John Hamilton Farr

🌳Los árboles: protagonistas silenciosos 💚

A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

GAAAAHHH

SPIRIT HUMMER
09/04/2009

Enter the world of the hummers. What you hear are *actual hummingbird sounds* slowed way down!

LLAMA STAMPEDE
08/09/2017

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

DHS is rapidly moving forward with plans to wall off virtually every river access point to Big Bend National Park. This would effectively end all whitewater boating on this world-class stretch of the Rio Grande, killing the recreation economy and robbing this majesty from us all.

Watch this.

19 minutes and $12 to get meds at a public Chinese hospital. Without insurance.

As we slash Medicaid to start unnecessary wars and cut taxes for the rich. 🇺🇸

We should all be so much angrier than we are. It doesn’t have to be this way. #MedicareForAllNOW

Stylized painting of a historic adobe building with wooden portal columns under a blue sky, bare tree branches stretching overhead. Three figures stand beneath the portal while a woman in a red coat walks with a small child toward the doorway, evoking a quiet winter street scene.

"Old Taos County Courthouse," oil on panel by Melwell, 20x16 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

Moon On A Pedestal
Central Avenue, Albuquerque, NM 6:27 AM

A wildfire was reported Tuesday afternoon west of Wagon Mound, NM. The fire is 200 acres and has shut down NM Highway 120. Winds are dying down, but will pick up and switch direction soon as a cold front moves.
Photo by the Mora County Sheriff's Office. #NMFire #NMwx

'My First Studio.' (1928) Luigi Lucioni's painting style spared him from the contentiousness of Modernist circles; while he respected the artistic trends of the period he looked beyond what was in-vogue in favour of technical skill.

Found this somewhere. Pretty cool.

"A person who is really functioning completely is basically a person who trusts his own brains and permits his brain to operate at a more optimal level. In other words, he knows how to think things out, but he makes his best discoveries without thinking."

Photo of a doorway created with twigs in a lush green forest

“Passage”, 2007 by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart #Spring

Gracias

John! John! Monday Morning Dream

It's been five years, too. Until several appearances just recently, I haven't seen her in a dream since this one. It's a killer. jhfarr.substack.com/p/john-john

كل طفل هو كون

The Border Wall and All Y'all “In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy.”

Alex, see this, too: substack.com/@jamesmoore/...

Must-read 🧵 with photos.

Hahahaha. Excellent!

SKULL FRIDAY
02/27/2026

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Did I miss this, too? 10,000 pardons if true. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY dammit.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, a total lunar eclipse—a Blood Moon—will sweep across North America. Totality begins at 6:04 AM ET. While western states see the full show, the East Coast will witness a rare Selenelion: the eclipsed Moon setting while the Sun rises simultaneously. This graphic is a color coded map visualizing this phenomenon.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, a total lunar eclipse—a Blood Moon—will sweep across North America. Totality begins at 6:04 AM ET. While western states will see the full show, the East Coast will witness a rare Selenelion: the eclipsed Moon setting while the Sun rises simultaneously.

Absolutely.

Precisely!

I will take the other side of this a bit. Even a medium length stay tends not to reveal the life complications residents experience. Similarly, visitors to america often love it!

'Study of a Velvet Crab.' (c1870) John Ruskin, one of the most influential voices in the 19thC art world, believed all beauty comes from nature and an artist's acute observation of it.

¡Está bien!