Lakshana S 🦋 Ben Solo Lives! Reylo for ever! 🕉
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I don’t really post much anywhere, blame being a GenXer who doesn’t really have much to say! Masters in Archaeology but work in healthcare! Love to read, knit, sew, cross stitch and learn all about history and science!
The U.S. universities that have taken the most money from fossil fuel companies: UC Berkeley: $154,302,577 U Illinois Urbana-Champaign: $108,221,802 George Mason: $63,935,218 Stanford: $56,622,194 UT Austin: $45,421,866 LSU: $44,211,304
Fueling Knowledge: Oil and gas money shapes research, creates ‘echo chamber’ in higher education
Louisiana’s flagship university is looking to partner more closely with petrochemical industries in the state
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Oh, so now it's illegal to be a constituent
smallteam@smallteam.bsky.social · 8h agoFrom the AP: Brazilian capybaras enter chambers of local legislature
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
Are these people's brains so rotted that they genuinely do not remember four years ago?
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 13h agoI have one answer.
First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
Forget "Don't be evil"; Google's true motto is a form of vulgar spidermanism: "With great power comes no responsibility." The internet's *de facto* boss is an absentee landlord. 1/
I think Charles Edwards gives one of the best performances in Rings of Power as Celebrimbor, there was originally some jokes about him but I think Edwards got his character very instictively, getting to the Silmarillion-esque vibe of tragedy, hubris and obsession with him.
Celebrimbor The Rings Of Power
ALT: Celebrimbor The Rings Of Power
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Will never forget how horrible people were to Charles Edwards in season 1, for a combination of factors, but mostly due to his age. Then those same people changed their tune in season 2 when he got more screen time and they realised having an experienced actor can be a good thing actually.
Charlie Vickers 365: Day 217. Sauron canting his head to sense whether Galadriel is looking while he does some atrocious sh*t, completely epitomises their relationship for the next 3000 years. #TROP #TheRingsOfPower
Sorry to burst the Bluesky bubble but Musk’s Falcon-9 upper stage wasn’t the first piece of human junk to smash into the Moon, and it won’t be the last. As well as junk, some countries have deliberately sent impactors to smash into the Moon…
Ninjapanda Panda
ALT: Ninjapanda Panda
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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Our thoroughly corrupt electoral system.
If you didn't love them enough already, there's at least one species documented to live and hunt cooperatively in matriarchal family groups!
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4mo agoVelvet worms shoot rapid-hardening glue at their prey (other invertebrates). Within seconds, the sprayed liquid hardens to plastic-like consistency, trapping or slowing the target. This marvelous glue has possible human applications in recyclable bioplastics & surgical sutures that dissolve.
“Uber’s strategy recycles an old and ugly script: If a woman drank, if she rode alone, if it was late, if her memory is imperfect, then maybe she is to blame,” Ms. Engstrom said. “But those are precisely the circumstances when Uber told consumers its service was supposed to protect them.”
David Bixenspan@davidbix.com · yesterdayFucking hell. (Gift link/no paywall.)
It's a strange thing to watch Bluesky think of courting the right/far-right to join here. Whether they like it or not, they have an audience present, and it'd be much smarter to serve the extant audience instead of alienating them. Which is what will happen. Not everything has to be for everyone.
My dude, we don't need to know your "heart and mind," we just have to look at your prior actions. You've already turned CBS News into a ham-handed partisan laughingstock in land speed-record time, so we have an excellent idea what you will do with CNN.
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · yesterday"Unfortunately, I can't give anyone a view into my heart and mind." Why? Are you unfamiliar with them? Ellison's whole "I'm not allowed to express my specific political opinions here, but trust me" approach is transparent nonsense. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
My thoughts on being welcoming to MAGA chodes here is that during the Paleolithic, if people displayed antisocial behavior, raped/ were found to be pedophiles, our ancestors let them test their luck against the saber-tooth tigers one v one mode, and sadly there are no tigers around...
In honour of #InternationalOwlDay. (It may be a bit niche [or maybe not, seeing the popularity of #TheOdyssey], but it's my favourite of any memes I've made.)
there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoBluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
The unaccountable paramilitaries running a white supremacist pogrom & concentration camps while murdering people on the streets in broad fucking daylight... ...are also targeting people who express 'incorrect thinking' online. Mass protest, [REDACTED], contact congress, etc remain necessary
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d agoHow ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
⚠️ A cat has been found murdered in Seattle's University District. Pasado's is offering a $5,000 reward for tips leading to the arrest and prosecution of the person(s) responsible. Anyone who recognizes this person should call 206-386-7387 with info. Reference case 960-0346. All tips are anonymous.
On Saturday, October 3, Woodland Park Zoo transforms into your own personal beer garden. Get ready to taste your way through 50 NW breweries, cideries, and meaderies. Tix on sale 8/7 (8/6 for members) at zoo.org/oktobearfest. Thank you for supporting Woodland Park Zoo—cheers to conservation!
Shit. Non-white characters existing in a landscape that might take inspiration from British history! Hope Andy Serkis didn’t see this… #TRoPRewatch
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
I hadn’t seen this video and these interviews are my favorite so far! Rings of Power season 3 youtu.be/MpD5y3rS8Rg?...
THE RINGS OF POWER Cast on Funny Elves, Talking Balrogs & Forging the One Ring
YouTube video by IMDb
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