and get up at 11:00. Is my bedtime “the wee morning hours”?

I’m sure by now that I did not parse your “🧐🧐” correctly. (Nor do I know that your watermelon 🍉 emoji is intended to mean. I guessed it was an American usage. I could well be wrong.) I was just sharing information which (in my own ignorance) seemed uncommon and interesting. 2/2

Erm, no, I was riffing off the Taco Bell thread out of amusement and I did not go to visit or study your profile in order to reply to this thread. Nor did I know how “most famous” The Paris Review was since I’ve only heard of it adjacent to my work in Ursula’s textual history. 1/

It’s published in New York.

Ursula K. Le Guin’s story Firelight in The Paris Review № 225, summer 2018.

Her last story was set in Earthsea.

Ursula K. Le Guin was published in The Paris Review.

Velvet or corduroy top and trousers, big lace neck ruffle, high leather leg boots?