No idea what this actually is, had it 40 years. Do you know? Found in the Mojave desert.
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Anthropologist and tool using hominid
This is the scene on the White Bridge in Ahvaz, Iran A human chain of adults and children spanning the bridge. Never seen anything like it. (🎥 Ariel Oseran)
Launching on Monday! 100 years of incredible ethnographic recordings from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social's extraordinary sound collections, reimagined into brand new compositions by sound artists, musicians, composers, poets and producers from all over the world.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
I am in fact constantly thinking about the Roman empire by which I mean I am constantly thinking about Siân Phillips as Livia in I, Claudius.
There's quite a lot going on, so it feels weird to be like HEY HEY LOOK AT ME, but maybe you like books, and like books by me, and want to see the cover to my next one, coming in August:
Previous US presidents lost public support overseas because of their military misadventures and diplomatic failures. Feels important to understand that it will be a period where people's views of domestic America become less favorable. And the overseas press will not feel need do both sides.
Michele Guindani@mguindani.bsky.social · 6mo agoItalian journalists of RAI (the Italian major TV and public station) stopped and threatened by ICE. This should not be the narrative the US government wants to send abroad.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Probably a tarantula hawk. They kill tarantulas and lay their eggs inside them. They are also huge!
Ben Mathis-Lilley@benmathislilley.bsky.social · last yr.Today my son came downstairs and said there was an huge, scary hornet on his toothpaste and I went up there and he was right. That thing was gigantic. It looked like it came from Skull Island.
The gorgeous, funny, smart, kind and indefatigable Magda Szubanksi just posted below on Twitter about her Bluesky name & handle. Follow her 👉 @realmagdaszubanski.bsky.social & welcome her to this great platform👊🥂🥳💜
I think most artists feel like they're screaming into the void at the moment. If you see a piece of #art posted here today, into which someone no doubt poured a full measure of love and toil, please do them the kindness of reposting it. Art that's never seen is like a caged bird. Thank you.
It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton Episode 3 - The God of Minor Troubles by Megan Chee wilwheaton.net/2025/04/its-...
It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton Episode 3 – The God of Minor Troubles by Megan Chee
It’s Wednesday, which means I get out of my comfort zone and promote the hell out of my podcast! This week’s story is The God of Minor Troubles, by Megan Chee, originally published in S…
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honestly that was an extraordinary speech which I kinda recommend watching in full (starts 1:14)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces Canada's response to U.S. tariffs – February 1, 2025
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I was watching Bladerunner today and noticed that they have flying cars, live on other planets and have killer androids but Decker is reading a newspaper at the start of the film! On actual PAPER! Amazing.
As I am a writer and must peddle my wares lest I die in the abyss, hey! In April 2025, THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS emerges from the fog and the trees and if you wanted to pre-order it from your favorite local bookstore -- or get signed, personalized copies from Doylestown Bookshop -- that'd be nice.
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If you are in Oklahoma or know others that are with school age children, please pass this along to them. Defense of Democracy created opt-out forms for Ryan Walter’s forced bible instruction. Let’s keep getting in good trouble! #EduSky #Resist kfor.com/news/oklahom...
Non-profit creates opt out forms against State Superintendent Ryan Walters
A non-profit called Defense of Democracy has created opt-out forms for parents who want their child to have no interaction with Ryan Walters in any capacity, which includes the recent prayer video.
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