This specific illustration depicts a hypothetical huastec merchant cruising through 12th century Cahokia in modern day Illinois. Might this have been the way the cacao seed found it's way into the Mississippi? bsky.app/profile/rafa...

Rafael Mena Illustration@rafaelmenai.bsky.social · 2y ago

Street View of Cahokia (2023) Commissioned by Trey the Explainer, as part of a series of illustrations that seek to show Cahokia at it's height. I hope you enjoy this painting to start of October 12, the day of Indigenous resistance! 🧵🔽

force majeure

#transformers #optimusprime #maccadams

made this back in January(?) i didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did on socials. a lot of bad and good followed but i'm happy i made it. shoutout to DWJ and Babs Tarr for the inspiration

Great news! I offer a Buy 4 Get 1 Free discount on stickers at in-person events and at Sea Hive, but for the first time ever this discount is now available online, no code needed. For every 5 stickers you add to your cart, one of them will be free! www.thornwolf.com/shop/stickers #BSNM #SciArt

Till All are One~ 🤖💧💙❤️✨️

What a legend.

Strong enough to be gentle

“Be Strong enough to be gentle.” Peter Cullen tells the story of how his brother inspired the voice he would use to play Optimus Prime. It’s a simple yet poignant quote that sums up why Optimus and Peter are so beloved. Til All Are One. 💔

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · last wk.

LibreOffice 26.8 is now available with a new Paragraph Composer in Writer, native OpenType variable font support, Calc improvements, and better document compatibility. linuxiac.com/libreoffice-... #OpenSource #OfficeSuite

Me

Kamen Rider

International Dog Day Award goes to… The Shepherd.

I love the last Ghost in the shell show

Fine. FINE. You want me to cry? I'll cry.

Five clay dogs buried under a palace doorway at Nineveh around 645 BC. Each one has its name written on its side in cuneiform. Expeller of evil. Catcher of the enemy. Biter of his foe. Loud is his bark. Don't think, bite. That last one is an instruction, written on the dog, addressed to the dog.

Both in terms of beloved celebrities' well-being and BC politics:

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

CNN@cnn.com · last wk.

"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis

It IS happening pretty quickly, tho! Lab-grown diamonds have gone from being in 6% of engagement rings in 2019 to 61% in 2025. A 10X increase. And them costing like a 1/5th of mined stones is why so many modern engagement rings are, like... ridiculously huge. Like, drag tier. Costume jewelry tier.

Emperor Joshua Norton II@joshuanortonii.bsky.social · last wk.

It would die even quicker if more people just realised it's the exact same thing as natural diamonds, made by the exact same process (heat and pressure). Heck, some labgrowns are made with explosions, which honestly sounds a lot cooler.

A clip I hadn't seen: Looney Tunes director Chuck Jones talking about how Warner Bros. destroyed the original drawings and cels from the classic cartoons. A truly insane crime against art.

Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Wake up honey Rosemary is making anti-Anna's hummingbird propaganda.

Rosemary Mosco@rosemarymosco.com · last wk.

Hummingbirds.

#Science Saturday. Can speaking multiple #languages slow brain aging?

Trump’s last minute changes to the trade agreement attempt to threaten Québec’s language laws. More importantly, they’re an effort, like funding the AB separatists, to divide Canadians. They want us to blame Québec for the new tarrifs. But we won’t. We’ll stand together, Tabarnak!