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A promotional image for an edited collection called "Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future." The collection editors Dr. Victor Monnin & Dr. Alison Laurence are putting out a call for contributions. Abstracts are due January 10, 2026 to dinoparkfieldguide@gmail.com. Find the full call at: https://tinyurl.com/dinoparks The background image is of the outdated-but-adored Iguanodon models at Crystal Palace Park.

A call for 🦕🦖🦣 contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parks—it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS

A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol “It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

I hope that, at the end of the day, Fox Business, Bloomberg, and CNBC are happy with the political friends they've made and the money they make off of boosting corruption.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Far Away by Vasily Kandinsky, 1930
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137549

This was appropriated from the social media feed of Ted Chiang. I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment.

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

Yup. I suspect there are multiple offers and activity we’re not privy to but still.

So there’s an MCM house on the market near our old S Mpls neighborhood. Hasn’t sold yet, doesn’t appear to be contingent. Next to large community garden. Drove by it tonight and will likely request a tour in the next day or so. Likely nothing will come of this but it’s piqued our curiosity.

Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend,
I am almost mad myself.

Uh, a brutalist vadge sounds really cool TBH

Georges Bataille | Histoire de L'oeil.

Options are kind of like la maison d'être

One of the lasting legacies of Columbus: creating the primary animal reservoir of leprosy / Hansen's disease.

One amendment: in 2016, studies confirmed that red squirrels in the UK likely transmitted the disease in the Middle Ages, but only armadillos and humans share the modern strain.

Memorial to the 1878 battle between the U.S. Army and Northern Cheyenne in Scott County, Kansas.

Marker in Scott County, Kansas. It reads: Battle Canyon, 1878 This marks the site of the last encounter in the State of Kansas between Native Americans and the United States Troops. Homesick and ill, the Northern Cheyenne under the leadership of Chief Dull Knife and Little Wolf were trying to return to their former home in the north. There were 92 warriors, 120 women, and 141 children who had escaped from the reservation at Ft. Reno Oklahoma. As they came through Kansas crossing the Arkansas River at Cimarron Crossing, Lt. Colonel William H. Lewis, commander at Ft. Dodge, was dispatched to capture and retum them. On September 27, 1878, the Northern Cheyenne were located at this site. Sentries were hidden in circular pits, surrounded by rock barricades, still visible today. Women, children, and the elderly were hidden in the Den below. When Lewis advanced, coming from the Southwest, he was mortally wounded in the thigh, dying enroute to Ft. Wallace, Kansas, forty miles Northwest. He became the last army officer to be killed in Kansas during the Indian wars. The Cheyenne escaped by night, crossed the Smokey Hill River, fled into Nebraska, where their parties split. One group going with Chief Dull Knife, and the other with Little Wolf. Dull Knife's group was captured close to Ft. Robinson while Little Wolf's remained in the sand hills of Nebraska for the Winter. This thirty acre site was donated to the citizens of Scott County by the late R.B. Christy, Scott City banker and stockman. The site now is maintained by the Scott County Historical Society.

The dens in the Scott County, Kansas, badlands where the Northern Cheyenne hid as the U.S. Army approached, 1878.

View from the marker for the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork. The U.S. Army approached from the gaps between the rocks to try to recapture Northern Cheyenne who fled from a reservation in Oklahoma.

The badlands of western Kansas are stunning. And the ones in Scott County are marked as the site of the 1878 Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork (yup.) The Northern Cheyenne, after fleeing a reservation in Oklahoma, fought and escaped the U.S. Army in the last Army-Native battle in Kansas.

Taurus: You will have the opportunity to exact a terrible vengeance. Take it. Treat yourself.

Steak
Scarface
All Billy Joel songs

In accordance with Canadian law, all Mariners tweets will be posted in both English and French for the duration of this series.

Go Mariners / Allez les marins.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

Neighbor to the north threw themself into the dating pool again a few months ago.
Knew they snagged a steady as of August.
Met them in the woods while walking the C Monster.
Neighbor is cougaring, and it gives me life (even more life in spades for neighbor).

This is why you never have Vance on, period. Regardless of his interviewer’s skill.

Poster announcing roller skating carnival in Central Park, New York City, showing a child roller skating with a jack-o-lantern mask. Text: Halloween roller skating carnival On the mall, Central Park : Bring your skates : Come in costume : Prizes will be given for costumes.

Federal Art Project
1936
Library of Congress

TIL about Chuck’s apple reviews. They are a fucking delight.

"The Souls of the Mountain" by Remedios Varo features ethereal figures emerging from misty, surrealist landscapes, illustrating Varo’s fascination with the mystical and the esoteric. This painting demonstrates her unique style that blends dreamlike elements and metaphysical themes, reflecting her deep interest in spiritual exploration and the subconscious.

The Souls of the Mountain
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19141

An array of chiles grown in New Mexico. Photo credit: NewMexico.org.

#ResistanceRoots
#NationalHispanicHeritageMonth

Do you enjoy New Mexico chiles? I know I do. And for that, we can thank Mexican American horticulturist Fabian García, who has been described as the “father of the New Mexican food industry” because of his pioneering work. /1

'I somehow never appreciated the only person equally worshipped by punks, rappers, preachers, cowboys, metalheads, rastas, soul singers, bluesmen, grandmothers, & Bob Dylan - the fault must be everybody's.'

A diagram shows arrows radiating from a central point, indicating directions, with lots of white disks (stars) surrounding the central point.

An etching of Hans Olbers. He wears a heavy coat, vest, and high collared white shirt. His wispy hair is receding.

“Why is the night sky dark, if we live in an infinite universe?”

Kepler, Halley, and Cheseaux all pondered this apparent paradox, but the question is commonly attributed to Heinrich Olbers, who was born #OTD in 1758. 🧪 🔭

Images: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/..., Wellcome Collection