Ada Palmer

Hi from Greenland everyone ✌️!
I’m a bit busy guiding our red sails tours here these days so I don’t post much, but I thought I’d share a little glimpse from yesterday night sailing ⛵️🧊.
That’s shot around 12pm…

Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override.

If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did

Aries: We’re not going to sugar-coat this, you’re going to have to fight a goose for your lunch this week.

Climate optimism! I did gain some hope in hearing that some of the worst possibilities have already been avoided. I will try to nurture that feeling.

WHAT'S SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL YOU SAW RECENTLY?

A brief history of NPR funding : The Indicator from Planet Money Where does NPR get its funding? Today on the show, we open our books and share a brief history of public radio. And we learn what's at stake with President Trump's executive order to cut off federal f...

NPR gets 1% of their funding from the federal government. Another 30% comes from member stations, which get an average of 13% of their funding from federal sources. My incredible community station is losing 20% of its funding. Support local public media.

www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1...

Harvard “is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement.”

The university president said “the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Veritas?

“Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Uno No Mercy, $5 more (50% premium)

They did a gritty reboot of Uno

The Humanoid Typhoon - Jane the Stampede?!?!

#NEISvoid question - I know a few people who have tried the Lumia device so far. Can always DM or if comfortable sharing publicly - curious to hear more from the community / lived experience about your observations. Has it helped inform you, etc.?

lumiahealth.com

Image is the cover of Spear. It shows an ornate metal bowl filled with flames. The flames form the silhouette of a spear-wielding figure on a rearing horse with the suggestion of a castle wall in the background.

21) Spear by @nicolaz.bsky.social. Gorgeously written retelling of Perceval and the Grail fused with Welsh mythology with a lesbian Perceval and a deep moral core of kindness and caring. Did I mention the writing is gorgeous?

#CelebrateWhatYouCan #ShareGoodNewsToo

France prepares law to fast-track return of art looted during imperial conquests France's government on Wednesday discussed a bill that would streamline the process of returning artworks and cultural artefacts looted from the country's former colonies over more than a century of…

This is a big deal 🗃️

Divisio topicorum, with a depiction of Victory with palm branches in both hands and a crown on her head

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 855: Various including Cassiodorus, Institutiones II (pp.187-346); 9th century; St. Gall; p.260
(e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

I so appreciate this essay. The language of chronic illness is problematic at best and often impossible. I’ve written about this from the perspective of someone with metastatic cancer. Even in remission, as I am now, there is no good language to express the sustained weirdness of my body.

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE SUBS🚨 ❌ This week on History Rage, we welcome @adapalmer.bsky.social to discuss the myths of the Renaissance. Are Golden Ages and Dark Ages just historical propaganda? #Renaissance

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#AdaPalmer #Inquisition #History

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#History #Podcast

#SomethingBeautiful - whether we see it or not, life finds ways to exist.

I think we haven’t found sub-sea floor below sea floors that deep, only beneath medium and shallow sections of the ocean floor.

#SomethingBeautiful - humans are getting closer to reversing the damage we've done with climate change. If we stop rigging the market to protect fossil fuel companies, we'll all be able to share the benefits of clean cheap energy and a climate cycle pulling back from the brink.

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy…

Deepest-ever lifeforms found. Chinese scientists have discovered thriving chemosynthetic ecosystems, powered not by sunlight but by chemicals like methane and hydrogen sulphide, at depths of up to 9.5 km in the Pacific Ocean. buff.ly/AkPTN6x
#ShareGoodNewsToo

For a good example, I live in Atlanta GA and here’s how much our stations have lost vs KDLG in Dillingham AK
We have adopted KDLG to help keep the lights on since our local folks don’t need as much help. ♥️

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For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

Snowy Egret in All Neck mode!

#birds 🌿

New York becomes latest state to offer free phone calls in prisons • Stateline New York will offer free phone calls to people incarcerated in its state prisons starting Aug. 1, becoming the sixth state to do so.

stateline.org/2025/08/01/n...

OK. I'm doing this.

One like = one opinion about either Trek or Zardoz!

Cynthia Pelayo blends horror and Chicago history in ‘Vanishing Daughters’ — including legend of Resurrection Mary Cynthia Pelayo just wrote a novel weaving together a serial killer, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, a plane crash at O’Hare, Chet’s Melody Lounge in Justice and Resurrection Mary.

“Pelayo’s horror novels do not read like a lot of horror novels…They read less like contemporary horror than Gothic thrillers relocated to a 21st-century Midwest, layering in detective fiction, melodrama…”

Reposting as I accidentally deleted my pinned post.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/08/c...

Post on X from @tomozh. Text reads "Heat wave."

It's so hot in Japan right now that the plastic fake food is literally melting off the shelves 😬