Lenore Edman

This thread is so good.

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Musicians: we have enough Christmas albums. Please release more Halloween/ spooky season albums.

I saw CZA recently bsky.app/profile/1len...

I see tangent arc, but I think your picture isn’t tall enough to show CZA (which is at 46 degrees).

Sun nearly at the horizon with halos, sundogs and arcs.

Moar! Now in Peekskill.

Sundogs, halos, tangents around the sun in a hazy sky.

Still amazing, now in Croton-on-Hudson. Sundogs are incredible. So is the tangent arc. And the circumzenithal is still there.

Two halos around the sun in a streaky sky.

More atmospheric phenomena! 22 degree halo, tangent arc, 45 degree halo, circumzenithal arc in Peekskill this morning.

22 degree halo and circumzenithal arc in Croton-on-Hudson
#atmospheric

Friendly neighborhood brontosaurus. #construction

PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen   Natural History Museum Denmark invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in coll

Please share widely! The Natural History Museum Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social is offering a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research, focused on dark taxa & unknown species, pref. including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology.

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Jars of chutney on a towel on a counter.

Nearly four pints. And it is nice and zingy. These plums are so dark, too.

Plum and lemon pieces and spices in a pot.

Plum chutney cooking in a pot before adding sugar.

Plum chutney cooking in a pot after adding sugar.

I’m making plum chutney!

The second pair of pinholes from the Radio Telescope.

Understanding that exposure was steady at about 25 seconds allowed me to start fiddling about with bit of glass in front of the pinhole. More in ALT

I’d like to take photos that look like what the object does, or what the object sounds like.

RIP Mercury, Hello Retrograde! How Administrators Failed to Stop the Presses at the University of Texas Dallas - UNICORN RIOT How student journalists at the University of Texas Dallas formed their own newspaper after being fired over their coverage of pro-Palestinian protests.

NEW: Student journalists at the University of Texas Dallas tell us the story of how they formed their own newspaper after being dismissed from their school's paper for their coverage of the 2023 pro-Palestine protests on campus.
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I Didn't Expect Dr. Gurathin To Be My Favorite Part of Murderbot - Reactor I'd offer Dr. Gurathin a hug but he'd HATE that

What a terrific essay. reactormag.com/i-didnt-expe...

I’ve never had a fig tree! You could make fig jam. There are also lots of roasted fig recipes. I love figs & a soft flavorful cheese.

Jars of jam and a spoonful in a little bowl.

Just about four pints!

Plums and lemons in a pot on a stove.

Plum jam cooking in a pot.

I’m making plum jam! Our new plum tree made one plum this year and we ate it and it was delicious. Luckily our local produce market had black plums (not as delicious as Santa Rosa but still tasty) on sale.

A bookstore display with Automatic Noodle displayed.

I found Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social at Rough Draft in Kingston!

A tabby with a clipped ear sitting in a car bed looking out of a shop window at me. A sign in the window says “Hello, my name is Woody.” Another sign says “This is Peekskill, a friendly town.”

I love shop cats. Yesterday I got to say hi to Woody, the lumberyard cat.

Now _that_ was an earthquake.

Ha! NJ had a little quake last night. It was like 3.0, so cute!

Earthquake!

If you see this, post a castle.

A California poppy: orange in the center to bright yellow petal edges.

Garden!

Trail cameras catch jaguars in Brazil acting just like house cats – and scientists are using the behaviour to protect them | Discover Wildlife When Brazilian scientists placed a load of mats in the jaguar’s preferred trees and dens, the big cats started doing something very familiar.

#Cats are cats. Not surprising that Jaguars would like mats. So cute (and effective for hair collection). 🧪 #science

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To Ukraine with Love: Drawings of a Japanese Prisoner of War — Bird In Flight After the ending of World War II a Japanese soldier Nobuo Kiuchi spent 2 and a half years in the Soviet POW camps located in Ukraine. On coming home, he had created a series of drawings about his chal...

TIL that, for two and a half years after the end of WWII, Japanese and German POWs were held in Ukraine by the Soviet Union. After his repatriation, Japanese soldier Nobuo Kiuchi drew a series of (now UNESCO World Heritage listed) watercolors about the experience.

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YouTube video by Rhymesayers Entertainment Aesop Rock - Kirby (Official Video)

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Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics

Which rappers have the largest vocabulary in hiphop? #hiphopsky pudding.cool/projects/voc...