The Highwaymen were Black artists who sold paintings from the trunks of their cars, finding their own kind of freedom - The Boston Globe Dozens of their electric-colored Florida landscapes are now on view at the Addison Gallery of American Art.

In the heatswamps of central Florida in the middle of the last century, more than two dozen Black painters flourished, their electric palm-laced sunsets and stormy surfside scenes capturing a moment, and locale, uniquely their own.

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#ArtSky #BlackSky #Florida

NIH PubMed The controversy over daylight saving time: evidence for and against Michael C Antle. Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2023. Abstract Purpose of review: Biannual clock changes to and from daylight saving time have been pervasive in many societies for over 50 years. Governments are considering abandoning this practice and choosing a single permanent time. Recent findings: Our endogenous circadian clock follows our photoperiod, which changes over the year. The acute disruption caused by changing our clocks can affect safety (motor vehicle and on the job accidents), health (cardiovascular disease, drug overdoses, suicide), and human behavior (sport performance, generosity, and procrastination). Although abandoning the clock change could help avoid these acute harms, choosing the wrong permanent time could lead to chronic circadian misalignment, which could have even more profound implications for health, safety, and human behavior. Summary: Ceasing the biannual clock change may be a…

“Sleep and circadian experts generally advocate for permanent Standard Time… Change between Standard Time and DST is not simply loss/gain of sleep, but rather misalignment between circadian and social clocks…”

Researchers explore mushrooms as potential replacements for semiconductor chips A new study has found that fungal networks inside mushrooms could potentially be a “promising” and environment-friendly alternative for microchips – used in processing and storing digital data.

Oh this is INTERESTING

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THIS is innovative and its SO COOL

Sheffield charity given grant to fit 'swift bricks' in homes The Sheffield Swift Network was given £7,000 by the council for a project to help the birds nest.

Specially designed bricks that provide safe nesting spaces for swifts are being installed on properties around Shirebrook Valley as part of a council-funded environmental scheme.

A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.

The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

“This is Alice’s friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice’s wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.” Below, the main message continues in paragraph form: “Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.

Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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This picture needs to be everywhere.

Alaska station that covered devastating storm cuts jobs A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.

As villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta clean up from remnants of Typhoon Halong, they face another loss. Public radio and television station KYUK has lost federal funding and plans to make cuts in January. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

Buddy Holly crosswalk in his Texas hometown to be removed following order on road safety “It’s such a tasteful cross section and people like it. But what do you do?” City Council Member Christy Martinez-Garcia said of the crosswalk that depicts Holly's iconic glasses.

Nothing is safe trom Trump:

The Buddy Holly crosswalk in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas will be removed to comply with a directive from the Trump regime to rid the public roadways of any political messages or artwork.

crazy

IG em_clarkson

Psst! I've added a whole bunch of new links to my eligibility and recommendation round up post with further updates to come. Keep sending your links my way!

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Kelly Hayes Author, organizer and educator

Reminder that I will be available this winter to Zoom with book clubs that are discussing Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. I'm already booking those chats for December and January, so pls reach out through my website if you want to get on my schedule.

YouTube video by ASPCA ASPCA Henry Bergh Award: Emmylou Harris

This happened to Emmylou Harris so she just turned her home into a shelter.

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Hi.

I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.

I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)

The voices of SNAP Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.

I think all Democratic eight senators who caved to the GOP should have to read this to truly understand who they've hurt.

✔️✔️✔️

Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.

Trump has lost his noodles.

Graph titled *“Évolution dans le temps de la population orbitale”* showing the evolution of the number of catalogued orbital objects (satellites and debris) as a function of altitude (200–2000 km) for the years 2000 (blue line), 2011 (red line), and 2023 (green line). The y-axis shows the number of catalogued objects, and the x-axis shows altitude in kilometers (in 5 km bins). The 2023 curve is significantly higher overall, with several peaks labeled: * Around 350–600 km: a sharp rise marked *“Constellation Starlink”* and *“Attention front dense !”* indicating a dense zone of satellites. * Around 400 km: a peak labeled *“Stations CSS, ISS”*. * Around 850 km: a smaller peak labeled *“Zone d’augmentation spontanée par collisions”* (spontaneous collision growth zone). * Around 980 km: a labeled *“Zone de stabilité > 1 000 ans”* (stable orbit zone). * Around 1200 km: labeled *“OneWeb”*. * Around 1400 km: labeled *“Globalstar”*. Overall, the 2023 data (green) show a dramatic increase in low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite density compared with 2011 and 2000, especially between 500 and 600 km altitude. Caption: “Figure 3. Évolution du nombre des satellites en fonction de l’altitude entre 200 et 2000 km (CNES).”

The rise in the number of objects in space, especially in low Earth orbit, over the past decade is astounding.

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Everyone needs to call. Everyone, everyone, everyone - first thing Monday morning!

Final votes can differ from the procedural vote to advance the bill. CALL your Democratic Senators, & tell your friends & family to call theirs.

It looks to me like the ACA letters going out in some states are only quoting the new, increased plan cost WITHOUT any subsidies at all. So, folks will have to go online to see their actual premium, which is not the same as plan cost. Try not to panic if you have not been online to confirm.

A mule deer stands with several cowards on its head and back. They were gathering loose hair from the deer

In the midst of gathering loose hair from this deer, here are some cowbirds for #birdoftheday theme of #standingonthings.

#birds #cowbird #deer #buck #nature #wildlife #protectnature #EastCoastKin

Front cover of an 1899 edition of Dracula, by Bram Stoker.

Yesterday was Bram Stoker’s 178th birthday! 🎂 Author of THE LADY OF THE SHROUD, THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, and, of course, the iconic DRACULA. 🧛
Read the 1899 public-domain edition here ⤵️
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So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters | CNN Between January and mid-October 2025, calls to local 211 helplines from people seeking food pantries in their community held steady at nearly 1,000 calls per day.

National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/h...

#SNAP #shutdown #hunger

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.

We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
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