Marlow

‘Vets Say No’: Veterans set to protest against Trump nationwide A series of protests will take place on Veterans Day, November 11, in different cities in states across the country.

www.newsweek.com/vets-say-no-...

Two of ESO’s small Auxiliary Telescopes, accompanied by the Magellanic Clouds up in the night sky. A human silhouette is visible on the right side of the picture.

While the Magellanic Clouds shine upon the Chilean Desert, two VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes point up to the sky — all together reminding us of how small we are as humans compared to cosmic objects & the telescopes we observe them with.

https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2545a/

🔭 🧪
📷 J. Looten/ESO

HEADS UP! We just had an X1.7 flare from AR 4274 which is directly facing Earth! There is a complex, hull halo CME on the way with a clear northward propagation bias. Models will be important to see how much of this is actually coming at us. I’ll post later with more updates.

sunflower that looks like a muppet

muppet ass flower

omg

A very brief visit from a grey fox on the Raccoonobahn.

#mammals

My latest, drawing from 100+ studies:
iffs.earth/living-repor...

Years in the making, I focus on the science behind the grazing side of regenerative agriculture, comparing it with a plant-based food system that enables large-scale rewilding.

Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website The Army-run cemetery said it is working to follow Trump's orders on ending diversity while restoring information.

A VERY SPECIFIC type of historical revisionism is underway, and I don't understand how people don't see it.

I think we all sorta knew this, but it's amazing to now have all the minor and local roads added to the maps. I've walked a bunch of these over the years.

Archaeologists Discovered the Remains of an Ancient Roman Mechanic Shop The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, was situated along the well-traveled Via Claudia Augusta and offered services to travelers in the first century C.E.

"The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, was situated along the well-traveled Via Claudia Augusta & offered services to travelers in the 1stC CE" 🐴 www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch... NB: Romans did not have traditional horseshoes; they look more like slippers.

How to Follow the Trajectory of Comet 3I/Atlas The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas reached its closest point to the sun. Here's how to follow the rest of its journey away from our solar system.

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas reached its closest point to the sun. Here's how to follow the rest of its journey away from our solar system. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS Trailer Brings Dunk and Egg to HBO

HBO's new trailer for its next Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, brings the beloved duo of Dunk and Egg to life.

An old time-y illustration of a Pears.

Today is Tridi the 3rd of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pears. #JacobinDay

More information on pears

The long culinary history of pumpkins – from ancient Mexican soups to modern spiced lattes "Before becoming the symbol of Halloween, pumpkins had a very long history as a foodstuff"

www.salon.com/2024/10/28/t...

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.

For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

Helix Nebula is planetary nebula located roughly 200 light years from Earth. This image was captured using a monochrome camera and narrowband filters.

This awesome planetary nebula is Helix Nebula. It is roughly 200 light years from Earth and is located in the Aquarius constellation in our skies.

Prints: buff.ly/jkvtlV6
Full res + details: buff.ly/QriQ73z

#astrophotography #nebula #helix #eye #space #telescope #touptek #skywatcherUSA

My photo shows a red ceramic flask contained within an intricate bet bag with two plaited handles and a tassel at the bottom. The net bag was woven from linen string. Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Wow, this intricate net bag is an extraordinary survival from ancient Egypt 3,600 years ago!

Made from linen string, it was used to suspend the ceramic flask from a wooden carrying pole.

Excavated at Qurna, near Thebes, in 1908. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

It's not that I necessarily think RPGers who like combat should play wargames instead. It's that I think RPG designers making games with a lot of combat should take influence from wargames. (I would say this works both ways, if not for the fact wargame designers learnt this years ago).

A Wargame to Take Taiwan, from China’s Perspective In August 2025, 25 international experts gathered at Syracuse University to do something unusual: plan China's invasion of Taiwan. For two days,

Current Taiwan wargames may be preparing for the wrong war.

I also love the deep sea exhibit at Monterrey Bay Aquarium, specifically the part with the whale fall, hydrothermal vents, and seamounts. I love everything about those biomes. It was my first time going to that aquarium this past summer and I was so excited to see that they had an exhibit with them!

Not only is it the first, and so far only licensed James Bond RPG made, the game design was revolutionary for its time and still one of the best RPGs ever.

#JamesBond
#JamesBondDay
#TTRPGS

Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances Scientists studying water vapour plume from Enceladus find presence of complex molecules that could harbour life The likelihood that one of Saturn’s moons may harbour life has risen, experts say, after finding an array of carbon-based substances being spewed out of Enceladus. The sixth largest of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus has become one of the leading contenders in the search for bodies that could harbour extraterrestrial life, with the Cassini mission – which ended in 2017 – revealing the moon has a plume of water ice grains and vapours erupting from beneath the surface at its south pole. Continue reading...

Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances

Cosmos title card

Cosmos premiered 45 years ago. Its groundbreaking mix of science and storytelling made astronomy and physics feel accessible, and Carl Sagan’s calm presence gave it lasting impact.

www.retroist.com/p/retroist-c...

Various therizinosaurs on a blank background and at scale. From left to right: Fukuivenator, Falcarius, Beipiaosaurus, Alxasaurus and Therizinosaurus

Therizinosaurs are, without a doubt, some of the most interesting groups of theropod dinosaurs

Here you have a selection of a few species that I reconstructed for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan for their 25th Anniversary Special Exhibition

#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

The protagonists of Wind Blows, dressed in rags, suffering radiation sickness.

The protagonists of The Day After standing in front of devastation

A traffic warden with his face bandaged in the show Threads.

In a related subject, we also blogged today about a similar flourishing of atomic fiction four decades ago.

A blog post we called "The Nukes of Hazard," but almost called "Ferris Bueller's Day After."

Second new blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

YouTube video by Plumes Couldn’t believe he let me pet him at the end 🥹❤️‍🩹 Merci @pairidaizaofficial pour l’accueil 🫶

There’s a chap who plays his guitar and sings softly to #animals 😭🤎 and you really really ought to check him out!!

#music

youtube.com/shorts/WxqD_...

B.C. thrift store doesn't know who donated possible medieval artifacts, now being studied | CBC News Thrifty Boutique in Chilliwack, B.C., initially priced the artifacts at $30 each, but when a shopper who was well-versed in archaeology stumbled across the items, he alerted a shop volunteer to their ...

Reminds me of my plan to drop that extra Necronomicon off at Value Village