47 posing as a general in uniform, with Patton and MacArthur. Stolen Valor much? The AI President.
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Canoeist, camper, love the northern forests. Wisco resident, 🇨🇦 born. Chief Beer Geek at Madison's Malt House. ☮️🏕️🛶😎
Delightful!
Acid Rain@bearysweet.bsky.social · 2d agoAnd now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic
This makes me wonder if my own dopamine system was compromised during the pandemic. *Something* has made it worse. It's not just the ADHD.
Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...
Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...
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I think it’s really cool that 55 countries hate private equity so much they said “fuck off, FIFA, if you sell the World Cup we’re starting our own tournament”
A deep-sea fish with a transparent head and rotating eyes, the Barreleye is one of the ocean’s strangest creatures. Original post
What a powerful portrait. What a legend.
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · last wk.James Earl Jones in 1968 📷 by Lawrence Schiller
Why bother calling your Senator and telling them to vote NO on Todd Blanche for Attorney General even though Trump will keep him in the job regardless? Because history should record the NO vote. You’ll want it on the record that we rejected him. That’s why.
“You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.” — Gene Kelly
7/22/1849 — b. Emma Lazarus, American poet, author, playwright. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”, lines from her sonnet ‘The New Colossus’(1883), are inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty (1903) #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky #poetry
Alice Everett astronomer engineer, degree @girtoncollege.bsky.social worked in optics & early television. 1890 1st woman paid for astronomical work at Royal Observatory. 1903 1st woman to have paper published by Physical Society of London. d. #OTD 21 Jul 1949 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_E...
In capitalist America, Taco Bell is our CDC and Waffle House is our weather alert system.
What a time to be alive when Linda was on the radio all the time. Happy birthday!
DJ Mike V@djmikev.bsky.social · 3w agoLinda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou Linda Ronstadt is celebrating a birthday today! I still love this version of the Roy Orbison/Joe Melson track. What a voice! #LindaRonstadt #MusicBirthday #MusicSky #MusicCover #RoyOrbison #BlueBayou youtu.be/Kp9G0zkorio?...
This was a good day for linguists and historians. And of course the Brits have it now because, Brits.
Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 3w agoon this day in 1799 the "Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign." This Stone was a key to translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs, "unlocking 3,000 years of lost history and culture."
RIP Sam Neill. This was my favorite of his films. So sweet. O’Tooles last, also, IIRC.
#science #otd #filmsky #primatology On this day in 1960, ethologist Jane Goodall arrived in Tanzania to begin her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees.
It all makes sense now why my weekends need the woods.
Japanese scientists have confirmed a monumental discovery: asteroid Ryugu contains all 5 nucleobases essential for DNA and RNA. By analyzing 5.4 grams of material returned by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, researchers identified adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil in similar proportions.
Aurora Australis from the International Space Station
Richard Savoie, Canadian (1949- ), Away, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in
