Andrea in Disarray

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.

Aurora australis last night.

A single desiccated funeral bell mushroom grows from a mossy log dusted with crystalline snow. All photos by me

Here is a nice (but deadly!) mushroom

From the Goodwill Industries International website: “Goodwill Industries International is a 501(C)(3) Nonprofit registered in the US under EIN: 53-0196517”

Print featuring a bird, a Robin, perched in a tree among brown leaves

The work of contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Bays
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers 🎄

Print featuring a red fishing boat sailing forwards on an inky blue sea surrounded by flying white gulls

The work of Sue Welfare, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmaker

State AG is also one of the more standardized roles in our sometimes crazy mishmash of state government systems.

I saw the jar and then read the first part of your post thinking you had priced it low for some reason. It’s beautiful!

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I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

if you’re willing to throw another population under the bus to save yourself, you’re not actually willing to fight fascism.

fascism isn’t a bear, it can’t be escaped by simply outrunning someone slower than you.

the only way it can be defeated is through solidarity.

Print with stylised meadow flowers and seedheads in front of orange sun

'Island with Teasels" linocut by contemporary UK printmaker Angie Lewin #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
#LateSumner

If you say “I’m fine with immigration as long as it’s legal” or “I came the right way” but you’re not sounding the alarm over this, you’re lying.

A company says an employee was detained by federal agents during an immigration court hearing, despite being here legally with a valid work permit.

I *am* a constitutional scholar and you are correct.

Don’t forget panino. Most menus do - I always give a quiet little cheer when they get it right.

Wait, these are the same birds we get…

My most recent immigrant ancestor arrived later in the 1850s but my earliest came in the 1600s so I’m not sure which of us gets to be the Marshall of the gay frog pride parade.

A hatchling condor on a white towel. it has downy feathers and it's head skin is kinda wrinkly

With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of:

TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!

Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis Detection of cancer before a clinical diagnosis could give patients and caregivers more time for intervention and may lead to better outcomes because tumors are more likely to be curable

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University.

That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

Sukhjot Singh
"This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."

Sculpture of a rabbit or hare in a semi sitting position facing left and created with brass coloured metal parts, all on a white surface against a white background

Harriet Mead, English wildlife artist specialising in metal sculptures #womensart

A single California poppy with coastline in the background.

I did not know about the prints!! I might need you to come to California and immortalize my local mushrooms so I can hang them next to my home state (Michigan!) mushrooms.

Myna perching on anti-bird spikes

I looked up while reading this thread to see this.

Print of two stylised standing figures in black silhouette holding open blue and black umbrellas facing left, leaning slightly back as if bracing themselves against the force of the wind, represented by swirling blue dashed lines

Sybil Andrews,
The Gale (1930)
Linocut,
Modernist Printmaker
#Monday