Jen Mesch

I don't really know what to do with the realization that we have a pope who can likely quote lines from The Blues Brothers from memory

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped. Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah.

But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

Kiwi coloured pterosaur

Scaphognathus, my beloved

Genus Myrianida Myrianida from Kihei, HI 96753, USA on December 3, 2011 at 07:17 PM by cory-pittman. found by Pauline Fiene

#wormwednesday GLAM purple polychaete Myrianida from Hawaii! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

I finally got this working. Pro & uropatagium to follow.

Side note, while I'm aware of hypotheses about actinofibril function, I'm not a fan of the trope of pterosaur wing membranes shrinking to almost nothing when grounded rather than just being allowed to fold, even a little bit.

New York Daily News

The mastodon jawbone at the museum now

Baltimore Sun

March 25, 1925: Fossils found by crews digging the foundation of an apartment house in upper Manhattan are verified to belong to a more than 10,000-year-old mastodon. The Ice Age creature was likely a baby, judging from its teeth, says the American Museum of Natural History.

Fall, left, and Sinclair in 1924

March 9, 1925: A civil trial begins in Wyoming in which the Teapot Dome special prosecutor aims to cancel oil leases granted by ex-Interior Secretary Albert Fall. He and oilman Harry Sinclair are accused of “one of the greatest frauds ever practiced on the government.”

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Thank you, Senator, for fighting for America!

True - also - by Canadian standards, this is totally a 🟢

When do we see the job losses vs gains report for the month?

Drawing of Benjamin Frankling wearing a coonskin cap.

Franklin being received by the French court in 1778. The French are in powdered wigs.

FWIW, it's perhaps worth noting that when Benjamin Franklin visited France between 1776 and 1778 to ask for military support for the then-new-formed United States of America, he wore a coonskin cap. "Proper" French court attire at this time was a powdered wig.

Vladimir Putin May Have Launched an Unprovoked Invasion of Ukraine, But at Least He’s Never Asked You to Use a Same-Sex Bathroom “Has Putin shipped every middle-class job in your town to Russia? Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked your business? Is he teachin...

"Let's understand who our true enemy is. Is it a virile, often shirtless man on horseback who poisons political opponents and journalists and who’s causing the deaths of countless innocent people? Or is it a children’s book about a kid with two dads?"

It’s AI

Dear Seth -
If nothing else, please look at the hands in this image.
-Jen

Iron Age divination spoon discovered on the Isle of Man A 2000 year-old bronze spoon believed to have been used for ‘telling the future’ has been discovered on private land in Patrick, on the West Coast of the

Exciting news from the Isle of Man. Iron Age spoons are incredibly rare; this is only the 28th example that we know of & implies trading of these special ritual tools west from Britain.

Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏

manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...

bunch of employees who work at the government facility where they keep ET wet freaking out because they need five things for the email but all they did last week was spray water on ET

Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity (centre column 'Metrics' and 'Trends') can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left column 'Drivers of Change'). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right column 'Indicators of Change').

*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention.
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Usually the flex is how many jobs have been added.
Now it’s about how many have been lost.
So let’s hear some numbers. How many jobs lost in the US since January 20?

"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

Quite the difference in the crowd reaction during the U.S. and Canadian national anthems during the 4 Nations Face-Off tonight

Either he’s just used to lying/exaggerating or he’s not mentally all there, or both.

Saw/heard this Janet Cardiff piece at the Art Gallery of Alberta over the weekend

Tax breaks - paid for by Americans.

These are their pre-fab generic scripted responses for the legal battles they knew would happen.

A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.

Just change it to Airwomen - everyone knows they mean both women and men by this generic term.