Aunty Bear
@auntybear.bsky.social
In my Queer Aunty era. 🏳️🌈⚖️📚🌿 She/her Profile pic: Close-up of a bear statue at Chautauqua park in Boulder, CO. The bear statue has a blue-gray face with yellow eyes, and a white scarf around its neck.
Alanis Morissette joined Brandi Carlile on stage at Red Rocks tonight. They sang Uninvited and Hand in my Pocket. I nearly passed out. It was amazing
Coming out of my hole to peer at the news before going out to bird.
Just realized that boro and kantha — the Japanese and Indian techniques for repairing cloth or creating new material from scraps by connecting them through a series of running stitches — looks a bit like the peeling bark on an aging tree.
Lovely article about a 99-year-old retired math professor who recently published a major result. It's the story of mentorship and multi-generational collaboration. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
nytimes.com
Oh take me away to the mountains today 🚙 🏔️ 📷 Minolta Maxxum 7000 🎞️ Harman Phoenix II #believeinfilm #filmphotography #phoenixfilm2 #harmanphoenix2
We’ve been studying Trump’s EO on mail voting & the way he’s weaponizing USPS to suppress the vote. It’s complicated & the new whistleblower revelations make it more urgent. Tonight, I explain what you should be doing now to protect your right to vote. joycevance.substack.com/p/i-doubt-yo...
I Doubt You’re Surprised
There’s a whistleblower addressing the USPS plan to implement Trump’s EO on mail ballots
joycevance.substack.com
The moon last night during the partial lunar eclipse. About half covered and then at 96%. Why does it look this color at peak? Because some light is still coming around the Earth, generally in the red wavelength. Think of it as sunsets, reaching around the Earth to illuminate the moon.
This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3w agoHave you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are?
The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.
Late summer flowers and birds at the river this morning.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ColourfulCharacters. Absolutely going with this indigo bunting. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
law.berkeley.edu
BREAKING: The Trump administration just released its plan to undo the #RoadlessRule. If finalized, this move will open pristine public lands to road construction, commercial logging, and other development across 37 states, endangering the species that depend on these forests, rivers, and streams.
Protect the Roadless Wild
The Trump administration just released its plan to undo the landmark 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and strip protections from nearly 45 million acres of wild, national forest and 70,000 miles o...
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My goodness please *listen* to this extremely wholesome story
We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
npr.org
