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#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence

programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

all true

Detail from a 9th century whalebone plaque - part of a grave good assemblage from the Scar boat burial, a Viking boat burial which was found near the village of Scar on Sanday in Orkney. Now part of the collections at the Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday

The ‘Shell Mosaic’ from Verulamium - the third largest town in Roman Britain which is situated close to modern St. Albans. The mosaic is one of 49 discovered during excavations of the site and dates to around 150 AD. The mosaic is on display at Verulamium Museum. #MosaicMonday

Again, I’ll repeat.

Archaeology shows us that people have always, always modified, altered and changed things - buildings, monuments, places - for their own present needs. Prehistoric Barrows built on, medieval castles changed, late medieval sculpture slighted during Refomation

It’s what we do!!!

a book page with a coat of arms showing a skull, next to it is written Caterine Morte

they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms

a drawing of a boat heating torwads an iceberg - lower temps still collide with ice but not as badly.

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

crab

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

Thanksgiving is our largest food waste holiday. I do think it's possible to cook a turkey well, but if you think there's a chance you won't eat all of it or even won't enjoy it, consider alternatives. To do otherwise is to disrespect to the animal whose life you are taking

Time to get your public comments in on the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule that would strip protections for countless wetlands and streams.

Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives:

www.tu.org/conservation...

I wonder what new species of hyper-aggressive sparrows that subsist entirely on macaron crumbs and duty free liquor are currently rapidly evolving in Charles de Gaulle airport terminals

We had only recently passed 350 ppm when I started my PhD in Earth System Science, already a value understood to be dangerous and a threat to society.

And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.

Sick with ICE: Healthcare at the Aurora ICE Detention Center An inside look at detainee treatment and medical neglect at the Aurora ICE Detention Center, revealing an urgent need accountability.

Journalists aren’t allowed inside ICE detention centers. So ours went undercover.

Inside Aurora’s GEO facility, they found hunger, neglect, and a system built to dehumanize those it holds.

#ICEDetentionCenters #auroracolorado

yellowscene.com/2025/11/10/s...

My photo shows a three quarter profile of an ancient Egyptian figurine of a leaping dog facing left. Carved from ivory, now a warm caramel brown colour with glossy surface. The dogs eyes are outlined in black, the ears are floppy, the mouth is slightly ajar (the inside of the mouth is painted red - not sen in my photo). The front and back legs are outstretched as if running at full speed. A lever under the dog’s chest opens and closes the mouth so that the dog looks as if it’s barking. Dimensions: L 18.2 cm × H 6.1 cm × W 3.6 cm. Dated to Late Dynasty I8, I400-I350 BC, reign of Amenhotep III who was Tutankhamun’s grandfather. The dog is mounted on a thin metal rod in a display case. In the background in the same display case is a ‘galloping’ brown horse, which is the handle of an ancient Egyptian fly whisk or light whip.

A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍

An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.

The Met 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success

lgbt weapon preference quiz take this quiz to find out what your preferred Weapon is. if you are gay

anyway i made a quiz in case you wanna find out what kinda weapon you should main

uquiz.com/tFVbUk

A line graph shows the time series of Arctic mean surface temperature anomalies for each October from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly in October 2025 was 3.78°C for this region. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1910-2000 climate baseline. All data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 on this graphic.

A line graph shows the time series of Antarctic mean surface temperature anomalies for each October from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly in October 2025 was 1.43°C for this region. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1910-2000 climate baseline. All data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 on this graphic.

Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.

Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.

so sorry to hear that <3

Today's furcast pet is 2-year-old Merlin!

Merlin is an absolute charmer. He blossoms when he is with other dogs and would be overjoyed to have another dog in the home, and once you’re in his circle, you are the most important thing in the world!

Adoption info below ->

#COwx

On any given day, thousands of adults are detained in remote facilities in Arizona solely because of their immigration status. The vast majority don’t have an attorney and are forced to represent themselves in immigration court, severely impacting their chances to win their case.

there are lots of objectionable things about the times we're living through, but the content... you just can't complain about the content

Had a dream about building a partnership for a grant to continue funding our work through 2029 - the grant and the partner are real, but all of this was taking place inside of a vast convention center designed to look like Oregon (I have to assume the Oregon theme park is not real)

In the Holocene, dogs & humans migrated across Eastern Eurasia together 🧬🐕This study offers new ways to study migration events at the community level rather than at the single-species level. Groups shared dogs & diff breeds were shaped. @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social english.cas.cn/newsroom/res...

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1