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A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Ooh thank you so much! I feel like I’m gonna go down a huge rabbit hole with this! 😅

All Cats Go to Outer Space (black on black paper cutouts, colored pencil).

I just got to the _soup scene_ in Harrow the Ninth! Has anyone read this? I need to talk to someone one about this series!

anyway it's fun to think of art as nothing but a site of joint rapture where two gazes entwine. like we love each other sooo much we had to invent color theory and the printing press and hollywood just so that we had something to look at together on a sunday afternoon. no chill at all. embarrassing

"The president is just a car salesman" feels like hacky slam poetry I might have written in 8th grade.

A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat

Black cat with a yarn label around shoulders

Someone came out of the yarn room

amazon apparently assuming i would not scroll through their barely-functional website to individually download 150+ ebooks: lol. lmao. two things i love are spite and procrastination and this is both

It may seem trivial to stop using product, a browser, a platform for ethical reasons. How could a single defection make any difference to these behemoths? But think about every conversation where these products are discussed as a norm. Each one is another opportunity to confirm your values.

I’ve been listening! Just finished the Missouri Color Cabal episode today, which was delightful.

Sewing pattern for part of a shirt. It is clearly made from a dark brown manuscript page with small lettering written in two columns.

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive Language English Item Size 98.5G An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

illustration of a beheaded sphinx in dandelions, surrounded by decorative motifs of plants, skulls, snakes, and more

Picked this sphinx back up while in-between jobs and now I really want to do a huge print of her

Mutual aid builds trust.

Trust builds relationships.

Relationships build organizing.

Organizing builds power.

Power is how we ultimately win.

Feeling nostalgic for the good ole days of the Reply All podcast. They have a segment where they explain the references for a viral tweet, and there’s something about this excavation of internet culture that I find so fun. It’s silly and there are so many layers — anyway, here’s an example!

A still from a movie called Strawberry Mansion. A man in a suit and fedora sits at a pink table in a completely pink room, covering his face with his hand as if in distress. The entire room and its contents are the same shade of pink; this includes the walls and all the furniture. A pink mug sits on the table in front of him.

Same man, same.

In Frankfurt, they made me pull down my pants!

It’s defunct :/

“As an archivist, ephemera is endearing to me because it is a form of printed matter that is not meant to endure.” Eve Scarborough Writer and book artist

Type ephemera offers a glimpse into the craft of typography and printmaking. These everyday paper goods were once used to showcase and sell typefaces, but today they tell a larger story about permanence and culture.

🔗 Read the full essay: blog.archive.org/2024/12/18/v...

I was going to go to the socialist bookstore but I realized I could go to the library instead.

I do not dream of labor, but at least I get to come home to her after a day in the office.

Just lurkin! 👀

First of all, Donald Trump is not president right now. He's a private citizen. He does not have access to presidential powers. He does not have the ability to do any of that. Please understand that TikTok's decision to name Trump in the notification is a choice. They are signaling that they have agreed to privately collaborate with Donald Trump and the Trump administration. For all of those concerns that people were saying that TikTok is gonna be used as a propaganda tool by the Chinese, understand they're using it as a propaganda tool for the right. Now, I want you all to put all the pieces together because what this effectively means is that every mass social media platform in the United States has been taken over by the right wing, with the exception of Blue Sky (but Blue Sky is still very small, relatively).

@aoc.bsky.social e-mail going after TikTok & social platforms collaborating with Trump - with a shout out to @bsky.app