Telling my kid this was the Kennedy Center.

Spooky Sara (Endless Halloween🔪🩸🪦)@pashion.bsky.social · 4d ago

Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do

404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s death.

My day was very much like Darwin’s! This has to be one of the more relatable famous-person quotes ever.

Dr Hannah M. Rowland@hannahmrowland.bsky.social · last wk.

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

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Happy National Poetry Day!

"Behind The Trees" - my oil painting

Spam journal calls for proposals are getting bold in their demands. #academic

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

These Korean themed dice would be perfect for another ROK focused micro #wargame. Any suggestions for a topic? 😉 🎲 #wargaming

Your daily affirmation: If the universe is infinite, then that leaves a lot of room for your weirdness.

10 random maps for $1 from "Always Be Creating," a used crafting supply store in Fort Collins. I have no idea what I'll use them for, other than that they looked cool.

At FoCo’s Wobble Hi-Fi with a Brooklyn and Halberstam’s “The Best and the Brightest.” #TheRoostingArts

Idea: Setting of doomed prophets with so many apocalypses that the only reason the planet survives is the apocalypses and doomsday weapons conveniently foil one another in an endless chain of Greater Scope Villains, True Final Bosses, Starscreams, and Dragon Ascendants.

Post-conflict planning is difficult and takes a long time. For example, 10 days after the Marines landed on Guadalcanal in 1942, the Navy sent its first cadre of civil affairs officers to Columbia University to learn how to govern Japanese territory that would be seized in operations during 1944.

Jim LaPorta@jimlaporta.bsky.social · 2w ago

Washington — The U.S. Army Reserve is examining whether it can provide the military's Southern Command with police forces, medical personnel and other support units within the next four months, according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...

Mildred (left) and Gladys (right). Despite all the other cool stuff in their aviary, they love napping in this plain, lightly papered nesting box. (Old cat food boxes and small Amazon boxes make great disposable roosts and food containment areas). #PigeonsOfBsky

I don't know, maybe all those non-"straight white dude" people won their awards because their books were actually really fucking good, how about that as a hypothesis

In the age of tablets and e-calendars (even whiteboards), I still print important tasks in hard copy, Sharpie the title and due date at the top, and stagger the prints chronologically on my desk, making them readily visible and difficult to lose track of.

world historic fuck-up www.bbc.com/sport/hockey...

Hockey: South Korea have North Korean anthem played at Asian Games

Organisers have apologised for playing the North Korean national anthem for the South Korean men's hockey team at the Asian Games in Japan.

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sick public transit, gloria@seung.bsky.social · 3w ago

just turn on the Asian news, any Asian country's news, they are talking about the same stuff (how disastrously Japan has done to host the Asian Games right now in Nagoya)

#ThatFeelingWhen you’ve got 26 original printings of The Columbian Orator, enough to put one into the hands of each student as you begin teaching how #FrederickDouglass taught himself #HowToRead and #SpeakTruthToPower

Scott Sandage@scottsandage.bsky.social · last yr.

Teaching a favorite session today on #FrederickDouglass #Narrative — after decades of scrounging cheap original printings (1799 - 1832) of the #ColumbianOrator … I finally have enough to give one to each student & say, DISCUSS: What kinds of things could an enslaved teenager learn with this book?

KAL - The Economist

@drpigeon.bsky.social 😊

Military Pigeons@militarypigeons.bsky.social · 3w ago

British Army pigeon Duke of Normandy, who received the Dickin Medal for delivering messages from behind enemy lines WWII, c. 1947 (courtesy of PDSA)

NEW ARRIVALS with New Cat! We have not yet settled on a new professional name for New Cat, so your suggestions are welcome! Place your order via 319-337-2996 or infodesk@thehauntedbookshop.com - We ship! Or stop by 219 N Gilbert Street, Iowa City, 11-6 Central Mon-Sat.

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

This is where I'm posting from.

Curious… my iPhone doesn’t recognize “genocide” as a word. “Do you mean genome? Genoa? Gelato? No? Ah, can’t help you then.”

Found this gem on FB 😍

Game on! 😁

Kenneth Hite @kennethhite.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New KEN AND ROBIN TALK ABOUT STUFF podcast episode drops, feat. TTRPG story beats of finding stuff, @drpigeon.bsky.social, nymphs as monsters, and Slovakian vampire Michal Kasparek!! www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/ep...

But they were, all of them, deceived, for a late Labor Day was made to ruin the syllabi of men.