Leah Berman Williams

A black and white photograph of a person walking across an old bridge lined with curved lights toward a city scape in falling snow.

A long walk home yesterday in a delightful snowstorm. I passed this person on their own walk going the opposite way. After they passed I turned and took this photograph .

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10

#Photography #Snowing #StoneArchBridge #Minneapolis

Black and white photo - long exposure of Niagara Falls at Night .. moody sky, water rushes over the horshoe shaped falls.

Long exposure of Niagara Falls at Night. #ArtAdventCalendar #Landscapes #Canada

The most viewed Baseball Reference team page in each U.S. state this year!

Which team page had the most views in your state? 🤔

See all the full recap here: info.baseball-reference.com/25-br-mlb-se...

A vertical acrylic painting of a back lane in spring. A line of telephone poles go down the lane in decreasing perspective. There are puddles reflecting the trees and telephone, and browned lumps of old melted snow. The entire painting has orange and red highlights from sunset, though this faces to the east.

'Elmwood Lane 1', 2020, acrylic on canvas.

The lane behind our house one spring.

#ArtAdventCalendar

Black and white photo looking up at the structure of Hungerford Bridge, a central point with straight lines radiating out from it, against a mostly clear sky with a few high clouds.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9:
Hungerford Bridge
London, August 2017

Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court…

One of the most highly cited academic articles on the safety of glyphosate has been retracted, eight years after court documents revealed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...

Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal' The Department of War aims to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior.'

“For the first time ever, by the end of this week, three million employees, warfighters, contractors, are going to have AI on their desktop, every single one.”

Full story here:

Even Republicans don’t think attire is a central problem with flying It remains the case that a good way to learn how people feel about things is to ask them. So you don't have to simply assume, say, that people are hankering to work up a sweat before hopping onto a si...

Americans dislike the cost and delays that accompany flying. They don’t care what people are wearing. The administration’s efforts are precisely backward. www.pbump.net/o/even-repub...

ICE DID NOT ORDER ANYTHING.

Sick of seeing this reposted by people who should know better.

Also I really really hate feeling like I have to defend ICE.

The closest you get is ICE acting Director Todd Lyons telling Fox Digital he “applauds” the archdiocese for telling the parish to remove it.

ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever

It’s accurate that most people who do the MOCA don’t do very well, but that’s because it’s given to people who are showing indicia of serious brain damage.

A quarter of U.S. consumers are now financing groceries with buy-now, pay-later as economic pressures mount, survey says

One-quarter of shoppers have used BNPL for groceries, up from 14% who used the service a year ago, according to a Lending Tree survey of 2,000 American adults conducted in early April. Meanwhile, 41% of respondents said they've paid back their loan late over the past year, though the vast majority have paid back the money in a week or less. Men, young people, and higher-income borrowers were more likely to make late payments.

Wow! This sounds bad!

It’s also completely incorrect

25% of buy-now-pay-later users have used it for groceries, but that group is a small percentage of Americans

Here is a true story.

During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/

Alright I went with the foreground I took with this shot. A car driving in front of me, 60 second exposure. The final version is a little darker and foreboding than the first one, but I think that fits the vibe of the shot more.

Incredible psyched to be able to get this 33 miles from SF.

BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.

Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.

This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.

This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.

But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

A huge night for Democrats:

—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.

Screenshot of Bluesky requiring me to add my birthdate. "It looks like you haven't added your birthdate. You must provide an accurate date of birth to use Bluesky." [blue button: Add your birthdate]

what the hell is this?

Okay, ignoring everything else about this: hyper-realistic police sketches are *worse* than hand-drawn sketches.

When we see a sketch, we intuitively understand it as a rough approximation, and we see similarities. With realistic images, we expect it to look *exactly* the same as the person.

Call for proposals poster featuring white lace against a periwinkle background, with text in white.

The Spring 2026 issue of Surface Design Journal - themed "Traditions and Techniques in Lace" - celebrates both the history of lace and the ever-growing possibilities for contemporary application.⁠
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Submit your proposals through January 12, 2026 at
www.surfacedesign.org/journal/jour...

I love this meme so much 😭😭 why do intro analysis profs so often do a bad job explaining of how they got delta like this is our first time learning the material, it’s not engrained in us to start backwards, we don’t see the magic yet

For their final daily writing prompt, I asked my students what surprised them and what they would change about the course. A number are saying they’d change the amount of reading. How do you all think about the seemingly constant ask to read less?

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"

when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter

it's diagnostic

The ”Women fight for Conrad Veidt” slogan was very real and used to market the formerly German, newly-minted British film star, recently released after being detained by the Nazis

One of my fave niche history facts is how many loaded pistols your average highwayman had during a hold up.

We're talking four minimum on his saddle, then at least two in his belt. Ideally three or four.

Because fuck trying to reload a 17th century pistol on horseback that's why.

A 5-month-old baby died, & 3 surviving children, ages 2, 4, & 5, had to be hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, & significant developmental delays bc their parents put them on “alkaline diets.”

Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.

An irony is that a religious exemption actually is workable when it's for a very small number of students. But conservatives - who have culture war rather than sincere religious objections to vaccinations - have basically ruined it for sincere religious groups like Christian Scientists

people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this

Photo of a right leg crossed over the left, brown shoe, grey pants. The sock show colored lines and circles, in the style of the London Underground map.

Boss, during meting: "ok, wait, I gotta ask, Mike, what's going on with those socks?"
Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."