Remember: Before he was The Onion's CEO, Ben was an outstanding reporter on misinformation, and that led him to spend a huge amount of time in really dark places, and to become a target himself for some of the worst people out there. For all the jokes, which are great, that past informs his present.
Digital art of 36 warbler species depicted in stylized block forms.
Digital art of 36 species of warblers depicted in stylized circles highlighting relative color and pattern placement.
Warblers on my mind.
Making these two different sets of bird art was a fun way of seeing how my brain works at IDing birds.
#birds #BirdArt
A bare hand holding a small piece of hail
I got this yesterday
Pansies
Joseph Plaskett
1970
The most violent British cartoon 🫣
Waking my kid up he tells me Thursday is the worst day of the week because it’s so close to the weekend “it’s teasing you but you still have a bunch of work to do.”
My quote of the day
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury
The LPBO @longpointbirds.bsky.social Sightings Board is now updated to April the 15th. Check out the highlights from our first seasonal update! birdscanada.mediavalet.com/portals/LPBO
Bunnies in a raft pull up next to a spaceship capsule, which has just splashed down and is floating in the open sea. Visible in the capsule, two bunnies wave at the ones in the boat.
Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
Yesterday, I saw more northern flickers in a single day than the rest of my life combined 😭
Birding at @longpointbirds.bsky.social is always such a joy
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northe...
🐋 Exceptionally rare footage of sperm whale giving birth in the wild
Scientists have released footage of a spectacular event rarely witnessed by humans: a sperm whale giving birth while other females worked together to support the mother and her newborn
📹 Project CETI
Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊
There are currently only nine iNaturalist observations of this amazing snail, Antidrymaeus stramineus! Here's the most recent one.
📷 floydh on iNaturalist
📍 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
Great to have the ability to create 3D rotatable versions of Pythagoras and angles between lines and planes problems from textbooks and papers.
Then Toad fell asleep.
James @GoodVibePolitik X.com A friend in Cuba just notified me that every single patient in that hospital that was on ventilators died tonight. I don't have words. James @GoodVibePolitik•4h There's something supremely saddening and enraging about seeing a hospital running on bare minimum power. Thinking about dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others tonight in Cuba. This is a blockade of death. THE THE B
What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.
Marking some exam Qs today
For “Write a power of 5 from this list.” about half of my class (Y11 F) had written 1^5=1, 2^5=32 etc… (none of which were in the list)
And I realised that our language around indices/powers is so unhelpful, and why so many were making mistakes.
#MathsToday
👆Swipe left or right?!?
End-of-term tests approaching → quick revision/fact checking tool for students.
FREELY available in revision section:
mathswhiteboard.com
🔗Direct link: mathswhiteboard.com/MWB/factchec...
@mathsjem.bsky.social @colleenyoung.bsky.social #maths #iteachmaths #MathsToday
Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪
I am here this week giving lectures and learning about an educational system in a country with a social safety net.
For starters, undergraduate education is free and doctoral students are treated as employees, including paid medical and parental leave.
Shoe free classrooms are a whole rabbit hole! The research shows that bullying is reduced, mobility increases and bacterial transfers drops dramatically.
I went shoe free for a couple of years at an Indigenous board but Now that I'm back in Ontario it's too strict and I can't have it my way 😬
Miner's Houses, Glace Bay
Lawren Harris
1925
100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride.
Mainstream media: nothing
Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes.
Mainstream media: nothing.
This is what extreme media bias looks like.
UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension.
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
Amazing. Amazon is forcing employees to use its AI tools to speed up work and it’s slowing them down www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
TIL!
Father David Bauer stands facing the camera against a plain backdrop, smiling while holding a large hockey trophy mounted on a wide wooden base. He wears a dark clerical suit with a white Roman collar. The trophy has two ornate handles and a central cup, with small hockey player figurines positioned on the base near the front. Numerous engraved plaques are attached around the wooden base beneath the cup.
Father David Bauer loved the game of hockey.
A gifted player, he turned down playing pro hockey to become a priest.
But hockey never left him.
He mentored many players and created Canada's men's national hockey team program.
This is his story.
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Anyone else stressed about the seaonsally warm temperatures are messing with spring sugar shacks?
The trees need regular cycles of big diurnal differences to force sap out
If you have the @inaturalist.bsky.social you can scan it and it'll tell you, usually down to a genus!
