Rivers are living beings.
This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.
It’s official: Eight Democrats and two Republicans say they have filed paperwork for the June 2 primary ballot in the California governor’s race bit.ly/4lhWSxV
📸 Laure Andrillon, AP
Haitian man dies in US immigration custody due to untreated toothache, brother says
Seven-spot Ladybird seen on a window frame in Cheshire today.
Might look like a nudibranch, but it’s a Striped Paper Bubble snail (Hydatina physis). Found in the tropic waters of the Indo-Pacific and parts of the Atlantic. #wildlife #nature #biology
#Treetops Emit #Ultraviolet Sparkles During #Thunderstorms. Researchers Just Filmed It in Nature for the First Time
Link for more info and photos: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
Early tomorrow morning, U.S. skywatchers will be treated to a total lunar eclipse! (Also visible in Australia and eastern Asia.) Get the details here and let us know if you see it
More of these amazing vintage Turkish infographics from 1920, artist: Cerîde-i Adliyye.
Source [substack] casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...
#türkiye #infographics #printed
Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.
This video is so beautiful. And I really enjoyed the article too.
There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana
(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)
GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has OFFICIALLY started clinical trials. GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but nobody has the right to tell you that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder “won’t fix you.”
As the Trump administration vows to retaliate against people for their political speech, the 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles.
bit.ly/4aE5uKa
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Sixty New Species of Dragonflies Discovered in Africa
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#Dragonflies #Damselflies #Evolution #Ecology #NewSpecies grrlscientist.medium.com/sixty-new-sp...
More than 1,000 American nurses have successfully applied for licensure in British Columbia since April, a massive increase over prior years. n.pr/4cMnDIm
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
Yeah, she’s kind of a big deal. 🦦
We’ve got an otter overachiever on our hands. 🌟 Selka’s survived a shark bite, contributed to scientific studies, and raised orphaned pups as a surrogate mother.
Worst news of the day for writers and readers: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
Things I learned listening to Alysa Liu talking about her… self.
#OtD 19 Feb 1923, the US Supreme Court decided unanimously to bar South Asians from becoming American citizens and to denaturalize those who had already done so. They didn't regain the right to become citizens until 1946 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9084...
#ResistanceRoots
#BlackHistoryMonth
In 1966, 60 African American quilters in Wilcox County, Ala., established the Freedom Quilting Bee. The collective grew out of the Civil Rights Movement and offered economic independence to women facing financial retaliation for their political activism. /1
‘A whole lost culture’: the Irishman reviving the forgotten sport of stone lifting
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.
Relationships are complicated
