a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight

Brad Lander: “It’s pretty outrageous…once people think that they don’t have to follow the law because the president doesn’t, workers suffer, our universities suffer, students & faculty suffer.”

St. John’s University can’t just UNrecognize faculty unions after 56 years. That’s not the law works.

FATHER SHANLEY: HANDS OFF ST. JOHN’S FACULTY UNIONS! We are shocked by President Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P.’s recent attack on the two faculty labor unions at St. John’s University. On Thursday, February 19, 2026, Father Shanley informed faculty via em...

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Frontal view of an all white weasel. It has rounded ears, black whiskers and black eyes. There is a slight pinkish cast to the ears & toes. It is standing on dark blue/grey rocks.

#Mammal #Mustelidae #Ermine #WhiskersWednesday This very cute little assassin aka Short Tailed Weasel pauses just long enough for a look at it's whiskers.

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

I'm sitting in New Brunswick, New Jersey wishing I was looking at loons. beautiful

and I mean filled. I've got at least half a gallon of Carolina Reapers yet to unload

I understand that this administration is built by pandering to the stupidest people possible but Casey Means? really?

some people fill their freezers with meat. me, I've got gin, hot peppers, and homemade waffles

Stubby nugget of a shiny blue metallic wasp, little flappy antennae. Looks like she could curl up into a perfect blue golf ball

Bright blue shiny face of the creature, with perfect tiny toothed mandibles

*clack-clack of tiny teef*

PERILAMPUS 😍 I hadn't seen one of these stunning blue nuggets in like 3+ years. Perfect, perfect creature. 💙
(they're hyperparasitoids of hyperparasitoids, and so damn cool enough on that merit, but also they can look like this)

Pa. man set fires to kill spiders, igniting blaze that damaged homes: Police The witness told officers he attempted several times to extinguish the fires, but Sean McDermott continued to relight them.

extremist anti-spider rhetoric has led us to this 6abc.com/post/pennsyl...

You might not want to hear this, but we're going to win, we're going to make our enemies pay, and we're going to turn their legacies to ash. 🪶 🐣

NC House candidate fired from community college after calling Charlie Kirk racist “People ... are coming into these classrooms and recording us, trying to get us fired,” the instructor says on the recording that led to firing.

sue them. sue them so much it's painful. the only way out of this mess is to make these institutions more afraid of doing the wrong thing than the right www.newsobserver.com/article31480...

A screenshot of the new NEH guidelines, with eligibility text highlighted "The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present." The rest above it says "NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars."

"Exceptional work in the humanities for me (white) but not thee (non-white)."

OK time to dig myself out of this

EGG HEAD - “HARD CORE!” A witless, victorious smile adorns his face. “HARD CORE TO THE MEGA!”

Alysa Liu expressing boundless uncontaminated joy on skates. photo by Wang Zhao

I like this new Gritty

This mushroom, growing out of dark soil and light green moss, is called plums and custard. The entire mushroom, other than the gills, which we can't see from this straight-on shot, is a light reddish-pink color with occasional spots of soft yellow. It stands about 3 inches tall. Its flesh is covered with extremely short fuzz.

This rosy-pink beauty is called plums and custard, Tricholomopsis rutilans. In spite of its yummy name, it's not recommended to eat it

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 400
Stack of 33 images
11/9/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

Extremely long leggy ogre-face spider, 4 front legs holding her neat trapezoidal silk net in front of her as she dangles in the dark

She's very Long 🥹

(ogre with her net 🤎)

Alysa Liu expressing boundless uncontaminated joy on skates. photo by Wang Zhao

I like this new Gritty

Loafe with me on the grass .... loose the stop from your throat,

🙏

SW view from Greenstone Ridge in (1,133 ft above sea level) Isle Royale National Park. // Image captured at: 2026-02-17 21:41:57 UTC (about 7 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: nps.gov/isro/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm // Current Temp in Isle Royale NP: 30.89 F | -.62 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: ENE at 12.728 mph | 20.48 kph // Humidity: 77%

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,

neat. nice to hear you w/o the backing track, and lovely playing - I enjoyed hearing the segue of Townsend into your own voice and back again

anyway happy Valentine's

two tenderloin filets in jus with grilled vegetables and truffle fries

wife is working tonight so I said I'd stop by for a beer, and chef said, what time

It's like the little prince on his tiny planet

look at it! it's huge! it's Pynchon at his gnarliest! months!

paperback of Against the Day looking thick enough to choke several horses

Shadow Ticket is a hoot - like golden evening sunlight falling on a cracked, snow-encrusted sidewalk, but I'm almost done and not ready for Against the Day

I want to manage rodent populations with you