My aunt who booked the amazing e-bike tour for us in Rome arrived in Munich this week and booked another bike tour for her and her daughter. However, it was not, as she thought, an e-bike and it was 97 degrees out.
Katherine Nichols
@klenichols.bsky.social
"I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter." - Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad
it shouldn’t be possible to be this rad, scientists believed there was a theoretical limit
I saw one of his pieces at the Palm Springs Art Museum and it was fabulous
Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com
Dropped the kids off at sailing camp in the Netherlands for the week. I thought I grew up in the flat lands, but at least we could sometimes see mountains
AI-generated content must be labelled in the EU from Sunday. #GenAI #AIEthics #AISlop www.rte.ie/news/2026/07...
Made by AI? EU tells firms to stick a label on it
Deepfakes and other AI-generated content must be labelled from Sunday, as the European Union's sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in.
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This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
I do not like this summer game of “is this a mosquito bite or impetigo?”
For every big name star in the biz you have dozens of bit players working film to film or show to show, and for every star you have hundreds of crew members who toil largely thankless, with audiences largely leaving the movie as their names come up in the credits.
Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
Happy to report that we did not have a repeat of this today!
Katherine Nichols@klenichols.bsky.social · last yr.Welp, Kid2 managed to miss the last day of school and picking up his report card because he went to school, saw they were having the church service until 9, came back home and fell asleep. Somehow the au pair didn’t notice he was still in the house.
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”
We are deeply saddened by the passing of artist Betye Saar, a pivotal figure in American art whose powerful assemblages, prints, and installations challenged historical narratives. Her extraordinary legacy will continue to inspire generations of artists and audiences alike.
"Cutting down someone else's tree" is right up there with "getting the attention of the Postal Inspector" in the category of "very quick ways of getting oneself into legal trouble."
Dan Izzo@izzos.net · 2w agoTree law! TREE LAW!!! www.nj.com/bergen/2026/...
An excellent article on the enshittification of cookware that also has a good „buy instead“ list with both European and US brands (and Tramontina 🇧🇷)
@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago
This is me on Beale Street tonight in Memphis. The Memphis Safe Task Force isn't disclosing what they know about the Tyrin Johnson killing. Perhaps one of the National Guard will speak privately to me about what happened.
You are not brought upon this world to "get it".
The proposal is to revoke protection for the 10-mile buffer zone around the site rather than the site itself, but it is just as bad. I used this website as a reference when writing my comment. www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2019/12/17/w...
Why Protect a 10-Mile Zone around Chaco Culture National Historical Park? - Archaeology Southwest
Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist (December 17, 2019)—Recently, there has been some debate about the value of protecting a 10-mile zone around Chaco Culture National Historical Park (henceforth...
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3w agoPlease blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
All of our kids are out doing something and the neighbor‘s little boy, who idolizes my husband, is hanging out with him on the terrace talking about plants
In my first story with Kelley French for @notus.com, I spoke to the woman pictured in the Metro photo on July 4. She didn't know she went viral. Her family wants people to know their difficult reality. Please take some time with our story today www.notus.org/metro/viral-...
The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.
America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.
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holding up the official FIFA-approved "I have just witnessed a racist act" gesture upon reading this
Matthew Doyle@mattdoyle.bsky.social · 3w agowhat the fuck, man
The Assassination of It Coming Home by the coward Harold Kane
I spent €5 on 4 ears of corn this morning, thinking yeah it’s expensive, but I could do something nice with it for dinner, and Kid1 just up and ate it for breakfast
Leslie Knope's Angry Face
Alt: Leslie Knope's Angry Face
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We’re live at the touch-typing awards (event no. 5 of the end-of-year avalanche of events)
