David Archer

Just cloned Stand With Minnesota for another state.

I am so excited someone finally took me up on the offer. I even made them a little logo and redid the site in their colors.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Credit: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, center, winner of an alpine ski, men's giant slalom race, jumps in celebration on the podium flanked by second placed Switzerland's Marco Odermatt, left, and third placed Switzerland's Loic Meillard, at the 2026 Winter Olympics.(AP)

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

“Invisible Illness” could have been transgressive. Instead, it minimizes Long COVID. - The Sick Times The book fails to convey the severity of infection-associated chronic conditions, demands for treatment, or importance of infection prevention.

Today @thesicktimes.org: Shielding Cournoyer reviews the book "Invisible Illness."

"Though Mendenhall accurately acknowledges the harm of psychologizing illness, her thesis does exactly that." thesicktimes.org/2026/02/13/i...

Grateful for Cournoyer’s review 🙏🏻 @thesicktimes.org
“Unexamined are the politics involved in authorities betting on patients performing free labor as the solution to their suffering, rather than betting on healthy people investing time, energy, and money into repurposing or developing medication.”

Cults and mind viruses run rampant. Powerful algorithms hijack our minds. No wonder we all feel so deranged. They say my novels are surreal. But when I watch Elon Musk playing the jester in Donald Trump’s court, I’m not so sure. His latest novel is “Absolution.”

Still seems applicable. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Donate to Support For Maya In Her Road To Recovery, organized by Krysta Hunt My name is Krysta, and I am the Cousin of Cia, Mayas mother. I am starting this… Krysta Hunt needs your support for Support For Maya In Her Road To Recovery

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gfm for one of the survivors of tumbler ridge shooting

Donate to Supporting families affected in Tumbler Ridge, organized by Tumbler Ridge PAC Supporting Families Impacted by the Recent Tragedy in Tumbler Ridge … Tumbler Ridge PAC needs your support for Supporting families affected in Tumbler Ridge

This GoFundMe has been set up to support families in Tumbler Ridge

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Blood in the Machine "The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how...

I really enjoyed this history of the Luddite resistance.

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Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

A graphic saying that if you buy Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders in audiobook via Libro.fm, your purchase will directly benefit booksellers facing emergency financial, medical, and mental health service needs.

Booksellers are total heroes who keep us falling in love with reading. They are vitally important to our communities.

So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰

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Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

You’ve gotten me hooked on this game 😸 nice time!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 10th 2026 (Medium), in 02:52
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The political world of caregiving Writer and scholar Laura Mauldin's new book takes on the hidden politics of spousal care.

I had the pleasure of talking to @lauramauldin.bsky.social about her new book “In Sickness and In Health,” which delves into spousal caregiving, including in ways our political system is not set up to help caregivers not burn out, at @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.

The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.

Follow along!

A worn box with a green printed label: "15 day course / VITA RADIUM SUPPOSITORIES / Guaranteed to contain Real Refined Radium and to be perfectly harmless. / The Home Products Co. Denver, Colorado."

A brown glass vial with a cork and a label that reads, "RADITHOR / CERTIFIED RADIOACTIVE WATER / Contains Radium and Mesothorium in a Triple Distilled Water"

Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment

Publicity image for Amazon kindle showing a kindle with the cover for awakened on it and the text ‘one day only’ for the deal

horror/dystopia lovers, for one day only my horrible baby is available on kindle for £0.99/$0.99!

for less than a buck/quid you can buy something that took me 7 years to write & the New York Times called ‘an impressive debut worth losing sleep over’.

what’re you waiting for?!

👋 Hello. We’re Too Tired To Make.

A space for where art, wellbeing and disabilty meet, and energy is limited. We’re here to think in public about making with care, pacing, and honesty — no pushing through, no neat answers.

If you’re tired and still creative, welcome 🌱

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#ADHD

Let people in the industries decide if you can make it in them or not. And even if they say you can't, don't stop making art!

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

Reflections on “Rupture”: Mark Carney’s New World Order & an Indigenous Response Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech in Davos earlier this month received a rare standing ovation from the World Economic Forum. But in his comments to build an alternative system, insulated from great...

Lots to chew on here from two Indigenous scholars in response to Carney’s big speech:
- reconciliation is fragile
- Canadian parallels to ICE
- the speech ignored climate and Indigenous sovereignty
- paths forward based on coalition and relationality

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

A bookshop viewed from the outside. A woman stands behind a big window and books on display, smiling to camera. A logo says Which 3rd Ave Books. A small painting of a dog on a leash sits on the ground below a hook attached to the wall

Hey, Haida Gwaii, we’re back! Bookshop hibernation has ended 🐻✨and the shop re-opens tonight at 6. Moving forward we return to our regularly scheduled programming:

Fri 6-9
Sat 12-5
web shop always open
pet parking available as depicted

#haidagwaii #gohaidagwaii

Analytics card labeled ‘Number of Users’ displaying a total of 5,000,000, with a user icon shown above the number.

Earlier today we passed 5 million user signups! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who’s tried the product so far and tells their friends to do the same! ❤️

We’re improving StoryGraph every single day, based on all of your wonderful feedback.

We have huge plans for 2026. Stay tuned!

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:

"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

Composing the “Long COVID album”: An interview with Dave Ruder - The Sick Times Last fall, Brooklyn-based musician Dave Ruder coined a new format when he released a “Long COVID album,” shaped by his experience with the disease.

Fascinating interview in @thesicktimes.org with musician Dave Ruder on his “Long Covid album.” I love this notion of absurdity as a chronic illness modality: “Absurdity is a great tool in the face of diminished ability, diminished capacity, diminished horizons.” thesicktimes.org/2026/01/12/c...

A letter from Philip Glass, with his name at the top. "After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership. [signed] Philip Glass

Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)

everyone should indeed get basic income but a specific reason artists should get basic income instead of relying on grants is we get better art when people can pursue their specific things vs when they have to outline projects that will seduce grant committees

This Giant Bubble in Sardinia Stores Energy for the Grid. Here's How. Google is betting big on CO2 batteries to power its data centers with clean energy.

‘Bubble batteries’ move from prototype to global rollout. Italy-based Energy Dome has begun operating a 20MW CO₂ “battery” that stores surplus solar and wind power by compressing and expanding carbon dioxide inside a giant dome.
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