Wow. Decorative quilt 'Variations on Dawn' by Ann Brauer. Etsy link for shop: www.etsy.com/shop/AnnBrau... - don't quite know where this will go since it fits everywhere and is so reminiscent of the lake and mountains at sunrise/set. But damn it's so beautiful! (And came with wall mount system!)

uh…what the fuck

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."

Not sure the status of friendly bathroom candle spider but I rescued a wee lil baby spider out of the tub (wtf spiders and ceramics??) and flicked it to the floor. TNG So, science peeps - do geckos have a similar problem? I think their trick is incredible surface area and spiders' is dropping lines?

Global model ensembles are in strong agreement that a prolonged &anomalous nearly West-wide autumn heatwave will develop this week & persist for 10+ days. While some daytime records may be set, this event will be more notable for its persistence & breadth. [Thread]

BTW, anyone know why this image is not displaying on Bluesky? It is on all other social sites!

Up next. The Treasure Chest via JWST

“The ‘perfect storm’ in the Bay could hypothetically occur if the peak high tide, peak storm surge, and peak rainfall all occurred simultaneously,” a BCDC report reads, but that “has not occurred over the historical record to date.“

This painting was featured by the Chicago Ornithological Society in the fall issue of their quarterly magazine, The Chicago Birder The org does great work with restoring and maintaining local habitats and advocating for protections for our local and migratory birds! www.chicagobirder.org

Jen C Mars@jencmars.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Eastern screech owl Mixed media of watercolor, pencils and gouache on 13x19" hotpress paper For #OwlAwarenessDay

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

Meet my newest fabric art creation: Gussss Bonecrackle the Semi-Cursed Neolithic Statue. I designed and hand-sewed him. Gussss spends much of his time inflicting mildly inconvenient curses on jerks. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Thank you! I've got a little work-in-progress on it all going here.

Data Visualization with Textiles

This site is notes and drafts that may someday become a Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles.

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@wingsndnsilver.bsky.social So, if I were to hypothetically buy myself an early holiday present... ummm 'Rainflower Sky' cuff and 'sky sheds a single tear' both look amazing and as if they fit together perfectly. Am I spending too much? Yes. Can I afford it? Also yes. Would I regret it? Nooo.

Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat

I'm looking to hire a Tokyo-based Japanese interpreter/research guide (fluent in Mandarin and/or English, preferably Mandarin) in preparation for a research trip in late Oct/early Nov. Looking for: help navigating a university museum/archives and finding some Meiji era-related sites/maps/photos/etc.

First Nations children are still waiting for safe schools, clean water, adequate housing and equitable services. Meanwhile, Canada somehow finds urgency when the “national interest” is pipelines, mines and major projects. Reconciliation has to mean more than wearing orange once a year. 🧡

No I mean I feel like this is important. I was talking about this with a friend yesterday because the crusty dusty Bluesky men were mad I was calling out obvious mansplaining, talking over and weaponized incompetence. They were demanding civility, supposedly. 1/

I don't try to thread often, and when I do I usually compose in Notes first and then check a bit later. (Spellcheck and autocorrect are now broken and possibly deliberately antagonistic.) But last night I was pissed and writing after the time my eyesight crashes and...I regret nothing.

I see so much beauty in a mossy old stump 🤓

“The office that you sit in is obviously off campus and that’s for a reason...Our main obligation is accountability." If there is legitimate karma in the world, these women will be professionals feted and respected as Theo Baker was www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...

Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

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Here are the ghosts, pumpkins, & bats that are left 👻🎃🦇🎨 I'm surprised no one's snatched up the Haunted House but I will be happy to keep it! One-of-a-kind, 100% human-made mini paintings on wood for spooky season; I'll be going to the Post Office Friday to ship 'em out stinasdemons.bigcartel.com

Next up is this rainbow-plated version of my Octopus design! :D abistevens.etsy.com/listing/4572... #ArtShop #DarkArt

Great news, everyone! We own Andrii Derkach's Beverly Hills' condo. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨 Please share! 🚨 I'm recruiting a fully funded 4-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD studentship at Durham! 🌱🤖 Designing plant immune receptors from scratch, combining AI protein design with structural biology and plant immunity. If you're interested please get in touch! benthamlab.org shorturl.at/U2PdV

Bentham Lab — Durham University

Bentham Lab, Centre for Programmable Biological Matter, Durham University. Structural biology and de novo protein design applied to host-pathogen interactions, plant immunity, and neglected tropical d...

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Why am I trying to do unplanned legal threads on bsky in the middle of the night? Pissed off. Not articulating feelings well but still wanting to vent them. Also fuck you so much whatever Apple "a.i." shit is making everything more difficult to use. Sorry, and g'night all. You rock ❤️

deskilling, depredation of knowledge, and planned obsolescence all feel like the same thing right now, and it's chilling.

Fraternities get fairly tale deals. Massive subsidies in things like (when I was at Cal) exemption from eviction regulations and no need to pay property taxes. The exemption meant every single legal resource we visited, took one look, saw "frat" and noted out. Not a winnable battle.

The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.

(Actually sued the frat along with floor mates -totally unrelated reason on paper, but also not. Won in the sense that they had to settle. And pay 10y back property taxes to the city of Berkeley. It's not a conviction, or vindication for anyone, but... 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

shademar@shademar.bsky.social · 3d ago

I moved into a defunct frat house (closed chapter) second yeah of college. While cleaning, we found a stack of developed photo of girls passed out drunk on the pool table during parties. Whatever came next they didn't photo. Turned them over to the campus police but nothing else we could do.

I think we did it! [And then some. 😂]

Hey y'all, if we can donate $300 on this by 7am New Mexico time (I think that's 9am ET) tomorrow, @shademar.bsky.social will match it! (The post below says midnight but it was changed to the next morning.) I just kicked in $50, who's with me? www.gofundme.com/f/renees-eme...

WingsNDNSilver@wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · yesterday

It has to be done by . . . when? midnight tonight? And once it's there, I'll let you know so you can add the matching fund AFTER it's raised? That way you don't have to think about it in the meantime. It's currently at $2,882, so when it hits $3,182, I let you know?