Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺

Although classified as carnivores, wolves may sometimes follow an omnivorous diet. They can eat meat, eggs and even fruit!

This time of year, pumpkins are a special treat for our ambassador wolves.🎃 #wolffact

It's also responsible for one of the greatest TV episode titles of all time, "Habeas Corpses" (S4 of Angel).

THAT WE KNOW OF

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat

they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Reposting so that I don't lose this.

This is unbelievably pretty.

I don't use AI because I'm actually fond of using my own brain.

Medieval manuscript with an eel and a heron painted in at the end of lines of text. The eel is two lines above the heron, and it looks furry. The heron has an awesome crown of spikes, and seems to have no legs. Both animals are...ahhh...aspirational. As if the scribe had never really seen either an eel or a heron, but bravely drew them anyway. Kinda like amateur anthropology. The heron is looking up at the eel. The eel is looking down. You can easily imagine them as Mr. and Mrs. Brady in the Brady Bunch intro. Source: Wren Digital Library, B.11.22, f.40v

Good morning, friends. I've got a rather busy day, so I'm afraid I must be quick with the eel post.

But don't worry, friends...I won't leave you eel-less. Please enjoy this wonderful interlinear eel and heron. Perhaps they're having a conversation about the evils of lightning.
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Will happily take suggestions. I’ve tried One Tab, but I don’t like it as much, for several reasons.

Sure, that's what Big Heron wants you to believe. (Big Bird knows better.)

Three great blue herons (two juveniles and an adult) in a nest in a red alder tree. The juvenile in the middle looks at the viewer with an open beak and wide eyes. There is a thick upright tuft of blue feathers on his head.

This is definitely a heron and not a muppet, I swear.

📷: KRT, Commodore Park/Ballard Locks

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

AI doesn’t save labor; it magnifies the immiserating conditions of the labor done by those who haven’t been laid off.

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

So would I!

Thank you for this! I look forward to reading it.

Underrated comment.

He needs to come back!

It will soon be the Spring Equinox....

British Library Add 18856; Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale; c.1420 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.5v

As we approach the Spring Equinox, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.

British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

An lead figurine of a camel carrying a load on its back, displayed against a beige fabric background. The camel is depicted in motion, with its legs bent and extended, and has a long, curved neck with a slightly raised head. The load on the camel’s back is rectangular with a cylindrical object on top, possibly representing a pack or rolled goods.

A toxic toy? A #Roman lead figure of a #camel, presumably a kid's toy (height 5.08cm, length 7.62cm).
Dating probably 1st century AD,  from Lower #Egypt.

On display at the British Museum

📷 me
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

That book is great!

Cowma cowma cowma cowma cowma chameleon.

(I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.)

Uhhh dawg? Your gyre is widening

Oh my goodness, yes, let's make today be a debate about whether thing x distracts from thing y or vice versa. We all know the real enemies of the x-distractors are the y-distractors, no other enemies that we should be focused on. Yeesh.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

What a gorgeous little dinosaur!

“Now the one who has money wants more money still”

νῦν γὰρ ὁ χρήματ᾿ ἔχων ἔτι πλε[ί]ονα χρήματα/ θέλει
#AnonymousDrinkingoSong