Water is returning to the African Sahel. After the catastrophic droughts of the late 20th century, aquifers from Senegal to Ethiopia are refilling, water tables in Niger have risen four metres, and Lake Chad has swollen to ten times its mid-1980s size. Yale E360 buff.ly/SUrDAnL #ShareGoodNewsToo

After Decades of Drought, Water Is Rising in the African Sahel

Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists,…

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Felt like a good time to reshare my 2023 ideas for Moomin Odyssey casting… What do you think? 🌊 Moomintroll as Telemachus Sniff as Eumaeus Snufkin as Eurylochus

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

Hemingway's baby shoes has nothing on the economy or affective power of these two words. I'm in pieces.

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

This is a good resource, which will hopefully grow. I'm a cis person, but will support these venues because they're obviously nice people. #trans #glasgow #ehrc goodweeplace.com

ME: I am going to make a post on social media. I will get a small burst of dopamine if people interact with my post. PEOPLE: [interact with my post] ME:

@drgonzo123.bsky.social , we‘ve _talked_ about this.

Aidan O’Brien@aidanobrien.bsky.social · 7h ago

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

meanwhile, the anti-trans lobby has gone straight from "we won't need toilet police" to "the toilet police will need much more funding" without missing a beat bsky.app/profile/hlee...

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 9h ago

Absolute state of Falkner and Reindorf in the Times today

these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness

Universityes yn red states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun. Universityes yn blue states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun.

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

Textes from Sisyphus: UGH You are not goinge to BELIEVE what just happenid AGAYNE 🪨

This episode of Wholesome Content is brought to you by a fox rescue I follow.

What TF were these used for? I just feel in my bones that it's going to be something that's really obvious when you know it and everyone will go "ohhhhhh OF COURSE" but I have no clue what it is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_d...

Roman dodecahedron - Wikipedia

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What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story

The moone doth belonge to everichon The best thynges yn lyfe are fre The starres do belonge to everichon Thei shyne ther for me and thee -- The floures yn spring -- The robins that singe -- The sunbeames that shyne -- Thyne, and myne! And love can come to everichon The best thynges yn lyfe are fre!

Do not messe wyth writers. Thei are the kyndeste and meanest and weirdest folk on Earthe. Thei kan create a person yn a second, or make a partye be rememberid for two thousande years. Thei kan stitch and unstitch worldes. Thei give names to emociouns we do not yet understande. Odd people, mightye.

A 13-Year-Old Boy Found This Bronze Coin in a Field. It Turned Out to Be the First Ancient Greek Artifact Discovered in Berlin Cool!

A 13-Year-Old Boy Found This Bronze Coin in a Field. It Turned Out to Be the First Ancient Greek Artifact Discovered in Berlin

Minted in Troy in the third century B.C.E., the object might have been buried as a gift to the dead. Archaeologists don't know exactly how it ended up in modern-day Germany

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everybody in Seattle right now like

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Our cats don't knock glasses off of counters or dishes off of shelves. No, no, that would be too simple. Our cats prefer to knock MY BOOKS OFF THE SHELVES. ENTIRE ROWS OF THEM.

Noticing some folks seem to think writers just say clever things without understanding how the world works, as if we're all naifs who just happen to be good with words instead of people with formal educations and a professional interest verging on requirement in the ability to conduct research

I know it’s so pedantic, but I hate it when people throw toga parties and then wear a Greek chiton off Amazon with, like, a gold meander pattern. That’s why I always teach my students how to tie a proper bedsheet toga—because Rome.

“If your Andre be Giant, You’re cool and compliant. If you’re Andre be Gide, Call the cops, kid”

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This is still happening! The Wrong Dead Guy is just $1.99. It's like if Carl Hiaasen wrote a sort of fantasy/SF weird heist thing...There might even be a monster. I'm not sure. It's hard to remember. But it's just $1.99. You read it and tell me.

the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary consciousness