Ash on a Star✨️

Two larger ducks each standing on a square block with open beaks and bulging eyes. On lower plinth the duck can be seen to have raised lines on the wings folded over its back. The upper duck has two ducklings on its back.

#AllMetalMonday 🏺
Quack!
A bronze duck w flat body decorated in relief, long neck, open beak and sturdy legs.
Plus second duck w 2 little ones on its back.
From C6 BC hoard found in Ortanova near Foggia in Puglia, representing material culture of indigenous Daunian people.
MArTA Taranto

I was in charge of the layout for the Japanese versions of these games🙂
I'm really excited to play Origin story!!

Torch coral waves in the Coral Morphologic coral museum #coralmorphologic #miami #coralcity

Not sure if I would have ever been good at it though, as "but it looks cooler so I like this more" is baked into my art-process just as much as "how can I make this as accurately as possible without sacrificing how cool it looks", which probably explains the post-high school pivot to monster art...

Not that it's too late, but I do wish I could go back in time to tell young Ash that palaeoart was absolutely a career that I could 100% pursue...

Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa and Elga Mark-Kurik on Kreuzritter lake (Kryzhiuochiu ezheras), under an umbrella, north of Vilnius,Lithuania, 1977 (photo H.-P. Schultze).

Model of sacabambaspis helsinki

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

Digital painting of two fuzzy, dark brown American Mastodon eating pumpkins in a small pumpkin patch. The style emulated watercolor and pencil paintings. In the foreground the larger mastodon is leaning over to crush a very large orange pumkin with its weight, while the mastodon behind it snacks on pumpkin chunks. The forest around them is mixed with tall conifers and deciduous trees in various shades of fall reds, oranges and yellows

A pair of American Mastodon chow down on a (slightly fantastical) pumpkin patch 🍂✨️

#sciart #paleoart

Disney CFO On YouTube TV Carriage Fight: “We’re Ready To Go As Long As They Want To” – Update Disney's CFO told CNBC this morning that the company had steeled itself for a possible carriage fight with YouTube and "we're ready to go as long as they want to."

This story about Disney and YouTube being locked in negotiations over their content carriage deal is the reason I had very mixed feelings about Google acquiring YouTube in the first place.

Have you ever seen anything more intertwined with Hollywood?

deadline.com/2025/11/disn...

Parody of Gary Larson’s cow tools comic with a cow in medieval dress standing before a table on which are set two bowls, a vial of red fluid, and an anonymous mound. A castle rises on a hill in the background

cow humours

In hindsight, the core theme of the sequel trilogy should have been that unchecked nostalgia for the past makes it easier for evil to return.

Learning science is just incredible tbh; that article is slightly frustrating but the science within it is so damn cool.

Which....tbh probably explains why I'd always felt way ahead of the reading classes (which were already an "enriched" level) even in elementary school. I still specifically remember being aghast that we were reading Narnia in our grade when that was(to me) "a babys book" by then LOL little ahhole

That part stuck out to me because I also had this experience before attending school...I didn't realize it was significant because of the teaching style; i thought he meant in terms of learning earlier.

This article makes me that realize my kindergarten+ reading lessons must have been supplemental.

A while back there was an article on a different learning science topic (memory recall i think); one of the researchers mentioned his advantage in reading came from his immigrant mother also learning English words by sounding them out while reading to him; i had no idea it was referencing this issue

nate this is a baseball app now, keep up

I appreciate these lists because I feel like there's no point in just sharing the Shameful 10 without attaching their states to be shamed with them.

Headline writers nowadays are more about SEO than journalistic integrity, so they absolutely shouldn't be able to get away with dumping their shit on an actual journalist.

I always feel bad for the journalists & writers of well-written articles when they get the absolute most shit headline written for their article, like the headline writer is setting the writer up for an online mob of people who don't read their articles.

IMO headline writers should be credited

Normies who consider themselves “moderate” or “independent” are starting to realize that the Republican Party they thought was a business and growth party has been transformed into a violent criminal mob of masked kidnappers and assaulters. It is breaking through the billionaire info-blockade.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Another strong example of "the people who write the headlines are different from thhe people who write the articles"

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Every time I think "we can't possibly be ruled by people this uneducated" I get proven so damn wrong

"I've just made a deal that will guarantee a vote on the ACA subsidies"

Senator's office not accepting voicemails? Fax them. Seriously. You do not need to have a fax machine. Hit Schumer up, now.

Charlie Brown with Lucy holding the football. It says we'll vote on the ACA subsidies in December

I always expected him to become supreme court justice in my lifetime; this feels absolutely nuts to me.

lowkey kinda think the younger loyalists appointed took his "spot"

Yeah that's true, there's definitely still loads of folks on there😩

Progressive groups that mainly post on meta give me "appeal to the moderates and conservative fascists to win votes" vibes...always feels like some kind of psyop where theyre aggressively gaslighting you that you're missing out unless you use this profashy platform

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!