Japanese Festival returns this Labor Day weekend packed with food, festivities, and fun! Learn more or reserve your tickets in advance today: buff.ly/gItDoXf 📸 Mary Lou Olson, Julie Merkle, Robin Pagano, Sundos Schneider #MOBOTGarden
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The shining city on the hill...was Carthage. Dress history, hand embroidery, native plants, and dogs. Lots of dogs. Recreating ca.1600 jacket V&A 173-1869 in silk on linen.
Please show me something you've made recently. A meal! Pottery! A painting! Doodles! A cross-stitch! Whatever!
Scoop: "60 Minutes" is facing more brain drain. I'm told Madeleine Carlisle—a well-regarded associate producer at the newsmagazine, who also happens to be the daughter of Stephen Colbert—resigned from the program in recent days. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4wLyA4i
Hallelujah for extraordinary high voter turnout, and Marc Elias, doing the good work
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 15h ago🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to limit their own ability to pass amendments to the state constitution — a proposal that fueled extraordinarily high voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Sitting here recovering from a life-threatening emergency surgery and 100% agreeing with this skeet
Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social · 14h agoI mean, the procedure that save my life wasn’t invented until the 1990s, so I am a little biased
On the whole, can confirm (except during wildfires, obvs)
Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14h agoAs someone who grew up in SoCal and remembers smog alerts and maybe being able to see the mountains once a year, yeah, air quality is soooooooo much better these days
Good morning! Wonderful landscape of the Lakes last week. Happy hump day...downhill to the weekend! ☕️ x
This is not a drill. There is a DOGGO in the reading room!
Happy Dog Smiling at Camera
ALT: Happy Dog Smiling at Camera
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From the AP: Brazilian capybaras enter chambers of local legislature
The National Museum of Natural Sciences in Ulaanbataar has an exceptional collection of dinosaur fossils on display. Thanks to the extensive fossil collecting in Mongolia the dinosaurs on display are originals rather than casts as in many other museums #dinosaur #dinosaurs #ulaanbaatar
'Scarlet poppies' by contemporary Impressionist style US contemporary painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
"The military alliance between Moscow and North Korea is becoming increasingly close, with a potential missile delivery from Pyongyang heightening Ukraine's concerns, which is already struggling to defend against ballistic missiles."
DER SPIEGEL@spiegel.de · 8h agoDie Militärallianz zwischen Moskau und Nordkorea wird immer enger. Eine mögliche Raketenlieferung aus Pjöngjang verstärkt die Sorgen der Ukraine, die sich mit der Abwehr ballistischer Raketen ohnehin schwertut.
Shell’s Bahamas trading office made $6.2 billion in profit from 2018 to 2023 with just 37 staff and a 0% tax rate. Leaked data analysed by SOMO and Leiden University reveals that is 104 times more profit per employee than Shell’s average, achieved by routing standard crude oil through a tax haven.
CJ Olive Young will begin selling a curated range of Korean beauty products at Sephora stores across the United States on Aug. 20, the Korean retailer said Wednesday. www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/oli...
Olive Young products to be sold at 580 U.S. Sephora stores
CJ Olive Young will launch a curated K-beauty section in Sephora locations across the United States on Aug. 20, marking its first major retail rollout under its partnership with the U.S. beauty…
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How the sound changed in the Notre Dame in Paris. #longread #music
'The space is like an instrument': How Notre-Dame found its voice after fire muffled it
Performers and visitors to the famous gothic cathedral in the midst of the River Seine may find some subtle differences to the way sound bounces around its walls.
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This just in! The mutt reporters are on the scene with the latest scoop: Free adoptions in August for Clear the Shelters! @nbcbayarea @telemundo48 @cleartheshelters
Have you ever seen a sleek brown-and-white bird hover over the ocean, fold its wings and drop into the water like a cannonball, only to surface seconds later with a fish in its grip? 😳 If so, you've probably seen an osprey! Learn all about these water-loving birds of prey: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4cfDIoK
First scramble for the Italian Eurofighters deployed in Lithuania. Two Russian Su-24 aircraft were intercepted by the Italian fighters over the Baltic Sea. www.itamilradar.com/2026/08/04/i...
Italian Eurofighters Conduct First Baltic Scramble as NATO’s New Air Defence Posture Becomes Operational
Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons carried out their first operational scramble from Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania yesterday, intercepting two Russian military aircraft flying in international ai...
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All gender bathrooms are welcoming spaces. Love this playful approach, reminding us that the only thing that matters is washing your hands when you’re done Seen in Manhattan Beach, CA
The 2026 entrants represented a wide swath of the borough, south as far as Bath Beach to as far north as Meeker Avenue in Greenpoint. Full list of winners. 👇
Greenest Block in Brooklyn 2026 - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
List of winners of the 2026 Greenest Block in Brooklyn
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And the 2026 Greenest Block in Brooklyn is… 👀 Lincoln Place between New York Avenue and Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights! 🎉
Elevate your everyday accessories and become a walking art museum with LOQI’s collection of art-inspired bags. trib.al/elwYinA
Become a Walking Art Museum When You Carry These Artist-Inspired Tote Bags
These totes are museum-worthy!
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This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the Apricot and Muscat Tart from 'Fruitful: Sweet and Savoury Fruit Recipes Inspired by Farms, Orchards and Gardens' by Sarah Johnson! www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
We kick off this year’s Geometry Summer School with a lecture by Safoura Zahedi offering a rich and informative overview that sets the stage. https://schooloftraditionalarts.org/course/geometry-summer-school-2026/
I made it back to London just in time to catch the #Outlander exhibition at #Bonhams on its final day before the auction tomorrow! Discovering exquisite details in #costumes and #props that at first sight seemed so familiar from watching the show over and over (and over and over) again was magical.
