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10/10 video

this is how gender was first created in the 90s

Found 4 active acorn woodpecker granary trees in the mountains today en route to the desert. Group of eight birds very busy very vocal. These really are the coolest woodpeckers. So much fun to be around. 🪶

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

Yet another day of needless cruelty towards queer kids, who are perfect just the way they are. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Nashville to Phoenix

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Deportees wait to be searched by guards before boarding the plane. Edmund D. Fountain for CNN

🧊🧵✈️ ICE AIR – TUE 7 OCT 2025

👉 A GlobalX jet (tail: N281GX) was pulled from ICE deportation duty for a private charter from Nashville to Phoenix on Friday.

🏈 On Sunday—a couple hours after the Titans beat the Cardinals in Arizona—the plane returned to Nashville.

Follow this thread for updates ⤵️

The only thing you really need to remember about Chiles v. Salazar is that ADF couldn't find any children harmed by not being able to find counselors who will practice conversion therapy—

so they rely on anonymous complaints on Reddit.

It's a fucking joke.

are there ANY managers who can pull off the short sleeve team hoodie?

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

This is an extremely common food-GHG pattern for food providers in North America and Europe, but it never fails to surprise people the first time they run the numbers and see it!

Just one food, beef, can account for 40-50% or more of the GHG emissions related to an organization’s food purchases.

Pride and Prejudice reads very differently once you realize Mr. Darcy is a Jags fan

Decoy (a cute dog), in an Ohtani jersey, on the pitching mound, looking very alert. With a baseball on the mound.

Decoy in motion, this picture captures them with all four paws off the ground and baseball in mouth as they’re racing to home plate. Ears are blowing back too.

And here comes Decoy! View from behind Ohtani (who is crouched like a catcher waiting to receive the ball) so you can see Decoy approaching with baseball in mouth.

Paw-five! Or, um, it’s a bit like a high five. Ohtani still crouched, baseball on the ground, Decoy on hind legs with both front paws up hitting Ohtani’s upraised hand.

Still thinking about the first pitch at the Dodgers game yesterday where Shohei Ohtani’s dog Decoy delivered the baseball to him. 😍

(There was a bobblehead giveaway of a bobblehead featuring Ohtani AND Decoy. 😍)

Denver can't afford to fund basic human rights around food, but it can afford AI nonsense? Cool cool cool

HA sadly no, I said something like "mummies are really dehydrated so it would be tough"

can you please link the press release? google is not finding it for me.

I did one of these over the weekend and it was really good fun and also did not take very long. One of the kids asked me if mummies can come back to life. 10/10 experience for any archaeologist I think.

We Have Always Lived in The Castle And That’s Why I Am Writing to Oppose to Proposed Housing Development That Will Fundamentally Change the Character of Our Picturesque, Gothic Community

Had a grand time this afternoon chatting to students in Orlando, Florida about the advantages and limitations of tech in #archaeology. Give ‘em a few years and I’m sure one of them will crack my request for a portable C14 robot…
Enthusiastic kids & doesn’t take too much of your time… get involved! 🏺

Goddamn, this is great. The part at the end — you’ll know it when you see it — made me laugh so hard that I startled the dogs.

i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes)

Romanised Pali manuscript of the Lokapannati

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India p. 60 Bhoota Vahana Yanta Bhoota Vahana Yanta means “spirit movement machine.” The term is used for several varieties of robot drone assassins and sword-wielding machine- men mentioned in the Lokapannati, a Pali-language text written between 1000 and 1200 CE by Saddhammaghosa of Thaton, but concerning events that took place much earlier, around 500 to 200 BCE. According to the story, robots were first invented by engineers of the early Roman Republic. These robots were used for commerce, in agriculture, as a police force, and as executioners. The secret of how to build these spirit-engines was fiercely protected. If any engineer dared to take the designs out of the city, one of his own executioner robots would come after him and kill him. At that time, in Pataliputra (then in the kingdom of Magadha, now Patna in the state of Bihar), there lived a young man who had heard of the Romans’ magical androids. He became so determined to learn the secrets of their manufacture and share them with the people of Magadha that he arranged his own death. Then, on his deathbed, he vowed to be reincarnated as a Roman. This indeed took place. In his new life, the man grew up to join the Roman guild of engineers. He even married the daughter of the Master Robot-Maker, and had a son by her. Once he learned the secrets of the Bhoota Vahana Yanta, the man resolved to transfer the information back to Pataliputra. But he was well aware that now, since he was a member of the guild, he would be killed as soon as he left. So he cut a gash in his thigh, inserted the plans in his flesh, and sewed the wound back up.

When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)

i am being negatively polarized into support for the White Sox

Composite image of the author drawing with a dip pen & ink, an earthwork illustrated with hachures, an historic shading technique, the author giving a talk to colleagues & a colour cutaway drawing of a medieval house.

An illustrator at work with a dip pen and bottle of ink drawing a plan of an archaeological monument. On the desk are a table lamp and roll of drawing film. In the background another illustrator can be seen at work at a sloping drawing board.

Cutaway drawing of a Royal Observer Corps underground nuclear war monitoring post.

Cutaway drawing of a railway goods station building showing train wagons being unloaded and then despatched by horse drawn carts.

It's the 43rd anniversary of when I joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, the start of a career drawing old stuff. Almost 35 years later I 'retired' in 2016 but still drawing old stuff, 'illustrating the evidence for past ways of life'.

#ArchitecturalIllustration

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

Delighted to analyse the timbers of this wreck in Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The tree-rings revealed precise felling dates & timber provenance to target historical research on the when and where to ID the ship. Great teamwork with Wessex Archaeology, the Sanday community and my colleague @hamishdarrah.bsky.social

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

Rodney Taylor still needs our help!

He’s still locked in an ICE camp.

He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs.

He’s still facing deportation to Liberia.

He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored.

Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!

Thinking not for the first time about how the Clash song Spanish Bombs is closer chronologically to the Spanish Civil War than we now are to the song.

A bright yellow-colored scarlet tanager stands on a branch, photographed from below.

A white-throated sparrow stands on a branch, photographed from the side

A song sparrow sits in a shallow pool of water with its reflection visible

An eastern bluebird stands on a telephone wire in front of a green, bokeh background

This week I’ve been busing to the reservoir after work each day to enjoy our final days of warmth w/ quiet, solo birding 🪶