Lenore Edman

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...

The Hudson River from the Metro North

I love where I live. I can walk to a train when my friend says “I’m in NYC, let’s get together!”

This! @windell-oskay.bsky.social has done this.

Help a journalist out? I'm looking to talk to researchers, engineers, students or entrepreneurs who are considering leaving the U.S. because they lost funding or are worried about visas or anything like that. I'm at mimsical.94 on Signal

THE FOLDED SKY is out today! Details of where to order it and where I will be appearing to support it are in this newsletter link!

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Cover art for THE FOLDED SKY by Elizabeth Bear, showing some zippy little spacecraft disassembling a megastructure around a red star.

One week and one day until this bad girl drops!

*Deep time archeology
*Pirates
*your toxic ex shows up at your big break new job
*Take your angry teenaged daughter to work (at the edge of the universe)
*STEM lesbians in space! And your wife is an alien badass

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Last night I hung out with friends online and had fun playing with stop motion.

Array of jam making tools on a towel on a counter next to a stove with a large pot of jam and a canning kettle on it.

Blood orange marmalade cooking in a pot.

Six jars of marmalade and a little bowl of leftovers on a towel on a counter. Jar lifting tongs are next to them.

I made jam! A little over three and a half pints of blood orange marmalade. First jam in the new house.

Similar to what others have said about Merlin, we use Seek to ID unfamiliar plants and critters. We found American eels in the river by our house!

Dropping whirligigs (maple seed pods) to see them spin.

Donate to There U Glow Radical Educational Electronics Camp Fundraiser, organized by Claire Cassidy There U Glow is back this year babes! The more help we get fr… Claire Cassidy needs your support for There U Glow Radical Educational Electronics Camp Fundraiser

I just found out that my stepdad is in the hospital and it's terminal. He is my last remaining parent. I have to get there fast and be helpful 😮‍💨.

There's no new fundraiser, the one for my camp works for this (& camp is still on).

(other donation methods below)

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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Either self certification or it is bestowed on you by another certified badass. I assume you have already self certified but please do allow me to confirm your certification.

It may be that they chose nice hops. Some hops are more IPA-y than others. Also, ciders tend to have fruitier flavors that complement hops rather than accentuate them.

9 jars of jam and a ramekin with the dregs of the jam on a towel on the kitchen counter.

Four and a half pints!

Plum and lemon pieces cooking in a pot.

I’m in my happy place: making plum jam.

I'm looking for an affordable photographer for artist and speaker headshots based in London. Does anyone have recommendations?

Cat lying on the floor belly up with head, tail and paws pointing in weird directions.

It’s cat picture time! Kaylee demonstrates the My Cat Was Assembled Incorrectly genre.

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This goes so fucking hard dude

Wall sign above towel rack in hotel room bathroom in Japan that says in Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean: “To Our Valued Guests Please refrain from bringing the towels home.”

I love this sign.

Looking out an airplane window at algae farms on the approach to Haneda airport.

On the approach to Haneda it took me a second to realize that the dark rectangles the boats are navigating around are algae farms.